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Croatian prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a 25-year-old man on hate crime charges for allegedly attempting to attack a gay parade in Zagreb earlier this year.The man, identified only as Josip S., is charged with endangering lives and property by an act of hatred toward the participants of the Gay Pride parade in July, the Zagreb district prosecutors’ office said.

The man is the first person in Croatia to face hate crime charges since it was introduced into the Penal Code last year. If convicted, he faces up to eight years in prison. No date for a trial was immediately set.

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J K Rowling’s recent announcement that Albus Dumbledore, one of the most beloved characters in the blockbuster Harry Potter series, was gay has created an uproar in the English-speaking world. While many have hailed the announcement, it has given a fillip to Christian Evangelists who decried the books as instruments of Satan. Others have criticised Dumbledore’s outing as editorialising after the fact, and that if Rowling really wanted to make a point about homosexuality, she should’ve done so in the books. But Rowling has been diligent in portraying all manner of characters in her narrative, be it ethnicity, culture, race or physical appeal.

Indeed, it would’ve been a remarkable omission if none of her characters were homosexual. In a world where gay rights are still a matter of intense debate, to have a character as well-loved and admired as Dumbledore be revealed as gay is indeed a Big Deal. The Harry Potter series has been a publishing phenomenon, with almost half a billion books sold to date. The movies have done extraordinarily well at the box office, earning $4.5 billion worldwide. As far as popular culture goes, it doesn’t get more mainstream than Harry Potter.

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HE is the Sexyback singer who bought surly back in Brisbane last week.

Now ex-’N Sync grump Justin Timberlake is the subject of a revealing interview given to GQ magazine by former bandmate Lance Bass.

Lance, who came out last year, said he thought Mr Jessica Biel also was gay because the singer told the group he wanted do to a homosexual role in a movie.

Lance also thought a third ‘N Sync’er, Chris Kirkpatrick, was gay too.

“We thought Justin was gay because he told us he wanted to do a gay part in a movie,” Lance says in the November issue.

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The problem of domestic violence involving women is well-known and extensively studied, but the problem is just as bad with another less studied group: gay men.

So says a study conducted by two researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In fact, they found that 1 out of every 3 men in a same-sex relationship has been abused. That is similar to what studies of battered women have found.

“If you project that out to the entire gay community in the country, that’s a lot of guys,” said David McKirnan, an associate professor of psychology and co-author of the study.

The study is published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Urban Health. McKirnan and graduate student Eric Houston studied surveys filled out by 817 men through the Howard Brown Health Center, which primarily serves the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community from its North Side location.

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A gay rights group in Greece has asked for help to stop the deportation of a 40-year-old Iranian man.

Gay and lesbian people in the Islamic Republic of Iran face the death penalty.

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A group of Canadian Anglicans on the liberal, or “progressive,

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