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Albania
- Society Gay Albania (SGA)
Rights: homosecuality is not illegal since January 20, 1995, but the society is homophobic, and make lgbt people keep hidden. If you know of any openly gay, lesbian or transexual albanian person, I bet you live somewhere far, far away from their country.
more.. wikipedia
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AlgeriaRights: Homosexuality is illegal, punishable by 3 years in prison. (religion is 99% Sunni Muslim, official languages Arabic & French )
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Argentina
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Australia
- http://www.femnistbookshop.com, Sydney, Australia
the oldest women bookshp of this huge country, and a certified lesbian information center for Sydney and surroundings. We visited in November 2007! [link valid, Dec.2007]
- www.pflagaustalia.org.au
- www.greekandgay.com -
Confidential discussion and support group for Gay and Bi sexual Men and Women of GREEK
Background in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney (Sydney is male only)..
We hold discussion meetings and social events for group members or anyone
interested to attend. Greek travelers wellcome to group meetings. Events are open to all.
- Lesbians On The Loose, www.lotl.com
- Australian lesbian magazine with news from Australia and beyond. Features astrology, dream
interpretation, chat room, advice and a lesbian site review.
- OlderDykes.org,
group of feminist lesbians over forty
- www.glcsnsw.org.au -
Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service of NSW
- www.glitf.org.au
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Gay and Lesbian Immigration Task Force
- www.glrl.org.au -
Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
- www.sydneyqueergirls.com.au - Sapphic Sydney
Rights report: there's good anti-discrimination law-system, but also religious and
ethnic groups practicing homophobia.
Some parts of the country are more friendly than other parts. Civil unions with limited
rights available in some places. Contact the local groups for details.
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Austria
- Rainbow Online www.lesbian.or.at: lesbian e-community, featuring chat, personals, queer info,
news, messages
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Belgium
- - Antwerp, (URL was .. http://users.pandora.be/atthis/ ) Atthides lesbian group
- - http://www.e-sappho.com - E-Sappho
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Bulgaria
- GEMINI: www.bgogemini.org,
Gay and Lesbian Organisation
- Lesbian Bulgaria: http://www.geocities.com/bglesbian/
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Canada
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Chile
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China
Rights: LGBT sites are baned in the country, as well as any kind of relative information, allong
with a number of other baned subjects.
last we heard.. Nov. 2006, police invaded the offices of organisation
Xuelianhua AIDS project, imprisoned everyone found there & confiscated the computers and other
material found,
two days after the org. reported to the media about the exile imposed to 19 homosexual students
found infected with hepatitis C.
Our best wishes to people there.
Croatia
- www.cro-lesbians.com,
Croatian lesbian site-official page with chat,message board,e-card,safe sex, poetry
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Cyprus - ( in Greek)
Is there a Lesbian Cyprus ? There must be.. but it looks like it's a good bit
more closeted than Greece .. Why? As far as we know the church is stronger in Cyprus and affects the state and the local society a lot more. Actually Cyprus seems to be about as homophobic as the average Greek society away from "The capital city" of Athens, which is as big as half of Greece.
- Gay Liberation Movement
PO Box 1947, CY-1515 Nicosia, Tel +357 2 44 33 46, Fax +357 2 46 72 66
Contact : Αλέκος Μοδινός (Alekos F. Modinos)
a member of The Platform of European
Social NGOs
- Legal survey by ILGA.org [used to be here: http://www.ilga.info/Information/Legal_survey/europe/cyprus.htm]
- The situation concerning homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation by Nicos Trimikliniotis and Stavros Stavrou Karayanni:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jan/cyprus-homophobia-report.pdf, March 2008
- We have met a lot of lesbian women of Cypriot origin living in Greece, mostly closeted, with strong tied to their families in Cyprus, still refusing to return there for any longer period than a couple of weeks in the holidays. They associate to lesbians 'old style', i.e. through closed groups of friends meeting mostly at their places
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Czech republic
- Gay a Lesbickα Liga (Gay and Lesbian League - GLL), Prague
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Egypt
Men suspected of having sex with men get arrested, imprisoned, charged with the
"habitual practice of debauchery," Egypt's penal code provision used to legitimize arrests for
homosexual conduct, although homosexuality per se is not refered in the law. They face up to
three years' imprisonment if found guilty, usually at speedy mock-trials where they don't have
any legitimate rights. Many of them are verbaly abused and tortured in detention. There is a
latest 2-year campaign against male homosexuality, including fake internet adds, the raid ...
and the latest blockade of a Nile bridge reputed to be a meeting place for men on August 28,
2003 where sixty-two men were reportedlyrounded up by Cairo police.
more.. Human Rights
Watch Press .. & ..
