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GAY MARRIAGE Number of same-sex weddings revealed for the first time | |
 | Just over 1,400 same-sex marriages took place in the first three months of the new law, official figures have revealed. Of these, 56% were female couples and 44% were male bbc.co.uk 21 Aug 14 |
Luxembourg Prime Minister engaged to be married | |
 | Xavier Bettel with his partner Gauthier Destenay could be among the first to benefit from new gay marriage laws after he announced he and his long-term partner will tie the knot wort.lu 21 Aug 14 |
House of Fraser celebrates gay marriage in menswear promo | |
 | Part of the department store's "Style My Dilemma" series, the Style My Mr & Mr video on YouTube features a male model dressed in various House of Fraser styles of clothin campaignlive.co.uk 21 Aug 14 |
GAY PARENTS Prime Minister backs same-sex adoption David Cameron said that "gay couples with so much love to give" should not see "prejudice stand in the way of progress" christian.org.uk 21 Aug 14 The fraught world of UK surrogacy | |
 | In the UK you cannot pay for a woman to have your baby, regulation is loose and arrangements depend entirely on trust. Demand for surrogates far outstrips supply bbc.co.uk 21 Aug 14 |
SEX EDUCATION Young people are being let down by sex education in UK schools The current provision of relationship and sex education in schools isn't adequate for many young people newstatesman.com 21 Aug 14 Sex education book featuring bondage shelved after outcry from US parents | |
 | Your Health Today has been removed from classrooms in Fremont, with anatomical drawings and passages on 'erotic touch' slammed as 'borderline pornography' at school board meeting theguardian.com 21 Aug 14 |
GAY SPORTS The 'sexist, racist, homophobic' texts which cost Malky Mackay the Crystal Palace manager job | |
 | An official at an unnamed club was referred to as 'a gay snake' and 'the homo' ... a French player was also referred to as someone 'who struck me as an independently minded young homo' metro.co.uk 21 Aug 14 |
USA Parents beat 8-year-old to death because he played with dolls | |
 | Fernandez and Aguirre Hernandez called Gabriel gay, punished him when he played with dolls and forced him to wear girls' clothes to school, his siblings said latimes.com 21 Aug 14 |
UGANDA Uganda President signs HIV Criminalization Bill into law | |
 | Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill that criminalizes the transmission of HIV, as well as "attempted transmission" and allows courts to release the HIV status of people being prosecuted under the law frontiersla.com 21 Aug 14 |
GAY PRIDE gaytoz Pride Calendar 2014 18-24 August 2014 Galway Pride - Ireland 21-24 August 2014 North West of Ireland Pride - Sligo 22-25 August 2014  Manchester Pride Saturday 23 August 2014 Wallsall Pride Saturday 23 August 2014 Cornwall Gay Pride - Truro Saturday 23 August 2014 Foyle Pride - Derry / Londonderry, Northern Ireland Saturday 23 August 2014 English Riviera Pride - Torquay Galway celebrates longest running gay pride festival in Ireland | |
 | Galway Community Pride Festival, which, in its 25th year, is the longest continuously running pride festival in the country, started in 1989 by Nuala Ward, and includes a march through Galway city centre - Sat 23 Aug advertiser.ie 21 Aug 14 |
SHOW BIZ Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton received years abuse from gay community for 'camp' character Sean Tully | |
 | Antony Cotton told a conference at Manchester Pride's fringe festival: "I get a lot of stick from people who say, and these are people who are 21 years old, 'You've put the gay cause back 21 years,'" he said independent.co.uk 21 Aug 14 |
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