Gay News Headlines

Monday 11 February 2013

O-M-G
	The Pope wearing a fabulous, vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lamé gown over a silk Vera Wang empire waist tulle cocktail dress, accessorized with a 3-foot beaded peaked House of Whoville hat, and the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in the Wizard of Oz, has resigned guardian.co.uk 11 Feb 13
Anti gay Pope will resign outtakeonline.com 11 Feb 13 Pope favorite has defended African 'Kill the Gays' laws gaystarnews.com 11 Feb 13 Could the next Pope be black and gay-friendly? pinknews.co.uk 11 Feb 13
UK
	100-OUT fundraising at the Cupid Carnival event hosted at the Shadow Lounge in Soho, to help bring 2018 Gay Games to London london2018.info

	ELOP Comedy Celebration East London Outreach Project will be hosting a charity fundraiser, with Shazia Mirza, Tina C, Rosie Wilby, VG Lee, and Michael Cashman - Canary Wharf, Thu 14 Mar boutiquemarketing.co.uk

	Charles Omishore A thief who preyed on the gay community in Soho for more than a decade has been banned from every public toilet in central London in an ASBO ruling thought to be the first of its kind westminster.gov.uk 11 Feb 13
HIV AIDS Australian education program aiming to end HIV epidemic by 2020 launched at 35th Mardi Gras festival gaynewsnetwork.com.au 11 Feb 13 GAY BUSINESS GetEQUAL potests at White House, asks President Obama to keep his first-term promise to eliminate workplace discrimination getequal.org 11 Feb 13 WORLD Police raid 'gay' party in Mumbai; 30 booked for indecent behaviour indiatimes.com 11 Feb 13 Evangelical group that describes homosexuality as a "perversion" receiving funds from Canadian Government for work in Uganda theglobeandmail.com 11 Feb 13 NSW offers $100,000 to solve gay 'murder' of Sydney man more than 24 years ago theaustralian.com.au 11 Feb 13 GAY PRIDE
	Hyderabad gets its own first queer parade,although getting permission from the police and traffic department for the parade wasn't so easy intoday.in 11 Feb 13
GAY PARENTS A gay dad's invitation to a Supreme Court Justice: Come to dinner with my family huffingtonpost.com 11 Feb 13 SHOW BIZ
	Daniel Day-Lewis wins leading actor BAFTA for Lincoln globalpost.com 11 Feb 13

	Antony Cotton Coronation Street star has leapt to the show's defence after it was rocked by a homophobia row manchestereveningnews.co.uk 11 Feb 13

	*I Am Divine* about the life and legend of the extraordinary actor, drag queen, performer and singer, opens the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - 14-24 Mar bfi.org.uk 11 Feb 13

	Call Me Kuchu film about the life of David Kato which had to be rescheduled due to the snow last month - Camden, Sat 16 Feb lgcm.org.uk 11 Feb 13

	Frank Ocean wins Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album; Channel Orange justjared.com 11 Feb 13

