Many Countries Worldwide Accepting Gay Lifestyle

A new study has found that vast majority of countries worldwide have started accepting homosexuality, with the exception of Russia and other former socialist countries.

The report, compiled by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, examined general trends in over 30 countries regarding their attitudes towards homosexuality.

Differently Wired and Gay - Are They Children of a Lesser God?
Marriages (read heterosexual) are made in heaven, they say. But what about homosexual partnerships? Are they made for each other?

Approval of homosexuality increased in 27 countries and decreased in only four: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Russia, the study noted.

The growth in approval ratings was stronger than the decline.

The study rated the top five most tolerant countries regarding homosexuality as the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, and Belgium, according to the survey.

Genetics of 'Gay' Abandon
Homoesexuality (or) Same Sex Love is the hottest most discussed human trait. There has been a hunt for a Gaye gene in order to lend credibility to a growing cause.

The bottom half of the list consisted of seven ex-socialist states, East Asian nations, Latin American countries and Cyprus, South Africa, and Turkey.

In Russia, 59 percent of the population felt that homosexual behavior was wrong in 1991 compared with 64 percent in 2008, the study showed.

Sexual Deviance - Paraphilia - Rape - Incest - Legal Issues - Treatment
Sexual deviance includes a range of abnormal sexual expression from fetishism, cross dressing, sexual sadomasochism to pedophilia, incest and rape at the extreme end of the continuum.

In Russia on Saturday, Moscow police detained three global gay rights leaders and dozens of Russians in a violent end to a rally that activists tried to stage near the Kremlin wall despite a ban.

The small crowd of young marchers was attacked by members of an ultra-Orthodox group who had successfully lobbied Moscow to ban the event.

Violence Against Gays Persists in Serbia Despite State Support to LGBT
Serbia's state institutions have shown more support for the gay community, but there is still a lot to be done to reduce violence and discrimination, a study presented on Tuesday said.

Organisers said the three Westerners and most of 30 Russians were released after a few hours of detention.

Source-AFP