Friday 13 February 2015

UK Dover Health Centre displays 'offensive' sign turning away gay men
	An NHS trust has apologised after Jayce Carberry, 24, from Ramsgate, was made aware of the issue by a friend who was waiting to be seen in Dover Health Centre. The clinic had a sign stating that patients who had been sexually assaulted, who are male and have sex with men, or sex workers could not be tested there kentonline.co.uk  13 Feb 15
Steve Strange of Visage dies aged 55: The custodian of New Romantic pop
	He ran the most sought-after clubs in London - Billy's, Blitz and the Camden Palace, booking the likes of Spandau Ballet and Culture Club at the start of their careers. What set the clientele apart was Steve Strange's rigorous door policy. Outrage guaranteed entry bbc.co.uk  13 Feb 15
Michael Mason: Journalist and activist dies aged 67
	Michael helped make the paper Capital Gay a fun read, but with a serious side in the era of Aids Mason's finest hour was being asked, in 1979, to lead the Pride parade in San Francisco on the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots independent.co.uk  13 Feb 15
Weatherman Fred Talbot guilty of abusing teenage boys
	Ex-TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been found guilty of indecently assaulting two teenage boys when he was a teacher. The 65-year-old was cleared of eight other indecent assault charges bbc.co.uk  13 Feb 15
Former Irish equality minister comes out
	Pat Carey says speaking out as gay man may help others of his generation. "The part of the country I came from the word gay wasn't even heard of," the ex-Minister says irishtimes.com  13 Feb 15
GAY MARRIAGE Alabama official ordered to issue marriage licenses to gay couples
	U.S. District Judge Callie Granade's order clarified that Mobile County Probate Court Judge Don Davis was compelled to adhere to her previous ruling striking down the state's gay marriage ban despite a contravening order from Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore that led many state judges to refrain from issuing licenses to gay couples reuters.com  13 Feb 15 Fudge packers are in shock says Klu Klux Klan splcenter.org  13 Feb 15
WORLD North Korea calls Michael Kirby 'disgusting old lecher'
	North Korea state media has launched an anti-gay attack on former High Court judge Michael Kirby, who is now the current chairperson of a UN agency that published a report criticising human rights in the isolated communist nation starobserver.com.au  13 Feb 15
O-M-G Pope Francis scolds childless families as selfish
	After saying in a press conference several weeks ago that Catholics should not breed "like rabbits," Francis scolded childless families this week as selfish bustle.com  13 Feb 15

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Tuesday 3 February 2015

UK Tributes paid to pioneering gay journalist Michael Mason
	Michael Mason, who died at the weekend, was news editor at Gay News from 1972 until the early 1980s. During his time he covered many seismic events, including the political demise of former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe. Michael Mason founded Capital Gay in 1981, which ran for a total of 14 years pinknews.co.uk
Labour vow homophobic bullying crackdown after true scale of playground abuse revealed
	Labour has vowed to make every school free from homophobic bullying after shocking stats revealed 70,000 pupils suffer from abuse. Tristram Hunt MP, Shadow Education Secretary, has called for a 'zero tolerance' attitude to homophobic bullying mirror.co.uk  2 Feb 15 Bullied at school for being gay: 'It was a living hell' newsbeat  2 Feb 15
Family discover explicit gay porn at Jimmy's restaurant in Greenwich
	A mum-of-three was left feeling sick after her young children viewed an explicit gay sex scene on a restaurant booking screen. Archie and Alfie viewed the explicit content on the way back from the toilet newsshopper.co.uk  2 Feb 15
UKIP candidate stands down after backing BNP post calling homosexuality a 'perverted corruption'
	Donald Grewar, has resigned from UKIP following an investigation into the allegations made against him by a fellow party member southwalesargus.co.uk  2 Feb 15
O-M-G Man survives being thrown from 7-storey building by Isis for being gay then stoned to death
	According to reports from the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, members of Isis threw the man seven storeys, but despite surviving the fall, he was then stoned to death metro.co.uk  2 Feb 15

