27-28 March 2015

UK Stonewall raises record £470,000 at its annual Equality Dinner
	The event took place at the Hilton on Park Lane and was supported by Aviva, with a champagne reception supported by E.ON. Money raised from the event will support Stonewall's work to go deeper into communities and help to improve the lives of LGBT people stonewall  28 Mar 15
Two murderers become the UK's first gay couple to marry in prison
	Mikhail Gallatinov and Marc Goodwin, who fell in love over two years spent at Full Sutton Prison in East Yorkshire, were wed in a small ceremony in the visitor centre independent.co.uk  28 Mar 15
GAY BUSINESS Apple boss Tim Cook 'to donate millions' to charity
	Mr Cook told Fortune Magazine that he would leave his wealth to philanthropic causes but not before paying for his 10-year-old nephew's college education bbc.com  28 Mar 15
GAY EMPLOYMENT Co-pilot suffered "gay" taunts because of his background as cabin crew
	Andreas Lubitz, the 28-year-old co-pilot of crashed Germanwings plane, kept his depression secret from his bosses but had been signed off by two separate doctors mirror.co.uk  28 Mar 15

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Friday
GAY RESEARCH How many people in Ireland are gay?
	When the Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI Family Values poll asked people to describe their sexuality, 4% of respondents described themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual. The real figure may well be higher, given that 10% of people polled chose not to answer the question irishtimes.com  27 Mar 15
GAY BUSINESS Blaze destroys club, hotel in Cherry Grove, Fire Island gay resort
	Two Fire Island landmarks - the Ice Palace bar and the Holly House Hotel - were destroyed and the boardwalk was damaged in the New York resort amny.com  27 Mar 15

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Friday 20 February 2015

UK LGBT Narrative for London
	A survey is to examine the common and specific ongoing needs and challenges faced by LGBT communities, charities and organisations across the 32 London boroughs Take survey  20 Feb 15
HIV prevention spending falls from £55 million to £15 million
	NAT estimates in 2014/15 that £15 million was spent nationally on HIV prevention compared with £55 million allocated in 2001/02. In this time the number of people living with HIV has trebled whilst the amount spent on prevention has decreased to less than a third of the original budget. The lifetime costs of HIV treatment and care for someone with HIV is £361,000 nat.org.uk  20 Feb 15
Suicide in men 'highest since 2001'
	Overall there were 6,233 suicides in men and women over the age of 15 in 2013 - 4% higher than the previous year bbc.co.uk  20 Feb 15
Keeping a gay identity is not transphobic
	There are reasons that a number of lesbians and gay men find the embracing of transsexuals within gay charities troubling, but these are rarely mentioned for the fear of being accused of transphobia theguardian.com  20 Feb 15
GAY BASHING Killers of gay men to marry in first gay prison wedding
	Psychopath Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, will next month tie the knot with gay-bashing killer Marc Goodwin, 31. The pair, who met inside, have been given permission to wed at Full Sutton Prison, East Yorks mirror.co.uk  20 Feb 15
Man 'dragged, beaten and filmed in forced sex act'
	Two men - described by police as Mediterranean in appearance and aged between 20 and 22 with dark hair - took the man to a park near East Ham tube where they beat him with a metal pole before making him perform sex acts on them while they filmed standard.co.uk  20 Feb 15 Glasgow thugs admit vile attack on two men which left one with a fractured skull just because they were gay dailyrecord.co.uk  20 Feb 15
Gay man grieving over lost husband amid hate attacks
	Paul Finlay-Dickson, who has been subjected to a sustained campaign - with 21 incidents recorded over the past 18 months - lost his beloved husband to cancer just four weeks ago belfasttelegraph.co.uk  20 Feb 15
GAY BLOOD DONORS Screen all prospective blood donors based on risk, not sexuality
	GLAAD and GMHC are launching a US tv and social media campaign to tell the FDA to screen all prospective blood donors based on risk, not sexual orientation or gender identity celibacychallenge.com  20 Feb 15
GAY BUSINESS Obama's trade deal rewards a brutally anti-gay dictator  Prominent LGBT members of Congress assailed the Obama administration on Wednesday for including Brunei and Malaysia - two nations deeply hostile to gay communities - in major trade talks huffingtonpost.com  20 Feb 15 WORLD Cape Town Pride march 'racist'
	"The events currently tabled for the upcoming Cape Town Pride are exclusionary and do not represent the black LGBTI community," says the Free Gender campaign group iol.co.za  20 Feb 15 capetownpride.org Pride Calendar 2015
Celebrities defend gay rights in Ghana
	Ghanaian celebrities have taken to social media to condemn the beating of a suspected gay man, opening a rare window for debate on homosexuality in a country where gay sex is illegal bbc.co.uk  20 Feb 15
SHOW BIZ Secret Diaries
	Art With Heart are touring our new play Secret Diaries, an award-winning coming of age tale (inspired by a true story) about Hayley, a young lesbian growing up in the 80s and 90s - around the UK, Feb-Apr artwithheart.org.uk  20 Feb 15