International NGOs issue travel directions about the dangers of visiting the country (some
of the arrested men are not Egyptians)
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Ethiopia
Rights: Homosexuality is illegal, punishable by 3years imprisonment.
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Finland
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France
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FYROM
- the Centre for Civil and Human Rights, the only organisation in FYROM specifically concerned
with promoting gay and lesbian rights
rights & practices :
A conservative Balkan homophobic society, a very conservative mix of the Orthodox Christian and
Muslim faiths,
where most people look on homosexuality as a disease, shares the general climate of Balkan
intolerance towards same-sex relationships.
Jail terms for homosexuality were scrapped in 1996, but society's attitudes have barely inched
forward since then.
Gay bars have opened - only to close as soon as the outside world learned about them.
"Hooligans used to wait for us outside the bar. A few
of our friends were badly beaten,"
The police regularly raid the cruising areas around the capital where homosexuals like to meet
up.
"If people found out we could lose our jobs". Most homosexual couples lead double lives
- Skopje, 2004
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Germany
- Frauenliebe - www.sappho-net.de
- Ermis - the Greek gay & lesbian community in Germany. Started 1998 in Cologne, now has sections
in Stutgard, Munich,
Frankfurt & Berlin. A member of LSVD.
- www.ermis.de -*- www.ermis.de/ermis/index-gr.html -GR
- LSVD - umbrela-association of German lesbian & gay orgs - www.lsvd.de
Rights:
Civil Solidarity Pact Act ( PACS) for same-sex couples
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Greece
Athens Lesbians Group
Omofylofilia mailing list
- the Greek homosexuals communication avenue
LGBT Rights, Law & practices in Greece
see also pages .. Greek Groups & Communities,
Greek e-space, Greek e-communities,
gay-friendly busines,
Athens by Night, Rhodes
& Corfu guides.
Hungary
- Hatter Support Society for LGBT people
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India
- sappho.shoe.org - SAPPHO- The
Emotional Support Group For Lesbian & Bisexual Women
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Iceland
- www.samtokin78.is -
Samtokin78, the National Organization of Lesbians and Gay Men in Iceland
In the past 20 years they have achieved much in making gay men and lesbians visible in Iceland and thus worked a lot against prejudices, have also ensured that gay men and lesbians in Iceland have more legal rights than most countries in the world. The
Organization of Icelandic Lesbians and Gay men, was formed in 1978, founding members were 13 gay men. No lesbian was found to take part in the beginning and that says a lot about the situation back then. Today the members are 300 in total, both gay men and lesbians. Available only in Icelandic.
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Indonesia
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Iran (Persia)
- PGLO - Persian Gay & Lesbian Organization - e-mail: pglo-AT-pglo.org
- Delkadeh (A Persian Socio-cultural GLBT e-magazine), e-mail: delkadeh-AT-gmail.com
- MAHA (A Persian GLBT e-magazine), e-mail: majaleh_maha-AT-yahoo.com
see also.. appendix for muslim & arab countries (coming soon!)
Rights:
Death penalty for consensual sexual acts between (male) adults of the same sex, according to the islamic Saria law
- July 19th, 2005: two young homosexual men were hung in public at Entalat sqr. (meaning"justuce"!) in town Maslad, NE Iran. See also http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=37
or google it
- http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/21/iran12072.htm (valid 20 oct. 2006)
- http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2005/11/22/two-men-executed-in-iran-for-homosexual-conduct/
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00402.htm
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Iraq Rights: This is one of the most homophobe countries of the arab group of homophobes.
Aug. 2009: HRW & BBC report a rise on anti-gay attacks & gay Iraqi men murders in what appears to be a co-ordinated
campaign involving militia forces. Hundreds of gay men have been targeted and killed in Iraq since
2004.
"Honour killings" also account for deaths where families punish their own kin in order to avoid public shame.
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Ireland
- http://www.linc.ie/
- L.Inc (Lesbians in Cork) is a community centre in Cork, Ireland.
- Foyle friend, LGBTQ information, support & advocacy -
http://homepages.iol.ie/~nwgay/
1st same-sex partnership ceremony was held in a Belfast hotel, Dec. 19, 2005
Grenn & Sanon are the happy lesbian couple!
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Israel
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Rights:
Homosexuality was a criminal offence before 1988, but then..
