Gay News Headlines: "Facts of Life" Star Comes Out in Memoir; 1st Charges in Gay Hate Crime Law; Ugandan Gay Activist Killed; Ugandan Lesbian Denied Injunction to Deportation; Gay Travel & India; U.S. Repeal Plan Rolls Out Slowly; Canadian Scientists Ignore Gay Blood Research Grant; Lifting the Gay Donor Ban.
Coming Out:
- Actress/Comedienne Geri Jewell Releases Memoir -- 'I'm Walking As Straight As I Can' (Comes Out April 1st 2011 - She played cousin Geri on "The Facts of Life.") [Broadway World]
Hate Crime:
- First charges brought under UK 'gay hatred' law -- Two charged in Derby with gay hate crime over leaflets [Independent]
Health:
- Scientists ignore grant to research blood donations by gay men [Postmedia News]
- Lifting donor ban would be a goodwill gesture: blood agency [Toronto Star]
Military:
- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal Plan Rolls, Slowly, Along [Swampland Blog/TIME]
Tourism:
- India has great potential for attracting gay tourists [TOI]
Uganda Watch:
- Uganda gay rights activist David Kato killed -- David Kato, a Ugandan gay rights campaigner who sued a local newspaper which outed him as homosexual, has been beaten to death, activists have said. [BBC]
- Gay Ugandan activist slain after photo is included on newspaper hit list; police blame robbers [Canadian Press]
- 'Gay' Ugandan Brenda Namigadde loses UK court appeal - Lawyers for a Ugandan woman who says she is a lesbian say a judge has rejected an initial appeal for an injunction to stop her deportation. [BBC]
