Monday’s News Post

Filed Under Headlines | October 26th, 2009 

Monday’s Gay News Post: Headlines from the Weekend and Today’s Early News Headlines…

Gay News Headlines & GossipCrime Posts:

- Toronto — More than 1,000 people at candle light vigil for gay hit-and-run victim

- England — Gay man fighting for his life after suspected homophobic attack on Liverpool’s Stanley Street.

- Scotland — Gay domestic abuse ’suffered in silence’ — THOUSANDS of gay people are not reporting domestic abuse because they fear being outed in the courts, police believe.

- Washington — Wash. man gets 18 months in gay immigration fraud — A man accused of advising straight immigrants to claim homosexuality — and potential persecution in their home countries — when they applied for asylum has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Life / Equality / Pride Event: Toronto — Church St. hardly typical of gay reality — In much of the world coming out invites social ostracism and even death.

Marriage:

- CNN: Same-sex marriage battle moves to Maine.

- Money fueling battle over gay marriage — No on 1 tops $4M, Yes at $2.6M

Media: – Leave us alone, says gay Kenyan couple to Kenya’s Sunday Nation

Parenting Posts: The rise of the gay dad — Having two dads isn’t as unusual as it used to be. Rebecca Seal meets the generation of young, gay men who are re-inventing the world of adoption in the UK.

Politics:

- Germany — First gay Foreign Minister wins a place in Merkel’s dream team.

- Dominican Republic: Protests Surround New Constitution.

- UK — Nick Griffin: ex-NF leader Martin Webster offered me underage gay sex (Extreme Right vs Extreme Right – Very bizarre article)

- Comment: Why I heckled Nick Griffin on Question Time.

Religion:

- ‘Crash’ Director Paul Haggis Ditches Scientology over the Lies, Prop 8 & the Practice of “Disconnection”.

- Swedish church not so gay-friendly — Church of Sweden members have voted to allow gay weddings, but it’s not quite the liberal breakthrough it seems.