Sexual orientation

The matter of whether we choose our sexual orientation or it chooses us is a subject of great controversy which has caused a longstanding debate among the scientific community.

Montenegrin NGOs LGBT Forum Progress and Hiperion announced on Sunday that the first ever Gay Pride march in the town of Niksic will be held in September under the slogan "Stop fascism - freedom to the people". 

The U.N. has expressed deep concern over attacks and discriminatory acts on Turkey?s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, while also calling for active measures to be taken in an effort to combat homophobic and transphobic violence and discrimination. 

Russia unveiled its ‘answer’ to the LTGB movement’s famous rainbow flag. According to Moscow Times the United Russia party, which is in power in the country, presented the traditional heterosexual flag that extolls the traditional values of a heterosexual family.

Last weekend, Istanbul hosted its 12th LGBTI Pride Parade. Thousands, not just members of the LGBTI community but also "straights" defending their rights, marched in the city's busiest street, Istiklal Avenue in Beyo?lu. Unfortunately, the colorful parade was cut short when the police began dispersing people with water cannons and batons.

The summer had just begun. It was the weekend before the U.S. Supreme Court voted in favor of gay marriages. 

I had planned a holiday over the weekend with good friends, and we flew to the south coast of Turkey to spend some relaxed days in the hidden bays and the little hippie villages that can only be reached by boat ride or a dangerous climbing route. 

Macedonian gay rights activists on Thursday laid a funeral wreath in front of the government headquarters to symbolically "bury" the embattled government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.

Slavco Dimitrov, one of the activists, told the protest meeting that the government routinely turned a blind eye to anti-gay violence.

Bar?? Sulu has made headlines as an openly gay individual running for parliament on the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) ticket in the June 7 parliamentary election.

If you are part of the LGBT community then you should look to the North of Europe. A gay dating and information network called Planet Romeo published a very interesting report this week, ranking the happiness levels of gay men across the world. The “Gay Happiness Index” showed Iceland in first place, and Uganda in last.

Greek Dr. Nick Drydakis led a new study by the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, that found that an active sex life increased productivity at work as well as salary output. Dr. Drydakis studied 7,500 Greek adults, aged from 26 to 50 years of age, for the study and found that people who have sex two or three times a week earn 4.5% more than co-workers who do not.