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GAY PRIDE Student Pride 2015 programme announced | |
 | Journalist Owen Jones and actor Bethany Black will be speaking at student pride 2015 in London, in a programme that includes a jobs fair, arts pride, queer cinema, a carnival and parties - 27 Feb - 1 Mar studentpride.co.uk 28 Jan 15 |
Bristol Pride 2015 will be greenest event yet | |
 | 'Green Rainbow' is the theme for Bristol 2015 and are organisers are encouraging people to create placards and recycled outfits for the parade - 4-12 Jul pridebristol.co.uk 28 Jan 15 |
HIV AIDS 64 local authorities aim to 'halve it' for HIV infections | |
 | Southwark Council in London is the latest local authority to join the 'Halve It' campaign to reduce by 50% the number of residents diagnosed late with HIV and those living with undiagnosed HIV halveit.org.uk 28 Jan 15 Download Paper |
STICKS AND STONES School cancels LGBT workshop last-minute because 'the other side had to be heard' | |
 | Founder of ShoutOut Eoin O'Liathain said volunteers had already arrived at the Dublin school when he received the call. "It was a bit flabbergasting, because there is no political message or component to ShoutOut whatsoever." independent.ie 28 Jan 15 |
Green party candidate apologises for offending transgender people | |
 | The philosopher Dr Rupert Read sparked a heated debate after posting that the use of the word "cisgender" as the opposite of "transgender" troubled him independent.co.uk 28 Jan 15 |
Under-fire Newport Ukip candidate faces calls to stand down | |
 | Donald Grewar is being investigated by the party for replying "Well said" in response to a message on the BNP website referring to gay people as "perverts" and "paedophiles" southwalesargus.co.uk 28 Jan 15 |
GAY RESEARCH LGBT support for same-sex marriage isn't as uniform as one might think | |
 | Among US Republican LGBT adults, support for gay marriage is not as strong as it is among Democrat LGBT adults, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey (78% c/w 98%). And a substantial share say the issue has taken too much attention from other important issues pewresearch.org 28 Jan 15 |
AFRICA Nigeria arrests 12 planning 'homosexual' wedding | |
 | "These men were arrested as they planned to hold a wedding among themselves," said Sheikh Aminu Daurawa, head of Kano State's Hisbah board police. "They are homosexuals; their acts are against the (sharia) law" dailysabah.com 28 Jan 15 |
Uganda: 9 gay men threatened by mob, arrested by police | |
 | Without knowing it, the men had put their lives in jeopardy by visiting an STI screening clinic, which attracted the attention of a homophobic mob 76crimes.com 28 Jan 15 |
ALAN TURING Sicilian street named after gay codebreaker Alan Turing | |
 | Catania's place names committee has decided to name seven streets after two police commissioners killed by the Mafia, a theatre founder, a writer, and Alan Turing 'the discoverer of the codes of the Enigma machine' cataniaoggi.com 28 Jan 15 |
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