Evangelicals and LGBT unite…

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Harry Farley JUNIOR STAFF WRITER 10 September 2015

…against Northern Ireland same-sex marriage referendum

Reuters Ivan Lewis, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland, admitted there wasn’t support for same-sex marriage in the Assembly.

Evangelicals and LGBT activists are united in opposition to calls for a referendum on same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
Ivan Lewis, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland, yesterday called for a public vote to legalise SSM in Northern Ireland, the only part of the UK yet to do so.
However both the Evangelical Alliance in Northern Ireland and LGBT group the Rainbow Project have opposed the suggestion.
Same-sex marriage legislation has been rejected by a majority four times in the past three years in the Northern Ireland assembly.
“We feel that four democratic votes in the Assembly in three years is enough. We don’t need to see a referendum or another vote for some time,” a spokesman for the Northern Ireland Evangelical Alliance told Christian Today.
“We believe there is value in retaining a distinct definition of marriage as between a man and a woman as a platform for flourishing.”
It is not just faith groups that oppose Lewis’ proposal. The Rainbow Project, which says on its website “we believe that all sexual orientations should be celebrated equally” is also opposed to the idea of a referendum.
“We would prefer the legislation to go through the Assembly,” Gavin Boyd, a spokesman told Christian Today.
“We don’t think people’s right to equal marriage should be in a public vote. This won’t be going away until we have equal marriage for people in Northern Ireland,” he added.
Lewis admitted there was not support for this change in the Assembly, hence his decision to follow the Republic of Ireland’s lead in holding a public referendum.

Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Ivan Lewis, described Northern Ireland as a “cold home” for many LGBT people

“Ideally, there would be sufficient support in the Northern Ireland assembly to introduce legislation for same-sex marriage,” he told the Guardian yesterday.
Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Ivan Lewis, described Northern Ireland as a “cold home” for many LGBT people
“This is currently not the case and as in the Republic of Ireland I would propose a referendum be held which allows the people to decide.”
The concerns of faith groups would be taken into account in any legislation, said Lawes.
“Naturally, legislation triggered by a ‘yes’ vote would include provisions as in the Westminster legislation which ensure faith groups are not required to undertake any activity which they deem as contrary to their beliefs,” he said.
Recent polls found that, if a referendum was held, the public would vote overwhelmingly in support of same-sex marriage.

Russia’s LGBT youth left isolated, victimised by “gay propaganda” law

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By REUTERS

PUBLISHED: 01:00, 14 September 2015 | UPDATED: 01:00, 14 September 2015

By Kieran Guilbert

LONDON, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Russian drag artist Yulianna Prosvirnina was revelling in the success of the buzzing gay and lesbian party she had organised in Moscow when a hooded mob burst into the venue.
“They stopped the party and shouted ‘Who wants to be first?'”, the 26-year-old lesbian performer said.
“Then tables started flying, glasses were breaking everywhere and girls were kicked in the stomach. Many people hid and most were so scared, too scared to stand together and defend one another,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Prosvirnina threw the ill-fated party, which saw the club trashed and four people hospitalised, just months after a law banning homosexual propaganda was passed in June 2013.
Activists say it has fuelled anti-gay abuse, discrimination and violence, spawned a “chilling effect”, and victimised young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and deterred them from coming out and seeking support.
The Russian legislation banned the spreading of “propaganda for non-traditional sexual relations” to minors and introduced fines for individuals and organisations that breach the law, which critics describe as arbitrary and hard to implement.
The law is seen by many as one in a series of moves by President Vladimir Putin to crack down on dissent, smother civil society, and draw closer to the Russian Orthodox Church, which has spoken out against homosexuality and is one of the most influential institutions in the country.
Punishable by jail in the Soviet Union, homosexuality was decriminalised in 1993 yet much of the LGBT community remains underground and prejudice runs deep.
The law has only been enforced in a handful of cases, and Elena Klimova, the founder of one of Russia’s only online communities for LGBT youths, Deti-404, where users share stories of attacks and humiliation, was the latest person to be convicted in July and was fined 50,000 roubles (£540).
“We (LGBT people) are treated as subhuman, with no civil or human rights, we are social non-entities, and we are even considered diseased and dangerous to society,” said Prosvirnina, a self-titled drag king who goes by the stage name Iven Batler.