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25-26 January 2015

COMING OUT British Army general on verge of coming out
	A married British Army general is on the verge of coming out as gay - an announcement which would send shockwaves through the Armed Forces. He has kept his homosexuality secret since joining 25 years ago mirror.co.uk 26 Jan 15
ALAN TURING Alan Turing private notebook to be sold at auction
	A notebook belonging to the gay man who helped break the Nazi code, Alan Turing, is to be sold at auction. The book from 1942 showcases his mathematical genius, and gives an insight into his private thoughts bbc.co.uk  26 Jan 15
SEX - LIFE Alan Titchmarsh, a gay lecturer and a row over teenage sex
	The television gardener has attacked Professor Eric Anderson, 46, who boasted in a lecture that gay sex is best, that he targets 16 to 18-year-olds, that he had already had sex with more than 1,000 teenagers and men, and that he planned to double the total even if he had to pay young prostitutes dailymail.co.uk  26 Jan 15
"If you love she-males come to the United Kingdom"
	Nigel Farage's top UKIP aide Matthew Richardson condemned the NHS as "the biggest waste of money in the UK," and said "Socialists think that if somebody wants to reassign their gender the state should pay" mirror.co.uk  26 Jan 15
HIV AIDS Bill Gates predicts HIV vaccine by 2030
	Microsoft founder told the World Economic Forum in Davos that new intensive drugs to combat HIV should be available by 2030 and end most new cases of the virus theguardian.com  26 Jan 15
GAY BUSINESS Irish Schools and hospitals to lose right to sack gay staff
	Religious-run schools and hospitals will be stripped of the ability to sack staff for being gay, divorced, or unmarried parents by Easter, Equality Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin says irishexaminer.com  26 Jan 15
China's first ever sexual-orientation discrimination lawsuit
	Mu Yi, said he was "outed involuntarily" because of a viral video, and is now suing his employers for firing him because he is gay shanghaiist.com  26 Jan 15
Illinois tourism appoints gay chief
	Cory Jobe has been picked to be the state's new director of tourism - "I'm the kind of guy who wants to bring people together" windycitymediagroup  26 Jan 15
Gay mecca on Fire Island sells for $10.1 Million at auction
	A strip of commercial real estate along the harbor in Fire Island Pines sold for $10.1 million at auction on Thursday to developers with plans to continue the revival of a former mecca for closeted gay men nytimes.com  26 Jan 15
Vietnam breaks up $47m gambling ring led by gay magazine owner
	Police have detained To Cong Hung, 33, the owner of Attitude's Vietnam edition in Ho Chi Minh City tuoitrenews.vn  26 Jan 15
GAY ADVERTISING You Don't Say campaign explains why we are uncomfortable with certain words Student athletes at Duke University are taking part in a powerful promotional campaign to challenge homophobia, transphobia, and other prejudice facebook.com  26 Jan 15
RUSSIA Russian LGBT activist fined for disseminating 'Gay Propaganda'
	Yelena Klimova, the founder of the DETI-404 online support group for LGBT teenagers, has been fined 50,000 rubles ($780) for violating Russia's controversial law against the "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors." Russia's media watchdog, Roskomnadzor,opened a case against Klimova last November themoscowtimes.com DETI-404  26 Jan 15

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Sunday
GAY BUSINESS Stephen Fry: Save Soho from threat of property boom
	In an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne and Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles, actor Mr Fry and other leading names from the creative industries lament the dearth of "office and studio space" at the expense of housing - and an "imminent crisis for London's creative businesses" standard.co.uk  25 Jan 15
Lawyer arrested after boyfriend dies of suspected drugs overdose
	Henry Hendron, a 34-year-old civil barrister, was arrested in London on Tuesday morning, after the sudden death of his boyfriend, 18-year-old Miguel Jimenez. Mr Hendron is a close friend of gay senior Tory MP Nigel Evans pinknews.co.uk  25 Jan 15
HIV AIDS Ukip's official health spokesperson disagrees with Farage over HIV
	Mr Farage said that he wanted to control "the quality" of people allowed to live in the UK - and suggested "people who do not have HIV" as an example. Louise Bours disagrees, saying: "HIV is rather a bad example though, to be honest. HIV is managed now, isn't it." independent.co.uk  25 Jan 15

