Tuesday 11 March 2014

UK Former Deputy Speaker twice tried to put his hands down trousers of Tory worker at crowded party Nigel Evans made the double attempt in a crowded bar at the 2003 Tory party conference in Blackpool in front of a reporter, jury heard standard.co.uk 11 Mar 14 Anger over Cambridgeshire County Council's rainbow flag 'snub'  Council has been accused of snubbing gay residents by not flying the rainbow flag outside its headquarters during LGBT History Month cambridge-news.co.uk 11 Mar 14 GAY SPORTS
	Sol Campbell talks to Evan Davies Former England international said the gay rumours started simply because he did not bring girlfriends along to matches bbc.co.uk 11 Mar 14
Puma wanted me to be a gay footballer Sol Campbell has revealed sports clothing giant Puma were tempted to sign the former England international on the incorrect assumption about his sexuality pinknews.co.uk 11 Mar 14
UGANDA Ugandan activists challenge anti-gay law in Court The activists - under a group called Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law - filed the petition Tuesday in the presence of some prominent Ugandan gay activists abcnews.go.com 11 Mar 14 Former Vice President criticises Uganda's Govt on anti-homosexuality act Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe - now the UN's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa - said it "only serves to fuel stigma and discrimination against the LGBT community and undermines the significant progress of the national AIDS response" allafrica.com 11 Mar 14 GAY SWITCHBOARD
	The telephone number that helped make gay okay Forty years of counselling callers from all over the world has given London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard a frontline view of changing attitudes to homosexuality. Its volunteers tell Nick Duerden why they'll carry on listening independent.co.uk 11 Mar 14
GAY MARRIAGE 61% of young Republicans favor same-sex marriage Today, 61% of Republicans under 30 favour same-sex marriage while just 35% oppose it. By contrast, just 27% of Republicans ages 50 and older favour allowing gays and lesbians to marry pewresearch.org 11 Mar 14 GAY BUSINESS Meet the world's LGBT billionaires In this year's Forbes Billionaires list just seven, or 0.4%, of the globe's 1,645 billionaires openly identify as LGBT forbes.com 11 Mar 14
	Richard Branson on why diversity is an advantage One country I have watched with increasing concern is Russia ... backward changes are not only morally wrong, but will ultimately hurt even those who put them in place entrepreneur.com 11 Mar 14
TRANS The quickly shifting language of the transgender community He, she, ze, and how to navigate a new landscape. When Facebook announced in mid-February that users would be able to display 56 gender options beyond "male" and "female" in their profiles, the response was largely positive. But there was also head-scratching bostonglobe.com 11 Mar 14

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