5-8 April 2015 |

SHOW BIZ Our Gay Wedding: The Musical nominated for BAFTA
	Bafta TV awards 2015 include the Channel 4 musical about same-sex weddings; The Graham Norton Show; and Grayson Perry: Who Are You? theguardian.com  8 Apr 15 2015 nominations
Barry Manilow secretly married his longtime male lover
	The Copacabana crooner said "I do" to Garry Kief, his manager and the president of Barry Manilow Productions, an insider said. The intimate ceremony was attended by 50 guests who were led to believe they were invited to lunch at the couple's multi-million dollar Palm Springs mansion! nationalenquirer.com  8 Apr 15
GAY BUSINESS Sexual orientation discrimination in the UK labour market
	A study by Anglia Ruskin University shows the probability of gay or lesbian applicants receiving an invitation for a job iinterview was 5.1% lower than that for heterosexuals, and salaries offered were 1.9 % lower sagepub.com  8 Apr 15
What does it mean to be a role model?
	BP's Tamoor Ali, a senior commercial analyst, has been named Stonewall Role Model of the Year for his work in promoting LGBT equality in the workplace bp.com  8 Apr 15
Obama's Executive Order prohibiting LGBT discrimination goes into effect
	The order prohibits discrimination on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity by all federal contractors across the USA. The order is an important mile marker on the path toward LGBT workplace equality hrc.org  8 Apr 15

Tuesday
TRANS Police probe murder of trans woman found dead in Fulham flat
	Police are appealing for witnesses after 33-year-old Vanessa Santillan was murdered in a west London flat. Crimestoppers 0800 555 111  standard.co.uk  7 Apr 15
Transgender Kids: Louis Theroux: surprises with stories of his own
	A huge question is whether the parents begin the process of medical intervention when their child may be still experimenting with their identity. Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids, on BBC2 bbc.co.uk  7 Apr 15

Monday
SEX EDUCATION All schools should include a positive portrayal of same sex relationships in sex education lessons, says union
	Delegates at the National Union of Teachers' annual conference in Harrogate backed the idea that sex education should be a compulsory part of the curriculum independent.co.uk  6 Apr 15
GAY RESEARCH Is 10% of the population really gay?
	Drawing on the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report, David Spiegelhalter, in his book Sex By Numbers, answers key questions about our private lives. Here he reveals how Kinsey's contested claim that 10% of us are gay is actually close to the mark theguardian.com  6 Apr 15 Buy Book

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Wednesday 24 December 2014

USA Gay US blood donor ban 'should end' - FDA
	Gay and bisexual men should no longer be banned from donating blood in the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended. New guidelines will be drafted in early 2015 bbc.co.uk  24 Dec 14
CANADA Luka Magnotta guilty of first-degree murder
	The former porn actor was convicted for his murder and filmed dismemberment of Chinese student Jun Lin. He was found guilty of first-degree murder and won't be eligible for parole for 25 years torontosun.com  24 Dec 14 Jun Lin's family still haunted by horrific death cbc.ca  24 Dec 14
TRANS Angelina Jolie's daughter 'wants to be called John'
	Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh dresses as a boy and wants to be known as John. But do signs like these mean a child is a tomboy, or could it be the start of gender identity issues? Radhika Sanghani asks the experts telegraph.co.uk  24 Dec 14

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7-8 December 2014

UK 'Save Our Soho' After Madame JoJo's closure, campaigners take part in 'funeral' to protest against the 'sanitisation' of Soho. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch and TV presenter Stephen Fry have signed an open letter to Mayor of London Boris Johnson urging him to intervene westendextra.com  7 Dec 14 Top gay police officer arrested for 'supplying Class A drugs'
	Chief Inspector Paul Cahill, 43, was allegedly found slumped over the wheel of his car. He made his mark as a liaison officer with Soho's vibrant gay community, and was awarded an MBE for services to diversity in the 2003 New Year Honours dailymail.co.uk  8 Dec 14
Camden bar Proud cancels homophobic Christmas Booking with superb reply
	Alex Proud, owner of the Camden club that bears his name said: "We are gay. Our food is gay, our loos are gay. If you don't like it you are not welcome" huffingtonpost.co.uk  8 Dec 14
WORLD Shrien Dewani murder case thrown out by South African judge
	Judge Jeanette Traverso said the evidence presented by the prosecution fell "far below the threshold" of what a reasonable court could convict on bbc.co.uk  8 Dec 14
GAY PRIDE Nikolai Alexeyev compensated $55 after Russian city bans gay pride parade
	The decision marks the first time in a decade that the founder of the Moscow Gay Pride movement has been compensated for moral damages in regards to his LGBT rights activism themoscowtimes.com  8 Dec 14
O-M-G Catholic Church must help parents stand by their gay children
	But Pope Francis said homosexual marriage "did not cross our minds" belfasttelegraph.co.uk  8 Dec 14
SHOW BIZ Pride wins best film at British Independent Film Awards
	The film, about an alliance between gay rights campaigners and pit workers during the 1984 miners strike, collected three awards in total bbc.co.uk  8 Dec 14

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Wednesday 12 November 2014

UK Government committee recommends HPV vaccinations for MSM aged 16-40 years
	Terrence Higgins Trust said: "We welcome this recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, who have clearly recognised the current approach to vaccination leaves groups including gay and bisexual men out in the cold and at increased risk of infection gov.uk  12 Nov 14
Transgender teen tells CBBC 'I am Leo'
	'I just want people to finally see me the way I see myself,' pleads irresistibly honest Leo, the transgender 13-year-old whose story opens the new run of CBBC's award-winning My Life strand - 6pm, Mon 17 Nov  bbc.co.uk  12 Nov 14
Shout Festival heads to Birmingham
	Shout Festival, a celebration of gay arts with theatre, comedy and performances comes to various venues across Birmingham - 12-16 Nov birminghammail.co.uk  12 Nov 14

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Thursday 30 October 2014

GAY BUSINESS Apple chief executive Tim Cook  says 'I'm proud to be gay' Mr Cook wrote in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek that he had never denied his sexuality and "plenty of colleagues" were aware of it, but he accepted that he had never "publicly acknowledged it either". "So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he wrote ft.com Tim Cook speaks up businessweek.com 30 Oct 14
UK Gay Ukip MEP David Coburn says gay marriage supporters are  'Equality Nazis'
	"What you're doing with the gay marriage issue is you're rubbing people's noses in the dirt. Everyone had agreed and been quite happy with the idea of civil partnership, it was all bedded in and people were happy with it, they got used to the idea," he said huffingtonpost.co.uk30 Oct 14
GAY PARENTS Foster son nominates gay dads for UK award
	Dads Mark Moorhouse and Nick Dennison were recognised for the love, guidance and support they give their son Luke Massey at the FosterTalk Foster Carer awards where they took the New Foster Carers accolade thetelegraphandargus  30 Oct 14
USA Couple who killed 'gay' child takes plea deal
	Pearl Fernandez and her former boyfriend Isauro Aguirre will be sentenced to life in prison without parole for pleading guilty to first-degree murder and torture with special circumstances in the death of Fernandez's 8 year old son, Gabriel Fernandez edgeboston.com  30 Oct 14
GAY HISTORY Gay activist David Mixner: I mercy killed 8 people
	David Mixner, the leading gay activist and former adviser to Bill Clinton, reveals why he mercy-killed eight people with AIDS, including the love of his life - and talks about sex, love, activism, and almost dying himself thedailybeast.com  30 Oct 14

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