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From now on, gay partner from american citizens are allowed to stay in the U.S.A.

After a  action against the “Defense of marriage Act“, homosexual foreigner, which are married with citizens of the U.S.A., don’t have to leave the country anymore.

The ” Defense of marriage Act” should protect the institution of marriage and was made in the middle of the nineties. According to this law, homosexualls may be marriaged in their state, but not on the federal level. And because of this reason, foreigners, which were married with american citizens, had to leave the country after their green card runned down. Now, every deportion will be encounted and tempoary green cards are given.

A campaign against homosexuality, started by the finnish curch,brought suprising results.

The campaign, named älä alistu (don’t bend), was financed with money from the church and aimed to “protect” young people against homosexuality.

The campaign was made in association of some finnish church organisations and aimed to tell young people that their homosexuality can be “healed“. Even on websites, like youtube, videos were shown, in which “healed’” homosexuals talked about their return to church. The consequence of this campaign ? More than three thousend people left the finnish chruch since the campaing started.

In Malaysia, the public authorities are searching for a gay casanova.

It seems like the gay casanova diddled nearly 200 men, in the last few month.

First he mashed with the guys, sometimes slept with them, and than took their stuff and disappeared. The young gigolo used several names when he met his victims, and always played like he fell in love with the men. When the victim trust him and don’t watch their backs, he took credit cards, cash and other stuff and run away. The story just got popular, because one of his victims show photos of him on facebook.

There are cliches of every nation, even of Germany.

If you want it or not, every time you think about a country, you have a special cliche about them in the back of the head.

For example the british people and their bad tooth hygiene. For Germany, it is typical to wear leather trousers and drink a lot of beer. So it is not suprising, that the american commercial shows a pretty weird picture of the german gay community:

Because of a newspapers mistake, whole Southamerica thinks Neuer is gay.

Because of only one mistake by translating an interview from germanys national keeper Manuel Neuer, whole Southamerica thinks he is gay. A short time ago, Manuel Neuer gave a interview to an famous german magazin, in which he said that he is suggesting gay football profis to have their coming out.

Trough a mistake by translating the interview into spanish, now whole Southamerica thinks that Neuer is gay. By now, it seems belike, that the mistage took its origin in Chile.

The catholic bishop Luis Bambarén wants gays to be official called fags.

The high- ranking peruvian bishop Luis Bambarén anounced that he wants gays to be called officialy fags.

During an interview about the parliamentary elections in april, bishop Luis Bambarén told the news paper that he doesn’t understand  all the duscussions about the term “gay“. According to the newspaper, Luis Bambarén said, that they should call gays what they are, “Maricón“. This spanish term means nothing than “fags“. In his election campaign the bishop is fighting against the same sex marriage and does not want the gays to be accepted.

The don’t ask dont’t tell command in the U.S. army cost 200 million dollar in the last years.

In the U.S.A., experts calculated that the don’t ask, don’t tell command in the U.S. army costs the gouverment nearly 200 million dollar in the last six years.

The in the meantime disestablished don’t ask don’t tell order in the U.S. army costs the american people more than 52.800 Dollar for every soldier which was fired because of his homosexuality. The main reason for this high charges is the fact, that most of the released homosexuall soldiers were experts in their areas and so the army had to invest money to qualify new people. From 1994 till 2010 the United States Army released nearly 14.000 soldiers because of their homosexuality.

According to gawker. com, Apple is going to be a gay firm from now on.

According to the internet magazine gawker.com, the new man at the top of Apple is gay.

The fifty year old bachelor don’t tell much about his private life, but according to gawker, which asserted to have two serious sources, is the new Apple Chef Tim Cook gay.  According to the report, Cooks homosexuality is well known in Apples managment, but he is frightened to damage Apples image with a coming out. To many homo activists, this is a great step, not just for Apple, but for the gay and lesbian progres.

The world is capped with a blanket out of snow and the Christmas Days are coming, also in the PinkMap Office.  The PinkMap Team wishes all PinkMap friends a merry Christmas and contemplative holidays. And a lof of presents

This Weekend, the abolishment of the “don’t ask don’t tell” order passes the Senate.

Finally, after a long time of discussions, President Obama made true what he promised while his election campaign.

In a historic decision, the U.S. Senate voted for the abolishment of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” order in the U.S. army. Because of the majority of the Republican party in the U.S. Senate, the decission was more than astonishing. After the the House of Representatives, which voted against “don’t ask, don’t tell” a few weeks ago, the Senate supported their decision. President Obama commended this decision and promised to sign the new law, which is going to abolish “don’t ask, don’t tell“.