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Bref, Megaupload a fermé... Excellentissime !

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From Turkey With Love

Student Ahmet Yildiz was murdered for being gay by his own father in 2008. Now the makers of a movie inspired by "Turkey's first gay honor killing" hope it will help lead to legally recognized equality in the country. Read more...

Source: CNN, January 13, 2012

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I got bored looking at the stage

and raised my eyes to the box circle.

In one of the boxes I saw you

with your strange beauty, your decadent youthfulness.

My thoughts turned back at once

to all I'd heard about you that afternoon;

my mind and body were aroused.

And as I gazed enthralled

at your languid beauty, your languid youthfulness,

your tastefully discriminating dress,

in my imagination I kept picturing you

the way they'd talked about you that afternoon.

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Pope: Gay marriage threatens humanity’s future

Pope Benedict XVI denounced gay marriage in his annual “State of the World” address Monday, going so far as to say the same-sex nuptials threaten the future of humanity.

In the speech, the pope, 84, unleashed what some consider being his strongest tirade against gay marriage, saying it is among conventions that “undermine the family” and “threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself,” Reuters reported.

“Pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and woman,” the pontiff said.

“This is not a simple convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society,” he continued. “Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself.”

Source: NYDailyNews.com, January 10, 2012

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Welcome to 2012!

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"I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning."

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UN issues first report on human rights of gay and lesbian people

15 December 2011 – The first ever United Nations report on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people details how around the world people are killed or endure hate-motivated violence, torture, detention, criminalization and discrimination in jobs, health care and education because of their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.

The report, released today by the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, outlines “a pattern of human rights violations… that demands a response,” and says governments have too often overlooked violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Homophobic and transphobic violence has been recorded in every region of the world, the report finds, and ranges from murder, kidnappings, assaults and rapes to psychological threats and arbitrary deprivations of liberty.

In the report, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calls on countries to repeal laws that criminalize homosexuality, abolish the death penalty for offences involving consensual sexual relations, harmonize the age of consent for heterosexual and homosexual conduct, and enact comprehensive anti-discrimination laws.

In 76 countries it remains illegal to engage in same-sex conduct and in at least five countries – Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen – the death penalty prevails. Read more...

Source: UN News Center, December 15, 2011

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Of Moms and Lessons

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