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Yesterday about a thousand activists marched on the United Nations, demanding the creation of a so-called “Robin Hood Tax” on Wall Street and financial institutions around the world. Forbes posted a press release: To commemorate the 2nd Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the Robin Hood tax coalition that consists of two hundred million supporters around the world including Occupy Wall …

“We need more voices speaking up for universal human rights. We have honoured some of the great advocates here today who have spoken out courageously for women’s rights, gay rights and religious understanding, showing us that our communities and institutions are strongest when equality and opportunity are open to all people and freedom of conscience is respected. And it is …

Scary Spice is back with a dance raver and a clip in which she sort of makes out with herself. Guaranteed to be huge in the gay clubs.

Citing the “hyper-sexualisation” of kids, the French Senate has voted to ban child beauty contests. Judging children under the age of 16 on their physical appearance in so-called “beauty contests” is now a criminal offence in France, the French Senate ruled on Tuesday night. The new law forms part of the new “equality bill” presented to the French Senate on …

It’s really strange, if not necessarily surprising, that the anti-gay hate industry is going nuts about San Antonio when virtually identical non-discrimination laws have existed for years and years in many states and municipalities. Pat Robertson on San Antonio: “If you speak up about your beliefs, they’ll put you in jail! They’ll brand you some kind of Class Three felon!”

Drug giant Abbott raised the price on its HIV med Norvir by 400% in 2007, just before SmithKline launched its own combination drug that includes Norvir. Therefore, lawsuit. But the case may now hinge on whether it was legal for Abbott to challenge one of the jurors because he is gay. “It’s a big deal,” said Vik Amar, University of …

The NYPD has made an arrest in the gay-bashing of a couple that had been holding hands on a Chelsea street last month. Alfonso Lanier, 23, was charged Tuesday with aggravated harassment and assault as a hate crime, the New York Police Department said. Authorities are still looking for a second suspect. The assault took place August 14 in the …

ESPN has published a fascinating piece on Mexico’s “exoticos,” the (sometimes) straight men who play flamboyant characters on the professional wrestling circuit known as lucha libre. Contemporary luche libre is big business on television but retains its early folkloric identity. Exóticos date from the golden age of the sport, which ran from the 1940s through the 1960s. One of the …

“It isn’t that it’s questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it’s precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they’re gay. I don’t think, ‘What do I want to …

Yesterday the former editor of the Dallas Voice, John Wright, issued a blistering email, claiming that he had been fired (among other reasons) for writing about the planned enforcement of public decency laws at Dallas Pride. The Dallas Morning News picked up the story: Publisher Leo Cusimano, who, along with Terry Thompson, bought the Voice from co-founder Robert Moore earlier …