Thursday, May 31st, 2007
INTERVIEW - Lesbian politician hopes to make Japanese history (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
TOKYO (Reuters) - Kanako Otsuji hopes to make history by becoming Japan's first openly lesbian national lawmaker. Backed by the main opposition party in a nation so conservative that many gays prefer to stay in the closet, Otsuji, 32, would become the first openly gay politician of either sex if …
Source: asia.news.yahoo.com
Africa's gay and lesbian people combat bias (Mail and Guardian)
The international campaign for equal rights for homosexuals and other sexual minorities took a step forward on November 14 last year when South Africa became the first country in Africa, and the fifth in the world, to legalise same-sex marriage.
Source: www.mg.co.za
Dallas may get openly gay mayor (Planet Out via Yahoo! News)
SUMMARY: Should City Councilman Ed Oakley win a runoff mayoral election June 16, the nation's ninth-largest city would become the first major American metropolis with an out gay mayor.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Baby boy for Cheney's lesbian daughter (NDTV)
American Vice President Dick Cheney is celebrating the birth of a grandson born to his lesbian daughter. It is the first such event in Cheney's Republican Party, which is decidedly anti-same sex marriages.
Source: www.ndtv.com