Colin Stewart

RGOD2: “Our stories are free but our people are not”

It was only a year ago Colin Stewart ended his 40-year career in journalism on an all time HIGH. He had built a reputation for good reporting and high sales at the Orange County Register. He had survived the manifold changes within the communication industry over the last decade and at 63 he had built a million-hits-a-month cosmetic medicine blog titled “In Your Face.”

Gay man reportedly stoned to death in Cameroon

(Editor’s note: Several LGBT media and bloggers in Europe and the U.S. are reporting this incident, which has not been confirmed by international observers.)

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RGOD2: LGBT people face greater visibility, more persecution in 2013

Colin Stewart’s excellent review of LGBT international issues in 2012 in Erasing 76 Crimes gives us some hard data on the state of the LGBT movement globally.

Episcopal goal: Help African gays, don’t encroach on anti-gay churches

The Episcopal Church shied away today from overturning a policy that restricts it from directly aiding gay-friendly organizations in places where the Anglican Church is anti-gay, including many countries in Africa.

But Bishop Tom Shaw of Massachusetts, chair of the subcommittee that studied the proposal, said individual parishes and church members are free to give as they choose, without regard to the policies of national churches.

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RGOD2: Spreading the word on the road to Minneapolis and Indianapolis | VIDEO

Last week, Bishop Christopher Senyonjo and I had an opportunity to relax in the home of Tim and Michael, two dear friends in Minnetonka, Minn. We had been on the road fighting for global equality for two weeks, so it was a time to do laundry, have lunch with my partner Mile (as he changed planes on his way to Europe to visit his family) and give some support to the local campaign for marriage equality.

We were interviewed by KFAI Radio and shared some of the background of the anti-LGBT campaign in Africa.

Faith leaders, rights activists blast Uganda’s "baseless" raid

The Ugandan police raid on a human rights meeting on June 18 not only had “no basis whatsoever in law” but also encourages violence against LGBT people, international human rights groups and faith-based advocates say.

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RGOD2: Sponsors needed to bring LGBT activists to World AIDS Conference

It is heartbreaking to read some of the stories of the 120 people who have applied for scholarships to the St. Paul’s Foundation so they can come to the World AIDS Conference in July in Washington, D.C.

Two particular accounts give us windows into what it is like for millions of LGBT people globally.

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