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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Saturday 31 January 2015

ALAN TURING Benedict Cumberbatch calls for overturn of 'intolerable' gay convictions
	Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor, is leading a campaign to convince the government to overturn historic 'indecency' convictions handed to 49,000 gay men. The star of The Imitation Game, will ask for ordinary men to be offered the same official pardon as Alan Turing, who was prosecuted for gross indecency in 1952 telegraph.co.uk  31 Jan 15 Benedict Cumberbatch and Stephen Fry are among signatories of an open letter asking the government to pardon 49,000 men who were prosecuted for being gay - an estimated 15,000 of them are still alive bbc.co.uk  31 Jan 15 Alan Turing Gay Page
GAY BUSINESS Dead tycoon's former partner fights over £6m gay village estate
	Helen Roocroft is fighting for a bigger share of her ex's estate claiming Carol Ann Ainscow misled her about her wealth when they 'divorced'. Miss Ainscow was instrumental in transforming Manchester's Canal Street into a thriving gay village telegraph.co.uk  31 Jan 15
Premium rate scam: Grindr users hit with fun-killing charges
	The iOS version has recently started dialling (without any user choice, input or confirmation) a premium rate number - 0913 666 0010 - which carries a hefty connection charge and per minute rate, and even if you cancel it quickly you still get hit with the connection charge theregister.co.uk 31 Jan 15
Coca-Cola and Michael Sam #MakeItHappy for the Big Game US athlete Michael Sam has experienced firsthand how the Internet has grown increasingly negative. In this Super Bowlcommercial for Coke he channels this negativity into positivity: "One nasty email she pretty much told me that we don't belong - that we're evil. She is really the only hate message that I replied to. And what I said was, 'I am sorry that you feel that way, but even though you hate me so much I still love you, and I wish you have a great day.' She never replied back."  youtu.be  31 Jan 15
Virginia scraps bill to allow businesses to discriminate
	A House panel has effectively killed legislation that would allow anyone holding a state license, including business owners, lawyers and doctors, to deny services to gay people without facing disciplinary action ... but have not added LGBT discrimination as an unlawful housing practice richmond.com  31 Jan 15
SEX - LIFE 24 questions about gay Polyamorous relationships you wanted to ask ...
	... but were too polite to!   A conversation last year with Jason, John, Mark and Sid - the first polyamorous 'unit' I met which consisted of a primary couple, in which each partner had a secondary boyfriend huffingtonpost.com  31 Jan 15
TRANS Bruce Jenner 'IS transitioning into a woman, family sources confirm'
	Olympic gold medalist runner and Kardiashian reality star Jenner is definitely undergoing the transition to change sex, and will open up about his journey in a docu-series which is due to air when he is ready mirror.co.uk  31 Jan 15

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Wednesday 19 March 2014

UK Christian B&B takes gay 'discrimination' case to European court Sue and Jeff Green, two Welsh Christians accused of discriminating against gay couples at their guesthouse, are taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights southwales-eveningpost.co.uk 19 Mar 14 Walsall man killed wife "because he was gay" Banker Jasvir Ginday brutally killed his new wife and burned her body in a garden incinerator because he was gay and "could not live a lie", a jury has been told walsalladvertiser.co.uk 19 Mar 14
	Peter Tatchell becomes Patron of Muslim campaign Tell Mama does vital work monitoring, reporting and countering anti-Muslim prejudice, discrimination and hate crime petertatchellfoundation.org 19Mar 14
GAY SPORTS
200 current Premier League stars undertake Kick It Out consultation
	- 39% of the soccer players have witnessed, and 3% subjected to, homophobic abuse in football stadiums - 7% of players have been subjected to, and 26% have witnessed, homophobic abuse on the training ground or in the dressing room kickitout.org 19 Mar 14
GAY PARENTS Surrogate mothers no automatic right to maternity leave Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that women who become mothers via surrogacy do not have an automatic right to maternity leave under EU law lgbt-ep.eu 19 Mar 14 UGANDA US to send experts to Uganda on anti-gay law Secretary of State John Kerry told US students he had talked with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni recently and he "committed to meet with some of our experts so that we could engage him a dialogue as to why what he did could not be based on any kind of science or fact" rappler.com 19 Mar 14
The West criminalise polygamy, in Africa it is part of our way of life
	"Yet ... when we legislate homosexuality we are threatened with sanctions. This is contempt," said Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni newera.com.na 19 Mar 14
OLDER LGBT
	The growth of gay retirement homes The BBC visited Spirit on Lake, a housing development in Minneapolis that caters to the elderly LGBT community bbc.co.uk 19 Mar 14

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Wednesday 14 August 2013

UK How the biased BBC linked my free-market views to homophobia Researcher says he was asked to debate against gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell dailymail.co.uk 14 Aug 13
	ASDA greeting card is absolutely outrageous! transgender writer Tamlyn Ailsa MacPherson tells ASDA supermarket that the word 'Tranny' is a highly offensive term tamlynmac.tumblr.com 14 Aug 13
HIV AIDS Home test for HIV given go-ahead New UK law will let users know if they have virus with simple saliva swab dailymail.co.uk | tht.org.uk 14 Aug 13
	Lighthouse West London 'will be sold' Terrence Higgins Trust plans to put community building in Ladbroke Grove on the market, due to 'financial pressures' londoninformer.co.uk 14 Aug 13
RUSSIA London's King's Head Theatre to premiere Sochi 2014 a theatrical response to Russia's anti-gay legislation playbill.com 14 Aug 13 FIFA seeks clarification on Russia's anti-gay 'propaganda' law and asked what gay fans and players could expect in Qatar, FIFA President could not offer "a definite answer" at this stage lgbtqnation.com 14 Aug 13 GAY TRAVEL Gay welcoming staff important to UK tourism research reveals Gay couples want to know they'll feel comfortable at all stages of their stay, not just at check-in breakingtravelnews.com 14 Aug 13 GAY PRIDE Brighton Pride raises £43,000 for the Rainbow Fund to distribute to LGBT/HIV organisations, smashing their fundraising target brighton-pride.org 14 Aug 13 WORLD Hypocrisy for US to champion gay rights while criminalising polygamy which is part of Africa's culture and tradition allafrica.com 14 Aug 13 ALAN TURING
	Julia Turing writes of her anger at the decision of producers of the upcoming Alan Turing biopic to change aspects of the gay scientist's life and to reportedly include fictitious scenes in the movie script pinknews.co.uk 14 Aug 13
SHOW BIZ
	The Pride This wise, searching play explores changing attitudes to sexuality, fidelity and identity - Trafalgar Studios, London until 9 Nov thepridewestend.com 14 Aug 13
	US films dominate 2013 Iris Prize line-up Films selected from 14 countries for the world's largest gay and lesbian short film prize - Cardiff 9-13 Oct irisprize.org 14 Aug 13

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