Gay News Headlines: Friday 12 December 2014

UK Gay life in Northern Ireland is under threat - time to act
	The first minister, Peter Robinson, is backing a private member's bill seeking to change the law to allow businesses to refuse to serve gay people theguardian.com 12 Dec 14
UKIP is now motivated by prejudices against foreigners, gays, and Muslims
	UKIP's founder Alan Sked says The EU, it turns out, is as intellectually bankrupt as Nigel Farage, in an article in The Commentator. It would like to restore Britain to its position in the 1950s, before the advent of the sexual revolution thecommentator.com 12 Dec 14
Eight organisations named as Stonewall Star Performers
	Star Performers will actively mentor another employer who are working to create a workplace culture that is inclusive of LGBT people, and lead the development of best practice in Britain and around the world stonewall.org.uk 12 Dec 14
Stonewall Housing launches Winter Auction to counter LGBTQ homelessness
	This year's Winter Auction includes prints, films, a zine pack, a Mi Mandela album signed by Idris Elba, a 12 month subscription to Gay Times magazine, a Horns poster signed by Juno Temple, cupcakes and more! You can participate in the Winter Auction until December 20th by bidding here: Stonewall Housing 12 Dec 14
TRANS *Becoming Myself: Radio 4* looks at Gender Identity**
	A revealing series which goes inside the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic in Hammersmith, London - the largest and oldest in the world - to explore the condition of gender dysphoria bbc.co.uk 12 Dec 14
The Sun asks how blind transgender Labour candidate knew she was 'the wrong sex'
	Emily Brothers has hit back at Rod Liddle for comments he made in a recent column, where he asked how the blind transgender Labour candidate would have known she was "the wrong sex". Liddle has since apologised independent.co.uk 12 Dec 14
Being Trans in the EU - Comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data
	New EU report examines issues of equal treatment and discrimination on sexual orientation, and on gender identity. It analyses data on the experiences of 6,579 trans respondents, the largest body of empirical evidence of its kind to date europa.eu 12 Dec 14
HIV AIDS HIV most often passed on by younger gay men
	Two-thirds of infections originate in men with undiagnosed HIV - and HIV transmissions most frequently involve men under the age of 35 who report relatively high levels of sexual activity aidsmap.com 12 Dec 14
COMING OUT Asian and gay: Doctor was driven to his death
	In the wake of the Dewani trial, a man tells how his fiance took his own life after his family told him to "cure" his sexuality sky.com 12 Dec 14
WORLD Thousands of Gambians march to say 'no to homosexuality'
	President Alhaji Jammeh, expressed total disapproval of attempts to tie aid to The Gambia to so called homosexual and lesbian rights. Placards included "Even cows don't do it!" observer.gm 12 Dec 14
BONKERS 'Harry Styles had a gay affair with President Barack Obama' says US magazine
	According to US supermarket tabloid, National Examiner, the curliest-haired member of the world's biggest boyband, and the actual leader of the USA embarked on a top-secret affair behind the First Lady's back celebrity.yahoo.com 12 Dec 14