HBO renews gay dramedy Looking for a second season - adds Russell Tovey as regular

• Released Date: 26-Feb-2014

With ratings on the rise, HBO confirmed today that it has renewed the gay dramedy Looking for a second season. 

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Regional Dialogue on LGBT and Intersex Persons’ Human Rights & Health

• Released Date: 26-Feb-2014

This dialogue will bring together governments, development partners, national human rights institutions, and LGBT and intersex civil society members to reflect on achievements during the past decade in LGBT and intersex rights, health, and social pro

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Texas Governor Rick Perry slams judge’s ruling striking down state’s gay marriage ban

• Released Date: 26-Feb-2014

Texas Governor Rick Perry believes that a federal judge who struck the states gay marriage ban today is going against the will of the people.

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Arizona State Senator who supports anti-gay bill is stumped when asked to justify it on US television

• Released Date: 26-Feb-2014

CNNs Anderson Cooper had asked a simple question for Arizona State Senator Al Melvin.

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Couples suing to have Idaho’s gay marriage ban overturned want quick judicial decision

• Released Date: 20-Feb-2014

Citing recent success in federal courts in other US states, they want ban immediately declared unconstitutional​

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US is ’deeply troubled’ with Gambia president’s ’hateful rhetoric’ about gays

• Released Date: 20-Feb-2014

Secretary of State John Kerry said the US is deeply troubled by Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh calling gay people ‘vermin’ that must be dealt with like mosquitoes.

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Ban on ‘ex-gay’ therapies passes Washington state House of Reps

• Released Date: 19-Feb-2014

Washington state may be about to become the next US state to ban so-called ‘ex-gay’ therapies as a bill heads to the state Senate after a successful vote in the House of Representatives​

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Oregon teens charged after attack on boy who called their friend gay on Facebook

• Released Date: 19-Feb-2014

A group of teenagers in Portland, Oregon who allegedly trapped and tortured another teen they felt was bullying their friend by calling him gay on Facebook will be tried as adults 

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LGBT leader earns award at Berlin fest

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2014

Sou Sotheavy, founder of the Cambodian Network for Men Women Development, an organisation dedicated to advocating for the rights of the LGBT community, has been awarded the David Kato Vision & Voice Award.

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N.Y. radio hosts suspended over homophobic parent hoax

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2014

NEW YORK — Two Long Island radio personalities have been suspended over an on-air hoax about a homophobic parent.

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Chelsea Clinton calls LGBTI rights the ’unfinished business’ of 21st Century

• Released Date: 17-Feb-2014

The only child of Bill and Hillary Clinton calls the rights of LGBT people  the unfinished business of the 21st century.

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Suspected Gay Men Forced To March Naked Through Nigeria’s Capital Before Being Beaten By Police And Two Violent Mobs

• Released Date: 17-Feb-2014

The situation in Nigeria for its gay citizens continues to deteriorate. In early February, shortly after the African nation officially criminalized homosexuality, a suspected gay couple was forced to have sex in front of an angry mob. But late last w

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