QC World Headlines

FEATURED STORIES (from left to right): Serbia – Serbian government funds LGBT information website. New York – NY GOP bribes renegade Dems with $6M to stop marriage equality (Related – Power struggle complicates NY bid for gay marriage). New York City – Q&A with revolutionary AIDS activist and ACT UP founder Larry Kramer. Worldwide – World AIDS Day is Monday, December 1st 2008.
AFRICA
Burundi – Activists seek internal solution to new law on homosexual acts.
Johannesburg – Professor discusses continual process of coming out.
Nigeria – Nigerian prince e-mail phishing scam mow targeting lucrative gay mark.
ASIA & MIDDLE EAST
Malaysia – Malaysia’s fatwa council explains how ‘tomboys’ become lesbians.
EUROPE
Gloucester, United Kingdom – New HIV and sexual health centre opens in Gloucester.
Poland – Polish Catholics boycott IKEA over catalogue “promoting” homosexuality.
Serbia – Serbian government funds LGBT information website.
NORTH AMERICA
Albany, New York – Court removes bar to transgender name changes.
California – No on 8 virtual townhall meeting not open to Mac users.
Canada – Loosely defined kiddie porn bill snags consensual online sex.
Connecticut – Ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett starts new career as condo salesman.
Houston, Texas – GOP asks judge to resign over racist and anti-gay e-mail.
Iowa – May be next state to allow gay marriage. (Poll – Iowans back gay marriage.)
Los Angeles – OUT magazine sponsors “Rock the Folk OUT” festival.
Los Angeles – Gay rights leaders plan $1-million war chest to defend judges who back same-sex marriage.
New York – NY GOP bribes renegade Dems with $6M to stop marriage equality. (Related – Power struggle complicates NY bid for gay marriage)
New York City – Mayor Bloomberg launches initiative to make Broadway economically sustainable.
New York City – Q&A with revolutionary AIDS activist and ACT UP founder Larry Kramer.
United States – Top 10 actors in HIV+ roles.
United States – Boycotts and resignations follow Prop 8 backlash, business must adapt.
United States – Writer recommends not recognizing straight marriages to raise awareness of marriage equality.
Utah – Outreach and dialogue with religious community needed to further gay rights.
Vancouver, Washington – Native-American drag king tells story in None of the Above
OCEANIA
Australia – Australian government ‘health ambassadors’ in gay hate controversy.
Victoria, Australia – HIV-positive man faces jail sentence for deliberately infecting partners.
WORLDWIDE
Art – The Jesus Loves Porn Stars Bible from from the XXXChurch seeks to reform porn addicts.
Charity – Maleflixxx to donate $1 per rental to AIDS charities.
Health – World AIDS Day is Monday, December 1st 2008.