Sunday 1 March 2015

SEX - LIFE Why should WE pay for gays to have unsafe sex?
	'Imagine how these cancer patients and their families must have felt this week when, following a major trial on a £12-a-day drug which helps prevent people catching HIV, they learned researchers were recommending that healthy gay men should be given it free on the NHS at a cost of almost £5,000 a year per person,' writes Amanda Platgell dailymail.co.uk  1 Mar 15
GAY MARRIAGE Trio of gay men get married in 'world first'
	The adage that two's company, three's a crowd doesn't seem to apply to this trio, who have been married in what is thought to be the world's first three-way gay wedding. Joke, 29, Bell, 21, and Art, 26, tied the knot on Valentine's Day in Uthai Thani Province, Thailand metro.co.uk  1 Mar 15
USA Can Republicans finally accept gay conservatives?
	"There's this feeling among many gay people that gay and conservative is not compatible, just as there are some here at CPAC that feel that gay and conservative is not compatible," say  Log Cabin Republicans newrepublic.com  1 Mar 15
GAY PRIDE Miners and gay activists reunite for strike anniversary
	The revived Neath, Dulais and Swansea Valley Miners' Support Group will get back together with the Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners group. Their activities inspired last year's Bafta award-winning film Pride - Onllwyn Miners' Welfare Hall, 14 Mar  bbc.co.uk  1 Mar 15
Guinness rejoins New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade as sponsor
	Guinness has decided to resume sponsorship of the St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue after dropping out last year, sparking criticism from gay activists who want a broad boycott because of what they call the organizers' discriminatory policies. Company cites inclusion of one gay group as prime factor in decision wsj.com  1 Mar 15
SHOW BIZ EastEnders to introduce first transgender character
	Producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins, the soap's boss, revealed the news in London earlier today at a Student Pride panel event mirror.co.uk  1 Mar 15
Matt Lucas: 'I dress up because I'm insecure'
	'I'm as uncomfortable looking at photographs of myself as anybody is and that's one of the reasons I dress up' metro.co.uk  1 Mar 15

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Friday 23 January 2015

GAY BUSINESS Soho's The Yard bar is fighting development plans
	The Yard bar and restaurant in Rupert Street has been given just a week's notice that Westminster City Council intends to give the plans approval at a committee meeting on Tuesday, 27 January. The Yard needs your support to help stop this development yardbar.co.uk  23 Jan 15 savesoho.com
GAY MARRIAGE MP Mike Freer converts civil partnership to gay marriage
	Finchley and Golders Green MP Mike Freer has converted his civil partnership with Angelo Crolla into marriage. Mr Freer won awards for his moving speech in support of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in parliament in 2013 hamhigh.co.uk  23 Jan 15 Obama hopes high court legalizes gay marriage thehill.com  23 Jan 15
SHOW BIZ Cucumber, Banana and Tofu review
	'Gloriously, triumphantly, explicitly gay and the television event of the week' ... three interconnected shows from Russell T Davies that are dead funny and very, very human theguardian.com  23 Jan 15
O-M-G Love Letters to Richard Dawkins
	Dr. Richard Dawkins - Author, Professor and Evolutionary Biologist - reads "fan mail" he has received from some of his not-so-great admirers, most of whom seem to think he is gay youtube.com  23 Jan 15
GAY RESEARCH US Government spent $432,000 studying gay hookup Apps
	NIH project studied 'arousal' of gay men when using Grindr. Columbia University interviewed gay men who use GPS dating apps to determine whether it increases their likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior freebeacon.com  23 Jan 15
GAY BOOKS To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything
	Patrick Gale's latest book is the portrait of a gay man's journey from the comfortable hypocrisies of pre-War England to the harsh purity of farming in Canada Buy Book  23 Jan 15

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Saturday 17 January 2015

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Isis throw man off roof in Iraq for being gay Harrowing photographs show the shocking final moments before a man was thrown from the roof of a building in Iraq by Isis as 'punishment' for being gay metro.co.uk 17 Jan 15
Being an Atheist as hard for Tories as being gay, says MP
	James Arbuthnot, who has served as a the chair of the defence committee as well as a defence minister and Chief Whip in his time in parliament, told the Commons on Friday that he had kept secret the fact he was not religious for almost thirty years huffingtonpost.co.uk 17 Jan 15
Pope says same-sex marriage threatens family
	"The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage," the pope said during his visit to the Philipines, "...forces which threaten to disfigure God's plan for creation" catholicnews.com  17 Jan 15
GAY MARRIAGE US Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage
	The US Supreme Court will rule this year on whether gay couples have a right to marry across all states. The justices said they would hear a combined case about marriage bans in four states bbc.co.uk  17 Jan 15
Michael Sam proposes to Vito Cammisano in Vatican City
	Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL, has taken another leap of confidence - and likely controversy - by proposing to his longtime love from what is renowned as one of the holiest Catholic sites dailymail.co.uk 17 Jan 15
COMING OUT What it's like to be gay in the Armed Forces
	Just 15 years ago, openly gay people were banned from serving in the military - now the Ministry of Defence is asking recruits to declare their sexuality in a bid to improve diversity. One serviceman shares his experience of being 'out' in the Forces telegraph.co.uk 17 Jan 15
GAY SPORTS Sarah Watts soccer campaigner dies aged 49
	Sarah, together with her friend and colleague, Liz Costa, worked with the Gay Football Supporters' Network in an effort to end the homophobic abuse that Brighton & Hove Albion supporters had been subjected to for many years gfsn.org.uk 17 Jan 15
SHOW BIZ Glee coach is transitioning from a woman to a man
	Dot Marie Jones who plays coach Shannon Beiste revealed that the character is transitioning from a woman to a man. To tell the story, Gleearmed the character with a letter from a psychologist diagnosing her with gender dysphoria. Her transition wasn't about who she wanted to go to bed with but who she wanted to go to bed as hollywoodreporter.com 17 Jan 15

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3-4 January 2015

GAY BUSINESS LGBT-owned businesses supported by California law
	More than one-third of Fortune 500 companies are trying to expand their vendor pools by explicitly encouraging bids from gay, lesbian and transgender contractors triblive.com 4 Jan 15 Get NGLCC Certified
SHOW BIZ How acceptable are gay TV characters worldwide?
	Gay characters are common on modern-day TV programmes in the US, but many of those shows are exported all over the world. So are they producing a backlash where attitudes towards gay people are far from friendly? bbc.co.uk  3 Jan 15 Why is television still ignoring gay lives? independent.co.uk  3 Jan 15 Cucumber follows a gay couple in their mid-40s whose sex life has stalled bbc.co.uk  3 Jan 15
Pride U.S. DVD cover removes gay references
	The film about UK gay and lesbian activists who stand in solidarity with a bitter 1984 coal miners strike, appears to have been "straight-washed," with the packaging scrubbed of LGBT references that are present on the UK packaging hollywoodreporter.com  4 Jan 15
GAY MARRIAGE 13% of all marriages in Paris last year were gay
	Some 1,331 gay marriages took place in the French capital in 2014, making up 13.5 percent of the total number of weddings last year according to figures from city authorities france24.com  4 Jan 15
SEX - LIFE 'It's harder to find love if you are a gay man'
	Graham Norton said his ex-boyfriends often resented the role they had to play in the public eye as his partner, adding that women would do a better job because they are less "alpha" - it would be easier to find a long term partner if he were a straight man independent.co.uk  4 Jan 15
'Weed makes me temporarily gay'
	I feel very attracted to girls and not at all to men when sober, but when I get high I just want ... a man reddit.com  4 Jan 15

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