QC World Headlines

ASIA & MIDDLE EAST
Changsha, China – Young transgender dancer faces hard road to love. [SOURCE]
India – Salman Rushdie investigates India’s transsexual underworld. [SOURCE]
EUROPE
Cwmbach, Wales, United Kingdom – Lesbian couple hounded out of village by vandals. [SOURCE]
Romania – Third of Romanians think gays should be punished. [SOURCE]
Rome, Italy – Italian gay cops to stage mass coming out. [SOURCE]
St. Petersburg, Russia – Taxi service for gays to launch. [SOURCE]
NORTH AMERICA
Blacklick, Ohio – Pro-gay vandals graffiti church sign that once said “I kissed a girl… then I went to hell.” [SOURCE]
Cuba – Country’s gay politics mired in past. [SOURCE]
Dyersville, Iowa – HIV+ man sues McDonald’s for wrongful termination. [SOURCE]
Carribbean Islands – Hurricane victims seek refuge in gay shelter. [SOURCE]
Gulf Breeze, Alabama – 20-year-old arrested for gay bashing 57-year-old man. [SOURCE]
Miami, Florida – School Board may oppose gay-marriage ban. [SOURCE]
Montgomery, Maryland – Court rejects transgender rights referendum. [SOURCE]
New York City, New York – Country’s largest labor union urges state government for marriage equality. [SOURCE]
Orlando, Florida – Gays’ center reaches out, raises profile. [SOURCE]
Orlando, Florida – Newspaper profiles home For transgenders with HIV. [SOURCE]
Ottawa, Canada – Gay village supporters told to move fundraiser. [SOURCE]
Raleigh, North Carolina – Gay DJ pleads guilty to HIV health law violation
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Riverside, California – Anti-Gay non-profit organization under fire for spending money on employees, not programs. [SOURCE]
San Francisco, California – Office fighting anti-gay marriage amendment opens in Castro. [SOURCE]
Seattle,Washington – Gay softball team disqualified from gay world series for having four too many straight players. [SOURCE]
Trinidad, Colorado – Small town unlikely sex-change capital of the U.S. [SOURCE]
United States – Libraries asked to stock ex-gay literature. [SOURCE]
Washington, DC – Study says lesbians, gays, bisexuals, making strides in workplace. [SOURCE]
Westchester County, New York – Child Welfare Network to hold recruitment event for adoptive LGBT parents. [SOURCE]
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – Judge denies separate trials in gay porn producer murder case. [SOURCE]
OCEANIA
Australia – Openly gay Olympic athlete and gold-medal diver, Matthew Mitcham, on postal stamps. [SOURCE]
Fiji – Faux gay wedding angers hymnal choir. [SOURCE]
Sydney, Australia – Official charged in bizarre gay sex visa scandal. [SOURCE]