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Sunday 10 February 2013

GAY MARRIAGE Boris won gay marriage for us - but I'm no big fan of it myself, says Peter Tatchell standard.co.uk 10 Feb 13 Almost three quarters of votes cast have been in favour of gay marriage in Northern Ireland, poll finds newsletter.co.uk 10 Feb 13 Tory rebels may scupper gay marriage in the Lords telegraph.co.uk 10 Feb 13 Tom Parker Bowles, the son of the Duchess of Cornwall, dismisses defenders of traditional weddings as a 'rabble' telegraph.co.uk 10 Feb 13 UK Conservative MP says 'being gay is just a phase' thesun.co.uk 10 Feb 13 Aberdeen minister and members quit church over gay appointments bbc.co.uk 10 Feb 13
	*Coronation Street* has been rocked by a homophobia scandal after staff complained that hate-filled comments were made on the ITV1 show's set mirror.co.uk 10 Feb 13
LGBT HISTORY MONTH The Guardian Teacher Network has resources to help you look at the problems, and achievements, of LGBT people guardian.co.uk 10 Feb 13 Promiscuous or Shy? What we can learn from LGBT History Month - February in UK huffingtonpost.co.uk 10 Feb 13 USA Teacher says she lost job over gay club poster cbslocal.com 10 Feb 13
	Ohio mayor resigns after alleged anti-gay slurs against gay police officer Kyle Calendine (left), over visits to the station by his boyfriend Harold Barnhart (centre) dispatch.com 10 Feb 13
WORLD What makes Uganda's anti-gay pastor tick? allafrica.com 10 Feb 13
	Thailand considers civil union Bill - would be first country in Asia ilga.org 10 Feb 13
TRANS Transgender student shoved out of Leeds Student Union female toilets leedsstudent.org 10 Feb 13 Transgender conversion racket: Young victim recounts the horror of forcible conversion in India ilga.org 10 Feb 13
	Pinki Pramanik After months of speculation over Pinki's gender and whether the Indian runner was capable of sexual assault, the athlete has been charged with rape ilga.org 10 Feb 13
GAY PRIDE Thousands of young children partied at the teddy bears' picnic, while just down the road thousands of "bigger kids" celebrated the start of gay pride week with Aukland's Big Gay Out tvnz.co.nz 10 Feb 13 SHOW BIZ
	La Cage aux Folles, Barnsley LS Theatre Production's musical is set to double as a celebration of equality after MPs voted in favour of gay marriage. - Tickets 01226 744442 thestar.co.uk 10 Feb 13

	*Snow White And The Seven Poofs* Easter Special - with more rude flirty fun and frolics. This pop-powered drag panto is suitable for adults only - Green Carnation, Soho - 28 Mar - 7 Apr ticketweb.co.uk 10 Feb 13

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Saturday 9 February 2013

UK Eastleigh by-election: Tories pin hope on anti-gay marriage, anti-Europe local telegraph.co.uk 9 Feb 13 UKIP believes Prime Minister pushed through marriage equality because of influences from Europe gaystarnews.com 9 Feb 13
	Marius Betondi An asylum seeker alleges he was assaulted by private security staff on a plane at Heathrow Airport bbc.co.uk 9 Feb 13
USA Boy Scouts leak changed the debate by creating an impression that change was imminent nytimes.com 9 Feb 13 US Judge refuses gay Vietnamese-American coalition an injunction to take part in local annual Tet Parade mercurynews.com 9 Feb 13 Police Chief is appalled at the treatment of an openly gay officer by the local mayor dispatch.com 9 Feb 13 GAY PARENTS Florida judge rules birth certificate will list all 3 gay parents washingtontimes.com 9 Feb 13
	Jeanne Manford President Obama is to honor founder of PFLAG - Parents, Friends (and Family) of Lesbians and Gays, who died in January at age 92 shewired.com \| pflag.co.uk 9 Feb 13
HIV AIDS Mental stress contrbutes to HIV in gay men, finds Steinhardt University study nyu.edu \| steinhardt.nyu.edu 9 Feb 13 WORLD
	Why Pussy Riot is guilty on so many levels, and so is America ruvr.ru 9 Feb 13 Russia's Pussy Riot appeal to European rights court reuters.com 9 Feb 13

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Friday 8 February 2013

UK
	The Last Outing a new research study is exploring end of life care experiences and concerns of older LGBT people University of Nottingham Take part 8 Feb 13
GAY PARENTS Building Families Show featuring the world's leading IVF & Surrogacy specialists at Hilton, London - Sat 6 Apr buildingfamilies.co.uk 8 Feb 13 Dutch debate the rights of three or more gay parents france24.com 8 Feb 13
	So you think your child is gay? Stonewall's new guide answers parents' common questions. Written in plain English, it dispels the common myths about what being gay means for young people stonewall.org.uk 8 Feb 13
Poll shows 81 per cent of people would be comfortable with having a gay child stonewall.org.uk 8 Feb 13

