en http://www.ourakcha.com Gay news ourakcha.com Stefan Petzner who had indicated on the day following Jörg Haider’s death that he was the man of his life, comes back on his declaration and declares that his words were misinterpreted. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The Glasgow Q! Gallery welcomes a photographic exposition on the last gay pride of Riga which shows the hate towards gays in this country. The pictures are striking, the violence from Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The Eurovision final taking place in Moscow on next 16th of May, Serguei Ananov, the tourism director for the Russian capital city, has insisted to reassure gays wishing to go there. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The South Korean government has asked the constitutional court to set again the ban on gays in the army. After a series of scandals due to the persecution of gays in the army, military Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The national reference laboratory for AIDS has just published an alarming study of the strong progression of the number of people contaminated. At the end of September, the number of Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Pregnancy again for the transsexual Thomas Beatie who had already given birth to a girl last June. The pictures of this bearded man with his round belly had toured the world and shocked Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET It was the L-Week throughout Belgium last week. It was the third edition of this week for the homosexual, bisexual girls and their friends. On the schedule, debates, meetings and many Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The decision of the Court of Appeal to clear the case of Christian Vanneste is making uproar among the LGBT community. Act-up Paris, the Sneg and SOS Homophobie which had obtained the Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Boyzone are coming back with the very friendly song video “Better”. While everyone dances in mixed couple, Stephen Gately is in the arms of a gorgeous guy. The singer who had already Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET On the occasion of the summit between Europe and Russia that is taking place this weekend, Russian gay activists has asked Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of the European Union to plead Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Stan Lee's team will shoot a film for television with a gay superhero inspired by the comic strip Hero from Perry Moore. The latter will write the script where the gay superhero will Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Beth Bye, elected in the state of Connecticut and her friend Tracey Wilson, is the first gay and lesbian couple to benefit from the new legal measures allowing marriage for homosexual Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Due to a lack of consensus in the government coalition that he leads, Fredrik Reinfeldt gives up his gay marriage project. The numerous months of negotiations with Göran Hägglund from Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Christian Vanneste who had been condemned for insult to the gay community has been cleared by the Court of Appeal. The case dates back to the end of 2004 during the debates on the criminalization Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET We had already evoked the trial of the 3 men who had voluntarily injected the HIV virus to partners during an orgy that they organized (16/10). The court has decided to impose 9 years Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The 9th edition of the gay and lesbian films festival that was organized in Prague and Brno since the 31st October has ended. About 30 films on the gay and lesbian community were in Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Queen Sofia's statements on gay marriage in “The Queen Up Close” has eclipsed other not so friendly royal statements in the same book. Indeed, if she admits the existence of gays, she Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The Danish artist Einar Wegener was the first man to become a woman in 1931. The Australian actress Nicole Kidman will play his role in the “Danish Girl” adapted from David Eberstoff’s Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The Parliament is voting a law against homophobic crimes. According to his European commitments, the Hungarian parliament has just adopted amendments to struggle against homophobia. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET 6 gays and lesbians have just been elected in the general election. Their number is stable in parliament which counts 121 MPs in all. The National Party takes over the Labour Party, Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Bangkok, the other city of Angels hosted for one week the greatest gay demonstration of the country. Many animations, sports activities and movies have kept the week busy in a good Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET While the election of the 4th November has brought bad news for the right to gay marriage, many members of the LGTB have been elected. Among them is Stu Rasmussen, first transsexual Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Three fitness centers and a gay sauna on Penang Island have been subject to a police landing last week. Pornographic magazines, gay DVD and condoms have led 70 men to be charged of Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Gérard Longuet, senator of the presidential majority, has estimated that the struggle against homophobia was not compatible with the one against pedophilia in school. The speech filmed Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Proposition 8 has been voted with 52% of the votes but gay marriage supporters are not stopping the fight. Many associations and municipalities namely Los Angeles and San Francisco Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The debate on the decriminalization of homosexuality goes on in India. This time the request comes from UNO's director of the Prevention Program against AIDS, Jeffrey O’Malley. As long Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The newspaper Al Massae which published an article on the assumed homosexuality of a public figure and qualified a private party in Ksar El Kébir as “gay marriage” has been charged Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The HALDE, the High Authority against Discriminations and for Equality, has carried out a study on the place of stereotypes of discriminations in school books and sees that there is Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Many have been seduced by the character of Erica Hahn played by Brooke Smith in Grey’s Anatomy. Unfortunately the lesbian surgeon