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The 11 year old Brenton Peraita got arrested, after he bridled against mobbing.

About one and a half year, the 11 year old Brenton Paraita got mobbed by his schoolfellows, until he bridled.

Alleged, his schoolfellows called him “Brentina“, ” gay‘ and  “fag“. His case got famous, because Brenton decided to bridle and to beat back. He impended the other guys with a weapon, therefore the police came and arrested him.

The parliament of Kentucky is argueing if christs are allowed to mob homosexuals.

A new law, which actual passed all important public authorities, is coursing trouble in the parliament of the U.S. state Kentucky.

The new law, which is going to protect homosexual pupils and students of getting mobbed, is getting discussed. The reason for that is, that the republican party made a motion for a exception at the new law. Christs should be allowed to show their disrespect to homosexuality, if they can cause it religious.

The ultra fundamentalistic Westboro Baptist Church won in front of the court.

According to the decission of the constitutional court, the ultra fundamentalistic Westboro Baptist Church is allowed to go on with their work.

The father of a fallen soldier took them to court after the Church demonstrated on his sons funeral. The Westboro Baptist Church is against homosexuality and is sure that the dead soldiers in war are a godly penalty for tolerating homosexuality. Now the constitutional court decided that the Westboro Baptist Church is protectet through the freedom of opinion.

After some problems, now finally the CSD Budapest is canceled.

After some stop and go for the Christopher Street Day in Budapest at the 18th of july, it seems like its finally canceled.

The police backed down the permission for the parade. The CSD Budapest 2011 was allready sumitted and allowed, when the presenter wanted to change the parades route to pass the parliament. The police took this chance to cancel the parade, whith the justification, that the traffic volume will increase. One of the aims of the CSD 2011 was to demonstrate against the new constitution, which is going to ban gay- marriages.

Again and again, HIV spots in TV look more like horror films than like education advertising.

Who doesn’t know them ? Every year again, new education spots against HIV are appearing on TV.

Ignoring their aim to show young children the risks of unsaver sex, they are getting more and more like horror films. Last year, a spot which compares Hitler with HIV causes trouble, now a spot from the New York health authority causes headlines again. If you want to make your own opinion, here is the spot:

The british tv- transmitter BBC discovered in researchs, that about 40 islam schools in the U.K. are using books in which is described why gays earn the death penalty.

The brtish tv- transmitter BBC discovered in resaearchs for one of their tv. magazins, that in nearly 40 islam schools in the U.K. books are used which support the death penatly for homosexuality.

40 may sound little, but if you calculate it seems frightening that over 5000 kids and teenagers in the age between six years and eightteen years are getting teached with these books. The books differentiate in the way the homosexuals should be killed, but they all agree with the statement that they should be killed.

After Apple made some negative headlines the last week by not letting gay apps to the AppStore, they are going forward.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Apple made bad headlines by not letting gay iPhone apps to their AppStore (look here). Not Apple is getting bad publicity again.

This time not because they don’t let gay iPhone apps to the AppStore, but because of letting homophobic iPhone apps straight to it. The lately approved iPhone app based on the “Manhattan Declaration“, which was created by catholic and evangelic christs and which found over a half million supporter in the last  year.

Pope Benedikt, a man which is known to be conservative, even for a pope, announced that he will allow condoms.

In his book, which is going to be released on thursday, Pope Benedikt announced that for some special reasons, the use of condoms is okay. That might be a small step, but from the churchs sight its a turning point in church history.

The vaticans newsletter quoted the Pope from his book, in which he declared that there are some reasons to use condoms, for example to provide HIV infection. But he also said, that this can’t be the right and ethical good answer, its just good for the moment.

One of the parcel bombs, which was found in the air plane and send from Yemen was adressed to a gay-lesbian synagogue.

This time, the terror was supposed to come with air cargo to the United States. This weekend, agents catched two parcel bombs on their way to the USA, sended from the Yemen.

Now the agents anounced, that one of the two parcel bombs was adressed to an gay- lesbian synagogue in Chicago. The Congregation Or Chadash exists since 1976 and over 100 gays, lesbians and transgender make use of the place of prayer.

The Cleveland Synergy Foundation claims that the Federation of Gay Games is planing to end the contract with the non profit organisation.

The Cleveland Synergy Foundation, which was contracted to orchestrate the Gay Games 2014 in Cleveland, clams that the Federation of Gay Games is conpiring with a high ranking city to end the contract with the non profit organization. The legal action against the city, the Federation, the Cleveland Sports Commission, and the mayor’s chief of governmental affairs was filed in Court on Thursday.