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Published 11/06/2009 by iafrica.com


No gay pride in E Europe

Twenty years on from the fall of the Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe's homosexuals say they still face a tough struggle for equal rights, plus the kind of verbal abuse and violence rarely seen in the West anymore.

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...of minors. "When lawmakers adopt homophobic laws, nobody can be certain that groups of people who hate us won't take that as a green light to move against us" said Simonko...
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