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Tanya Cooper, Russia researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the gay propaganda law was part of a wider crackdown on civil society and anybody who challenged traditional Russian values.
Since Putin returned to the presidency in May 2012, Russia has adopted laws tightening controls on non-governmental organisations funded from abroad and barring those deemed to pose a threat to its constitutional order, defense or security.
“Activists see the propaganda law as part of a broader crackdown to create a chilling effect and clamp down on those who speak out and have opposing opinions,” Cooper said.
“But LGBT people see the law as an assault on their identity and community, driven by violence and state-sponsored homophobia flowing from television screens, radio stations, newspapers and even celebrities,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
A vigilante group “Occupy Paedophilia” has gained infamy for using Russian social media to connect with gay men and lure them into traps, attacking and humiliating them on camera then posting the videos online, where they are shared and “liked”.
In July, a video of two men being harassed, abused and threatened for walking hand-in-hand in Moscow went viral.
Another radical Orthodox group, “God’s Will”, seeks to identify pro-LGBT professionals, expose them and campaign for their dismissal.
Cooper fears the law has not only fuelled but also legitimised anti-LGBT sentiment and violence among the public.
She said victims who muster the courage to report such incidents to the police, and reveal their sexuality, are routinely dismissed and even mocked by the authorities who refuse to take violence against the LGBT community seriously.
“Before the gay propaganda law, LGBT people would not have been openly attacked in broad daylight … but now they don’t feel safe on the streets or even talking to people online.”
“The government has portrayed the LGBT community as a hazard to children while groups like Occupy Paedophilia conflate homosexuality with paedophilia … what kind of message does this send out to young LGBT people across Russia?” she said.
YOUTHS BEAR BRUNT
Activists fear the law has left young LGBT people feeling isolated and neglected in a country with a child and teenage suicide rate three times that of the global average, according to a 2013 report by Russia’s state consumer rights agency.
For LGBT youths living with HIV, the stigma surrounding their sexuality and illness means they face double discrimination and even greater anxiety, said Evgeny Pisemskiy, founder of Phoenix Plus, a Russian NGO for HIV-positive gay men.
He recalled the account of a gay 17-year-old Russian boy whose mother said she should “have got rid of him” before he was born after he was diagnosed with HIV.
“He saw a great counsellor for two months, who helped him and his mother to understand that life was not over … but as a minor today, he would not be able to receive that support under the gay propaganda law,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Although the law has led to a spike in violence and stifled much of Russia’s LGBT community, it has also brought together activists, campaigners and rights groups, according to Anastasia Smirnova, policy officer at LGBT network ILGA-Europe.
“There is more solidarity among civil society now than ever before … and LGBT rights are at the forefront of the human rights agenda. Who knows what change this might bring about?” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. (Reporting By Kieran Guilbert, Editing by Belinda Goldsmith. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)
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The World’s First Gay Police Wedding Happened In Spain Over Weekend

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Two gay policemen tied the knot in Spain over the weekend and the whole world is celebrating with them.
The couple, who are being referred to as Chema and Jonathan by Spanish media, were married in Jerez de la Frontera on September 5 while dressed in their full police uniforms, in what many believe is a world first.
To mark the occasion, people all across the world have been uploading and sharing photos of the adorable couple to social media.
In an interview with a Spanish radio station, Chema said that he and his hubby have lots of gay friends and allies in the police force.
“If it helps someone who is being bullied in school for their sexual orientation to see it as something normal, then that’s great,” he said. “It’s not something that should be hidden just because you belong to a particular institution.”
The guys were married at the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art and plan on road tripping from Seattle to San Diego for their honeymoon.

