Gay News Headlines: Friday 23 March 2012

UK
	Caroline French Blackpool drama teacher convicted of grooming teenage female pupil for sex dailymail.co.uk 23 Mar 12
GAY PRIDE London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival kicks off tonight - 23 Mar-1 Apr bfi.org.uk 23 Mar 12 Gay Pride Calendar 2012
	Pride in Brighton and Hove are looking for a theme for this year's event, with a competition being run in local paper The Argus theargus.co.uk
FACEBOOK Stonewall relaunches Facebook pages - Timeline celebrates lgb history in Britain since 1989 facebook.com 23 Mar 12 Gay News Headlines now available on Facebook facebook.com 23 Mar 12 End Facebook's restrictive gender labels. Nepal MP asks Mark Zuckerberg for the option to list gender as "other" care2.com 23 Mar 12
	Facebook censorship Why did Facebook remove this photo of two gay men kissing? Spanish art project's picture by Juan Hidalgo deleted dailymail.co.uk 23 Mar 12
COMING OUT
TESTIMONY Musician Stephen Schwartz has set the heartfelt words from the It Gets Better videos to music, weaving them into a breathtaking, emotional new masterpiece that speaks to anyone who has ever felt out of place. youtu.be \| itgetsbetterproject 23 Mar 12
SHOW BIZ Both of UK's major national theatre companies are now run by out gay men thestage.co.uk 23 Mar 12 Whitney Houston took cocaine before drowning independent.co.uk 23 Mar 12 **Facebook, Glee, Smash, Betty White** to appear at 23rd GLAAD Media Awards - Sat 24 Mar glaad.org 23 Mar 12 Marcus Collins: Gok Wan tried to pull me - but I politely declined nowmagazine.co.uk 23 Mar 12 Simon Cowell left fuming after David Walliams jokes about his sexuality during TV interview dailymail.co.uk 23 Mar 12 Sharon Stone and Colombian actress Sofia Vergara to heat up the big screen as bisexual lovers in new comedy imdb.com 23 Mar 12 GAY SUICIDE
Rutgers' Ravi: 'I wasn't the one who caused him to jump' Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, convicted last week of a hate crime for spying on his gay roommate's date, regrets his "dumb kid" actions, but told ABC News that he takes "comfort" in the belief that his webcam peeking is not the reason Tyler Clementi jumped to his death. abcnews.go.com 23 Mar 12
Ravi media tour carries risks at sentencing, experts say northjersey.com 23 Mar 12
O-M-G Secular Humanists are imposing their faith on everybody, says anti-gay actor Kirk Cameron rightwingwatch.org 23 Mar 12 GAY MARRIAGE Gay Sikhs invite Lord Singh to attend WorldPride after his marriage 'attack' comment sarbat.net \| sikhism_and_gay_relationships 23 Mar 12 Catholic Archbishop 'invites 80 MPs' for equal marriage talks pinknews.co.uk 23 Mar 12
	"Thank You" card You can sign a card to thank Starbucks for standing up for gay rights sumofus.org 23 Mar 12
WORLD
Ban Ki-moon - The Remix goes viral U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's speech The Time Has Come, asking countries around the world to decriminalize same sex relationships, led to a handful of delegates storming out. NowAllOut.org have remixed the speech for a wider audience. youtu.be \| allout.org 23 Mar 12