Gay Grinder app on overdrive at RNC

Where are GAYS hiding? The South (video)

Finding Sky, July 2, 2023; ATTN:, 2023; CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Graphic and candid obscene language and adult themes!

I'm gay [in the South] and I dislike the LGBT community

(Finding Sky) I once respected the LGBTQIA+ community, but now I'm ashamed to be a part of it. Many members are removing themselves from that community due to the overwhelming bigotry, closed-mindedness, and outlandishly hypersexualized behavior. Did Gen Z ruin the gay community? #lgbtq #gaypride #pridemonth. Find me on instagram.com/finding.skyler and tiktok.com/@finding.sky... 

The South is so gay

(ATTN:) When y'all think about LGBTQ+ representation, all-y'all probably don't immediately picture the southern states of Trump's MAGA America. In this episode, @TraeCrowderLiberalRedneck examines the contradictions and challenges of being gay in the deep South.

Gay rally? Could be, with lots of drinking.

The American South is a complicated place, and we know a lot less about it than we think we do. But many things about the South that seem to make no sense are less confounding in context. The reality is the history of many Southern things has been manipulated, hidden, or just plain ignored.

Trae Crowder guides us through the pride points, failures, and contradictions in "Southin' Off."

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Man wins Miss Netherlands beauty pageant

"Where are the feminists?": Women failing to call out trans woman Miss Netherlands win: Tyrus

(Sky News Australia) July 11, 2023. Fox Nation host Tyrus says, “It turns out the feminists are the alpha males [like me]” after women failed to call out a transgender woman winning Miss Netherlands beauty contest and being sent to compete to become Miss Universe. “There’s no way, I don’t care – makeup, hair, whatever – that any man who transitions [and becomes a woman] is going to be more beautiful than a woman,” Tyrus told Sky News Australia Host Piers Morgan. “The pageants, the scholarships, the modelling jobs that go with it, it's political.” Elon Musk wants a penis measuring contest to replace his cage match fight challenge against Meta/Facebook's wimpy Mark Zuckerberg.

Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom (Catholic League)

The Catholic League; Team Coco; Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q., Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(Team Coco) The Catholic League condemns Aubrey Plaza’s movie The Little Hours, as she explains to Conan back in the summer of 2017. Members of the Catholic Church aren’t pleased with Plaza's bisexual sex comedy that stars Plaza as a chain smoking, foulmouthed nun who's into other nuns, though it ‬now seems Pope Francis wouldn't oppose it on LGBTQI grounds.

"It is trash. Pure trash." - The Catholic League

But The Catholic League has bigger rats to fry -- like the blanks down at Disney Corporation promoting a "homosexual" agenda, getting all "woke" and pro-LGBT, corrupting children when the company used to be so wholesome, selling North Americans and the world a vision of nice and safe and mostly harmless, like when it corrupted the minds of millions of little girls by making them yearn to be princesses (with no regard for what others would have to be to serve their hierarchical role as monarchs) waiting for knights on white ponies or dashing princes looking for damsels in distress to "save."

Can I be "queer" without being gay?

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

I just want to be me...and famous.

"Can a 'queer' meditate?" is the question. The counter-question is, "What's a 'queer'?"

If it simply means "sexually non-normative," welcome to the clurb. Who's "normative" nowadays?

If it means something more specific, it'll have to be specified. Here's a handy LGBTQI+ Dictionary: List of LGBTQ+ terms (stonewall.org.uk).

Ooh! Wee! U b u so I can be me! (WQ)

Does "queer" even mean "gay"? It seems to be a catchall, define-it-yourself, I just don't want to feel left out, you can't pin me down word anyone can say to mean anything.

Oh, look! You're a unicorn, a snowflake, a unique and indefinable set of skandhas (Five Aggregates clung to as self). If there's no self, how can there be a "queer" or anything else?

So "don't just do something, sit there." Sit. It means meditate. But before there's meditation -- stillness absorbing into a single object of attention with its attendant bliss, coherence, and clarity.

If SNL hopes to stay relevant with the youth demo, it had better get with the LGBT trend.

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Fly your fun flag. You be you. You only live many, many times, so enjoy it. Stand up, stand proud, and sit down already; you made your point.

