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French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, stated that he was "tired of France sagging behind" and "upholding discrimination". He went on to say, "France was embarrassingly late in giving women the right to vote, I don't want us to be last in giving gays equal rights as well."

The proposed law caused strong reactions and criticism from religious organisations, encouraged by right wing American evangelicals, who are calling for the rejection of the entire draft law labelling it as a ‘gay law’.

It always makes a difference if one exchanges personal experiences with those actually concerned rather than only reading about the difficult situation for homosexuals in other countries. A few points were even interesting for lesBians from the rather liberal western countries.

The proposed rules will facilitate legal and administrative procedures in the field of property rights (real estate, banking, other possessions) for all international couples, whether married or in a civil partnership.

In the draft, Hungary is bound to “protect the institution of marriage as a life community based on the voluntary decision of a woman and a man”, and consider family “the guarantee of the survival of the nation”.

If Turkey and Montenegro are keen on joining the EU, they will have to make improvements when it comes to LGBT rights.

People are always telling me that there aren't enough people in Ireland who believe in giving LGBT people full marriage rights. However, a new survey might just prove them wrong.

The goal of the study was to try and get a clearer idea of the way French students perceive homosexuality, how they react to it and what they consider homophobic. This study– the first of its kind in France - was conducted in spring of last year at universities of Paris and its surrounding area (the Ile de France), and followed a poster campaign made by the government in 2009.

Moscow Pride is scheduled for May 28, 2011. Because of the recent European Court ruling, activists in Moscow, including Moscow Pride Chief Organiser, Nikolai Alekseev, are hopeful that for the first time, Moscow Pride will be an officially sanctioned event. However, the new Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, has made it clear that his position isn’t far from that of the previous mayor, who described gay marches as 'satanic'.

There is no single definition of marriage: it varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, from culture to culture. 'Traditional marriage'? There simply is no one form of marriage and traditional values/definitions have been ammended and adapted for centuries.