Thursday 21 August 2014

GAY MARRIAGE Number of same-sex weddings revealed for the first time
	Just over 1,400 same-sex marriages took place in the first three months of the new law, official figures have revealed. Of these, 56% were female couples and 44% were male bbc.co.uk 21 Aug 14
Luxembourg Prime Minister engaged to be married
	Xavier Bettel with his partner Gauthier Destenay could be among the first to benefit from new gay marriage laws after he announced he and his long-term partner will tie the knot wort.lu 21 Aug 14
House of Fraser celebrates gay marriage in menswear promo
	Part of the department store's "Style My Dilemma" series, the Style My Mr & Mr video on YouTube features a male model dressed in various House of Fraser styles of clothin campaignlive.co.uk 21 Aug 14
GAY PARENTS Prime Minister backs same-sex adoption David Cameron said that "gay couples with so much love to give" should not see "prejudice stand in the way of progress" christian.org.uk 21 Aug 14 The fraught world of UK surrogacy
	In the UK you cannot pay for a woman to have your baby, regulation is loose and arrangements depend entirely on trust. Demand for surrogates far outstrips supply bbc.co.uk 21 Aug 14
SEX EDUCATION Young people are being let down by sex education in UK schools The current provision of relationship and sex education in schools isn't adequate for many young people newstatesman.com 21 Aug 14 Sex education book featuring bondage shelved after outcry from US parents
	Your Health Today has been removed from classrooms in Fremont, with anatomical drawings and passages on 'erotic touch' slammed as 'borderline pornography' at school board meeting theguardian.com 21 Aug 14
GAY SPORTS The 'sexist, racist, homophobic' texts which cost Malky Mackay the Crystal Palace manager job
	An official at an unnamed club was referred to as 'a gay snake' and 'the homo' ... a French player was also referred to as someone 'who struck me as an independently minded young homo' metro.co.uk 21 Aug 14
USA Parents beat 8-year-old to death because he played with dolls
	Fernandez and Aguirre Hernandez called Gabriel gay, punished him when he played with dolls and forced him to wear girls' clothes to school, his siblings said latimes.com 21 Aug 14
UGANDA Uganda President signs HIV Criminalization Bill into law
	Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill that criminalizes the transmission of HIV, as well as "attempted transmission" and allows courts to release the HIV status of people being prosecuted under the law frontiersla.com 21 Aug 14
GAY PRIDE gaytoz Pride Calendar 2014 18-24 August 2014 Galway Pride - Ireland 21-24 August 2014 North West of Ireland Pride - Sligo 22-25 August 2014 Manchester Pride Saturday 23 August 2014 Wallsall Pride Saturday 23 August 2014 Cornwall Gay Pride - Truro Saturday 23 August 2014 Foyle Pride - Derry / Londonderry, Northern Ireland Saturday 23 August 2014 English Riviera Pride - Torquay Galway celebrates longest running gay pride festival in Ireland
	Galway Community Pride Festival, which, in its 25th year, is the longest continuously running pride festival in the country, started in 1989 by Nuala Ward, and includes a march through Galway city centre - Sat 23 Aug advertiser.ie 21 Aug 14 Galway Pride
SHOW BIZ Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton received years abuse from gay community for 'camp' character Sean Tully
	Antony Cotton told a conference at Manchester Pride's fringe festival: "I get a lot of stick from people who say, and these are people who are 21 years old, 'You've put the gay cause back 21 years,'" he said independent.co.uk 21 Aug 14

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Monday 19 May 2014

UGANDA Anti-gay abuse surges in Uganda after Bill passage
	The terms of the law are so vague that basically any Ugandan can be arrested for almost anything that they do without knowing that they're violating the law voanews.com 19 May 14
GAY BUSINESS How many gay CEOs should there be in the US anyway?
	Assuming that there was no discrimination ... what number of gay chief executive officers would reflect the number of gay adults in the population? - some 8-28 are "missing" forbes.com 19 May 14
GAY MAFIA Why does Newt Gingrich think gay people need to be more tolerant?
	The Republican politician thinks that people like him are being repressed by the gay community theguardian.com 19 May 14
COMING OUT Gay teens are coming out to a different world It seemed like just another teen dance in North Jersey - One notable difference: All of the teens at this event at the Cresskill Congregational Church of Christ identify themselves as LGBT newsday.com "Do I sound gay?"
	"One of my biggest fears growing up was sounding gay." David Thorpe's documentary Do I Sound Gay? will feature over 160 interviews out queer celebrities like George Takei, David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, Margaret Cho and Dan Savage samesame.com.au 19 May 14

