Saturday 11 October 2014

UK Digby Jones doesn't want people coming to Britain to 'Give Him Aids'
	Lord Digby Jones, the former director general of the CBI and Labour trade minister, has backed Nigel Farage's controversial call for people with HIV to be banned from entering the United Kingdom huffingtonpost.co.uk  11 Oct 14
Civil Service Diversity and Equality Award winners named
	Among the winners was Sharon Drewell, who won the Leading, Championing, and Role Modelling Award. She works in the HM Prison Service on the Isle of Wight and was credited by the award judges for making a "massive difference to the management of transgender prisoners at HMP Isle of Wight and across the prison service" civilserviceworld.com  11 Oct 14
USA Gay Nevada state senator proposes to boyfriend live on TV
	Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson (L) and Sherwood Howard kiss after being married in Las Vegas - 'I always felt I'd stay and I'd stick it out and hopefully Woody would stick it out with me and we'd wait until this was done so that I could do what I thought I wanted to do... and that was to propose to him.' metro.co.uk  11 Oct 14
Congressional candidate Carl DeMaio accused of lewd acts by ex-staffer
	Todd Bosnich says he was subjected to unwelcome touching and repeated sexual harassment while working on the congressional campaign for the former San Diego city councilman nbcsandiego.com  11 Oct 14
WORLD ILGA's 27th World Conference this year in Mexico City
	The International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans & Intersex Association conference theme "Decolonizing Our Bodies" is meant to encourage reflection about the multiple intersections of oppression and highlight means of healing and empowerment - Mexico City, 27-31 Oct ilgaworldconference.org  11 Oct 14
SEX - LIFE Just how 'gay' is anal play, really?
	The kind of sex that gay men are having isn't exclusive to the LGBT community. It's just that few straight people admit having it theguardian.com  11 Oct 14
Gay flamingo couple adopt cute baby chick
	A little flamingo chick has been taken under the wings of a gay couple after it was abandoned by its parents. "Male-male pairs are equally able to rear youngsters," said Edinburgh Zoo mirror.co.uk  11 Oct 14
GAY BUSINESS Financial Times editor: UAE distributors removed gay supplement from circulation
	Lionel Barber reiterated a commitment by the newspaper to stand for all minorities. The FT published the OUTstanding Top 100 Business Leaders list worldwide, but the supplement was removed from the newspaper in the UAE by distributors who feared legal challenge pinknews.co.uk  11 Oct 14
Beleaguered Las Vegas wedding industry pins its hopes on gay marriage
	The Wedding Capital of the World has been hurting badly since the recession, but business owners expect a 'tremendous boost' from same-sex couples looking to get married theguardian.com 11 Oct 14
Philadelphia site hailed as model for LGBT housing
	The John C. Anderson Apartments - a six-story building that opened recently in Philadelphia - caters to low-income LGBT seniors, many of them pioneers of the gay rights movement pressherald.com  11 Oct 14

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Friday 20 June 2014

GAY PRIDE Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins on why the bank is the headline sponsor of Pride in London
	"There is a great spirit to it," he adds. Schedule permitting, there is a chance that Jenkins will be back among the festivalgoers a week on Saturday as Barclays becomes the headline sponsor of the event after a lower-key association for the past two years standard.co.uk 20 Jun 14
SEX - LIFE The metrosexual is dead. Long live the 'spornosexual'
	20 years ago, Mark Simpson coined the term 'metrosexual'. But now a new, more extreme, sex- and body-obsessed version has emerged, he explains telegraph.co.uk 20 Jun 14
Meet the new Mr Gay Europe
	Jack Johansson from Sweden is the new Mr Gay Europe, but the rest of the delegates did not let him win that easy. Stuart Hatton representing the United Kingdom came third mrgayeurope.com 20 Jun 14
WORLD Holland's gay village project revealed as 'serious hoax' to raise homophobia awareness Roze Maandag explained how they were inspired to act by recent surveys showing nearly a quarter of gay men in the Netherlands - regarded as one of the most tolerant countries in the world - did not feel safe in their own neighbourhoods independent.co.uk 20 Jun 14 US imposes sanctions on Uganda for anti-gay law t said Ugandans involved in human rights abuses against gay people would be banned from entering the US. The White House is also cutting funds to a number of programmes it is running with the Ugandan authorities, and cancelling a military exercise bbc.co.uk 20 Jun 14 Obama moves to ensure sick leave for gay couples The Obama administration will work to ensure that gay and lesbian Americans are eligible to take leave from their jobs to care for a same-sex spouse, regardless of whether they live in a state that recognizes gay marriage, the White House said Friday washingtonpost.com 20 Jun 14 GAY MARRIAGE NOM's anti-gay March for Marriage was pathetic Usual suspects like Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee showed up for National Organisation for Marriage event to spout the usual rhetoric: people need the religious freedom to discriminate against whomever they arbitrarily choose, and gay people are bullies for fighting back gawker.com 20 Jun 14 Use of gay kiss photo by conservative group ends in settlement
	New Jersey couple Tom Privitere and Brian Edwards, and photographer Kristina Hill, had a "plausible copyright infringement claim," but Court dismissed their allegation that the couple's likenesses had been illegally misappropriated for use on anti-gay marriage campaign mailers washingtonpost.com 20 Jun 14
SHOW BIZ Drag King Richard III opens in London
	play explores the complexity of switching gender as Laurie (the main character) embarks on the journey of transitioning from female to male - Riverside Studios, Hammersmith - 28 Jul - 3 Aug riversidestudios.co.uk 20 Jun 14

