Thursday’s Gay News Reports

Filed Under Headlines | October 22nd, 2009 

Thursday’s Gay News Reports: An update on the Navy Petty Officer Hazing Case; Update on the US Marshal pick; Update from Uganda; Catholicism on trial; Another gay 1st in India; Homophobic crimes in London; The Tux Lesbian Talks; A Brit waitress jailed for false accusations; And an Update on the Gay Mobster.

Court Reports:

- Gawker: That Gay Mobster Totally Did Not Mean to Come Out

- NY Times: Telling Court He’s Gay, Mob Informer Crosses Line

- Waitress jailed for false sex assault claim — waitress from south-east London, who invented a sexual assault allegation against her gay boss after he sacked her, has been jailed for nine months.

Military Reports: – Navy Petty Officer to face punishment in hazing — former leader of a bomb-sniffing dog unit in Bahrain will be removed from his current position and forced to retire after the Navy reviewed years-old allegations of hazing and sexual harassment against a gay sailor and others.

Police Reports:

- US Marshal pick was already gay rights pioneer

- The Met doesn’t have gay people’s trust — Does a statistical rise in homophobic crime show gay Londoners feel able to talk to the police, or just that ‘queer-bashing’ is rife?

- Homophobic crime rise in London, England.

Religion Report: Catholicism on trial: Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry attack church’s record on gay rights.

Report from India: Gujarat gets India’s first old age home for gay men

Report from Uganda: GayUganda writes about: The Anti-gay faction…

LGBT Youth Report: Wesson teen opens up about being a lesbian — Tux Photo Flap girl talks about what it is like to be a teenage lesbian.