Scroll down to see photos from the wedding, and congrats to the happy couple!

h/t: Gay Star News

LGBT tourists contribute $6.8 billion to Spanish economy

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16:10 1st September 2015 by GT

Madrid Pride

Spain is now Europe’s top LGBT tourist destination, with gay and lesbian visitors contributing $6.8 BILLION to the country’s economy.

LGBT Capital – an investment firm that focuses on “gay-themed assets” – says that Spain has now claimed the crown from France, which receives a slightly more modest $6.6 billion from LGBT tourists.
Gay people apparently spend around 30% more on average than straight tourists, according to government estimates.
It’s perhaps not too surprising that so many are visiting Spain, as it was one of the first countries in the European Union to legalise same-sex marriage way back in 2005.
Barcelona hosts Europe’s largest gay festival every August – The Circuit Festival – which attracted 71,000 people alone this year. Organisers say that the two week event brought 150 million euros into the local economy. It’s so successful, organisers are now looking to expand to Ibiza and the Canaries.
Carlos Kyta, executive director at the Gay European Tourism Association, which works with hotels in Europe, explained: “This is a high-income travel market that is not tied down by school holidays and is generally more adventurous.”
Even the country’s right wing politicians are getting in on the action.
President of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, symbolised her support for gay people during this year’s Pride celebrations by flying the Rainbow Flag from the city’s parliamentary buildings for the very first time.
It’s staggering when you consider her colleagues from the People’s Party – led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – led 100,000 protesters in a march against same-sex marriage back in 2005.
But it’s less surprising when you know that Madrid’s Pride events generated around 120 million euros this year

Op-ed: The Story Behind the First LGBT History Month

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BY ORIGINAL LGBT HISTORY MONTH COMMITTEE MEMBERS

SEPTEMBER 02 2015 4:30 AM ET

Four academic leaders describe how LGBT History Month was launched, amid stiff resistance, more than two decades ago

