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After vowing to pass Uganda’s controversial anti-gay law, the country’s Parliament speaker was blessed by Pope Benedict XVI when she went to Rome to attend a human rights conference.

Uganda parliament says that the East African country’s controversial "kill the gays" bill could be passed before Christmas as government officials are set to debate the measure any day.

Lawmakers in the West African nation of Nigeria have furthered a proposed law that would limit the rights of the country’s LGBT community, which already faces multiple hardships.

An openly gay prosecutor was appointed as Virginia’s first openly gay judge this week.

Virginia’s House of Delegates rejected the nomination of an openly gay prosecutor to become the General District Court Judge and the state’s first openly gay judge.

St. Petersburg’s government passed a bill this week that can fine LGBT citizens and groups up to $16,000 for spreading "homosexual propaganda."

In another demonstration of the anti-gay myths and stereotypes that define the thinking of the people who govern the nation, a NC politician who sponsored the upcoming ballot initiative against gay families appeared on Michelangelo Signorile’s radio show

GetEQUAL responded to yesterday’s vote by the North Carolina State Senate to send a homophobic state constitutional amendment to the voters in May 2012, by issuing lawmakers and leaders a blunt warning: "We will no longer accept state-sponsored hatred."

An anti-gay lawmaker’s bill seems destined to create the very problems that critics of the military’s full integration have warned about: A lack of unit cohesion and dissension in the ranks.

Activists in Uganda are fighting social and political bias in pressing for the inclusion of gays and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in a new national strategy to combat HIV