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Pride London Festival
July 17, 2008 at 7pm to July 27, 2008 at 5pm – London, Ontario, Canada
Chesapeake Pride Festival 2008
July 19, 2008 at 10am – Crownsville, Maryland, USA
Stockholm Europride '08
July 25, 2008 at 12am to August 3, 2008 at 11:45pm – Stockholm, Sweden
Bournemouth Bear Bash 2008
July 25, 2008 at 2pm to July 27, 2008 at 12pm – Bournemouth, UK
Nottingham Pride
July 26, 2008 at 12pm – Nottingham, UK
Up Your Alley
July 27, 2008 at 11am – San Francisco, USA

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Gay Naked (140 members)
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USA (42 members)

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Arts & Culture (31 members)

Food & Drink (30 members)
Tattoos & Piercings (27 members)

Gardens & Gardening (25 members)
The East Asian Connection (21 members)

United Kingdom (21 members)
Skinheads (19 members)

Eurovision Song Contest (16 members)
Gay Writers & Readers (16 members)

Francophiles (15 members)
Mundo Latino (15 members)

New Zealand (14 members)
Health & Wellbeing (14 members)

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Together we are building a new kind of online community for gay men, richer in content and more wide-ranging than you may have experienced before in English, en Español, en Français, em Português and more.

The Gay Travellers Network isn't just for individuals. Gay groups (so long as they're not-for-profit) which welcome visitors to their events are welcome to have pages, discussions and blogs here too. Some who have already joined include:

Inside Out
BearCall
PrideFest Milwaukee
Leather Archives & Museum

If you run a gay-focused business, you can promote it on your personal page (here's an example) - but you must join as an individual under your own name.

You can personalise your page by changing the colours, dragging and dropping page elements, adding photos or widgets to the Text Box, as well as RSS feeds and more. Here are some great examples of member pages....

NetBear
Hayburn
Swedeboy
Jascion
KengiKAT

We'll be featuring others soon.

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USA:- Judge: NY man in penis costume must apologise

A judge has ordered a 19-year-old man to write an apology to an upstate city in New York for dressing as a 6-foot penis at a high school graduation. A Saratoga Springs judge also ordered Calvin Morett to pay to have the apology published in a local newspaper. The sentence also calls for Morett to pay court fees and perform 24 hours of community service. Morett had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. A video of Morett's costumed visit… Continue

Posted by Linton on 18th July 2008 at 7:59pm — No Comments (Add)

New Zealand:- Dannevirke brothel row sparks homophobia

A newspaper report from Dannevirke featuring a comment which equates gay men with paedophiles has angered the manager of a nationwide LGBT support service. In a meeting of Dannevirke residents who oppose plans for a brothel opening in the small town's main street, the president of the Tararua chapter of the Full Gospel Business Men's fellowship - a religious grou… Continue

Posted by Linton on 18th July 2008 at 5:27pm — No Comments (Add)

Czech republic:- Czech minister calls for debate about gay adoption

The Czech minister for human rights and ethnic minorities has called for a debate on whether the gay partner of a parent should be allowed to adopt his or her child. The Czech Repbulic was recently criticised for having too many children in state care. 20,000 children currently reside in institutions within the country. Tereza Kodickova, spokeswoman for a Czech LGBT equality group the Gay and Lesbian League w… Continue

Posted by Linton on 18th July 2008 at 1:03pm — No Comments (Add)

Netherlands:- Dutch replace 'maiden name' with 'birth name' to spare gay blushes

The Dutch are the strongest supporters of same-sex marriage in the EU The Dutch civil service has developed a new name for "maiden name" so married gay men won't feel awkward. "Geboortenaam" translates to "birth name". It will replace maiden name on official forms, radio Netherlands reported on Wednesday. The Dutch Language Union hopes it will save married ga… Continue

Posted by Linton on 18th July 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Would you object to a sexual orientation question in a census?

As the contents of this article would be of interest internationally, I have put this in the main blog rather than in the New Zealand group. Some of the responses are valid. I personally have no objection, now that I live in Spain, to honestly answer such a question in a census. I would have second thoughts though if I still resided in the UK which is an interesting thought! What do you think? Do you think it would be an invasion of privacy? Does sexual orientation really matter in such a su… Continue

Posted by Mark Palmer on 18th July 2008 at 12:55pm — No Comments (Add)

Human Rights Watch calls on EU nations to back discrimination directive for gay people

A New York-based human rights group has called on the member states of the European Union to implement a new directive on discrimination. "No citizen within the EU should have less protection or less equality than others," said Boris Dittrich, advocacy director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Programme at Human Rights Watch. "An inclusive directive will be a vital step to end discrimination against the… Continue

Posted by Linton on 18th July 2008 at 10:50am — No Comments (Add)

China :- Beijing's gay scene comes out of the closet

Most weekend nights, long lines of hip young men wait for entry at a bar opposite the west gate of Beijing Workers Stadium, where a row of fancy dance clubs light up the night with flashing neon. But here, another world awaits these men. It's the place to seeand be seen. The dim backlit letters spell out its name, Destination, reputedly Beijing's hottest gay club. When owners Wang Qiang, "Edmund" Yang and their friends dream… Continue

Posted by Linton on 18th July 2008 at 10:43am — No Comments (Add)

Germany :-Reggae CDs Under German Scrutiny for Anti-Gay Lyrics

The homophobic lyrics of several Jamaican reggae musicians has moved the German government to consider blacklisting them and restrict their sales and distribution. The CDs by Elephant Man and T.O.K. could be put on the "Index of Harmful Materials," which, while it would not censor the materials in Germany, would severely limit their advertising and marketing. The Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons will decide over the ne… Continue

Posted by Linton on 18th July 2008 at 10:39am — No Comments (Add)

USA:- Man accused of attacking pair following gay-pride festival

A 24-year-old Flagstaff man has been charged with aggravated assault for an incident following a gay-pride festival in Arizona that police called a hate crime. Travis A. Reiner also faces misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct charges. Three other men were arrested but have not been charged. Flagstaff police reports say two men who had attended the Pride in the Pines gay-pride festival were assaulted. One victim… Continue

Posted by Linton on 18th July 2008 at 10:36am — No Comments (Add)

Syria

About Damascus Syria’s capital and the world’s oldest continuously inhabited city. It has been under variable rules through the ages; Aramean, Byzantine, Roman, and Arabian. This city was once the capital of an empire which stretched from Indus to the Pyrnees. Damascus is very rich in its archeological sites; the Omayad mosque, the old city with all its contents, the national museum where there is a superb collection from the Islamic art and other. LAND MARKS OF OLD DAMASCUS… Continue

Posted by Mido on 18th July 2008 at 5:44am — No Comments (Add)