Paul J Burgess tells the story of his father's incredible transition from a man unable to accept his gay son, to a man fully accepting and embracing of not only his sexuality, but the powerful work of the Pink Triangle Theatre tackling homophobia youtu.be \| pinktriangletheatre.co.uk 8 Feb 13
LGBT HISTORY MONTH 'Gaychester': Remembering Manchester's early 1990s gay scene guardian.co.uk 8 Feb 13 WORLD Plaintiffs in Madonna concert case to pay $2,240 in court fees, as Russian Court dismisses all nine lawsuits themoscownews.com 8 Feb 13 Uganda moves to deport British theatre producer David Cecil - case brought over play about gay employer guardian.co.uk 8 Feb 13 SEX - LIFE David Attenborough accused of ignoring homosexual animals by University of East Anglia academic radiotimes.com Pubic hair grooming injuries on the rise, researchers find today.com 8 Feb 13 USA Obama nominates openly gay lawyer for patent appeals court reuters.com 8 Feb 13 LGBT Group condemns Obama's prayer breakfast with evanelists who 'support killing gay people' christianpost.com 8 Feb 13 *LGBT Health* will be first published LGBT-specific medical journal dot429.com 8 Feb 13 *Freedom To Marry* to give $2 million to marriage equality battleground states in 2013 instinctmagazine.com 8 Feb 13
	Christopher Dorner LAPD ex-cop Christopher Dorner targets lesbian officers in manifesto, wanted for the murder of three people in L.A towleroad.com 8 Feb 13

	Sean Eldridge and Chris Hughes Facebook founder's husband is running for Congress dot429.com 8 Feb 13

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Thursday 7 February 2013

UK CCTV appeal after attack in Old Compton Street that left a man in a coma london24.com 7 Feb 13
	Anthony Stubbs 'bullied to death by girls' - 16-year-old found hanged in woodland after he carefully wrote out a suicide note and put it in his schoolbag thesun.co.uk 7 Feb 13

	Dale Cregan 'lured PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes to their deaths', court hears bbc.co.uk 7 Feb 13

	James Horton Head of police specials resigns after alleged misuse of official Twitter account to tweet gay men birminghammail.co.uk 7 Feb 13
GAY MARRIAGE Leading liberal priests in the Church of England are preparing to stage unofficial gay marriage ceremonies telegraph.co.uk 7 Feb 13
	Who voted No? Who are the MPs who rejected the equal marriage bill? Graphic is broken down by age, whether divorced, and location. telegraph.co.uk 7 Feb 13
GAY SPORTS Sochi Olympics will test gay rights usatoday.com 7 Feb 13 German FA sets up group to help gay players ndtv.com 7 Feb 13 USA Westboro Baptist church key member leaves - 'We've done things that hurt people' says Megan Phelps-Roper guardian.co.uk 7 Feb 13
	Lucien and Pascal Tessier Gay brothers call for end to Boy Scouts ban bbc.co.uk 7 Feb 13
Bad news for the Right: There already are gays in the Boy Scouts lgbtqnation.com 7 Feb 13 Majority support opening Boy Scouts to gays - 55% say ban should end in University poll cnn.com \| quinnipiac.edu 7 Feb 13

	Floyd Corkins Pleads guilty to charges in shooting of security guard at Family Research Council fbi.gov 7 Feb 13

	West Point Cadet escorts his boyfriend to a winter weekend formal huffingtonpost.com USMAKnightsOut 7 Feb 13
GAY BUSINESS The Albert Kennedy Trust seeks a Finance Manager based in Manchester gaytoz Jobs 7 Feb 13 Compare Your Life - New Channel 4 series seeks people who dream of running their own business but need expert help gaytoz Be On A Show 7 Feb 13 Gay Business Association will hold a meeting for LGBT professionals in London's most hi-tech hotel - Thu 21 Feb gba.org.uk 7 Feb 13
	Marc Jacobs unveiled as Diet Coke creative director for 2013 thedrum.com 7 Feb 13
WORLD
	Lawrence Kaala and Jimmy Sserwadda The ailing mother of Jimmy Sserwadda, who married his childhood sweetheart in a groundbreaking wedding in Sweden last week, was verbally attacked after news of her son's gay marriage reached Uganda thelocal.se 7 Feb 13
GAY SUICIDE
	Arpad Miklos popular gay porn star has been found dead in his New York apartment frontiersla.com 7 Feb 13