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A court has banned what would have been Ukraine’s first gay-pride demonstration.

A close ally of Toronto mayor Rob Ford said Wednesday that Ford, who has allegedly made anti-gay comments, has followed legal advice in remaining silent about a purported video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine.

The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him.

A conservative party is challenging a judicial ruling that requires all of Brazil’s notary publics to register same-sex civil unions as marriages if couples request it.

Britain’s House of Commons has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales.

A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.

French right-wing historian Dominique Venner shot and killed himself on the altar of Paris’ famed Notre Dame Cathedral today at 4PM local time in front of throngs of tourists in protest of France’s recent legalization of same-sex marriage.

An FBI spokesman says a man has been arrested in Puerto Rico for making a threat on Twitter to a well-known gay rights activist.

Czech President Milos Zeman is being criticized for refusing to grant a university professorship - the nation’s top academic title - to a critic of his, allegedly because the man is also a gay rights activist.

Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government’s nervousness over a growing civil society movement and demands for stronger individual rights.