Meditation is much deeper. It's a practice. Like mindfulness, it helps all beings in all of their endeavors. A criminal has as much or more to gain from becoming more mindful than an honest person, like a greedy person stands to gain more from letting go and sharing.

• What does "queer" mean? 9 LGBTQ+ people explain how they love, hate, and understand the word (Them.com)
• Skateboarder speaks out after transgender athlete defeats teen girls: 'We shouldn't be sitting in silence' (msn.com)
• Mark Zuckerberg makes a dark prediction (msn.com)

Gay in the Deep South (video)

Straight Dave (Mr. "Bruno" Cohen); S. Auberon, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Straight Dave" (Sacha B. Cohen)

Anthropology is the study of humans, but we can't see ourselves unless we're looking at ourselves through the eyes of outsiders, in this case the British Sacha Baron Cohen. He made mincemeat out of America as "Borat," showing us up for all our follies and shortcomings.

Here "Bruno," as "Straight Dave," travels to the South for a good ol' fashion beat down in "Straight Dave's Man Slammin' Maxout." But the easily-duped, beer-swigging, Caucasian, Christian, WASPy, IQ-impaired, hyper-masculine fight fans will have none of it.

Maybe we should be more tolerant and less hateful/phobic? Or maybe the city folk "Cosmopolitans" should just wince at what the country neighbor cousins are doing to the image of the USA toward the LGBTQI community. Either way, it's very funny and all in jest, as Cohen explained on The Jonathan Ross Show in England.

• Straight Dave explains what happened in the ring

Mindfulness and Social Activism (Insight LA)

InsightLA.org (sg-mktg.com); Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Our world needs us.

BuddhaFest L.A. 2019 (insightla.org)

With all that we see and feel in the world, we want to act to make changes to impact climate change, anti-racism, sexism, homophobia, immigration, elections, wage inequality...

Participants are invited to bring their open hearts and a social problem they are concerned about or working on. Together we will examine how we can bring mindfulness, compassion, and Buddhist teachings (the Dharma) to our social activism. All levels of meditation practice and social activism welcome. No experience is too advanced.

 

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COST: This event is offered on a donation-basis. Donate as you are able. Suggested donation is $30 to pay teachers and cover the cost of the space. But no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Jurors hear 911 calls woman made before officer killed her

Barr says 'I think spying did occur' on Trump campaign

Nearly $1B in contracts awarded for border fence sections

Science fake: Astronomers reveal first image of a black hole

Pennsylvania lawmakers honor victims of synagogue massacre

AP Interview: Pelosi: 'I don't trust Barr; I trust Mueller'

May asks EU for Brexit delay, but Macron says no guarantee

Families of massacre victims criticize notification process

Family seeks answers in immigrant's death after detention

The Latest: Pelosi OK with 2 men on 2020 Democratic ticket

The Latest: Nielsen opens new DHS campus on her last day

Twitter removes Trump video for use of 'Dark Knight' score

Liberal's concession in Wisconsin race boosts GOP confidence

Trump says only 1 person is in charge of immigration: Him

Jane St. (women in the media)

I. Rony; jane st. (john st.); Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Edgy, explicit, tongue in cheek! Jane St. asks, How does media treat women?

To cater to the increasingly popular trend of femvertising, john st. has opened jane st., an agency that specializes in empowering women through advertising. Visit www.janest.ca to discover how your brand can leverage girlpower to help boost women’s self-esteem, and most importantly, your bottom line. More

Why is sexual abuse rampant in religion?

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS) 

The world agrees with Stewie, "These outrages will not be soon forgotten."

 

Orgasms...sex...? (thismodernworld.com)

Recently we asked, How gay can Vatican priests get? Just a few days later, England's top Catholic (Scotsman and homosexual cleric, Cardinal Keith O'Brien) is stepping down after accusations by fellow priests that he sexually harassed them.

It's one thing for priests, engaged in post-seminary activities, to be gay. But it seems a whole other thing for Church officials to engage in hypocritical homosexual misconduct. Not satisfied to molest boys, traffic in child pornography, and cause parishes and the Vatican to pay out millions in donations from innocent devotees, now it is revealed that higher-ups in the Church have been "indoctrinating" young priests in a lifestyle choice that ruins lives of children and clerics, as attested to by SNAP (snapnetwork.org) and other organizations.