Recognised inheritance rights of homosexual couples, and homosexual marriages taken place in other countries.
Italy
Jamaica
- http://www.jflag.org/
- The Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals & Gays, since December 1998,
the first human rights organization in the country's history to serve the needs of.. */EG
Japan
- Women-loving Women in Modern Japan, by Erin Subramian
www.yuricon.org/essays/women_loving_women.html
(accessed 18 oct 2006)
- Hattori, Ayako, Lesbian Feminism in Japan (April 21, 2003) -
http://plaza28.mbn.or.jp/~dyke/lesfemi.welcome.html - Her stories, coming out, travel, and lesbian
art orginally printed in Japanese newsletters.
- OCCUR Japan Association for the Lesbian and Gay
Movement
Ishikawa-Building 2nd Floor, 6-12-11 Honcho Nakano, Tokyo 164 Japan,
(813) 3383-5556, FAX 3229-7880. Grassroots gay activist organization and sponsor
of the Tokyo Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival.
- Japan Lesbian
Resourses (organizations, bars/clubs, women-only events)
- The Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival (was
http://l-gff.gender.ne.jp/2000/English/top-e.html)
- Tokyo Lesbian & Gay Pride 2005, Aug. 13, 2005 - www.tlgp.org
www.tlgp.org/englishmain.shtml */EG page
First Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Parade took place in 1994
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Kenya
- Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya, an umbrella body consisting of eight Kenyan groups of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people, representing the interests and concerns of all LGBTI Kenyans.
Rights:
Sex between men is illegal in Kenya, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, and is seen by many as a Western-imported, morally wrong behavior that is limited to areas visited by tourists.
* Statement from the LGBTI coalition in Kenya, 31/10/2006, includes:
We wish to draw the attention .. human rights violations experienced daily by gay and lesbian people in Kenya, the least of which is the criminalization of our private and consensual sexual relationships.
Korea, South
- www.exzone.com,
the first Lesbian & Gay site (in Korean)
- LGAAD KOREA , (URL was.. http://outpridekorea.com/lgaad/ ) -
Lesbian & Gay Alliance Against Discrimination in Korea
Rights:
In Korean schools, homosexuality is considered a more serious offense than drinking, smoking or getting pregnant.
See also: "Lesbian Censorship in School" short film by Chichi & Jiggi, 2006
Latvia
Liechtenstein
LithuaniaRights: Amendments were proposed to criminalize "homosexual propaganda" in public spaces with a new
310 article of Penal code and a relative article in public management code.
Malta
- MGRM, www.maltagayrights.com/ the Malta Gay Rights Movement,
dedicated to providing services beneficial to the Maltese gay community
Mauritania Rights:
Death penalty for consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex
Same-sex intercourse officially carries the death penalty in several Muslim nations: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, northern Nigeria, Sudan, and Yemen.
see also: mask.org:mauritania
Moldova
- www.gay.md/eng - Gay MD - the
official website of GenderDoc M, the only organization proudly serving the Gay Lesbian Bisexual and
Transgender Community of Moldova. Here you'll find information about the services we offer,
information on Travel to Moldova, and insight about the situation for sexual minorities in our
Republic.
* GenderDoc-M plans public manifestations within the VI LGBT Pride "Rainbow over the Dnister",
which will be held between 27-29 April 2007
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Netherlandsrights:
Equal rights for all, including marriage of same-sex persons
Single exception: same-sex couples may only adopt childer within the country or from countries supporting the same right to avoid international problems.
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New Zealand rights:
indicative: Rainbow Room formally dedicated at Parliament, repored 23 September 2008
One of Parliament’s select committee rooms has been dedicated the Rainbow Room to recognise gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender New Zealanders and their contribution to society and Parliament.
The designation of the room at Parliament last night was supported by members of all parties represented in the Parliament.
- see also www.parliament.nz
Nicaragua Rights:
Nicaragua continues to criminalise consensual same-sex sexual relations, campaigning for LGBT rights and anyone providing sexual health information or services. (April 06)
Article 204 of the Nicaraguan Penal Code: "Anyone who induces, promotes, propagandizes or practices in scandalous form sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex commits the crime of sodomy and shall incur "1 to 3 years imprisonment."
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NigeriaRights: Homosexuality is illegal, outlawed in the Nigerian penal code and Muslim law. In the civil penal code homosexuality can carry up to a 14-year prison sentence.
Death penalty for consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex applies to 12 Northern provinces with Sharia law.
