Morocco gets a gay magazine
Morocco has its first gay magazine -- Mithly, which means "gay" in Arabic. It is being published by the LGBT rights group Kif Kif. ...Continue

Gays protest Turkish minister's homophobic remarks
Gay activists disrupted a human-rights conference in Ankara, Turkey, on April 15, demanding that the government's minister for families and children, Aliye Kavaf, apologize for having called homosexuality a "disease." ...Continue

Italian court rejects same-sex marriage
Italy's Constitutional Court refused to legalize same-sex marriage April 14. ...Continue

Euro Commission criticized on gay couple rights
The European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights criticized the European Commission on April 21 for failing "to mention the mutual recognition of same-sex unions across (European Union) borders as a priority for its 2010-2014 Stockholm Programme." ...Continue

Argentina marries, unmarries gay couples

Argentine judges have been letting some gay couples get married, then other judges have been annulling the marriages. Gay activists Alex Freyre and José María Di Bello were the first gay couple to marry -- on Dec. 28 at a registry office in Ushuaia, capital of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province. Their marriage was among those recently annulled. Photo:

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Australian former Olympic swimmer comes out
Australian former Olympic swimmer Daniel Kowalski came out in an article he wrote for the Melbourne newspaper The Age on April 18. ...Continue

Euro Parliament LGBT group denounces Cotonou Agreement
Ulrike Lunacek, co-president of the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights, says the parliament will "confront" the European Commission for backing down on a vow to include sexual-orientation protections in the new political and trade agreement between the European Union and 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific nations. European Parliament photo
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Uzbek AIDS activist jailed
Uzbek AIDS activist Maksim Popov has been sentenced to seven years in prison. His supporters say the charges on which he was convicted were "fabricated." ...Continue

Poland's National Museum to mount homoerotic exhibit
Poland's National Museum will mount an exhibition of gay erotica from June 10 to Sept. 5. Pictured: "For Such Thing as Love" by Adam Adach. ...Continue

Cyprus to consider recognizing same-sex partnerships
Cyprus' governmental ombudsman has urged the government to legally recognize same-sex partnerships, and Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Lazaros Savvides said April 10 that the government will "seriously" consider doing so. ...Continue

Macedonia criticized for failure to protect gays
Gay activists and the European Union criticized Macedonia April 9 for failing to include sexual-orientation protections in the nation's new anti-discrimination law. ...Continue

Indian professor who was suspended for having gay sex dies
An Indian languages professor at Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh, India, who was driven from his job in mid-February after a TV news crew burst into his house and taped him having sex with a male "rickshaw puller," apparently committed suicide in early April, local media reported. ...Continue

Gay group can run candidates in Philippines election
The Philippines' Supreme Court on April 8 overruled the nation's Elections Commission and ordered that the gay group Ang Ladlad can register as a political party and run candidates for Congress. The ruling was 14-1. ...Continue

Portuguese same-sex marriage bill advances
Portugal should see legalization of same-sex marriage one way or the other in a matter of weeks. ...Continue

Council of Europe passes 'historic' LGBT recommendations
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, representing the national governments of its 47 member countries, unanimously adopted "historic" recommendations March 31 to combat anti-LGBT discrimination, reported ILGA-Europe, the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. ...Continue