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SHOW BIZ Our Gay Wedding: The Musical nominated for BAFTA | |
 | Bafta TV awards 2015 include the Channel 4 musical about same-sex weddings; The Graham Norton Show; and Grayson Perry: Who Are You? theguardian.com 8 Apr 15 2015 nominations |
Barry Manilow secretly married his longtime male lover | |
 | The Copacabana crooner said "I do" to Garry Kief, his manager and the president of Barry Manilow Productions, an insider said. The intimate ceremony was attended by 50 guests who were led to believe they were invited to lunch at the couple's multi-million dollar Palm Springs mansion! nationalenquirer.com 8 Apr 15 |
GAY BUSINESS Sexual orientation discrimination in the UK labour market | |
 | A study by Anglia Ruskin University shows the probability of gay or lesbian applicants receiving an invitation for a job iinterview was 5.1% lower than that for heterosexuals, and salaries offered were 1.9 % lower sagepub.com 8 Apr 15 |
What does it mean to be a role model? | |
 | BP's Tamoor Ali, a senior commercial analyst, has been named Stonewall Role Model of the Year for his work in promoting LGBT equality in the workplace bp.com 8 Apr 15 |
Obama's Executive Order prohibiting LGBT discrimination goes into effect | |
 | The order prohibits discrimination on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity by all federal contractors across the USA. The order is an important mile marker on the path toward LGBT workplace equality hrc.org 8 Apr 15 |
| Tuesday | |
TRANS Police probe murder of trans woman found dead in Fulham flat | |
 | Police are appealing for witnesses after 33-year-old Vanessa Santillan was murdered in a west London flat. Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 standard.co.uk 7 Apr 15 |
Transgender Kids: Louis Theroux: surprises with stories of his own | |
 | A huge question is whether the parents begin the process of medical intervention when their child may be still experimenting with their identity. Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids, on BBC2 bbc.co.uk 7 Apr 15 |
| Monday | |
SEX EDUCATION All schools should include a positive portrayal of same sex relationships in sex education lessons, says union | |
 | Delegates at the National Union of Teachers' annual conference in Harrogate backed the idea that sex education should be a compulsory part of the curriculum independent.co.uk 6 Apr 15 |
GAY RESEARCH Is 10% of the population really gay? | |
 | Drawing on the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report, David Spiegelhalter, in his book Sex By Numbers, answers key questions about our private lives. Here he reveals how Kinsey's contested claim that 10% of us are gay is actually close to the mark theguardian.com 6 Apr 15 Buy Book |
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