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TRANS 'Transgender' said for first time in State of the Union address | |
 | "That's why we defend free speech, and advocate for political prisoners, and condemn the persecution of women, or religious minorities, or people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender," President Obama said. "We do these things not only because they're right, but because they make us safer." He went on to call gay marriage a civil right thehill.com 21 Jan 15 |
UK Manchester 'gay school': Petition launched against plan | |
 | LGBT Youth North West is being asked to cancel any plans to create a LGBT specific school and focus work on equality for all within mainstream education manchestereveningnews Sign petition 21 Jan 15 |
Head hits back after Sunderland free school branded 'inadequate' | |
 | Principal Chris Gray complained: "In the days after the inspection ... I heard reports of primary schoolchildren being asked if they knew of any boys or girls who thought they were in the wrong body and others if they knew what gay and lesbians did" sunderlandecho.com 21 Jan 15 |
NI Health Minister backs Edwin Poots' gay blood ban | |
 | Jim Wells says he continues to support a ban on gay men donating blood here despite the prohibition being lifted elsewhere in the UK and an ongoing legal appeal that has cost his department £39,000 so far belfasttelegraph.co.uk 21 Jan 15 |
GAY HISTORY The first National Festival of LGBT History is just around the corner | |
 | Trailblazing campaigners speaking at the event include Christine Burns MBE (Press For Change), Peter Tatchell (Gay Liberation Front), Mike Jackson (featured in the year's smash hit "Pride"), Stuart Milk (chair of the Harvey Milk foundation) and veteran ex-politician Linda Bellos OBE - 14-15 Feb 2015 lgbthistoryfestival.org 21 Jan 15 LGBT History Month |
SNP to host LGBT History Month conference | |
 | 650 delegates from across Scotland will attend the event, which will mark LGBT History Month with a debate on how LGBT rights have improved in Scotland over the years - Sat 7 Feb facebook.com 21 Jan 15 Register free |
Supreme Court faced gay rights decision in 1958 over 'obscene' magazine  The road to gay rights at the U.S. Supreme Court began in a small downtown Los Angeles office, where volunteer writers and editors in 1953 launched ONE - a new "magazine for homosexuals" latimes.com 21 Jan 15 How the Germans invented gay rights - more than a century ago | |
 | Robert Beachy's Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity begins with the story of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, essentially the first gay activist, who encountered censorship and ended up going into exile, but his ideas very gradually took hold newyorker.com 21 Jan 15 Buy Book |
GAY MARRIAGE Irish gay adoption law due before same-sex marriage referendum | |
 | Irish minister for justice Frances Fitzgerald has pledged that legislation providing for adoption by gay couples will be enacted before the referendum on same-sex marriage in May irishtimes.com 21 Jan 15 |
Christian group's free speech denied over gay marriage conference ban, UK Government signals | |
 | Christian Concern, which campaigned against the legalisation of same-sex marriage, has received a public apology after it was barred from staging a debate on marriage at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre opposite the Houses of Parliament telegraph.co.uk 21 Jan 15 |
FYR Macedonia bans same-sex marriage and creates constitutional obstacle future civil unions
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 | "Instead of guaranteeing equal rights for all couples, Macedonia's parliament decided to create a constitutional obstacle to even create possible legislation on this issue in the future," warned the Intergroup on LGBTI Rights lgbt-ep.eu 21 Jan 15 |
SHOW BIZ Pride wins Unsung Film of the Year and the LGBTQ Film of the Year | |
 | Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics also named Boyhood their Film of the Year, while Transparent and The Normal Heart win TV awards galeca.com 21 Jan 15 |
Sixteen years after Queer As Folk exploded on to the screen ... | |
 | ... award-winning writer Russell T Davies is back with Cucumber, Banana and Tofu: three new interlinked shows for Channel 4, E4 and online. Cucumber and Banana are two original drama series exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life - C4, Thu 22 Jan 9pm channel4.com 21 Jan 15 Channel 4's diversity quotas read like a comedy script independent.co.uk 21 Jan 15 |
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