U.S. Official Defends Gross Misuse of AIDS Funds in Uganda
Amid growing public criticism of federal funding for antigay violence in Africa, Eric Goosby — chief coordinator for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — has finally spoken out regarding U.S. taxpayers’ support for the pogrom in Uganda.

Equal Rights Trust Calls on British Commonwealth to Pressure Uganda
The British Commonwealth’s Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has called on the Commonwealth’s Heads of Government to condemn, during their meeting this weekend, the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill and to take urgent action to repeal existing homophobic laws across the Commonwealth. According to ERT: Homosexual conduct is currently illegal in 43 of the 53 Commonwealth nations, despite the commitment in the 1971 Commonwealth Declaration of Principles to “foster human equality and dignity everywhere”. This Declaration has effectively be

UK’s United Reformed Church Slams Uganda’s Antigay Death-Penalty Bill
The United Reformed Church of the United Kingdom said Wednesday that it is “appalled” at the “draconian measures” in Uganda’s proposed antigay death penalty. The legislation calls for the execution of gay, sexually active persons who are HIV-positive or whose partner is underage or disabled. The legislation also broadens the existing life-imprisonment sentence for consensual intimacy among gay couples; adds new punishments for pastors, friends, and family members who fail to report a gay person to the police; and criminalizes comprehensive sex education and health care which might be perceived as tolerating homosexual beh

Canada Slams Uganda’s Antigay Death-Penalty Bill
As Uganda continues to move toward passage of a death penalty against that nation’s LGBT and HIV-positive citizens, Canadian minister of state for foreign affairs Peter Kent said earlier this week that “Our position is that the proposed Uganda law is reprehensible, vile and hateful and it’s appalling that such legislation would be brought to the parliament of a commonwealth democracy.” According to MambaOnline: Kent said that his government would communicate its stand on the issue at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Mee

Catholic Officials Cover Up Child Sexual Abuse in Connecticut
Reported by AP via Edge yesterday: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has acknowledged in court papers that it documented 32 accusations of sexual abuse of children by priests associated with a parish here over 40 years. The diocese made the admission last week in contesting a lawsuit filed by the estate of Michael Powel, who died last year. Mr. Powel had claimed that he was sexually abused at St. Theresa’s Parish in Trumbull between 1968, when he was 9, and 1972, when he was 13. However, while the diocese admits the abuse, it refu