Swedish gay rights group calls on government to halt deportations of homosexuals to Iran after the hanging of two gay youths there this week.
UK gay group OutRage says three of its leaders have received death threats from Muslim fundamentalists. Warns of larger danger to gay community as gay venues may be prime targets for bombers.
Latvian court gives go ahead for first gay pride parade. Homophobic violence feared. Riga city council had banned the event. Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis: “[Riga should] not promote things like that. For sexual minorities to parade in the very heart of Riga, next to the Doma church, is unacceptable.”