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Fred Phelps dies at 84
mediaite.com 20 Mar 14Anti-gay funeral protestor and founder of the much-loathed Westboro Baptist Church, died Thursday at the age of 84 | |
ALAN TURING | |
Alan Turing Institute to be set up
bbc.co.uk 20 Mar 14to research big data, the chancellor has announced in his Budget speech. The government will provide £45m over five years for the project to focus on new ways of collecting, organising and analysing large sets of data | |
GAY MARRIAGE | |
Gay Rights: Tying the knot?
BBC iPlayer 20 Mar 14Reverend Richard Coles Radio 4 documentary looks at how gay marriage became the defining issue of recent years - and asks whether it represents the last crusade of the campaign for gay rights - "10% of lesbian and gay people are completely opposed to equal marriage" says Ben Summerskill | |
GAY RESEARCH University of Birmingham seeks participants for Civil Partnership study How same-sex marriage can help to challenge society and the law's ideas about gender roles in relationships, and how the issue of gender is dealt with in the context of solicitor-client meetings. People who have sought legal advice relating to same-sex relationship breakdown, please contact Charlotte Bendall: clb212@bham.ac.uk 20 Mar 14 Penis size does matter - in the locker room at least new insight into cockocracy in sport ... suggests that cock size does matter in sport, irrespective of sexuality, sporting discipline and age - gay athletes suggest that there was an attempt to perform in a heteronormative manner to de-emphasize queer behaviour outsports.com 20 Mar 14 GAY BUSINESS Catholic League President calls for beer boycott over LGBT rights Bill Donohue said Heineken, Guinness and Sam Adams were opposing free speech by pulling sponsorship from the St. Patrick's Day parades in New York and Boston. Both parades barred open LGBT participation time.com 20 Mar 14 SHOW BIZ | |
Stephen Fry named best presenter
radiotimes.com 20 Mar 14by Royal Television Society Awards for his series Stephen Fry: Out There which examined how other countries treat gay communities | |
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