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Emmanuel Dash could face up to 25 years in prison. Police in Brooklyn have charged Emmanuel Dash with attempted murder, after he allegedly stabbed a man in the neck with a suspected homophobic motive. On 22 June, Dash is alleged to have approached a man and his gender non-conforming partner at their apartment. He is said to have told them: “I’m glad I know where you live, because I don’t like gay people.” Dash is said to have harassed the pair, and threatened them with a knife before they closed…

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Same-sex marriage was legalised in the Cayman Islands earlier this year. The government of the Cayman Islands have launched a legal bid to ban same-sex marriage, after a judge ruled them to be legal back in March. In his initial ruling, Chief Justice Anthony Smellie said: “This Court is… bound not to allow the violation of the Petitioners’ rights to continue without redress. “The Constitution, in its mandatory requirement that the Law be brought into conformity, must prevail. The Petitioners and their daughter are entitled to the indignities to which…

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The woman had gone in for a physical issue. An Italian woman was prescribed an ex-gay book by her GP in Verona after she went in complaining about physical difficulties. Speaking to the equal rights blog, MaiMa.online, she said: “Between December and January I had a dark period in my life. I turned to my primary care physician, first of all, because I was physically ill due to stress and, secondly, because I realized that I needed someone to talk to. “The doctor in question, besides having declared that he had always…

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