14-15 March 2015

UK Wife of radio DJ came home to find a naked teenager tied up
	Joanne O'Connor was giving evidence at the trial of her husband John, known as Ian Young, who was accused of attacking her. She told Kilmarnock Sheriff Court: "I knew our marriage was in trouble when I found an 18-year-old man naked and bound in the living room." dailyrecord.co.uk  15 Mar 15
GAY PARENTS Dolce & Gabbana say gays shouldn't raise babies
	The gay design duo have finally gone into detail about how anti-gay they are. "The only family is the traditional one," Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana told Italy's Panorama magazine fusion.net  15 Mar 15

Saturday
COMING OUT Is 15 too young to know your sexuality?
	The average age for young people to come out in Britain is now 15, says Underage and Gay - a touching and brave Channel 4 documentary about sexuality and gender channel4.com 14 Mar 15
GAY BUSINESS Oklahoma lawmaker wants anti-gay businesses to post "No Gays Allowed" signs. Excellent!
	The amendment to the "religious liberty" bill pointedly exposes the absurdity of creating a new era of legalized segregation slate.com  14 Mar 15
Ikea closes website in Russia over 'gay propaganda' fears
	In a statement, the furniture giant said some articles in Ikea Family Live could be viewed in Russia as gay "propaganda". It said the magazine "shows different aspects of people's lives at home, regardless of their age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality and religion" bbc.co.uk  14 Mar 15

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Wednesday 4 March 2015

UK UK Government rejects LGBTI rights envoy
	Responding to a Parliamentary Question from SNP MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford, Foreign Office minister David Lidington said that the UK Government did not support the creation of such an envoy - and said creating a new post would be "ticking a box" kaleidoscot.com  4 Mar 15
GAY ASYLUM Home Office says Nigerian asylum-seeker can't be a lesbian as she's got children
	The Home Office was accused of relying on "highly offensive" and "outdated" views of sexuality to reject an asylum claim made by Nigerian lesbian Aderonke Apata independent.co.uk  4 Mar 15
GAY PRIDE Hooray for Hollywood!  Walk for Life returns with Tinsel Town theme
	This June, HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust will be rolling out the red carpet and shouting "Lights, Camera, Action!", as hundreds of charity supporters transform the 26th annual Walk for Life into a Hollywood Walk of Fame - Sun 7 Jun walkforlife.co.uk  4 Mar 15
SHOW BIZ ABC shows youngest ever same-sex kiss on television
	A new storyline on ABC Family's critically well-received and already-groundbreaking drama The Fosters has revolved around the budding friendship between Jude Foster and a schoolmate named Connor thebacklot.com  4 Mar 15

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Friday 27 February 2015

UK Stonewall launches Young Writers' competition for 14-17 year-olds
	The competition invites young people to submit short stories and poems that support the theme of 'LGBT equality: changing hearts and minds' stonewall.org.uk  27 Feb 15
Brighton Gay Men's Chorus raise over £1,000 for the Rainbow Fund
	Following their Putting on the Glitz show at the Theatre Royal, Brighton Gay Men's Chorus raised £1,002.50 for the Rainbow Fund supporting front line LGBT/HIV organisations in Brighton and Hove brightongmc.org  27 Feb 15
Children are waiting for the right family. Could that be you?
	LGBT Adoption & Fostering Week is run by New Family Social, the UK support group for LGBT adopters and foster carers. Each spring, agencies across the UK hold events specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prospective parents - 2-8 Mar lgbtadoptfosterweek  27 Feb 15
SEX EDUCATION Ukip leaflet claims primary school LGBT education is 'sexual grooming'
	A leaflet being distributed by the Ukip Christian Soldiers claims an effort to challenge homophobia in schools is a "recruitment drive for fresh blood" mirror.co.uk  27 Feb 15
LGBT YOUTH Groundbreaking AKT study explores homelessness among young people The proportion of mainstream UK housing providers targeting services at LGBT homeless people has dropped from 11% to 1% between 2011 and 2013. The Albert Kennedy Trust finds that LGBT young people are more likely to be exposed to the risk factors akt.org.uk GAY CURE 'Gay cure' death camp accused found guilty
	Alex de Koker and Michael Erasmus were found guilty of murder, child abuse and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, by a South African Court. Raymond Buys was punched, struck with a spade, a stick, forced to eat soap powder, pick up his own faeces with his mouth and was kicked and slapped while unconscious to "wake him up" at a camp linked to 'gay conversions' iol.co.za  27 Feb 15