Rodney Wilson

In August, The Advocate ran an op-ed that seemed to suggest that LGBT History Month was founded a mere decade ago. As those who were there at the start, more than two decades ago, we’d like to set the record “straight.”
In January 1994, a suburban St. Louis high school history teacher, Rodney Wilson, suggested that LGBT history — like women’s history and African-American history — needed a month devoted to its study. But which month? Pride Month, June, would not work because school was out, and other months were spoken for by other groups. But October was free of conflicts, came during the academic year, and serendipitously was the month of both the first and second LGBT Marches on Washington (1979 and 1987) and National Coming Out Day (October 11). He selected October and a draft proposal was written.
Johnda Boyce, a graduate student in women’s studies at Ohio State University and Wilson’s best friend from college, was the first to learn of the idea. After her input, a revised proposal was sent — via postal mail (!) — to organizations, community notables, education and advocacy groups, and potential supporters and historians all over the country.
One copy landed on a desk of the Gerber/Hart Library and Archive in Chicago. Another found its way to the office of the nascent Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers’ Network (now GLSEN). Kevin Boyer, of Gerber/Hart, and Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN, joined Wilson, Boyce, Jessea Greenman of the University of California, Berkeley, and Torey Wilson, a suburban Chicago history teacher, on the first LGBT History Month Coordinating Committee. (It was then called LG History Month. Adding a “B” to the official name happened only after heated debate, and at that time, there was no thought of adding a “T.”)
With the institutional backing of Gerber/Hart and a lot of hard work by members of the national coordinating committee, endorsements came rolling in. The governors of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Oregon made official proclamations recognizing October as LGBT History Month. All the LGBT civil rights and education and advocacy organizations of the day came on board: Project 10 (and its founder Virginia Uribe), GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, Gay & Lesbian Americans, NGLTF, and, of course, GLSEN. Endorsements arrived from esteemed historians like Jonathan Ned Katz, William A. Percy (chair of the American Historical Association’s Caucus for Gay and Lesbian History), George Chauncey, and Martin Duberman (who sent his endorsement on a hand-written postcard). From the beginning, Windy City Timessyndicated columnist Paul Varnell gave the movement his pen and wrote eloquently of LGBT History Month every October until his death in 2011.
For $5, the committee mailed out packets of material with history month curriculum suggestions for secondary schools, colleges and universities, and community groups. Packet after packet after packet were mailed out of Gerber/Hart library. That first October, Jennings’s GLSEN sponsored a history conference in Boston attended by 200 educators and keynoted by Eric Marcus, author ofMaking Gay History. The history department at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, where Wilson was a graduate student, sponsored a month-long LGBT history film festival. News stories started to appear; a few teachers had their history month displays taken down by school districts; some parents approved and many others did not. But many schools, colleges, and universities ran with the idea, and October was cemented in the community’s mind as LGBT History Month.
In time for the second annual celebration in October 1995, LGBT History Month had received mainstream coverage in Newsweek magazine. But early efforts weren’t without controversy.
When Wilson and the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the National Education Association pressed for and received an endorsement of LGBT History Month, the backlash was enormous. Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and Beverly LaHaye’s Concerned Women for America bought full-page ads in newspapers condemning the NEA and scaring parents: “It [LGBT History Month] may be celebrated at your school before the month is over. Please call now. This must be stopped.”
Under pressure, NEA delegates at the 1996 Representative Assembly voted to remove specific mention of all history months from their resolutions, even long-established Black History Month and Women’s History Month. NEA was and remains a strong LGBT ally, but history month celebrations are still encouraged only generically.
Over the next 10 years, LGBT History Month continued to grow organically, without need of centralized organization. Hundreds of colleges and universities, community libraries, and even some high schools faithfully commemorated October as LGBT History Month — and still do.
Since 1994, the LGBT community and its history have become more mainstream. Community-based history projects and archives now stand alongside major collections at universities, city libraries and museums, not to mention historical inclusion in film, radio, documentaries and books. In 2006, Philadelphia’s Equality Forum created LGBTHistoryMonth.com, a website that highlights 31 diverse icons each year to help drive a national LGBT history conversation. And many cities throughout the USA officially commemorate LGBT History Month.
We who were there at the beginning are proud of what we created, and we look forward to this October’s celebrations that will mark a very healthy tradition now in its 22nd year. Happy Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History Month 2015!
—Four of the six original LGBT History Month Committee Members: Rodney Wilson, Kevin Boyer, Johnda Boyce, Kevin Jennings

RODNEY WILSON founded LGBT History Month and GLSEN-St. Louis. He was the first openly gay K-12 teacher in Missouri and wrote the first history of gay St. Louis to be published by the Missouri Historical Society. After many years teaching in Massachusetts, in 2011 he returned home to Missouri, where he teaches at a community college and produces independent films for Circa87.

KEVIN BOYER was chair of the Gerber/Hart board of directors in 1994. He went on to cofound the Chicago LGBT Chamber of Commerce, was CMO of the 2006 Chicago Gay Games, and was elected to the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame. Today he works in marketing for tech agencies and start-ups.

JOHNDA BOYCE is a staff attorney at Legal Services of Southern Missouri, in Springfield, Mo. She sits on the board of her local PFLAG chapter and volunteers for campaigns to add LGBT protections to local nondiscrimination ordinances.

KEVIN JENNINGS is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, served as assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education during President Obama’s first term, and today serves as executive director of the Arcus Foundation.

New project at Atlanta museum focuses on LGBT civil rights

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By ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 00:44, 3 September 2015 | UPDATED: 00:44, 3 September 2015

