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At Yesterday’s Protest In London

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Hundreds Of LGBT Protesters March On Russia’s Consulates In Toronto And SF

Hundreds of protesters marched to the Russian consulate in Toronto on Saturday. A number of local politicians attended the rally Saturday, including Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Glen Murray, who is openly gay himself, and Parkdale-High Park MPP Cheri DiNovo. Speaking with CP24, Murray also said the law is worrisome. “If we were in Russia right now, we’d be mobbed by …

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Sochi Olympics Protest Shirts

According to the website, this is a crowd-sourcing campaign and 200 shirts need to be ordered before they’ll print.

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HAITI: Protesters Threaten To Burn Down Parliament If Gay Marriage Is Legalized, Two Men Reportedly Murdered At Protest

Caribbean 360 reports: Organisers say they are pleased with the turnout on Friday as more than 1,000 people took to the streets here to protest homosexuality and a proposal to legalize gay marriage in Haiti. The protesters carried anti-gay placards and chanted songs in which they threatened to burn down parliament if its members make same-sex marriage legal. A Haitian …

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Brazilians Protest “Gay Cure” Bill

EuroNews reports: In the midst of the biggest nationwide protests against the government in decades Brazilians have taken to the streets to express their anger at a controversial law known as the “gay cure” proposed by the the president of the Brazilian Parliament’s Commission for Human Rights, Marco Feliciano. If passed the change in legislation would permit psychologists to treat …

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BRAZIL: Protests And Riots Rock Major Cities Over Government Spending

Massive protests took place across Brazil last night, partially in reaction to government spending plans for the World Cup and the Rio Olympics. Rioters in Rio De Janeiro set fire to the state legislature building. Protesters claim that social services and aid to the poor are being cut in order promote sports and tourism to Brazil. The New York Times …

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Marriage Protest In Chicago Tonight

Activists will stage a marriage equality protest tonight in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood. Via joint press release from the Gay Liberation Network and the Civil Rights Agenda: What should have been a cakewalk instead became an epic fail. Activists are denouncing what they say was a consistent failure by the bill’s sponsors to reach out to other minority communities and involve …

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FRANCE: Marriage Protest Ends In Violence, Hundreds Arrested By Riot Police

Yesterday’s anti-gay marriage rally in Paris ended with yet more violence. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday that police had made a total of 350 arrests, and that 36 people had been injured: 34 police officers, one AFP photojournalist and one protester. In a statement, Valls blamed the “extreme right” for the violence. Some of the far-right activists briefly …

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BRAZIL: 100,000 Evangelicals Rally Against Same-Sex Marriage In Rio

An estimated 100,000 evangelicals staged an anti-gay march in Rio de Janeiro yesterday in protest of the recent ruling that effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Via On Top Magazine: According to the AFP, the demonstrators ended their march at the Cinelandia square, where pastors spoke out against such unions and the faithful prayed. Gospel singers such as Marcelo Aguiar and …

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Frigide Barjot: I’m Afraid To Attend This Sunday’s Anti-Gay Marriage Protest

Manif Pour Tous leader Frigide Barjot says she might not attend this Sunday’s planned anti-gay marriage protest because the government has not committed to protecting her from pro-gay counter-protesters and members of France’s extreme-right French Spring. Barjot: “I get death threats, calls for aggression, and this morning – a handkerchief full of blood. At the moment, and as we do …

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NY1 On Yesterday’s Hate Crime March

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NEW YORK CITY: West Village Streets Closed For Massive Anti-Hate Crimes Rally
“Say His Name: MARK CARSON!”

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TODAY: West Village Protest Rally And March In Honor Of Mark Carson

From the New York City LGBT Community Center: On Monday evening we will gather on the steps of the Center, along with the Anti-Violence Project, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, community members, other elected officials, and LGBT community leaders and allies, and march to the site of Friday’s shooting to demand an end to hate crimes against our …

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New Yorkers Rally Against Hate Crimes Outside Madison Square Garden

Hundreds of LGBT New Yorkers gathered outside Madison Square Garden last night in protest of the ongoing spree of violent anti-gay hate crimes, one of which occurred outside the famed sports venue. The protest was organized by Queer Rising and the LGBT Anti-Violence Project. Visit the Facebook page of Gay Marriage USA for many more photos and some of the …

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NYPD Bars “Dirty Hands” Protesters From Entering St. Patrick’s Cathedral

GLAAD reports: A group of gay and allied Catholics gathered to worship together at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City with dirty hands in response to comments made by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. However, even as they were gathering, they were told by the police that they would be barred from entering the Cathedral unless they washed their hands.  Joseph …

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LIVE VIDEO: Manif Pour Tous Protest

France’s anti-gay Manif Pour Tous is staging yet another massive protest in Paris today.  Watch live here.

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FRANCE: Tens Of Thousands Attend Anti-Gay Marriage Protest In Paris

France’s anti-gay Manif Pour Tous is live-streaming today’s marriage protest. Via Reuters: Chanting “We don’t want your law, Hollande!”, some 50,000 protesters massed behind a banner reading: “All born of a Mum and a Dad” and said it was undemocratic to bring about such a fundamental social change without holding a referendum. Hastily organized after the law’s passage was sped …

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FEMEN Disrupt Speech By Pope

Yesterday topless Ukrainian activists FEMEN disrupted a Vatican City speech by the Pope by disrobing and screaming “Homophobe! Shut up!” at the little man in the window. Police moved in quickly and one woman attending the speech repeatedly smacked a protester with her umbrella. Below is FEMEN’s own video of the action, which begins with a strategy session. Cube dwellers …

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FRANCE: Thousands March In Paris To Protest Against Same-Sex Marriage

As expected, tens of thousands of Catholics and Muslims marched through the streets of Paris today in opposition to the same-sex marriage bill proposed by President Francois Hollande and his Socialist Party. Organisers reserved five high-speed trains and 900 buses to bring protesters from provincial towns to the capital, some before dawn, to join Parisians and display the extent of …

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RUSSIA: Gay Activists Roughed Up At Protest Outside DUMA

Via press release from the Russia LGBT Network: In Moscow 20 activists from Russian LGBT network and Equality March gathered for a series of one-man pickets with banners “We are against article 6.13.1”, “For freedom of views and believes, against totalitarian law” and other. The pickets took place from 9:00 till 11:00 near the Russian State Duma building. And although …

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