Amnesty International has published a new 21-page briefing on the alarming ‘anti-homosexuality’ Bill which is currently before the Ugandan Parliament and due to be debated during January. The bill proposes death penalty for consensual gay sex, forced HIV testing and ‘Clause 28’ type measures.
Thursday, 07 January 2010 16:21
Homophobic bigot, Iris Robinson has said she had attempted to take her life while depressed after having an affair.
In a statement she said, "I lost control of my life and did the worst thing that I have ever done. Over a year and a half ago, I was involved in a relationship. It began completely innocently when I gave support to someone following a family death."
Iris Robinson, who is a Westminster MP as well as a member of the Belfast Assembly, said in a statement that she had acted "in a manner which was self-destructive and out of character" during severe bouts of depression.
The affair would have been in full swing at the same time that she was describing homosexuality as an "abomination" because it was contrary to the Bible.
Amnesty International has urged the Malawi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release two Malawian men, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who were arrested on 28 December 2009 and charged with ‘unnatural practices between males and gross public indecency’. 
On January 4th the ban on foreign nationals with HIV entering the USA will be lifted. The ban has been in place since 1987. President Obama has described the 22-year-old policy as a "decision rooted in fear rather than fact.”
The UK gay Humanist charity, the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT), is appalled to learn that yet another African country, Rwanda, is planning viciously homophobic legislation in line with that being debated in Uganda.