ATLANTA (AP) — Leaders of an Atlanta museum want the space focused on modern and historic civil rights to contribute to a national push to ensure LGBT rights, particularly in southern states.
Wednesday marked the formal launch of the LGBT Institute, housed at the Center for Civil and Human Rights less than 15 months after the museum opened.
The museum includes galleries on LGBT issues and connects its history to the civil rights movement. But officials heard from LGBT organizations and individuals who wanted more, and they began planning the new project last fall.
LGBT Institute interim executive director Ryan Roemerman said organizers hope to perform research in cooperation with universities and host events connecting independent groups already working on LGBT rights beyond same-sex marriage.
“It’s the perfect time and the perfect place to shine a spotlight on issues that don’t often get a platform,” Roemerman said.
The project’s programming board members are a mix of researchers and people with a background in personal or professional LGBT advocacy. Member Tracee McDaniel, who founded the Juxtaposed Center for Transformation and identifies as a transgender woman of color, said she’s pleased with the group’s diverse members and the Center for Civil and Human Rights’ involvement.
“It lets other people know that this is about human rights for all people — whatever identity you have or labels others associate with you,” she said.
Tim’m West, a board member, said the LGBT Initiative will address a broad variety of issues.
“Marriage does not make life wonderful for all,” said West, a gay man who works with Teach for America to improve classroom environments for LGBT students. “For some, it’s the one box to check. For others, there are four or five more that we need to work on.”
Details still are in the works, but organizers have settled on three broad areas of focus: education and employment, public health and wellness, and criminal justice and safety. A new exhibit inside the museum details Atlanta’s LGBT community since a 1969 police raid of a New York bar sparked the Stonewall Inn riots, considered the start of the modern gay rights movement.
This summer’s Supreme Court ruling establishing same-sex marriage has prompted organizations working on LGBT rights to focus on “lived equality,” said Beth Littrell, an Atlanta-based senior attorney for Lambda Legal. Littrell said LGBT people may be discriminated against for their gender identity or sexuality, but also feel targeted for their race or income.
“We’re all, to a certain extent, underfunded and under-resourced,” Littrell said. “Having a space that is dedicated to highlighting injustices in all incarnations can only help us become a stronger community.”
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Just Where In The World Do British Mens Penises Rank?

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By The Gay UK, Aug 31 2015 03:14PM

Willies… Some are big, some are tiny and have their own micropenis festivals… However where exactly does the UK place in the world in terms of penis size.

Now according to Mandatory.com average erect penis sizes have been collected and collated from 80 countries across the world and a table of length has been drawn up and the UK’s placement? Well it’s exactly average.
The longest average erect penises are apparently in the African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (7.1 inches) and the smallest are in North Korea with 3.8 inches.
The average of the averages is 5.5 inches and that’s exactly where the UK are, beating the likes of the US (5.1 inches) and China (4.3 inches) but drawing with New Zealand, Ukraine and Canada.

According to Mandatory.com the correct way to measure the penis is from tip of the penis to the very bottom of the pubic bone and apparently only 3% of the world’s men have a dick over 8 inches.

Gay marriage, abortion, euthanasia: 3 charts that show what Catholics and Protestants really think about the moral issues dividing Christianity

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PUBLISHED31/08/2015

Catholics more liberal towards gay marriage than Protestants

Catholics have a more liberal attitude towards gay marriage than Protestants – but are more conservative when it comes to euthanasia and abortion, a survey suggests.

YouGov questioned 863 Catholics and 1,707 Protestants in Great Britain – who strongly agreed with the statement “my faith is important to me” – on the three issues.

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The results show that both groups are less accepting on the issues than the public as a whole.
Both same-sex marriage and euthanasia have been widely discussed within sections of the two churches recently.
Pope Francis is widely perceived to be a liberal influence on the Catholic Church – in 2013, when asked if there was ‘gay lobby’ in the Vatican, he replied: “If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?”
Last year meanwhile, the Church of England opposed legislation to legalise gay marriage in the UK.

More Catholics support gay marriage than Protestants

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Same-sex marriage was made legal in the UK in March 2014, with the exception of Northern Ireland.
It remains illegal for the Church of England to carry out same-sex marriages.
Previous YouGov research found 38 per cent of the Church of England clergy said same-sex marriage was right while the majority, 51 per cent, said it was wrong.

Protestants are more likely than Catholics to support euthanasia

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Both groups remain more conservative than the general population on voluntary euthanasia.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has previously said that it is a “profoundly Christian and moral thing” to allow people to “end their lives with dignity”.
An assisted dying bill is expected to be debated in Parliament on 11 September.
Former Crown Prosecution Service chief Sir Keir Starmer has said it is time for politicians to legalise assisted dying.