character has been suppressed on the request of ABC Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The Capitole where more than 2000 weddings are celebrated each year will welcome homosexual couples from Toulouse for the signature of their Pacs (Frenc civil union). So is the decision Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The victory of Barack Obama is a great hope and a message of tolerance for Americans and the whole world. For the gay and lesbian community, it is a friendly President who takes up Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The supporters of Proposal 8 aiming at prohibiting gay marriage in California were victorious last night with almost 52% of the votes for the Proposal. This little majority puts an Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET If the majority of voters of the state of Florida are in favour of Barack Obama, they refused to give the equality of rights of heterosexual couples to the gay couples. A large majority Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The success of Proposal 8 supporters in California, cutting the possibility for gay couples to get married, is doping the opposition to gay marriages which are allowed a short while Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Recognized as a real gay icon, the British footballer has declared to be honoured to receive this title and to have such effect across the country and the world. Beckham declares Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Paola Binette, member of Parliament of the Italian Democratic Party and member of the Opus Dei just declared in the Corriere della Sera that “strongly rooted homosexual tendencies presuppose Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET Barack Obama just gave his opinion on MTV against the Proposition 8 while affirming again his opposition to gay marriage. He prefers the civil union contract to protect the rights of Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET 2012 will not only be the year of the Olympic Games in London but also of the World Pride. This victory pleases Boris Johnson, the conservative mayor of the city, who underlines the Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET The controversy on the words of Queen Sofia is shaking Spanish media. The Queen thinks that her words have been distorted and she is disgusted by all this. A press release from the Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET This had been good news when the Bush government accepted to review the law prohibiting the access to American territory to HIV carriers asking for a visa of entry. But the rules Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET All acts and artistic work that can arouse sexual desire will be under the law voted by most of the Indonesian deputies. The latter intend to preserve the morality of the society by Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 CET In order to make sure that seminarist shall not have “strong homosexual tendencies”, an “uncertain sexual identity” or real “immaturity”, Pope Benedict XVI will make priests-to-be Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET There's growing support for the opposition to Proposition 8 with Paris Hilton, the singer Melissa Etheridge and the actress America Ferrara known for her role as Ugly Betty. The great Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET In the new autobiography “The Queen Up Close”, Queen Sofia claims not to accept the word “marriage” for unions between homosexuals and prefers the expression “social contract” or “union”. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET The San Francisco Castro Theater was the place to be last Tuesday. The filmmaker Gus Van Sant introduced in preview his new film on Harvey Milk, the famous gay activist who was the Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET The law has condemned the Italian state to pay 100000 euros as compensation for removing the driving license of Daniele Giuffrida, a young conscript who had dared to assume his homosexuality. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET The World Health Organization has just published its report on health around the world. Its says that AIDS is the main cause of adult deaths in Africa and that 9 children out of 10 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET The FBI has just published the stats on homophobic assaults in the United States in 2007. There is an increase of 6% compared to 2006. 59.2% of the 1512 victims are gay men. Harder Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET Complex situation for five transsexuals who have been arrested for disorder with law and order while they were calmly demonstrating for the official recognition of their identity. This Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET While the California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in favour of Proposition 8 like most of the Republicans, his wife, Maria Shriver who is a member of the Kennedy family has given Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET The bad reputation of French prisons is not to get better due to overpopulation and the lack of means of some institutions. RAVAD,an association fighting discriminations and homophobia, Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET Jerry Lewis had used the expression “pederast” on an American show last year and had to apologize for the agitation it caused. He comes back with homophobic words by qualifying cricket Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET Arrested in a metro station for drug consumption, a young man has apparently been sodomized with a walkie-talkie by 5 policemen. The police deny the information but an investigation Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET While a Rainbow Tolerance March had been allowed by the municipality of Krakow on October the 31st, the latter has been canceled as the President Kaczynski was going to be in town on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CET The Germans are also going to have their exclusively gay channel. Named “Timm”, it will start on the 1st November and will broadcast everyday from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. The program will Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CEST The surveys are not so good for John McCain and the strong views of his fellow candidate, Sarah Palin, are in complete opposition with what was promised to the Gay community. We Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CEST The referendum on gay marriage is more and more badly seen. This is what seems to indicate the results of a third consecutive survey published by associations in favour of Proposal Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CEST