Saturday, May 18th
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GALCK NEWS:
A man who is currently serving a life sentence for murdering his brother has been sentenced for trying to kill a gay inmate after a brief relationship.
In 2004, Robert Livesey was sent to Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire for life after the murder of his half-brother, the Yorkshire Post reports.
After a relationship with a gay inmate soured, Livesey plotted to kill him by luring him into his cell in April, Leeds Crown Court heard.
A female member of parliament in Zimbabwe has been arrested after suggesting the president, Robert Mugabe, is gay, according to Kenya’s Daily Nation.
Lillian Kirenyi is a member of the Movement for Democratic Change, led by the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, which currently shares power with Mugabe’s Zanu PF party.
She reportedly said: “Zanu PF members been attacking MDC president Tsvangirai alleging he is pro-homosexuals yet Robert Mugabe has practiced homosexuality with Jonathan Moyo and Canaan Banana.”
A full-page advert denouncing homosexuality and promoting Exodus International, a group which advocates “ex-gay” therapies, has appeared in a Jamaican newspaper amid reports the organisation is facing bankruptcy in the US, LGBT Asylum News reports.
Following stories that the organisation is heading towards “social and financial oblivion” in the US, an advert appeared in Jamaica’s Sunday Express this month claiming to warm of the dangers of homosexuality and saying gays “can change”.
