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10 October 2005Pakistan’s Alleged Gay Marriage + Two men have supposedly got married in the socially conservative Muslim country of Pakistan. -
10 October 2005Connecticut Gets Gay Marriages + In the state of Connecticut this week, a law allowing civil unions for same-sex couples took effect.The law is unique; it allows civil unions for same-sex couples with full benefits of a regular marriage, while at the same time defining marriage as between a man and a woman.Heterosexual couples are not allowed to receive civil unions.
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10 October 2005Hamas say gays are perverts will be punished if they win elections 17 Hamas, the militant and political group in the Palestinian Territories have said that they win the Palestinian Authority Parliamentary election, they would ban men and women dancing together and will strip gay men and women of the few rights they have in the territory that they have at present.Dr Mahmoud Zahar (pictured), the groups leader in Gaza, in an article on an Arabic website condemned the rights that gays have in Israel and made it clear that he thinks that gays are perverts.
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10 October 2005Gay Catholic Priests to be allowed if they’re celibate 4 Gay men will allowed to be Roman Catholic priests as long as they can prove that they have been celibate for a minimum of three years.The Vatican report which was revealed in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera was commissioned by the Pope, Benedict XIV (pictured), says that the church will ban gays who "publicly manifest their homosexuality or show an overwhelming attraction" to homosexual culture even if it is only intellectually".
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10 October 200511 year olds selling gay sex as rent boys 5 A Leicester politician has revealed that there are male prostitutes or rent boys as young as 11 selling sex to men in the city's parks.Councillor Mark Farmer, spokesman on crime and disorder issues told his local newspaper, the Leicester Mercury that he has received reports of up to six children, aged between 11 and 13, working in the trade.
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10 October 2005Boy George back in UK but faces prison in the USA over cocaine charge 4 Boy George (pictured), the 44-year-old former Culture Club front man returned to Britain today after appearing in court in New York where he was charged with possessing cocaine.The star is accused of possessing 5g of cocaine that police say were found in 134 small packets in his flat in the Little Italy district of the city.
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10 October 2005Sinead O’Connor slams church for gay priest witch hunt 4 Irish singer Sinead O'Connor (pictured) has slammed what she calls the Catholic Church's "witch hunt" against gay priests, warning church leaders that they are "blasphemous" for criticizing gay people.The controversial singer said she believes senior figures in the Catholic Church are now "preaching against love" in the campaign against lesbian and gay people.
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10 October 2005London’s first gay freshers fair 37 London's first gay freshers fair will be taking place at indie bar, Trash Palace on Sunday 23rd October.
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10 October 2005South African hospital denies surrogacy to gay couple on religious grounds 4 A gay couple looking forward to having their own baby after 16 years together have had their dreams dashed after the Catholic Church refused to approve test tube babies for gay couples.
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10 October 2005Bromley u-turn on gay wedding ceremonies 4 The executive committee of Bromley Council has reversed their previous decisions on allowing civil partnership ceremonies to take place in their buildings. -
10 October 2005Gay banker to sue HSBC for £5m after dismissal 1 A gay investment banker at HSBC has begun a £5m court case over his dismissal, which he claims was motivated by his sexuality.43-year-old Peter Lewis is openly gay and was sacked by the banking giant for "gross personal misconduct".
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10 October 2005Poll questions US Army’s approach to gays 1 Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) has questioned the results of a new poll exploring the impact of the military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' ban on the decision of potential recruits to enlist.Similar polls conducted in Canada and Britain prior to the repeal of gay bans in those nations predicted dire consequences if gays were allowed to serve openly, yet those predictions never materialized after the fact, the group said this week.
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10 October 2005Anti-Gay comment halts employment tribunal 1 Marc Cranfield-Adams (pictured), a former Richmond counsellor has complained to the chairman of the regional employment tribunal board after a tribunal member made what he deemed to be an anti-gay comment.Mr Cranfield-Adams brought his case to an employment tribunal after he became depressed and suffered a nervous breakdown allegedly caused by harassment by staff at the Specialist Schools Trust.
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18 October 2005Two men wanted for anti-gay London murder + The Metropolitan Police are hunting to men who beat a man to death in a homophobically influenced attack on Clapham Common in south London. -
18 October 2005Doctor Who spin off for Bisexual/ Gay Character + An adult version of the popular Doctor Who series has been commissioned by the BBC to explore Doctor Who's bisexual sidekick Captain Jack Harkness played by John Barrowman (pictured).
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18 October 2005US City Mayor visited gay sex sites during official business hours 27 City investigations have revealed that Spokane mayor James E.
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18 October 2005Ex-wife to be “best woman” at husband’s gay wedding 4 A Belgian woman offered up her services as "best woman" when her ex-husband married her hairdresser in a gay wedding.
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20 October 2005New leads on the Clapham gay murder case + The Metropolitan police have announced that they believe that the men who murdered gay bar manager, Jody Dobrowski (pictured), 24, on Clapham Common verbally abused a woman fifteen minutes earlier in a nearby street.Mr Dobrowski was found unconscious in the early hours of Saturday but died later in hospital.
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20 October 2005Liam Fox says his impending marriage should prove he isn’t gay 56 Liam Fox (pictured) the rightwing contender for the Conservative Party leadership has spoken for the first time about rumours of his gay past.In an interview for the London Evening Standard he claimed that his impending marriage to Jesme Baird should mean an end to any gossip about his private life. -
20 October 2005It’s got to be Cameron for the Conservatives to get the gay vote 27 So the young pretender David Cameron has jumped from virtual non-entity to the winner of the Parliamentary stage of the Conservative leadership contest.The party membership need to make sure that they pick a winner this time and not repeat the debacle of the Duncan-Smith era.
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Lynne Featherstone: I support opposite-sex civil partnerships but the amendment may be a ‘cynical trap’7
Poll: 73% of MPs support civil partnerships amendment to equal marriage bill7
China: IDAHOT activists detained in two cities2
Archbishop of Canterbury endorses Church’s opposition to opposite-sex civil partnerships18
London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault67
Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans faces third claim of sexual assault+
Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion123
Georgia: LGBT and anti-’gay propaganda’ activists face off in mob aftermath+
Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or ‘change leadership’24
US: Boy Scouts vote on gay members set for 23 May+
- London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault67
- Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion123
Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2- Finland's pro-equality 'Marry Me' places 24th in Eurovision final25
- Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or 'change leadership'24
Daniel Radcliffe: When filming Kill Your Darlings, I was given 'step-by-step' gay sex scene instructions21
Birmingham: LGBT sports centre to be opened by naked charity calendar stars Warwick Rowers11- Turkey urged to broadcast Eurovision following TV station cancellation over lesbian kiss14
- Georgia: LGBT and anti-'gay propaganda' activists face off in mob aftermath0
New York: Police say man shot in Greenwich Village was victim of homophobic hate crime1
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Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion123
Tory MP Nadine Dorries: 'The gay marriage bill is taking the sex out of marriage'89
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-
London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault67
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
Christians called to pray at Parliament in opposition to equal marriage bill56
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