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Wednesday 21 January 2015

TRANS 'Transgender' said for first time in State of the Union address
	"That's why we defend free speech, and advocate for political prisoners, and condemn the persecution of women, or religious minorities, or people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender," President Obama said. "We do these things not only because they're right, but because they make us safer." He went on to call gay marriage a civil right thehill.com 21 Jan 15
UK Manchester 'gay school': Petition launched against plan
	LGBT Youth North West is being asked to cancel any plans to create a LGBT specific school and focus work on equality for all within mainstream education manchestereveningnews Sign petition 21 Jan 15
Head hits back after Sunderland free school branded 'inadequate'
	Principal Chris Gray complained: "In the days after the inspection ... I heard reports of primary schoolchildren being asked if they knew of any boys or girls who thought they were in the wrong body and others if they knew what gay and lesbians did" sunderlandecho.com  21 Jan 15
NI Health Minister backs Edwin Poots' gay blood ban
	Jim Wells says he continues to support a ban on gay men donating blood here despite the prohibition being lifted elsewhere in the UK and an ongoing legal appeal that has cost his department £39,000 so far belfasttelegraph.co.uk  21 Jan 15
GAY HISTORY The first National Festival of LGBT History is just around the corner
	Trailblazing campaigners speaking at the event include Christine Burns MBE (Press For Change), Peter Tatchell (Gay Liberation Front), Mike Jackson (featured in the year's smash hit "Pride"), Stuart Milk (chair of the Harvey Milk foundation) and veteran ex-politician Linda Bellos OBE - 14-15 Feb 2015  lgbthistoryfestival.org  21 Jan 15 LGBT History Month
SNP to host LGBT History Month conference
	650 delegates from across Scotland will attend the event, which will mark LGBT History Month with a debate on how LGBT rights have improved in Scotland over the years - Sat 7 Feb facebook.com 21 Jan 15 Register free
Supreme Court faced gay rights decision in 1958 over 'obscene' magazine The road to gay rights at the U.S. Supreme Court began in a small downtown Los Angeles office, where volunteer writers and editors in 1953 launched ONE - a new "magazine for homosexuals" latimes.com  21 Jan 15 How the Germans invented gay rights - more than a century ago
	Robert Beachy's Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity begins with the story of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, essentially the first gay activist, who encountered censorship and ended up going into exile, but his ideas very gradually took hold newyorker.com  21 Jan 15 Buy Book
GAY MARRIAGE Irish gay adoption law due before same-sex marriage referendum
	Irish minister for justice Frances Fitzgerald has pledged that legislation providing for adoption by gay couples will be enacted before the referendum on same-sex marriage in May irishtimes.com  21 Jan 15
Christian group's free speech denied over gay marriage conference ban, UK Government signals
	Christian Concern, which campaigned against the legalisation of same-sex marriage, has received a public apology after it was barred from staging a debate on marriage at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre opposite the Houses of Parliament telegraph.co.uk  21 Jan 15
FYR Macedonia bans same-sex marriage and creates constitutional obstacle future civil unions
	"Instead of guaranteeing equal rights for all couples, Macedonia's parliament decided to create a constitutional obstacle to even create possible legislation on this issue in the future," warned the Intergroup on LGBTI Rights lgbt-ep.eu 21 Jan 15
SHOW BIZ Pride wins Unsung Film of the Year and the LGBTQ Film of the Year
	Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics also named Boyhood their Film of the Year, while Transparent and The Normal Heart win TV awards galeca.com  21 Jan 15
Sixteen years after Queer As Folk exploded on to the screen ...
	... award-winning writer Russell T Davies is back with Cucumber, Banana and Tofu: three new interlinked shows for Channel 4, E4 and online. Cucumber and Banana are two original drama series exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life - C4, Thu 22 Jan 9pm channel4.com  21 Jan 15 Channel 4's diversity quotas read like a comedy script independent.co.uk  21 Jan 15

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