According to The Guardian, Police were listening on a wiretap, when they caught Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, allegedly negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Vatican chorister, “over the specific physical details of men he wanted brought to him”.

The transcripts suggest that in 2008, Ehiem organised at least ten men for Balducci, including “two black Cuban lads”, a former male model from Naples, and a rugby player from Rome.

The allegations have been an embarrassing blow for the Vatican, and they have not yet commented publicly.

Balducci is a senior Italian government official, who was arrested on 10 February on suspicion of corruption.

In one conversation, Ehiem was overheard telling Balducci: “I saw your call when I was in the Vatican, because I was doing rehearsals… in the choir… in St Peter’s.” He then suggests Balducci meet a man who he describes is “two metres tall… 97 kilos… aged 33, completely active.”

Ehiem has since given an interview with Panorama magazine, in which he claimed that he had known Balducci for over a decade. “He asked me if I could procure other men for him. He told me he was married and that I had to do it in great secrecy,” said Ehiem.

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But Loredana recently attempted to sell her story for $1 million and graphically described group sex that included incidents of Tiger with other men, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

Loredana says she is planning to spill all about how she and Tiger “came about, his healthy appetite for arranged sex, threesomes, girls next door, girl-girl, and an answer to all the rumors surrounding Woods’ sexuality.”

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Passing easily through Parliament thanks to the majority the governing Socialist party and left-of-centre parties have,  the billwill now go to a parliamentary commission before returning to the Parliament for final approval.

Once this has occurred, the legislation will go to the President who can choose to either sign or veto the legislation. If he does the latter then it would return to Parliament who are able to overturn his decision.

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The drinks company Pepsi may have got themselves in some hot water recently when it was revealed they’d sponsored a concert, for which they have since apologized, that saw gay hater Beenie Man perform, but as this UK advert shows the reality is this is a company that not only has a sense of humour but isn’t afraid to make a stand against homophobia.

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The comedian and former host of The View is now dating Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a Texas-based artist, according to People. The pair was seen walking hand in hand in Miami Beach Tuesday.

Like O’Donnell, Kachtick-Anders is vocal in parenting and adoption issues. She started a nonprofit organization that recruits families to adopt and foster children. Kachtick-Anders, who herself has adopted five of her six children, targets lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families.

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Gay Couple in Uganda

It was reported that the “death penalty” for being gay in Uganda had been removed from the current legislation facing their lawmakers, but upon further investigation, that may not be the case.

The Ugandan bill still seeks to extend existing laws making it illegal to “promote homosexuality” by talking or writing about it, and by scaring Ugandan citizens into telling the authorities about anyone they know who is gay, through the threat of imprisonment if they do not.

According to Bahati, an MP from the ruling party, the bill is directed at protecting “the cherished culture of the people of Uganda against the attempts of sexual rights activists seeking to impose their values of sex promiscuity on the people of Uganda.”

It also looks as though Uganda isn’t alone in their anti-gay crusade in Africa. Nigeria now has a similar bill expecte to be placed into law, and the Nigerian government currently allows the death penalty for homosexuality in northern states. Sudan has the same law. Burundi joined 37 other African nations earlier this year in criminalizing homosexuality. Egypt and Mali are also seeking to pass morality laws against same-sex couples.

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Online Gay Marriage

The number of states where gay marriage is legal will rise to five on January 1st 2010 as New Hampshire joins Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont. This means that there is now one more option for gay and lesbian couples who want to marry out of state, but two Michigan State University professors believe they have come up with an even better option – that states offering same sex marriage should allow couple to obtain a marriage license online, wherever they are based in the country.

Saying that they believe marriage laws need to be more flexible in meeting the needs of both the couple and the state, Adam Candeub, who is working on the theory alongside fellow law professor Mae Kuykendall, said “states should formalize in their laws what they’ve always been doing in smaller degrees in specific areas, which is, allow people outside their states to use their laws”.

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Washington DC - there's hope!

Today, D.C.’s Council made it official and same-sex marriage is now legal in the district by a final vote of 11-2!

The victory for equal rights prompted public witnesses in the Council chambers to cheer and applaud.

The bill, which may be signed into law by D.C.’s mayor as early as tonight, will go before Congress for a review period of 30 legislative days before it becomes law.

Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) stated:

“Today is the final step in a long march toward equality.”

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Just Married

Last Wednesday, as the New York State Senate voted down a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in New York, they were, in essence, voting to require discrimination in the State of New York. That they did it, in part, with the guiding hand of the Catholic Church–who called the defeat, incredibly, “a victory for the basic building block of our society”–only serves to outline both the violation of principle that constitutes religious meddling in U.S. law, and the wider question the measure raises: Why on earth is something as basic to our democracy as full civil rights coming up for a vote at all?

Much like the ham-fisted revision of California’s constitution that took place earlier this year, in which some 52% of voters, via Proposition 8 (call it “Prop Hate”) were able to gut the Golden State’s constitutional protection of equal rights by disallowing legal marriage for its gay and lesbian citizens, the New York ruling throws the greater movement for civil rights in this country back by some forty years, certainly at least to 1967, when it was still illegal in most states for inter-racial couples to marry, because of so-called “anti-miscegenation” laws. This Wednesday’s vote made a very similar kind of legal discrimination mandatory in the State of New York.

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New Jersey

It looks at though same-sex marriage will go up for a vote in the garden state on Thursday, December 10th!

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A petition in New Jersey signed by more than 2,300 Democratic officials, advocates and residents has helped sway members of the State Senate Judiciary Committee to call for a vote on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

But the bill has a long way to go, and recent votes against same-sex marriage in a Maine referendum and in the New York State Senate led opponents of the New Jersey measure to say that the political tide had turned against it.

Still, Senator Raymond J. Lesniak, a Democrat from Union County, said the petition, circulated by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal political advocacy group, produced a strong “momentum change” for the bill after it had appeared to be stalled in recent weeks. Many prominent officials signed the petition, including Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark; Ronald K. Chen, the state’s public advocate; and J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, director of the state’s Division on Civil Rights.

Mr. Lesniak is a member of the Judiciary Committee, which plans to vote on the bill on Monday. A large turnout for the vote is expected by those on both sides of the issue; gay couples are planning to testify about what they believe are shortcomings in the state’s civil union law, which was passed in 2006.

Mr. Lesniak predicted that the Judiciary Committee would pass the bill. The full Senate would probably consider the measure on Thursday, and Mr. Lesniak said the vote would be close. The Senate and the Assembly — where the bill is still in committee and no vote has been scheduled — are controlled by Democrats, but some do not support same-sex marriage, so Republican votes would be needed.

The timing is important because the current governor, Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, supports same-sex marriage, while Christopher J. Christie, a Republican who will assume the office on Jan. 19, opposes it.

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