Honeymooners: Know Before You Go Go

The Daily Mail's handy summary of the Foreign Office's 'Know Before You Go' advice for honeymooning gay couples.

At the risk of sounding a bit Jan Moir, might I advise not visiting cruising areas or chat rooms during your honeymoon?

It doesn't bode well.

The Arab Spring: Open Season?

"Arab lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) suffered like all citizens of the Arab countries from many decades of oppression by despotic rulers, whether they be “secular” or religious monarchies. Is the Arab spring about to change this? Is it time for LGBT Arabs to come out of the closet and demand rights?"

Asks Gay Middle East - in a guest blog hosted by the UK Foreign Office website for IDAHO.
The Gay Middle East website is an amazing resource, and those questions will be more likely to be answered there than in that rather dry state-sanctioned piece.

Foreign Office: Human Rights and Democacy 2010

The Foreign And Commonwealth Office has just released its report, Human Rights and Democracy, you can read the section on LGBT rights here.
Read and download the full report here.
Basically the UK government has "expressed concern" about some bad things that have happened to gay people in other countries, and a couple of British embassies have hosted Pride receptions.
Whoop whoop!