Review of a law in China which makes consensual sex between two men a criminal offense (and punishable by life imprisonment) if one of them is under 21 will have a proper review.

Heterosexuals above sixteen years of age have the right to private sexual relations.

A government bid to block the judicial review of a law said to discriminate against homosexuals has been rejected by the High Court.

Judge Michael Hartmann ruled Tuesday that the judicial review process over a statutory law is a “natural route” to assert one’s constitutional rights. He set July 21 for the hearing. It is the first time that Hartmann officially endorsed the use of judicial review to challenge existing law.

Last December, William Roy, 20, was given leave by Hartmann to challenge a law which makes private and consensual sex between two men a criminal offense if one of them is under 21, punishable by life imprisonment.

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I’ll be away until Tuesday night. Posts for the next couple of days are scheduled. My apologies for any news that may seem old at the time you’re reading about it.

Jen will be taking over for for a few days after the scheduled posts end.

Have a great weekend!

Canada is about to become (Senate approval pending) the third (after the Netherlands and Belgium) national government to extend marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples!

TORONTO, June 28 - The House of Commons voted Tuesday night to extend marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples throughout Canada despite strong opposition from the Conservatives and a splintering of the governing Liberal Party caucus.

The vote sealed two years of provincial court decisions that gave same-sex couples the right to marry in 8 of 10 provinces and one of the three northern territories. When the Senate approves the measure, considered a formality, Canada will become the third national government, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to enact such rights…

With enactment of the legislation, same-sex couples will be able to marry for the first time in Alberta, Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and the unions of couples who have already married in other jurisdictions will now be recognized everywhere in Canada.

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Gay retirement communities are gaining popularity. As one potential buyer, quoted in this article, stated, being part of the majority is something queers don’t get to do very often.

ZIONVILLE, N.C. — Tucked into the forests of the North Carolina mountains is a gated community designed by developers for people like them.

Lesbians and gay men.

At Carefree Cove near Boone, Cathy Groene and Gina Razete are selling more than wooded lots with views of Snake Mountain. They’re marketing the freedom to walk down the road hand-in-hand, dance together at community socials, and talk unself-consciously about a same-sex partner.

Atlantan Jeanne Dolan, 53, an online college instructor, bought the concept.

“I liked the idea of living in a community where I could be open and accepted, even embraced for who I am,” she says.

Razete, 50, and Groene, 57, are pioneers in the growing business of second-home and retirement developments for lesbians and gays. Others are going up in California, New Mexico and downtown Boston.

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Author Terry McMillan has filed divorce from the man who inspired her best-selling novel, “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” claiming her Jamaican-born husband — who is 23 years her junior — is gay.

In court papers filed in California’s Contra Costa County Superior Court, McMillan, 53, said Jonathan Plummer married her for financial gain and a U.S. citizenship.

“It was devastating to discover that a relationship I had publicized to the world as life-affirming and built on mutual love was actually based on deceit,” she wrote in her declaration. “I was humiliated.”

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What else ya got for me? This:

*Corporations show off their gay pride
*Islamic law is not gay
*UK Bank Refuses To Do Business With Anti-Gay Group
*Gay voters rally against marriage amendment
*Lock up the ‘ex-gays’
*Scheer slurs Catholic Church to promote homosexuality
*Memphis sex-therapy group faces complaint
*British researchers say homosexuality is in the genes

Give queers in Accra rights, and the next thing you know it’ll be San Francisco all over again.

I read an article on myjoyonline where it put a spotlight on a Gay community in Accra demanding health rights. Our culture is priceless and will not be sold out and televised for gay rights. Being gay or a homosexual is a choice one makes and a choice one has to deal with including the consequences that comes along with it. They probably have been watching too much television seeing gay parades and gay marriages in the Netherlands or San Francisco, USA. They see a man kissing man, a woman kissing a woman or a woman holding a woman’s hands and think our country’s laws has to change so we can accommodate such practice.

The Jerusalem District Court ruled in favor of parade organizers.

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - An annual homosexual “pride” parade is set to take place as planned in Jerusalem on Thursday, following a court decision in favor of parade organizers.

The Jerusalem District Court ruled that city officials may not forbid the parade because they hold different beliefs than the marchers.

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski last week told the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance (the city’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender center) that city managers decided it would be “wrong” to allow the parade because it could disrupt the public order as well as hurt the feelings of city residents and visitors.

Judge Mussia also said the city is required to hang the homosexual community’s rainbow flags along the parade route as it would do for any other event. (Last year the city did not hang the flags.)

Did you know there are only two types of women?

In the article, you say you are or were bisexual. Are you? What type of women are you attracted to — butch or femme?

I don’t have categories, I just go with the person. You can be butch and really sexy, and you can be femme and really sexy.

Speaking of butches, one definitely made me smile by putting this somewhat daily quote into my inbox.

Masculinity does not equal … dominance/oppression/use/exploitation/etc.

Jerusalem Pride event organizers were notified on Thursday that the yearly parade planned to happen on June 30 would not take place. Tomorrow, the heads of Jerusalem’s gay and lesbian community head to court for a last-minute legal showdown.