Young men, hoping to avoid homosexual impulses/thoughts, sometimes as a result of having been molested sometimes not, may seek a higher course of life -- the "respectability" of celibacy in an all-male organization with a cohort of similarly gay-but-not-acting-on-it recruits beloved in the community and welcomed into homes with vulnerable young boys. And so the cycle continues -- men not identifying as "gay" molesting boys, who go on to live out the terrible ramifications of childhood abuse.

How does childhood trauma affect females? Tattoos, drugs, denial, and experimentation? CONTROVERSY: By definition, few homosexuals may molest children, BUT all people who molest children of the same sex are necessarily engaging in homosexuality.

 

Some, wishing to avoid the staid and sedentary lifestyle of bookish churchmen, instead go into the military where they are able to rape boys and young men (often killing them to conceal the sex crimes), and fellow male soldiers with almost complete immunity. The brass defends, covers up, and is certainly aware of their behavior -- often charging victims who come forward to report the crimes, in some cases charging singles with "adultery" because the man who raped them was married, as seen in "The Invisible War -- just as Church officials are seen doing. While these men commit their crimes with violence and the threat of violence, the churchmen are arguably more reprehensible for abusing and misusing "God," religion, sin, retribution, and punishment as explanations to hapless victims. Yet it is all shrouded in shame and secrecy. Unless this is uncovered, we can only expect to see more and more sexual perversion, hypermasculinity, effeminate behavior, DOMA, official Church hypocrisy, denial from the lay community, and a hatred of the body and human sexuality.

Sorts of kids Americans are killing (Blue_agava)

Sadly, these aberrations can hardly be called "aberrant" since they have been going on so long. Nor are they limited to Judeo-Christian societies. Cultures around the world have always had to deal with the natural occurrence of bisexual and homosexual behavior, and some have done so quite successfully (such as the Native American Chumash and various Asian cultures).
 

When it is accompanied by shame, humiliation, considered aberrant rather than normative within a range of behaviors, perversion ensues. Islam has much to answer for in this regard. Widespread homosexuality in the Iranian military, utterly denied by leaders and ordinary citizens is already well known. (Perhaps high testosterone resulting from early childhood trauma, which often entails violent acting out for what cannot be spoken or named, and androgen stimulation from military training, police training, prison guarding, boy scouting, and so on, leads to more predatory behavior. But the machismo leads to shame, denial, hypocrisy, and homophobia -- fear and loathing of the acts and impulses rather than the ordinary understanding of the word as hatred of individuals.)

Famous Afghan beauty (Nat Geo)

Prison? Prisoners -- left with a great deal of stress, testosterone, unresolved abuse (childhood and current), intimacy issues, fear, pride, and power trips to resolve -- are notorious for engaging in rape, sodomy, and violent sexual abuse. And who has more prisoners than America? The same phenomenon was seen in South Africa when so many non-Afrikaners were imprisoned that it created a cultural change of almost normalizing bisexuality. Are women not aware of what is happening, or are they in denial of what they become aware of but find painful to admit? Do they perpetuate the shame? What about non-offending men? Not surprisingly, hypermasculine men will want to stamp out "weaknesses" they perceive in themselves out of others; not able to resolve it or cope with it or assimilate it into their view of themselves, they attack others. American prison guards rape male prisoners, why? Is it homosexuality, a power trip, bisexuality, violent humiliation that ends with ejaculation? (Controversially, like Dr. Drew Pinsky, we believe that rape is mostly a sexual crime; clearly it is violent, but its motives are mostly sexual with violent elements or masking is shame using violence). Sexual abusers are well tolerated in prison so long as their practices begin in prison; anyone arrested for sex crimes, hypocritically, is targeted from the outset. Hypocrisy? The inability to assimilate the very impulses they see in others and deny in themselves?

