Haiti: Christian Fundamentalists lead homophobic terror campaign

Two homosexual persons were murdered in Haiti in the context of the Christian Fundamentalist campaign against gay marriage. 

They are not the only victims, many other activists have received serious threats.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Institutional homophobic repression in the Fascist Russia of Putin

Russian LGTB activists and solidary people protested yesterday against the growing homophobia by the regime, which has approved local laws that forbid what they call "homosexual propaganda", i.e. the defense of the rights of homosexual people to live freely as anybody else. 

Christian-Fascist groups attacked them and then police charged against everybody indiscriminately arresting as many as 40 people. 

Russia and Moldova share the dubious honor of being the most homophobic states in Europe, according to the LGTB International Association. According to them Russia is closer to Iran than to the West in this aspect.

Source: Sare Antifaxista[es].

Gay Pride demo at St. Petersburg violently repressed

It is in these occasions when we can see the actual quality of Russian pretense of democracy: the Gay Pride demo at St. Petersburg (former Leningrad) was violently repressed by police and Nazi squads.

The quality of democracy in Russia becomes evident when the victim of a Nazi attack, Alexander Sheremetyev, was arrested and his attacker was released soon after detention. Some 14 people were arrested, all them demonstrators for equal rights.

More at Gay Russia.

Brazil recognizes homosexual unions

Ending the juridical insecurity that homosexual couples had in Brazil so far, the Supreme Court of the American country declared that couples made of people of the same gender will be recognized as family units, being recognized the same rights as heterosexual couples in all matters legal and economic, including pensions and inheritances. 

Source: Argenpress[es]

Lithuania to issue new homophobic law

Gay Pride marches like this one could be banned

The Lithuanian Parliament is set to pass a new law that fines with as much as €2900 any open discussion of homosexuality. The law reads:

... public promotion of homosexual relations is to be punished by a fine from 2,000 to 10,000 litas.

Amnesty International considers that Lithuania must reject this law.

Earlier this year Lithuania forbade, also by law, any kind of discussion of homosexuality or polyamory in schools.

In that case, AI, said that:

Far from protecting children, the law deprives young people of their right to freedom of expression and access to information and risks isolating children who are already amongst the most at risk of violence at school or within the family.

All very true. It is unbearable that in 21st century Europe we are witnessing this kind of reactionary attack against the freedoms of people even inside the European Union. In my opinion, all this should warrant a quarantine on Lithuania of the same kind as that imposed to Austria when they appointed neofascist politician Georg Heider as prime minister.

There should be no room for fascism in Europe and this kind of attack against freedom of speech and emotional expression is totally unacceptable. People have the right to choose the ways they find best for their sexual and emotional relationships and we all have the right of open information and debate on these matters.

It is a shame and a backdoor to fascism probably too.

You can take action by writing to the President of the Semias (Parliament) using the form available at Amnesty International's site (scroll to bottom).

Sources: Amnesty International (new law, earlier schools law)[en], Sare Antifaxista[es]