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Norway
- Open Church Group for Lesbians and Gays, LLH-Oslo, PO Box 948 Sentrum, 0104 Oslo, Norway
- history: Europride 2005 in Oslo ( URL was.. http://www.europride.no/
- history: animal homosexuality exhibition, Oslo, 2006
Rights: "registrert partnerskap" since 1993 - Lov om , 1993-04-30 no.40
- the law */EG : odin.dep.no/bld/engelsk/publ/handbooks/004071-120027/index-dok000-b-n-a.html
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Peru
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Poland
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Portugal
- Pink Panthers (Portugal) * Panthέres Roses * Panteras Rosa
- http://portugalpride.org - Portugal Pride
- http://portugalgay.com/ - GLBT travel guide & directory since 1996
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Romania
- ACCEPT organisation, accept.ong.ro
targeting at improving social conditions gay like. A member of ILGA - ( or www.accept-romania.ro)
- Romanian LesBiGays on the Internet, URL was http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1811
fosters contact between LesBiGays from Romania, or of Romanian
origin. Prima pagina pe W.W.W., a LesBiGay-lor romani - pentru
LesBiGay-ii romani si amicii lor de pe mapamond. If you are visiting
Romania then this excellent site is THE place to visit.
Russian Federation
* 2010: Activists plan for a 2010 march on May 29th in Moscow, in spite of the folowing history of the mayor's warfare against them. They have unsuccessfully tried to have the mayor prosecuted under Article 149 of the Russian Criminal Code for using his political power to prevent legal public events for the LGBT community in the city.
* 25/1/2010- The mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, has repeated his claims that gay Pride marches are "satanic", originating in 2007. In December 2009 he stated "We have prevented such a parade and we will not allow it in the future. Everyone needs to accept that as an axiom."
* 2009: gay rights campaigners including Nicolai Alekseev and Peter Tatchell were arrested and fined by police for a short, small march on the day of the Eurovision final. - by Pink News
* 2007, a similar attempt led to violence from neo-Nazi groups.
* The first Moscow gay festival celebrations: Moscow 25-28 May 2006 !
* Strasbourg, 15.05.2006: the Council of Europe Secretary General condemns recent violence
against gays and lesbians in Moscow - pressunit@coe.int - www.coe.int/t/DC/Press
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Saudi ArabiaRights:
- floggings as punishment for homosexuality .. The saria
Death penalty for consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex
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SerbiaRights:
Law: work law forbids discrimination, but there is no registered complaints. Antirasism law of 2006 forbids discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and transgender status in all areas and hate speech against sexual orientation.
Information law of 2003 and radio broadcasting law of 2002 forbids discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, but the independent authority for broadcasting that should be enforcing the laws does not do so. (Just like the Greek radio-TV counsil !)
Same-sex couples are not recognised in any way and the constitution defines marriage 'between man and woman'. Lesbians have no acces to IVF.
Blood donation is forbidden to persons having anal contact during the last 6 months.
Lesbian and gay people face a lot of attacks and bullying. The existence of a number of powerfull nationalistic organisations make things worse.
The dificulties in the cooperation of the few lgbt activists seems to be the worst factor.
September 2009: The primeminister banned the Beograd Pride for security reasons.
Slovenia
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South Africa
Latest News: Lesbians in South Africa Subjected to Corrective Rape or murder - see:
GayWitoutBorders,17/3/2009 -
S.AfricaNews,14/3/2009 -
Corrective rape at schools,12/3/2008
Rights: The first country to include a constitutional clause protecting discrimination due to
sexual orientation, though it does not really support it.
Unequal age of consent, 19 for homosexuals (male and female), 16 for heterosexuals
More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in Southern Africa
Report, January 1, 2003
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Sudan
Rights:
Death penalty for consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex
Spain - Espania
Rights:
the third country fully supporting marriage rigths without discrimination since June 2005.
see also: world marriage rights (in greek) http://sapphogr.net/dikaiwma/marriage/mworld.html#spain
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Sweden
- RFSL (The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights) - www.rfsl.se
Rights:
Swedish Anti-discrimination Legislation: sexual orientation discrimination (employment) Act (1999:133); equal treatment of students at Universities Act (2001:1286); discrimination (Goods and services) Act (2003:307); discrimination and other degrading treatment of Children and Pupils Act (2006:67).
Civil unions granting gays and lesbians the same legal status as married couples have been allowed in Sweden since 1995.
