The Gay Homeland Foundation, an organization dedicated to furtherance of a gay national movement and cultural progress of the gay-lesbian community, and baraka, an international self-organization group of gay, lesbian und bisexual immigrants in Cologne, have announced the first political demonstration commemorating all gay and lesbian victims of the Ayatollah regime in Iran in Cologne on 19 July 2007. A vigil is scheduled to begin at 17:30 at the “Memorial for Lesbian and Gay victims of National Socialism” near the Hohenzollern bridge on the left Rhine bank in Cologne, Germany.

An anti-gay bill pending in the legislature of Nigeria could result in that country running afoul of international treaties which outlaw genocide, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the Gay Homeland Foundation.

Nigerian politicians and high officials of the Anglican Church in Nigeria pushing for the anti-gay Bill in their country might themselves become subject to international prosecution.

Gay Homeland Foundation is seriously concerned about the current situation of gay residents of Belarus. On 8th November 2006 the special police forces broke into the apartment in Gomel where the meeting of Organizing Committee of the International LGBT Conference took place and arrested seven people. The Conference materials have been seized and the organizers have been brought to the Zheleznodorozhnyi Borrow Police Department and interrogated. Although no criminal charges were brought against the then released activists, the conference had to be cancelled.

Gay Homeland Foundation joins the appeal of OutRage! and the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organisation to commemorate gays and lesbians murdered by the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Iran, and calls for worldwide vigils for the victims.