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UK Equality Commission launches new project to help tackle LGBT hate crime | |
 | The Commission has launched a 16-month-long project to tackle significant under-reporting of hate crime against LGBT people in Great Britain. Recent figures in England and Wales show less than 4,500 homophobic and transphobic incidents and crimes reported to police between 2012 and 2013, with just under 750 reports in Scotland. However, the Crime Survey for England and Wales indicate 39,000 homophobic incidents took place in the same period equalityhumanrights.com 18 Dec 14 New domestic abuse law on controlling behaviour unveiled bbc.co.uk 18 Dec 14 |
TRANS Transgender people must make 'odious' decision for legal recognition, Amnesty warns | |
 | The new report, entitled The state decides who I am: lack of legal recognition for transgender people in Europe, focuses on seven countries and explores how transgender people across Europe can often only have their new gender legally recognised if they are: - diagnosed with a mental disorder - agree to undergo hormone treatments and surgery resulting in irreversible sterilisation - can prove they are single amnesty.org.uk 18 Dec 14 |
BONKERS Liverpool FC 'cursed by God for supporting gay pride event' says ex-UKIP member liverpoolecho.co.uk 18 Dec 14 UK right-wing fringe group asks if marriage equality in New Zealand led to Wellington earthquake gaynz.com 18 Dec 14 Gay population will 'die out because they don't reproduce' thinks evangelist Pat Robertson inquisitr.com 18 Dec 14 Vaccines are responsible for homosexuality, claims anti-vaccine group autismdailynewscast.com 18 Dec 14 | |
GAY BOOKS J.K Rowling confirms that LGBT students would have gone to Hogwarts | |
 | The Harry Potter creator confirmed that Ron, Hermione and Harry would have shared their school with LGBT students as well as those from a variety of religious denominations. The only students that wouldn't have attended the school were Wiccans - which is no doubt a response to claims from certain parts of America that the books promoted witchcraft dailyrecord.co.uk 18 Dec 14 |
Between world wars, gay culture flourished in Berlin | |
 | In Gay Berlin, Robert Beachy describes the rise of a gay subculture in the 1920s and '30s, how it contributed to our understanding of gay identity and how it was eradicated by the Nazis npr.org 18 Dec 14 Buy Book |
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