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10 October 2005Pressure Mounts for Schwarzenegger to Sign Gay Marriage Bill + Gay rights groups in California are putting the pressure on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign the same-sex marriage bill passed earlier this month by the Legislature, which he has publicly vowed to veto.On Tuesday, Equality California, the group backing the bill sponsored by Assemblyman Mark Leno, organized events across the state where children of same-sex partners delivered 40,000 signed postcards to the governor's various offices in red wagons. -
10 October 2005‘Gay’ Pet Shop Celebrates 40th Birthday + When 'Gay Lyfe', a pet shop in Levenshulme was opened in 1965, the word gay had a different meaning for its founder and owner, George Ormond.
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10 October 2005Former Cabinet Minister May Have Gay Marriage + Chris Smith (pictured), the former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has revealed that he and his partner Dorian Jabri are seriously thinking of taking part in a civil partnership ceremony."I'm very pleased to see the civil partnership legislation on the statute book.
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10 October 2005Gay Quote Removed from Starbucks Cups in Texas + A Starbucks at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has pulled coffee cups featuring an author's quote about growing up gay.
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10 October 2005US Authorities Shut Down Mental Hospital That Claims to Turn Gays Straight + Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is gratified to learn that the Tennessee Department of Mental Health has ordered the closing of a facility purporting to turn gays straight, which was illegally providing live-in care and medical treatment.
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10 October 2005Transexual Sentenced After Slashing Her Boyfriend’s Ex Lover’s Throat + A transsexual has been sentenced to four and half years in prison after she slashed the throat of her boyfriend's ex lover.
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10 October 2005Gay Bishop Says Church May Split + Gene Robinson (pictured), the first openly gay bishop in the Anglican Church has predicted that the communion may be split by the issue of homosexuality."This is at least as much about power and control as it is about theology and Scripture," New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson said.
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10 October 2005Christian School Expels Girl for Having Lesbian Parents + A 14-year-old girl was expelled from an Ontario Christian school last week because her parents are lesbians, the school's superintendent said in a letter.
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10 October 2005Petagon Admits Sending Openly Gay Service Members to War + An official military spokesperson has acknowledged that the Pentagon is sending openly gay service members into combat in Iraq, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military.
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10 October 2005Man Accused of Cutting the Brakes of Wife’s Gay Lover’s Car + A man was accused of cutting the brake pipe of the car that was driven by his wife's lesbian lover, Swansea Crown Court was told yesterday.
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10 October 2005Reggae Star Gay Attack Trial Will Test Jamaica’s Gay Rights Stance + Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton will stand trial for assault on a group of gay men.
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10 October 2005GAY Bar Controversy: The Editor Responds + The editor responds to the complaint of Jeremy Joseph, the promoter of G-A-Y in regards to the report of two women being turned away from his bar.
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10 October 2005US Court Makes Landmark Decision Over Gay Parental Rights + The Supereme Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed a lower court ruling awarding custody of twins to Patricia Jones, a lesbian mother, ruling that Jones would provide a better home than her ex-partner, Ellen Boring (the children's biological parent).
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10 October 2005Fraud Suspect Wanted For Targeting Gay Men in Ohio + Columbus Police are warning members of Ohio's gay community to beware of a fugitive on the run who is believed to be targeting gay men.
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10 October 2005Michigan To Offer Gay Partner Benefits + A Michigan judge ruled this week that public universities and governments can provide health insurance to the partners of gay employees without violating the state constitution.The ruling sets aside a legal opinion issued this year by Republican Attorney General Mike Cox saying that the city of Kalamazoo could not provide benefits to gay partners.
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10 October 2005Tory Leadership Contender Promises Gay Agenda + In launching his bid yesterday to become leader of the Conservative Party, and leader of the Opposition, David Davis explicitly mentioned uniting the various communities in Britain to form one nation.Mr Davis famously stood up for gay rights when he intervened in the torturing of a gay pupil by a gang of bullies at his tough inner London school.
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10 October 2005Schwarzenegger Rejects California Same-Sex Marriage Bill + As was expected, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed California's same-sex marriage bill late Thursday afternoon.
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10 October 2005Teacher “Tried To Out 11 Year Olds as Gay” + A Florida elementary school teacher has resigned amid allegations he attempted to force two male sixth grade students (equivalent to the UK's Year 7) to hold hands in front of classmates and announce to the room they were gay.
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10 October 2005Russian Railway Found Guilty of Discrimination for Sexual Orientation + A St.
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10 October 2005Gay and Lesbian Home Buying Hits All Time High + According to a new study by European based legal insurer Zurich Professional, gays and lesbians are buying more homes in recent years ever before.
Articles from October 2005
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Lynne Featherstone: I support opposite-sex civil partnerships but the amendment may be a ‘cynical trap’11
Poll: 73% of MPs support civil partnerships amendment to equal marriage bill10
China: IDAHOT activists detained in two cities3
Archbishop of Canterbury endorses Church’s opposition to opposite-sex civil partnerships20
London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault84
Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans faces third claim of sexual assault+
Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion131
Georgia: LGBT and anti-’gay propaganda’ activists face off in mob aftermath+
Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or ‘change leadership’25
US: Boy Scouts vote on gay members set for 23 May+
- London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault84
- Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion131
EastEnders' actor David Witts: People think I'm gay because I'm nicer than the character I play9
Daniel Radcliffe: When filming Kill Your Darlings, I was given 'step-by-step' gay sex scene instructions21- Lynne Featherstone: I support opposite-sex civil partnerships but the amendment may be a 'cynical trap'11
Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2
50 Cent says men who don't sleep with women 'should just kill themselves'123
Birmingham: LGBT sports centre to be opened by naked charity calendar stars Warwick Rowers11- Archbishop of Canterbury endorses Church's opposition to opposite-sex civil partnerships20
- Poll: 73% of MPs support civil partnerships amendment to equal marriage bill10
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Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion131
Tory MP Nadine Dorries: 'The gay marriage bill is taking the sex out of marriage'89-
London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault84
Government to consider abolishing civil partnerships or opening up to straight couples68
Philip Hammond: 'No great demand for gay marriage and it's upsetting vast numbers of people'68
Bret Easton Ellis slams GLAAD and says gay basketball player Jason Collins treated like a 'baby panda'65
US Radio host: Gay news websites are covered with porn that is turning teens gay62
Lib Dem MP Sarah Teather tells Catholic newspaper 'I never went into politics to tackle equal marriage'59
Tory MP David Burrowes: 'I'm not anti-gay; I'm just pro-marriage'57-
Tory MP David Burrowes: I only want a referendum on same-sex marriage so I can defeat the government's bill54
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