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(LINK: theworld.org)

A BBC documentary has uncovered evidence of abuse by the Afghan police force in Helmand province. Reporter Ben Anderson spent five weeks following a group of US Marines who are advising the police in Sangin district before the hand-over of power is completed there next month. He discovered evidence of some shocking behavior including corruption, kidnap, drug use, murder, and child abuse [sex trafficking]. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Anderson about his report. More

• Mission accomplished? Secrets of Helmand

Islam? Tonight PBS will investigate the widespread practice by Islamic Afghani police who abduct young boys and keep them as servants and homosexual rape victims or "sex slaves" (bacha bazi, baccha). Often the excuse is that the boys offer up their bodies, possibly in exchange for closeness as was reportedly the custom in ancient Greece (pederasty) with its gynasia and apprentice/mentor relationships. It is to be expected in any society that hates females, considers them "dirty," or cloistered, or the "property" of someone else that boys and young men will be abused as proxies. Why is anyone being sexually abused? If "sex" is labelled dirty, immoral, or prohibited, it will simply go underground and be denied; it will not make people chaste, particularly not adults and priests. We should have learned from childhood that closing our eyes does not make our monsters (often our relatives, neighbors, and clerics) disappear; it only makes us feel as if they have. The problem remains festering, like hydraulic fracking-chemicals, pushed down here only to pop up everywhere else. We are blind to our own sexual misconduct, but we somehow are able to see it in others such as our "enemies" the Afghanis. So let us look at the "dancing boy" phenomenon and set aside the child trafficking and male prostitution rampant in the US.

Social religion (celibate communities) and individual spirituality cannot thrive in a hypocritical environment, but they can thrive with the practice of jhana (serenity meditation).

• Origin of CIA Rape, Mind Control (Monarch Butterfly Program)

How gay can Vatican priests get?

Wisdom Quarterly

Don't ask me about it. I'm not in the mood.

  

Popes as seen from space

Why is Pope Benedict XVI quitting? The mainstream media is offering a more tantalizing answer than the Canadian lawsuit against the Church:

Did Cross-dressing Priest Sex Ring bring down Benedict XVI?
Barbie Latza Nadeau (The Daily Beast)
According to several well-placed vaticanisti -- or Vatican experts -- in Rome, Benedict [Joe Ratzinger] is resigning after being handed a secret red-covered dossier that included details about a network of gay priests who work inside the Vatican, but who play in secular Rome.
  

Forgive me Father (Papa), and bail me out

The priests, it seems, are allegedly being blackmailed by a network of male prostitutes who worked at a sauna in Rome’s Quarto Miglio district, a health spa in the city center, and a private residence once entrusted to a prominent archbishop.

 

The evidence reportedly includes compromising photos and videos of the prelates -- sometimes caught on film in drag [dressed as women], and, in some cases, caught "in the act" [engaging in homosexual sex].

Revelations about the alleged network are the basis of a 300-page report supposedly delivered to Benedict on December 17 [2012]... According to the press reports, it was on that day that Benedict XVI decided once and for all to retire, after toying with the idea for months. 

 

He reportedly closed the dossier and locked it away in the pontifical apartment safe to be handed to his successor to deal with [i.e., hush up or deny]. 

 

According to reports originally printed by La Repubblica newspaper and the newsweekly Panorama (and followed up across the gamut of the Italian media), the crimes the cardinals uncovered involved breaking the commandments “Thou shalt not steal” and “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” the latter of which has been used in Vatican-speak to also refer also to homosexual relations instead of the traditional reference to infidelity. More

• Orgies, Incest, and more: 15 Vatican Scandals
• Pope resigns. Good decision
• Did the Pope's butler really do it? 
• Hope for a nun-friendly new pope
• Closet cloisters? Sex scandal cardinals voting for pope

Seriously? Crossdressing priests? (drawception.com)

"Pope No More!" nude protest (video)

FEMEN.org; Huff Post; Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Topless nudity and disorderly conduct in a religious shrine!

Pope Benedict (Benoit) gives a sign

A group of topless activists scandalized visitors at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday by disrobing in public to celebrate Pope Benedict XVI's resignation.

 

The small group of women, all affiliated with radical feminist group FEMEN, flashed their breasts and banged on bells in the cathedral, shouting slogans such as, "Bye Bye Benedict" and "No more homophobe," according to the Agence France-Presse.

