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"Acting Against Inheritance": Iran President Attacks West On LGBTQ Rights
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday launched into a condemnation of Western attitudes on homosexuality during a visit to Uganda which has just introduced some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world.
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Homosexuality Isn't A Crime, Those Criminalising It Are Wrong: Pope Francis
People who criminalise homosexuality are "wrong", Pope Francis said in a letter published on Saturday, seeking to clarify earlier comments about homosexual acts being a "sin".
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Army Wants Homosexuality, Adultery To Remain Punishable Offences: Report
The Army wants homosexuality and adultery to remain as punishable offences to ensure discipline and has made a representation to the Defence Ministry, a year after the Supreme Court decriminalised these acts, sources said on Thursday.
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"Ruling Will Be First Step": United Nations Lauds Section 377 Verdict
United Nations India Thursday lauded the Supreme Court for striking down a "key component" of IPC's Section 377 which criminalises "specific sexual acts between adults" and said the judgment will boost efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination against LGBTI persons.
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UN Lauds Top Court Verdict On Homosexuality, Hopes It Will End Stigma
United Nations India on Thursday lauded the Supreme Court for striking down a "key component" of IPC's Section 377 which criminalises "specific sexual acts between adults" and said the judgment will boost efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination against LGBTI persons.
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Can't Wait For "Majoritarian Government" To Act: Top Court On Section 377
Raising hopes for those seeking decriminalisation of consensual gay sex, the Supreme Court today asserted that courts cannot wait for a "majoritarian government" to decide on enacting, amending or striking down a law if it violates fundamental rights.
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Indonesian Men Face 80 Strokes Of The Cane For Act Of Homosexuality
Prosecutors in Indonesia's Aceh Wednesday recommended 80 strokes of the cane for two men accused of having sex in contravention of sharia law, the first such punishment of a gay couple in the conservative province.
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Homosexuality No Crime, Says RSS Leader, Then Calls It 'Psychological Case'
A day after commenting that homosexuality should not be a crime, RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale has posted a controversial clarification, describing it as a "socially immoral act" and a "psychological" case.
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James Franco on His Sexuality: I'm Gay in My Art
"In the twenties and thirties, they used to define homosexuality by how you acted and not by whom you slept with," said the Hollywood star
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Photos Claim Islamic State Beheadings of Homosexuals in Northern Iraq
The Islamic State group has publicly beheaded three men in northern Iraq, two of them for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts, according to photos shared by sympathisers on social media today.
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Delhi: Teenager arrested for killing taxi driver for cell phone
Luring a juvenile for a homosexual act cost a middle-aged taxi driver his life as the teenager allegedly killed him for his cell phone, police said on Thursday.
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Pope Francis says gays must not be judged or marginalised
Pope Francis, in some of the most compassionate words from any pontiff on gays, said they should not be judged or marginalised and should be integrated into society, but he reaffirmed Church teaching that homosexual acts are a sin.
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Gay marriage a distant dream around the world
China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. In Egypt's conservative, Muslim-dominated society, laws prohibiting "shameless public acts" have been used to imprison gay men in recent years. Even some gay rights activists in the Philippines are opposed to same-sex marriage.
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Rituparno Ghosh Acts Gay Again
Rituparno Ghosh will be seen playing a homosexual once again in Memories In March, which will release in theatres tomorrow.
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AIDS drugs haven't changed HIV risk with anal sex
The introduction of effective drugs against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has not changed homosexual men's risk of contracting the virus during a single act of anal sex, new research from Australia shows.
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"Acting Against Inheritance": Iran President Attacks West On LGBTQ Rights
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday launched into a condemnation of Western attitudes on homosexuality during a visit to Uganda which has just introduced some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world.
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Homosexuality Isn't A Crime, Those Criminalising It Are Wrong: Pope Francis
People who criminalise homosexuality are "wrong", Pope Francis said in a letter published on Saturday, seeking to clarify earlier comments about homosexual acts being a "sin".
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Army Wants Homosexuality, Adultery To Remain Punishable Offences: Report
The Army wants homosexuality and adultery to remain as punishable offences to ensure discipline and has made a representation to the Defence Ministry, a year after the Supreme Court decriminalised these acts, sources said on Thursday.
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"Ruling Will Be First Step": United Nations Lauds Section 377 Verdict
United Nations India Thursday lauded the Supreme Court for striking down a "key component" of IPC's Section 377 which criminalises "specific sexual acts between adults" and said the judgment will boost efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination against LGBTI persons.
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UN Lauds Top Court Verdict On Homosexuality, Hopes It Will End Stigma
United Nations India on Thursday lauded the Supreme Court for striking down a "key component" of IPC's Section 377 which criminalises "specific sexual acts between adults" and said the judgment will boost efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination against LGBTI persons.
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Can't Wait For "Majoritarian Government" To Act: Top Court On Section 377
Raising hopes for those seeking decriminalisation of consensual gay sex, the Supreme Court today asserted that courts cannot wait for a "majoritarian government" to decide on enacting, amending or striking down a law if it violates fundamental rights.
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Indonesian Men Face 80 Strokes Of The Cane For Act Of Homosexuality
Prosecutors in Indonesia's Aceh Wednesday recommended 80 strokes of the cane for two men accused of having sex in contravention of sharia law, the first such punishment of a gay couple in the conservative province.
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Homosexuality No Crime, Says RSS Leader, Then Calls It 'Psychological Case'
A day after commenting that homosexuality should not be a crime, RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale has posted a controversial clarification, describing it as a "socially immoral act" and a "psychological" case.
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James Franco on His Sexuality: I'm Gay in My Art
"In the twenties and thirties, they used to define homosexuality by how you acted and not by whom you slept with," said the Hollywood star
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Photos Claim Islamic State Beheadings of Homosexuals in Northern Iraq
The Islamic State group has publicly beheaded three men in northern Iraq, two of them for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts, according to photos shared by sympathisers on social media today.
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Delhi: Teenager arrested for killing taxi driver for cell phone
Luring a juvenile for a homosexual act cost a middle-aged taxi driver his life as the teenager allegedly killed him for his cell phone, police said on Thursday.
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Pope Francis says gays must not be judged or marginalised
Pope Francis, in some of the most compassionate words from any pontiff on gays, said they should not be judged or marginalised and should be integrated into society, but he reaffirmed Church teaching that homosexual acts are a sin.
-
Gay marriage a distant dream around the world
China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. In Egypt's conservative, Muslim-dominated society, laws prohibiting "shameless public acts" have been used to imprison gay men in recent years. Even some gay rights activists in the Philippines are opposed to same-sex marriage.
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Rituparno Ghosh Acts Gay Again
Rituparno Ghosh will be seen playing a homosexual once again in Memories In March, which will release in theatres tomorrow.
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AIDS drugs haven't changed HIV risk with anal sex
The introduction of effective drugs against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has not changed homosexual men's risk of contracting the virus during a single act of anal sex, new research from Australia shows.
