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The Prime Minister will welcome equality rights campaigners to Downing Street before the annual Pride march through central London.

ON OUR GAYDAR a ' News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. The hate crime murder trial that charges Dwight DeLee with killing Syracuse's Teish Cannon , a transgender woman, begins July 13.

Roshni could not believe that the slogan she was screaming just four days earlier at Delhi's gay pride march would come true so soon - with the court decriminalising homosexuality Thursday.

Leslie Mora, a transgender woman, was walking to her home in Queens at 3:00 a.m. when she was brutally attacked by two Latino men who left her on the ground naked and bleeding, reports El Diario/La Prensa.

The United Nations Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS has hailed today's decision by an Indian court to overturn a 150-year-old law and decriminalize homosexuality, voicing hope that more countries that ban same-sex activity will follow suit.

In this June 28, 2009 file photo, participants dance as they hold a placard demanding the dropping of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that makes homosexuality illegal, during a gay parade in New Delhi, India.

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has said "a deep strain of homophobia still exists on the Conservative benches". Mr Bradshaw, one of three gay men currently in the cabinet, made the comments as a new poll suggested more gay people were turning to the Tories.

Gordon Brown stated his support for homosexual rights last night by insisting Labour's policies are based on the principle 'you can't legislate love'. The Prime Minister followed David Cameron by pitching for the pink vote with a message of support for the organisers of tomorrow's Gay Pride march in London.

'Historic!' That is how the film and fashion fraternities have hailed Thursday's Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising gay sex.

Sometimes what is not news is most interesting. Last week was Pride Week in Toronto.

For the members of the gay community, the Delhi High Court verdict Thursday that decriminalises homosexuality means one simple thing - now on living a life of dignity.

Gay rights activists cheer and celebrate after the Delhi High Court passed a groundbreaking ruling Thursday decriminalizing homosexuality in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 2, 2009.

They stopped only when a passing motorist threatened to call the police. Throughout the attack, Leslie's assailants called her a "faggot" in Spanish.

General Convention meets July 8-17 in Anaheim, California, and Williams will be present July 7-9. The session is not an official convention meeting and thus there has been no announcement of the plans.

Late Saturday night, former Village Voice sales rep Joseph Holladay was attacked on New York City's Upper East Side by a half dozen young men in an apparent hate crime; the men were screaming anti-gay slurs while beating Holladay, who lay lifeless before a friend got him to a hospital.

Bruno, the alter ego of British satirist Sacha Baron Cohen, has slammed Madonna in a new interview hitting newsstands in the UK this week.

The Obama administration is not fighting a nearly $500,000 judgment for a Library of Congress hiree who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman.

The Kalamazoo City Commission has unanimously passed a gay protections bill for the second time, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported.

Ever since the Iranian Revolution empowered a socially conservative theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, the country has been a difficult place for gays, lesbians and transgender people to call home.

This year's Chicago Pride Parade marked the 40th anniversary of the Windy City's celebration and was among the biggest yet.