Friday, September 18, 2009

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

Amnesty International has demanded that a new Indonesian bylaw that endorses stoning to death for adultery and caning of up to 100 lashes for homosexuality should be repealed immediately.


Openly gay Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price has confirmed that he will be stepping down at the next election. Price, who came 37th in this years poll of most influential LGBT people in politics, announced in a statement today that he intends to take up a year-long Fulbright scholarship in the United States.


A twelve year is boy from is set to become one of the worlds youngest transsexuals after a controversial decision by the parents allowing him to return from the summer holidays as a girl.


The gayest show on Australian television had its climax this week when flamboyant Melbourne designer Anthony Capon took out the title as the winner of the second season of Project Runway Australia.
New Zealand's critically broke national glbt telephone counseling and advocacy organisation is cutting staff and preparing to retrench services as it faces an all but empty bank account and dried up funding sources.
Initial reaction to the prison sentence handed out to a young Hungarian tourist for bludgeoning to death an elderly gay man is mixed, with Rainbow Wellington unsurprised by the sentence and Outline NZ concerned the killer got off lightly.
Ron Brown's family have reacted quietly to his killer being sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, with the judge noting that Ferdinand Ambach has shown no real remorse and that any provocation leading to the attack was at the "lowest possible level."

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