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Thursday 5 February 2015

ALAN TURING Top secret notes by Alan Turing's codebreakers survived 70 years in Bletchley Park's walls
	Discovered in a renovation of the WW2-era Bletchley Park base, the unique notes will now go on display at the museum that stands where Turing and his colleagues made their crucial contributions to the war effort, while, it seems, shivering cnet.com  5 Feb 15
TRANS Referrals for young transgender people increase
	The Tavistock and Portman Clinic in London, a national centre helping under-18s from across the UK, says 441 young people came to them for assessment in 2013/14, compared to 91 in 2009/2010. It's thought better awareness of LGBT issues could be behind the rise newsbeat  5 Feb 15
Former MEP Nikki Sinclaire denies money laundering and misconduct charges
	Sinclaire is accused of misconduct in a public office while a serving member of the European Parliament representing the West Midlands constituency, by making or causing to be made false or dishonest claims for travel expenses coventrytelegraph.net  5 Feb 15
SEX EDUCATION Why is Labour planning to make LGBT-inclusive sex education compulsory?
	Although it doesn't seem like it to some in politics, legislating is often the easy part. Cultural change, the battle for hearts and minds takes time and will need renewed commitment from all those who've fought for progress newstatesman.com  5 Feb 15
GAY PRIDE Europe's first permanent rainbow zebra crossing in Totnes
	Mat Price, who with his twin brother Jon founded proud2be, told town councillors: 'Totnes is a courageous town which likes to do things first - the permanent crossing would send out the message that Totnes is a town that celebrates diversity and encourages people to be proud of who they are' proud2beproject.org  5 Feb 15
USA Inside the last-ditch Conservative campaign to target LGBT Americans
	The fight ... reveals unrest within the Republican Party, with conservatives rehashing controversial legislation that was vetoed last year, backing down from certain bills and struggling to agree on a unified strategy to fight what they deem to be judicial overreach - "the homosexual movement is currently the most significant threat to people's constitutionally protected rights and liberties" huffingtonpost.com  5 Feb 15

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25-26 January 2015

COMING OUT British Army general on verge of coming out
	A married British Army general is on the verge of coming out as gay - an announcement which would send shockwaves through the Armed Forces. He has kept his homosexuality secret since joining 25 years ago mirror.co.uk 26 Jan 15
ALAN TURING Alan Turing private notebook to be sold at auction
	A notebook belonging to the gay man who helped break the Nazi code, Alan Turing, is to be sold at auction. The book from 1942 showcases his mathematical genius, and gives an insight into his private thoughts bbc.co.uk  26 Jan 15
SEX - LIFE Alan Titchmarsh, a gay lecturer and a row over teenage sex
	The television gardener has attacked Professor Eric Anderson, 46, who boasted in a lecture that gay sex is best, that he targets 16 to 18-year-olds, that he had already had sex with more than 1,000 teenagers and men, and that he planned to double the total even if he had to pay young prostitutes dailymail.co.uk  26 Jan 15
"If you love she-males come to the United Kingdom"
	Nigel Farage's top UKIP aide Matthew Richardson condemned the NHS as "the biggest waste of money in the UK," and said "Socialists think that if somebody wants to reassign their gender the state should pay" mirror.co.uk  26 Jan 15
HIV AIDS Bill Gates predicts HIV vaccine by 2030
	Microsoft founder told the World Economic Forum in Davos that new intensive drugs to combat HIV should be available by 2030 and end most new cases of the virus theguardian.com  26 Jan 15
GAY BUSINESS Irish Schools and hospitals to lose right to sack gay staff
	Religious-run schools and hospitals will be stripped of the ability to sack staff for being gay, divorced, or unmarried parents by Easter, Equality Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin says irishexaminer.com  26 Jan 15
China's first ever sexual-orientation discrimination lawsuit
	Mu Yi, said he was "outed involuntarily" because of a viral video, and is now suing his employers for firing him because he is gay shanghaiist.com  26 Jan 15
Illinois tourism appoints gay chief
	Cory Jobe has been picked to be the state's new director of tourism - "I'm the kind of guy who wants to bring people together" windycitymediagroup  26 Jan 15
Gay mecca on Fire Island sells for $10.1 Million at auction
	A strip of commercial real estate along the harbor in Fire Island Pines sold for $10.1 million at auction on Thursday to developers with plans to continue the revival of a former mecca for closeted gay men nytimes.com  26 Jan 15
Vietnam breaks up $47m gambling ring led by gay magazine owner
	Police have detained To Cong Hung, 33, the owner of Attitude's Vietnam edition in Ho Chi Minh City tuoitrenews.vn  26 Jan 15
GAY ADVERTISING You Don't Say campaign explains why we are uncomfortable with certain words Student athletes at Duke University are taking part in a powerful promotional campaign to challenge homophobia, transphobia, and other prejudice facebook.com  26 Jan 15
RUSSIA Russian LGBT activist fined for disseminating 'Gay Propaganda'
	Yelena Klimova, the founder of the DETI-404 online support group for LGBT teenagers, has been fined 50,000 rubles ($780) for violating Russia's controversial law against the "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors." Russia's media watchdog, Roskomnadzor,opened a case against Klimova last November themoscowtimes.com DETI-404  26 Jan 15

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Sunday
GAY BUSINESS Stephen Fry: Save Soho from threat of property boom
	In an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne and Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles, actor Mr Fry and other leading names from the creative industries lament the dearth of "office and studio space" at the expense of housing - and an "imminent crisis for London's creative businesses" standard.co.uk  25 Jan 15
Lawyer arrested after boyfriend dies of suspected drugs overdose
	Henry Hendron, a 34-year-old civil barrister, was arrested in London on Tuesday morning, after the sudden death of his boyfriend, 18-year-old Miguel Jimenez. Mr Hendron is a close friend of gay senior Tory MP Nigel Evans pinknews.co.uk  25 Jan 15
HIV AIDS Ukip's official health spokesperson disagrees with Farage over HIV
	Mr Farage said that he wanted to control "the quality" of people allowed to live in the UK - and suggested "people who do not have HIV" as an example. Louise Bours disagrees, saying: "HIV is rather a bad example though, to be honest. HIV is managed now, isn't it." independent.co.uk  25 Jan 15

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