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Thursday 15 January 2015

UK LGBT domestic violence helpline is facing closure
	Broken Rainbow, the service that is a crucial lifeline for thousands of LGBT people experiencing domestic violence and abuse, is coming to the end of its main funding stream in March and has had no clear confirmation from the Home Office whether it will be extended for another year brokenrainbow.org.uk  15 Jan 15
Public figures come out as Tatchell patrons
	Eleven leading public figures from politics, broadcasting, film, music, law and campaigning have become patrons of the human rights organisation, the Peter Tatchell Foundation petertatchellfoundation.org Donate  15 Jan 15
Woman found dead in King William IV pub in Hampstead
	Police were called at 10.05am this morning to the King William IV pub in Hampstead High Street to find a 36-year-old woman who was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the death is being treated as non-suspicious hamhigh.co.uk 15 Jan 15
NHS staff told to stop helping patients get gay conversion therapy The treatment isn't offered on the NHS, but it's understood some staff have occasionally put patients in touch with organisations who provide it. Experts say attempting so-called "gay cures" can be "dangerous" and "damaging" bbc.co.uk 15 Jan 15 COMING OUT  Twins come out to their dad in emotional YouTube video
	Austin and Aaron Rhodes' video shows them sharing the news with their nearly 56,000 subscribers and then calling their Dad to tell him. The confession takes an emotional turn towleroad.com  15 Jan 15
SHOW BIZ Alan Turing biopic  The Imitation Game  gets EIGHT Oscar nominations
	The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, has been nominated for eight Oscars including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. The film has also received nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Film Editing and Production Design manchestereveningnews Alan Turing Gay Page  15 Jan 15
SHOW BIZ Naomi Campbell claims she 'wouldn't exist without gay men'
	Speaking on the red carpet at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) awards last night, the supermodel said: "Hair, make-up, designer, photographer, stylist, manicure, hair-dresser, I mean, I just wouldn't exist" independent.co.uk  15 Jan 15

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Wednesday 31 December 2014

QUEENS NEW YEARS HONOURS Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy made a dame
	The lesbian Scottish poet and playwright Carol Ann Duffy, 59, is being made a dame in the new year list independent.co.uk  31 Dec 14
Jenny Broughton made an MBE
	Jenny Broughton, 80, helped set up Fflag (Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) more than 20 years after her own daughter came out at the age of 17 and she found there was "a great desert of help" for gay people and their relatives. The librarian, who is made an MBE, helped campaign against the draconian Section 28 legislation which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools independent.co.uk  31 Dec 14 Nigel George Warner MBE - ILGA-Europe's Council of Europe adviser Dr Jay Stewart MBE - co-founder of Gendered Intelligence Jenny-Anne Bishop OBE - services to the trans community - Interview
GAY MARRIAGE Glasgow hosts Scotland's first lesbian and gay marriages
Joe Schofield and Malcolm Brown, and Susan Douglas-Scott and Gerrie Douglas-Scott, first couples to marry on Hogmanay theguardian.com 31 Dec 14

TRANS First serving sex-change vicar Carol Stone dies
	The Reverend Carol Stone, formerly Peter Stone, died on Saturday following a battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 60. The vicar of St Philip's Church in Upper Stratton and St Peter's Church in Penhill, Ms Stone underwent a sex change operation in 2000 bbc.co.uk
HIV AIDS HIV transmission on Nevada porn set once again ignites condom debate
	An actor tested positive for the virus after having unprotected sex with other male actors during two separate film shoots. He had tested negative before the shoot but developed symptoms later dailynews.com

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