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[edit] 2007

[edit] March 2007

[edit] 13 March

According to senior aides, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, will not apologize for declaring in a newspaper interview that he consider homosexuality to immoral and that the US military should not condone immoral conduct by allowing gay men and women to serve openly.

[edit] 11 March

Thousands of protesters gathered in central Rome to show their support for government proposals to grant rights to gay couples. The bill was approved by Italy's cabinet last week but faces a tough battle through the Italian Parliament.

[edit] 5 March

The first US soldier to be injured in the present Iraq conflict, Marine Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, has come out and announced his opposition to the US armed forces' "Don't ask don't tell" policy on homosexuality.

[edit] 2 March

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter uses the slur faggot to refer to democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. Since that time she has been publicly denounced by three leading republican candidates and her column has been dropped by at least three newspapers.^[1]

[edit] February 2007

[edit] 27 February

Google have defended their removal of the homophobic blog "killbattyman" from their blogger.com service for breach of their terms and conditions. The blog contained many offensive images and comments and called for the executions of all LGBT people.

[edit] 16 February

According to a recent poll, 80% of Italians support proposed legislation that will grant property and inheritance rights to registered same-sex cohabitees despite Vatican opposition to the laws.

[edit] 8 February

The Highest Court in Colombia decided that those who have been in same-sex partnerships for at least two years have the right to inherit property.

[edit] January 2007

[edit] 30 January

United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that the Sexual Orientation Regulations, which will protect LGBT people against discrimination when accessing goods and services, will apply to Catholic adoption agencies despite threats from the Catholic church that such agencies would close rather than have to place children with gay couples.

[edit] 25 January

A member of French President Jacques Chirac's party has been fined almost $4,000 under a French hate speech laws that make it illegal to publicly disparage gays.

[edit] 19 January

New laws expected to be passed shortly in Nigeria are being described as the worst crackdown on gay and lesbian rights since the Iranian revolution. The laws will prohibit all affirmation and celebration of gay identity, including providing advice and welfare support to gays and lesbians.

[edit] 14 January

A court in Rutland, Vermont has ordered that a woman pay child support to her former lesbian lover, who has since renounced her homosexuality, as part of the dissolution of their civil union.

[edit] 9 January

The United Kingdom House of Lords votes 199 to 68 in favour of the Sexual Orientation Regulations, which will protect LGBT people against discrimination when accessing goods and services.

[edit] 7 January

Archbishop Rowan Williams admits he fears he is losing control of the Anglican Church in its battle over gay clergy.

Alan Cumming gets married/civilly partnered to his boyfriend of two years Grant Shaffer.

[edit] 3 January

In Ticino, Switzerland first gay couple gets civil union.

Former Steps member and current Celebrity Big Brother housemate Ian Watkins comes out as gay in The Sun.

[edit] 2006

[edit] November 2006

[edit] 24 November

Northern Ireland is to implement Sexual Orientation Regulations early in the New Year, banning inequality in the provision of goods and services to LGBT people.

[edit] 22 November

Israel's Supreme Court recognizes foreign same-sex marriages.

[edit] 15 November

South Africa is to legalize same-sex marriage in 2007.

[edit] 3 November

How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris comes out as a "content gay man"^[2].

[edit] October 2006

[edit] 25 October

New Jersey's State Supreme Court says gay couples have same rights as heterosexual couples.

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