There's loads of homo history being made around the world.

Nepalese activist Sunil Babu Pant just became his nation's first gay politico after winning this week's Parliamentary election. Four other homos ran, but didn't quite make the cut. Pant, who founded the Blue Diamond Society, will now work his socially-conscious magic for the Communist Party.

Meanwhile, over in the Czech Republic, Jiří Hromada makes a mark as the nation's first openly gay Senatorial candidate. The activist gave up his life as an actor two years ago to help lead the Gay Initiative, a queer activist group that shuttered in 2006. Rather than heading back to the stage, Hromada has enlisted in the Green Party and hopes for a big win this fall.

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Those Nepalese gays are such go getters! Five activists - including Sunil Babu Pant - are running in the forthcoming Parliamentary elections to protest the nation's historic homophobic behavior. Pant and company are being backed by the Nepal Communist Party (United).

"It is a prejudiced society," said Sunil Babu Pant, founder of a leading gay rights group, Blue Diamond Society.

"We are standing in the elections to fight the discrimination against our community," he said. "This is a very symbolic approach to tell all Nepalis that we have equal rights."

Pant and four other gay candidates are standing for public election on April 10 to become members of a new 601-seat constituent assembly. It will be Nepal's first national vote since 1999.

The country has been recovering from a ten-year civil war launched by the Communist Party of Nepal, which is Maoist, rather than Marxist.

Things have slowly been getting better in Nepal since the war, however. The High Court ordered pro-gay laws last December. Still, things aren't quite perfect: coppers beat some condom-carrying trannies in July and politicos suggested that AIDS activists should find "something better to do" with their time. Still, Pant and friends remain confident thatunknown number of queers will help install him in Parliament.

Big news out of Nepal this morning!

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Nepal's gay activists aren't pussy-footing around government repression.

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As Nepal's trans folk fight for political rights, two lesbians are celebrating their right to love. 21-year old Kalpana Pariyar and 22-year old Sabi Bishwokorma are getting hitched today during the annual, lady-centric Teej Friday. And it's been a fight, for sure:

Disowned by their families, the defiant women came to Kathmandu this week looking for support from Blue Diamond Society (BDS), Nepal's only gay rights organization that last year organized the kingdom's first public gay marriage.

Pariyar and Bishwokorma, both of whom belong to disadvantaged communities, have been drawing heart by the growing movement in the capital to wrest rights for the sexual minorities, who till the inception of the BDS in 2001, were forced to live in closets.

Good to hear the girls - and guys - are busting out. And during the most lesbianic time of the year!

Nepal's trans folk sure are optimistic.

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How does the Nepalese army measure a "real" woman? Tits and inferior abilities, apparently. Two unidentified women allege military men arrested and fired them for being lesbians due to their small chests.

One woman, a 22-year old, claims she excelled during training, leading some of her comrades to label her a tranny. A natural reaction, of course.

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"Appalling." That's but one of the adjectives employed by The Elton John AIDS Foundation in addressing Nepalese government officials' move to curb the non-profit's good will.

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Nepal's Blue Diamond Society has helped fifteen Dhangadi residents gets HIV/AIDS treatment since teaming up with the Elton John AIDS Foundation two months ago. Quite a feat considering Dhangadi rests near Nepal's rural western border. Despite these promising numbers, a government health official suggested the gay activist group to "find something better to do".

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Who says condoms protect? Certainly not five Nepalese trannies (referred to as métis) - they claim coppers beat them silly after finding prophylactics in their bags. The cops, meanwhile, not only admit the assaults took place, they say it's all part of the job. What heroes!

The would-be girl group got nabbed on Saturday, when coppers spotted them in Kathmandu's Ratna Park. The police ordered them to stop and searched their bags, in which they significant amounts of money. "You chakkas and Hijras, motherfuckers, you make this money by anal sex and prostitution," they yelled as they beat them with batons.

And was only down hill from there…

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