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- Gays march in Haiti for first timeToday
- (St. Marc, Haiti) A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" have marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march. The march, held a day ahead of World AIDS Day in ...
- South Africa marks World AIDS DayToday
- (Cape Town, South Africa) Church bells tolled, workers put down their tools and court proceedings stopped Monday as South Africa marked a minute of silence for AIDS victims and ended a decade of denial about the epidemic. Peter Piot, the top U.N. official dealing with the disease, joined political leaders and ...
- Will Calif. Prop 8 kill NY gay marriage bill?Today
- (New York City) There are growing concerns that New York State Democrats are about to shelve legislation that would allow same-sex marriage in the Empire State in the wake of California's Proposition 8 which imposed a constitutional ban on gay weddings. In 2006, the New York Court of Appeals, the state's ...
- Fla. gays to demonstrate at governor’s weddingToday
- (Tallahassee, Florida) A gay rights group says it will state a protest at Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's wedding on Dec. 12. Impact-Florida wants is members and other supporters to wear pink T-shirts outside St. Petersburg's First United Methodist Church where Crist will marry Carole Rome. Following the wedding the group says it ...
- 20th World AIDS Day markedToday
- (New York City) Communities throughout the country are marking World AIDS Day, some; by offering free HIV testing others with vigils and still others with education programs. This is the 20th World AIDS Day. Some 33.2 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS; 2.5 million of them are children. In Washington, the ...