21-22 October 2013

GAY BUSINESS The 50 most powerful gays in the boardroom revealed The idea is to encourage companies to further embrace diversity gaystarnews.com 22 Oct 13 GAY HISTORY
	Unspeakable LGBT History and Archives Conference will focus on the histories of Trans, Lesbian and Bisexual people; experiences which have often gone unheard - Sat 7 Dec Booking | More info 22 Oct 13
SHOW BIZ
	Jim Parsons and Todd Spiewak "The strange stuff is the Hollywood stuff we have to walk through, not the gay stuff we have to walk through" saysBig Bang Theory star with his boyfriend of 10 years usmagazine.com 22 Oct 13
	Russell Brand was addicted to heroin when he filmed gay sex in toilet, star reveals mirror.co.uk 22 Oct 13
	The Maw Broon Monologues Hilarious and heartbreaking show, part of Glasgay! LGBT arts festival - Tron Theatre Glasgow, 30 Oct-9 Nov tron.co.uk 22 Oct 13

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Monday 21 October 2013
GAY PRIDE Montenegro police clash with extremists at gay pride march Police in Podgorica fire teargas to repel anti-gay extremists who threw stones and firebombs in attempt to disrupt march theguardian.com 21 Oct 13 SHOW BIZ
	Morrissey reveals he is 'humasexual' after revealing gay romance in memoirs. "Unfortunately, I am not homosexual. I am attracted to humans" mirror.co.uk 21 Oct 13 Buy Book

Wednesday 30 May 2012

GAY BUSINESS
	Lord Browne urges business to end 'intolerance to homosexuality' at the launch of Connect Out network telegraph.co.uk | bbc.co.uk 30 May 12
Gay Business Association welcomes Lord Browne's call for an end to discrmination in business gba.org.uk 30 May 12
GAY MARRIAGE Archbishop of Westminster warn same sex marriages could sever the "bonds" which hold society together telegraph.co.uk 30 May 12 UK Body of man killed in suspected homophobic attack was discovered by a burglar two days later, Court hears u.tv 30 May 12 Worcester Police investigating second suspected homophobic assault worcesternews.co.uk 30 May 12 GAY SPORTS
	Bingham Cup Ben Cohen, Gareth Thomas talk gay rugby as Bingham Cup heads to Manchester - 1-3 Jun towleroad.com 30 May 12
USA Scout's AGM to get 275,000-name petition in support of lesbian troop leader dispatch.com 30 May 12 Tony Perkins of Family Research Council to dine at the home of a married gay couple ksat.com 30 May 12
	Dharun Ravi openly apologized for the first time on Tuesday for using a webcam to spy on Tyler Clementi google.com 30 May 12
GAY TRAVEL Why Zimbabwe's President Mugabe was named UN 'tourism envoy' csmonitor.com 30 May 12 SHOW BIZ Teletubbies were not gay, says Laa-Laa telegraph.co.uk 30 May 12 Chris Brown has hinted he will sue R 'N' B singer Raz B for suggesting he is gay femalefirst.co.uk 30 May 12 Mi Ultimo Round Chilean movie wins Best Film at Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival indiablooms.com 30 May 12
	Antonio Garullo and Mario Ottocento the first ever married gay couple unveil 'dead' Berlusconi artwork (with his hand down his trousers) dailymail.co.uk 30 May 12
SEX - LIFE
	Anders Breivik Mass killer said he was "metrosexual" and dreamed of looking like David Beckham mirror.co.uk 30 May 12
Friends suspected Norway killer was gay AP google.com 30 May 12

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Sunday 6 May 2012

GAY MARRIAGE
David Cameron 'not backing down' on equal marriage pinknews.co.uk 6 May 12 Equal marriage will not be in Queen's Speech, blogs Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone pinknews.co.uk 6 May 12 Cameron 'prepared to back down on support for gay marriage law to appease MPs over Tories' pasting at the polls' dailymail.co.uk 6 May 12
Joe Biden endorses marriage equality thinkprogress.org 6 May 12 UK 'Gay' man's deportation from UK to Cameroon halted bbc.co.uk 6 May 12 SHOW BIZ SHOUT! arts project for 16-24 year-olds. Ovalhouse, London. Workshops - start June 2012 sheine.alexander@ovalhouse.com 6 May 12 The Darlings, London's Lesbian Community Theatre Troupe, storytelling workshops - start Thu 7 Jun eventbrite.com 6 May 12 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival launches with Lilies or the Revival of a Romatic Drama - 7-20 May gaytheatre.ie 6 May 12 gaytoz theatre guide GAY BUSINESS International Expo & Business LGBT, Cancun Mexico - speakers announced - 6-9 Sep mexicoexpolgbt.com 6 May 12 Company offers to donate 500 T-shirts to Lexington Pride after a local company refused the order chicagotribune.com 6 May 12 USA Obama campaign kick-off: DADT return would be 'betrayal of our values' thenewcivilrightsmovement 6 May 12 One-time anti-gay American political candidate"obessed" with donating sperm to lesbians gaynz.com 6 May 12 WORLD
	'Gay times are over' Billboard sparks outrage in New Zealand. Kate Kennedy held a silent protest over the use of the word 'gay' stuff.co.nz 6 May 12
GAY HISTORY
	Oliver Cromwell the metrosexual how the Lord Protector became the skin protector telegraph.co.uk 6 May 12
Keith Haring's Google Doodle Google paid tribute Friday to the late Pop artist of the '80s, celebrating what would have been his 54th birthday with a home-page Doodle featuring Haring's iconically kinetic characters. He died of AIDS-related complications in 1990, at age 31 - videos of Haring's work washingtonpost.com 6 May 12

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