Tag "Gay Rights"

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“I’d defend gay rights ‘to the death’.” – Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch has said he would fight religious extremists to the death in defence of the right to express one’s sexuality. Cumberbatch, who stars in The Imitation Game as Alan

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Gay rights groups laud new Catholic tone

Gay rights groups are cautiously cheering a shift in tone from the Catholic Church toward homosexuals, encouraged that Pope Francis’ famous “Who am I to judge?” position has filtered down

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“Frozen” Progress in Gay Rights

Written by Jaime Franchi8, and originally published in jedmorey.com We might have been the last of the elementary school set to watch the film Frozen. My six-year-old daughter had heard

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What George Clooney Said…

And he’s getting to witness degrees of that in his lifetime. Me, I’m not so sure I will see that day happen in Nigeria. I’d be glad for Fate to

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LOVE AND SEX IN THE CITY (Episode 12)

FOREWORD: The latter part of this episode of Love And Sex In The City was informed by an actual occurrence involving two friends of mine, whose rights as a citizen

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Ugandan Court Quashes The Country’s Anti-Gay Law

Uganda’s constitutional court on Friday overturned tough new anti-gay laws that had been branded draconian and “abominable” by rights groups, saying they had been wrongly passed by parliament. The law

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JAIL THE DEVILS, THEY SAID

Here’s something CeeCee wrote during the period that the Nigerian anti-gay bill was signed into law, and the furor this kicked up. Have a read, and let us know your