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Wednesday 16 April 2014

UK Paul Flowers faces drugs charges
	Paul Flowers, the former Co-op Bank chairman, has been charged with drug possession, prosecutors have said - he told waiting journalists they were "vultures" as he arrived at the police station bbc.co.uk 16 Apr 14
Coroner questions police over the time it took to find tragic gay rights campaigner
	The well-known Northern Ireland gay rights campaigner, Terry McCartney, had overdosed on a combination of prescription drugs and alcohol. He had also been assaulted just hours before he died in a suspected homophobic attack belfasttelegraph.co.uk 16 Apr 14
Alan Carr says: Be a little fairy for animals!
	Ahead of the new series of Chatty Man, the talk-show host felt that it was time to have a serious heart-to-heart talk about animal overpopulation in the UK in a new ad for PETA peta.org.uk 16 Apr 14
O-M-G Edinburgh churches quit Kirk over gay ordination Two Edinburgh churches are quitting the Church of Scotland just weeks before the General Assembly over the issue of gay ordination scotsman.com 16 Apr 14 GAY SPORTS Tens of thousands call for IOC to ban countries with "anti-gay" laws hosting Games More than 110,000 people have delivered a message to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it should not award Summer or Winter Games to countries with "anti-gay or discriminatory laws" insidethegames.biz 16 Apr 14 USA Gay Nightlife Is Dead - Long Live Gay Nightlife Some say the gay party scene is dying out, but others say it's just evolving to meet the needs of its audience advocate.com 16 Apr 14 White House scrambled after Joe Biden's gay marriage comments
	Vice President Joe Biden really did get ahead of President Barack Obama on accepting gay marriage in 2012 - and the White House really wasn't happy about it, despite their many attempts to claim otherwise. That's the story laid out in Jo Becker's new book Forcing the Spring politico.com 16 Apr 14 Buy Book
Ellen DeGeneres tops Out's 2014 Gay Power List
	Last year's list-topper, Apple CEO Tim Cook, came in second this year. Ellen Page makes her debut on the Power List at 29 after coming out in February Rachel Maddow, Frank Ocean, Neil Patrick Harris, Anderson Cooper, and Jane Lynch are also featured out.com 16 Apr 14

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Friday 16 August 2013

UK Ban lifted for NHS staff with HIV Healthcare staff in England, Wales and Scotland having HIV treatment will be able to take part in all tasks, including surgery and dentistry bbc.co.uk 16 Aug 13 Ignore the luddites gay marriage is putting life back into the Tory Party telegraph.co.uk 16 Aug 13 Gay campaigner in final of Homo Hero awards Bury-born Simon Clark, aged 33, credits setting up organisation Rainbow House Project with saving his life burytimes.co.uk 16 Aug 13 GAY PRIDE Gay and black 'pride' are meaningless badges  that hold minority children back, says academic dailymail.co.uk 16 Aug 13 'Time to bring gay pride festival to Croydon' CGP could be coming to Croydon after a mysterious social media campaign revealed its true meaning thisiscroydontoday.co.uk 16 Aug 13 O-M-G Free Church calls for 'conscience' clause in gay marriage laws Scottish clergymen should be given greater legal protection by the inclusion of a "conscientious objector" clause in the legislation telegraph.co.uk 16 Aug 13
	My gay and lesbian friends would say that I let them down says former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams theguardian.com 16 Aug 13
GAY SPORTS Another €10k needed for Limerick's Gay Games bid asking 100 organisations, clubs, businesses or individuals to donate €100 for 2018 event limerickleader.ie 16 Aug 13
	WWE superstar Darren Young comes out Look at me. I'm a WWE superstar and to be honest with you, I'll tell you right now, I'm gay. And I'm happy tmz.com 16 Aug 13
	Orlando Cruz and José Manuel First openly gay male boxer proposes to boyfriend on Facebook usatoday.com 16 Aug 13
RUSSIA Russian pole-vaulter says anti-gay remarks were 'misunderstood' Yelena Isinbayeva insists she is against discrimination. "We consider ourselves, like normal, standard people, we just live boys with women, girls with boys. It comes from the history" bbc.co.uk 16 Aug 13 Russia's gay propaganda law fuels homophobic attacks Activists are less concerned by the substance of the legislation ... than about the message of state-condoned homophobia they believe it sends ft.com 16 Aug 13 USA Gay military couples welcome Pentagon decision to extend benefits Extension of marriage benefits to gay military spouses underscores the sweeping cultural change in America theguardian.com 16 Aug 13 SEX - LIFE Why insects have gay sex a new review of homosexual insect encounters suggests the acts may not be that straightforward livescience.com 16 Aug 13 SHOW BIZ
	'I hung around hairdressers to find gays' Alan Carr gets chatty about teenage years standard.co.uk 16 Aug 13

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Monday 15 October 2012

UK National HIV helpline to remain open, despite loss of funding. THT supports service weekdays 10am-8pm myhiv.org.uk Freephone 0808 802 1221 15 Oct 12
	Steven George former Broadmoor Hospital patient, who after a sex change operation is now a man, says Jimmy Savile sexually abused him bbc.co.uk 15 Oct 12
	Olamiekan Ayelokun Bradford asylum seeker is deported, despite a campaign by supporters who fear for his life in his home country Nigeria thetelegraphandargus.co.uk 15 Oct 12
GAY SPORTS
	New educational resource pack 'Homophobia - Let's tackle it' is published by Show Racism the Red Card, features comedian Rhona Cameron and England rugby star Ben Cohen theredcard.org | Buy pack 15 Oct 12
USA University Students vote to get rid of Chick-fil-A restaurant because its' president is against gay marriage reflector.com 15 Oct 12 WORLD
	Witch Hunt Against Gays "Not one person in Russia has been held accountable for homophobic crimes, and the people who attack gay parties know that very well" themoscowtimes.com 15 Oct 12
SHOW BIZ
	The Wilding Australian filmmaker takes the 2012 Iris Prize in Cardiff irisprize.org 15 Oct 12
	Rylan Clark X Factor star says: I got a lot of stick growing up gay, fat, pasty and ginger - I'm a tanorexic nowmagazine.co.uk 15 Oct 12 Gary Barlow fumes as Rylan stays dailystar.co.uk 15 Oct 12
	Richard Arnold has based his entire Strictly outfit on the worst parts of the late 1990s mirror.co.uk 15 Oct 12
	True Blood Camp pulses through the veins for the return of the vampire series' fifth season metro.co.uk 15 Oct 12
	Sir Elton John plans star-studded 50th birthday bash for partner David Furnish lasvegassun.com 15 Oct 12

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