 

The pope announced his resignation Monday in a shocking pronouncement that took the Catholic community by surprise. However, FEMEN appears to have little to no love for the outgoing pontiff, whom the group blasted on its website for his stance on same-sex marriage.

 

According to the site, the "French Femen sextremists" were playing a "funeral march" for the pope. A photo of the women was accompanied by the following description: More

 

The Last Pope

Wisdom Quarterly (EDITORIAL)

Conclave of holymen gather to pick new boss

Time, due to time travel permutations and interference, is behind a few months. The real Mayan calendar end date is now no longer Dec. 21st, 2012 but rather some time in Feb. 2013, according to Lord Macklin, who spoke at the recent Conscious Life Expo. This might explain the bombshell news that Pope Benedict is stepping down all of a sudden. Is Maitreya Buddha, Messiah Jesus (Issa), or Naga Quetzalcoatl about to return? Probably not, but maybe. Something scared Mr. Ratzinger (Pope Benedict) out of office in an almost-unprecedented move. Six hundred years ago the same thing happened, but back then a better reason was given than just being too old and frail to do a good job. Last night on Coast to Coast a far more ominous reason was given: the Vatican bank has been laundering drug and Italian Mafia money, which was known, and may now be insolvent or in a great deal of trouble. What CEO wants to head a bankrupt organization that can no longer defend itself with the highest-priced lawyers around?

• John Stewart knows why Pope quit
• Upcoming Skeptic lectures at Caltech

Gay marriage closer to reality (video)

Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Meditation masters, New Age gurus, and bestselling authors like Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie all how up the silliness of resisting reality. Reality should be understood and allowed because it is that way anyway.

Since Proposition 8 violates civil rights, the case is going to the Supreme Court on appeal. But this is a California-centric decision. The courts are not speaking for other states or their individual circumstances.

With a handful of states already allowing same-sex marriages, along with other countries and almost universal acceptance of lesbianism as entertainment, it is only a matter of time before we all serve as Best Man at a lesbian wedding or enjoy the fancy nuptials of Adam and Steve.

By and large, who has not already accepted that? Catholic priests? Page-loving Republican politicians? Los Angeles elementary school teachers? Gay rapists in the US military?

Our heroic American soldiers are actually gay sodomites?

College students today tend to consider it a non-issue not worthy of debate. If homosexuality is wrong according to one's religion, arguments about the definition of "marriage" are not going to change that. If one's concern is strictly societal and the biological perpetuation of the species, there is no need to worry.

• Buddhism and the social study of sex? Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender (edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezon) deals with the very few places gay (possibly transgender) deviants come up in ancient Buddhist texts. The Pali Canon speaks of pandakas and their exclusion from the ancient Indian Buddhist Monastic Order, Japanese texts advocate Greek-style pederasty among priests, and scholars examine attitudes towards women and the gender symbolism of Kwan-yin...
  

Very, very few people are strict homosexuals. The vast majority of those identifying as "gay" are, in fact, heteroflexible. Rare, indeed, is a person on either extreme of a Kinsey continuum. The tendency toward a bell shaped curve suggests peoples' sexual boundaries are blurred. And we are all made to feel guilty about even normative sexual impulses telling us we are in need of religion for validation and/or redemption.

America's anti-sweetheart Kathy Griffin teaches us to profit from gays

But what we really need to do is come to terms with ourselves, our motives, and how we treat others. Regardless of how hard we are on ourselves -- how pure, how extreme, how blameless -- there is no merit in condemning others. Love one, love all in an altruistic way full of sympathy (resonating with their highs and lows) and compassion.

One sure way to guilt-laden (vipaka or karmic mental resultant) homosexual compulsions in future lives is to torment gays, according to the readings of Edgar Cayce and the mysterious workings of karma.

Drugs, alcohol, early childhood trauma (rape, molestation, boundary violations, emotional abuse, instability), hormonal irregularities (which now cannot be avoided in a world awash with plastic, plastic residues, and xeno-estrogenic compounds) all play into our sexuality and sense of ourselves as masculine-feminine-androgynous-or-asexual.