Switzerland
Thailand
- www.bangkoklesbian.com
- Bangkok Pride: www.bangkokpride.org
2002: 8-15 November
.. 2008: Silom Soi 4 Festival" from 25-30 November, 2008 & PGF 2008 Grand Finale (Party Party Pattaya Festival) 4 Days: 29 November to 02 December
2009: soon to be announced..
Rigths:
Thailand: Protest Violence Against LGBT People [iglhrc]
Turkey
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Uganda
rights:
March 02: the country's president Yoweri Museveni, declared his country has no homosexuals.
He did not refer to the methods he used to eliminate about 1/10 of his citizents ...
Uganda laws against homosexuality address sexual acts
Homosexuality is regarded as taboo in Uganda, where the Penal Code regards it as "carnal knowledge of another against the order of nature."
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United Arab Emirates
rights:
Death penalty for consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex
".. on November 23 (2005), Abu Dhabi Police arrested 26 allegedly homosexual men--UAE
nationals, Arabs, and Asians-- who had gathered at an Abu Dhabi hotel for a party. Government
officials reportedly said that the men were transferred to the ministry's Social Support Center and would "be given the necessary treatment, from male hormone
injections to psychological therapies" after their trial."
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United Kingdom
Britain
- Lesbian UK: www.lesbianuk.co.uk -
aims to
act primarily as a database of information for lesbians about local activity, events and
resources in their area.
- REGARD, LGB disabled group - The National Organisation of Disabled
Lesbians and Gay Men (uk) www.regard.dircon.co.uk
Regard is the national organisation of disabled lesbians, gay men and bisexuals who inform,
educate and compaign for the rights of disbaled lesbians and gay men.
Helpline is operated by REGARD members who are themselves disabled lesbians and gay men.
Databse of lesbian and gay-friendly places with disabled access. Helpline Tuesday 7-9pm 020
7738 6191
- Stonewall.org.uk -
Stonewall is the gay equality organisation founded in 1989. Works to
achieve legal equality and social justice for lesbians, gay men and bisexual people.
- local sections in London, Scotland, Wales.
Education for All project - Stonewall's national programme to tackle homophobia and
homophobic bullying in our schools
(+44.20.7881.9451 education@stonewall.org.uk),
Spell it Out, anti-homophobia bulliying DVD pack for distribution to teachers in all
London's secondary schools,
by Stonewall and Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London. Launched on 4 July 2006 at Stonewall
conference 'Tackling homophobia in our schools'.
- London Lesbian & Gay Switchboard - www.llgs.org.uk
- Gingerbeer, www.gingerbeer.co.uk - London bars, clubs & more...
- GAYtoZ www.gaytoz.com
Everything GAY in the UK on the Web
the UK's Gay Guide and Search Engine with links and contacts for over 5,500 lesbian
and gay businesses, organisations, gay hotel, gay sauna, gay bar, and gay guide to the UK.
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Wales, U.K.
- Llinell Lesbiaid Gogledd Cymru, freespace.virgin.net/jen.port
North Wales Lesbian Line - (Wales & English pages). Provides a phone helpline,
befriending, and support to lesbians, bisexual women and women in doubt about their sexuality
across Wales. View website for social events details.
- Stonewall Cymru, the Welsh LGBT rights group.
Uruguay
- Diversidad, Uruguayan queer activist group - http://geocities.com/diversidad2000
(Mostly Spanish)
Fotos de la marcha de la diversidad sexual Por: Fotos de Nacho subidas por Pe Jota Sunday, Oct. 01, 2006 at 8:24 PM
Fotos de la marcha del 29 de setiembre
Rights:
equal civil maggiage rights, adoption rights.
the law banning access to military schools was abolished in summer 2009.
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United States
- www.lesbian.org - Dedicated to
promoting lesbian visibility on the internet (+ links to international resources)
- New York : The LGBT Community Center, www.gaycenter.org
- www.lgbtcenters.org - Association of LGBT Community Centers
- ZAMI, Inc. organization for lesbians of African descent based in the Atlanta
Metropolitan area
www.zami.org
- South Asian Lesbian And Gay Association of New York,
www.salganyc.org - SALGA-NYC
A social and political group for LGBT people who trace their descent from countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet as well as people of South Asian descent from countries such as Guyana, Trinidad and Kenya - open to
South Asians only. All are welcome to our social events.
email SALGA-NYC women section : salga_women@hotmail.com
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Yemen
we haven't heard of anything friendly, as expected (seek muslim and arab countries homophobia for details..)
Rights:
Death penalty for consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex
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Zimbabwe
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