LONDON – Tens of thousands of people from around the world have signed online petitions and sent e-mail in a desperate, last-minute attempt to spare the deportation of lesbian asylum seeker Brenda Namigadde from the U.K. to Uganda.

The allout.org petition containing more than 40,000 signatures from 85 countries was delivered to U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May at 12:30 p.m. local time in London.

LGBT Asylum News reports that May’s office has been “deluged” by the response.

We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Ugandan human rights defender David Kato, who was brutally murdered in his home near Kampala yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and colleagues. We urge Ugandan authorities to quickly and thoroughly investigate and prosecute those responsible for this heinous act.

Another day, another gay person is murdered in Uganda.

David Kato, a hero to the fledgling LGBT-rights movement in the deeply homophobic Uganda, was killed on Wednesday.

Kato had been living in fear since Uganda’s scandalous Rolling Stone tabloid printed his photo on the front cover of the edition that was headlined “100 Pictures of Uganda’s Top Homos” and with a sub-headline that said “Hang Them.”

Also pictured on that cover was well-known human-rights activist Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, often called Uganda’s Bishop Tutu.

SONARPUR, India -- Two teenage girls committed suicide in a village in South 24-Parganas, apparently disillusioned about their future as a same-sex couple.

Police found the bodies of 19-year-old Bobby Saha and 17-year-old Puja Mondal after breaking down a door of Bobby's house in the Tripura Sundari area of Boral in the wee hours of Saturday. The post-mortem report says they took poison together and lay down to die, clutching each other's arms.