What is worse, fluid borders or finding out that a gay marriage was really no better than a straight one?

People are people, and violating some social norm or biblical injunction will not solve all of our problems. Nor will it bring human civilization crumbling down (unless the "fag" hating Calvinists at Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church are right).

While being open to correction by others, correcting others uninvited is a minefield. One has to imagine that not being able to marry someone of the same sex must be as bad as being forced to marry someone of the other sex for some people.

According to the Buddha, "Forbearance [tolerance, acceptance, respect] is the highest virtue."

• Buddhism and sexual orientation
• AUDIO: Court favors anti-gay protesters (NPR)
• The US Military's secret shame
  
• VIDEO: How to spot an emotional manipulator
• Top 5 Republican gay sex scandals
  
• Warning! 7 Lies All Women Tell Men

"The Perils of Lesbianity" (animation)

I. Rony (Wisdom Quarterly)

WARNING: Not intended and probably not suitable for children (MisterSharp)

This short, informative piece pulled from the archives deals with the American and Iranian menace -- lesbianism. It offers insight into how this practice was/is viewed by some.

• VIDEO: The Lesbian Subversives of Iran
  
• SNAP files int'l court complaint against pope, Vatican
  
• THE HAGUE, The Netherlands - Founder says group seeks reform regarding sex abuse complaints. S.N.A.P. (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), a support group for victims of clergy sex abuse, filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court on Tuesday seeking an investigation of Pope Benedict XVI and three other Vatican officials on charges they committed "crimes against humanity."
• What God means by "repent," gays (and priests)
  
• SNAP's formal complaint against Catholic officials (PDF)
• Recycle Day at MacArthur Park, Los Angeles (KPFK)
• VIDEO: Dr. Coldwell's cures for all cancers
• Dr. Leonard Coldwell spells out the dangers of chemotherapy and the benefits of alternative cancer treatments. Chemotherapy is "assault with a deadly weapon," Coldwell contends because "nobody dies of cancer anymore; they die from the side effects of the so-called 'treatment.'" A UK study shows that 27% of patients undergoing chemotherapy die within the first 30 days. Flax seed oil [which is poisonous] has been proven to fight breast cancer better than chemotherapy [which is super toxic]. Coldwell advocates diet: Cancer cannot survive in an "alkaline, oxygen-rich environment." Drink a gallon of water with a teaspoon of sea salt or pink Himalayan salt every day, and switch to a raw food diet.
• VIDEO: Catharsis, Illuminati, NWO, and Intifada
  

Sexual orientation not a choice, expert says

Bob Egelko (Chronicle/SFGate.com)

The final witness for gays and lesbians seeking to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage testified Friday that most people don't choose their sexual orientation, few people change it and "conversion therapy" is useless and potentially harmful.

• Gays, gay marriage, and Buddhism (WQ)

"The vast majority of people are consistent in their (sexual) behavior, their identity and their attractions," Gregory Herek, a UC Davis psychology professor, said at the San Francisco federal court trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8.

He said 95 percent of the self-identified gay men in a study he conducted, and 80 to 90 percent of the lesbians, believed they had little or no choice in their sexual orientation. More>>

• Santa Cruz pot collective drops suit vs. feds
• Woman, 44, dies in San Carlos house fire
• Cult murder-extortion brother attempts suicide

Indian court decriminalizes gays in Delhi

(VIDEO) NEW DELHI – India's gay community celebrated a land-mark court ruling Thursday that decriminalizes homosexuality — a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance for homosexuals across this deeply conservative country. The Delhi High Court ruled that treating consensual gay sex between adults as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India's constitution. The ruling, the first of its kind in India, is not binding outside New Delhi. More>>

• Video: Kids harassing gay man at Pride Fest (WCCO Minn.)
• Video: Federal trial will settle gay marriage ban (CBS LA)
• Video: Gay rights, energy, health care, Sanford (ABC News)

Honey Khan, left, and Hillol Datta cheer and celebrate after the Delhi High Court passed a ground breaking ruling July 2, 2009. The court ruled that treating consensual gay sex as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India's constitution, a decision that could bring more freedom for gays in this deeply conservative country (AP/Saurabh Das).

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