Catholics want more restrictions on abortion laws

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Both Protestants and Catholics are more opposed to abortion than the general population.
While abortion is legal in Britain, it is illegal in Northern Ireland, where it remains a contentious issue.
Last month, a United Nations committee said Northern Ireland’s abortion laws were putting women’s lives at risk.
The report concluded by calling upon Northern Ireland’s authorities to amend the country’s laws on abortion “with a view to providing for additional exceptions to the legal ban on abortion, including in cases of rape, incest, and fata foetal abnormality”.
_Independent
Full Story at Belfast Telegraph

Kremlin Shuts Down Russia’s Only LGBT Film Festival

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BY SUNNIVIE BRYDUM

AUGUST 31 2015 3:32 PM EDT

Government officials cited a ‘difficult economic situation,’ but organizers of the film festival see further evidence of the country’s crackdown on LGBT visibility.

Pictured: Two men kissing at the Side by Side film festival in 2012.

Less than two weeks before Russia’s only LGBT film festival was set to begin, government officials have cancelled the program, reports ThinkProgress.

Citing a “difficult economic situation,” the Kremlin’s “culture committee” rescinded funding from Moscow Premiere, a film festival that, for the past 12 years, has hosted free screenings of films addressing LGBT issues in Russia and abroad.

Moscow Premiere organizers were notified of the abrupt change in plans on Tuesday, just eight days before the festival’s scheduled launch on September 2. That letter from Kremlin officials claimed the cancellation was necessary because “the culture department of Moscow has to limit the use of budgetary resources in 2015,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

However, the funds earmarked for Moscow Premiere have reportedly been shifted to a different, government-approved festival, organized by a Moscow city councilor who is a member of the nation’s ruling United Russia party. The new event, titled the Youth Festival of Life-Affirming Film, will reportedly feature an entirely distinct program, Moscow Premiere organizer and film critic Vyacheslav Shmyrov told a local paper.

“We cannot affiliate to the new festival — not least in terms of our self-esteem,” Shmyrov told newspaper Noviye Izvestia.

“Moscow Premiere is primarily a social festival and a charity project that exists for those people, especially the older generation, who can not afford to go to the movies,” Shmyrov added. “It is mainly a social mission.” Shmyrov does not believe he will have time to salvage any of the films that had been scheduled to screen at Moscow Premiere.

The festival’s cancellation is unfortunately par for the course in a nation that is increasingly hostile to LGBT visibility, amplified by the 2013 passage of a nationwide ban on so-called “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations,” which criminalizes any positive depiction of LGBT identities or issues in spaces that could be visible to minors.

Last year, the International Queer Culture Festival, known as QueerFest, took place in St. Petersburg, despite ominous threats from public officials and reports of physical harassment of attendees. In 2013, St. Petersburg’s Side by Side Film Festival faced bomb threats on its opening night, but ultimately carried on, screening Russian and U.S. films, including the Oscar-winning Milk, about LGBT trailblazer Harvey Milk. Side By Side Film Festival had been cancelled in 2008, with organizers given notice of the cancellation just hours before the festival was scheduled to open, but took place in 2012 and had scheduled events earlier this spring.

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STOKING VIOLENCE

CHE members’ update, September 2015

October Quarterly meeting

Spain is now Europe’s top LGBT tourist destination, with gay and lesbian visitors contributing $6.8 BILLION to the country’s economy.

BY ORIGINAL LGBT HISTORY MONTH COMMITTEE MEMBERS

SEPTEMBER 02 2015 4:30 AM ET

Four academic leaders describe how LGBT History Month was launched, amid stiff resistance, more than two decades ago

Catholics have a more liberal attitude towards gay marriage than Protestants – but are more conservative when it comes to euthanasia and abortion, a survey suggests.

More Catholics support gay marriage than Protestants

Protestants are more likely than Catholics to support euthanasia

Catholics want more restrictions on abortion laws