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NOM Running Homophobic Radio Ads in NY, DC, Elsewhere

Monday, October 26th, 2009

There’s a major call to action going on among tweeters in New York and nationwide. GaySocialites.com Associate Editor King Ralphy, DJ Samantha Ronson and others are drawing awareness for an anti-gay marriage ad running on KISS FM 98.7.

The ad has also infiltrated other markets where local government is currently working to legalize gay marriage. LGBT advocates want your to call the station and express your concern for this hate laced advertisement.

You can hear that horrible, homophobic commercial above.

Full Story from Gay Socialites: http://gaysocialites.com/2009/10/new_yorks_987_kiss_fm_offends_1.html

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Rights Groups Fighting Proposed Homophobic Legislation in Uganda

Friday, October 16th, 2009

A coalition of 17 local and international human rights groups have joined together to fight wide-ranging anti-homosexual legislation introduced this week in Uganda’s parliament. The coalition says restrictions move beyond bedroom conduct to challenge basic freedoms of expression and assembly and place barriers against the promotion of HIV/AIDS prevention projects.

 Executive director Cary Alan Johnson of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) says the law’s discriminative and harsh punitive features represent a last-ditch effort by anti-gay and evangelical groups to restrict personal freedoms in Uganda and in other African countries, and he hopes the rights groups can prevent the bill’s passage.

“Over the course of the last year, there’s been an increasing pattern of homophobic discourse at play in Uganda, including a conference that occurred several months ago, in which a number of US evangelical leaders came to Uganda to promote reparative therapy and other types of human rights violations against Ugandan LGBT people…and our feeling is that the bill is targeting not just LGBT people, but freedom of expression and a broad level of political discourse in general,” he noted.

Full Story from VOA News: http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-10-16-voa5.cfm

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UK Tory Leader Defends Alliance With Homophobic Party in Poland

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

David Cameron has today defended the Conservative alliance with a controversial Polish party in the European parliament, insisting it was not homophobic. In an interview with Sky News, the Tory leader denied that the Law and Justice party – which opposes gay marriage – was prejudiced towards gay people.

Asked how he would respond to a letter from celebrities including Stephen Fry, which called on him to oppose “vile rhetoric” about gay rights from the Law and Justice party, Cameron said: “I’ll respond to the letter very clearly.

“I don’t believe the Law and Justice party are homophobic. Poland is a Catholic country. Most of the parties in Poland do take a stance like that on issues like gay marriage. “I don’t happen to agree with them, but they’re not a homophobic party.”

Full Story from the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/07/cameron-defends-alliance-polish-party

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