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10 October 2005Adam Steve- Book Review + Chris Witwer discusses Craig Chester's new novel -
10 October 2005Manchester Parties to Gay Pride + 200,000 people turned out in Manchester to watch the city's annual August bank holiday Gay Pride parade.
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10 October 2005Canadian Woman Granted Divorce from Cheating Gay Husband + A Canadian woman has appealed and won a legal battle which allows her to divorce her husband for having an affair with another man.
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10 October 2005US Supreme Court Slams Anti-Gay Judges + Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is up in arms about judges who he claims are deciding moral issues not addressed in the Constitution, including gay rights, abortion and the death penalty.
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10 October 2005Gay Cruising Row Over EU Summit Policing + Gay Men who use Gosforth Park a popular open space in Newcastle for cruising, have been warned to stay away next week.European Interior Ministers (Home Office Ministers) are due in the area to join the British Home Secretary, Charles Clarke (pictured) in debating issues such as terrorism and asylum.
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10 October 2005California Votes to Legalise Gay Marriages + California's Senate has defied the US President George Bush by voting to legislate for gay marriages.Although many areas in the USA do offer some form of Gay marriage, this is the first time that a State Senate has passed a bill legalising same-sex marriages.
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10 October 2005Gay Fund for Hurricane Katrina Victims + In response to the trail of destruction that Hurricane Katrina blazed throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Rainbow World Fund (RWF) is launching a Hurricane Katrina Relief Campaign.
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10 October 2005Gay Marriage Challenge in Maryland, USA + The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a Maryland circuit court to strike down a state law than bars same-sex couples from marriage and the hundreds of family protections afforded to married couples."The Maryland constitution requires that the state treat all Marylanders equally," said Ken Choe, a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project who argued the case.
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10 October 2005Christian Group Blames Katrina on Gays 2 An organization of Christian fundamentalists has stepped forward with claims the destruction brought on by Hurricane Katrina is God's judgment against New Orleans for holding festivals like the gay Southern Decadence party, which was scheduled for the state's Labour Day weekend and has since been cancelled.
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10 October 2005Poll Shows Americans Support Gays in the Army + A poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 58% of Americans support allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S.
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10 October 2005Isle of Man Plans to Reduce the Gay Age of Consent + The Isle of Man's Council of Ministers has announced that the state will be looking to equalise the age of consent for gay and straight sex.The Isle, which has its own legal system, but is a British Crown dependency, is currently the only place in the British Isles where the age of consent is unequal
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10 October 2005Italian Health Minister Condemns Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood + Italy's health minister has condemned a decision by one of the country's biggest hospitals to stop a gay man from giving blood.
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10 October 2005Former Bartender Admits to Torching of Cardiff Gay Bar + A former bartender at Club X, the Cardiff night club set on fire in July, has admitted to torching the bar, although he says his actions were not motivated by malice.
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10 October 2005Schwarzenegger Rejects Gay Marriage Plans + Just two days after California's Same-Sex Marriage Bill was approved by the upper house of the state's parliament, Arnold Schwarzenegger(pictured), the Governor of California has announced that he will veto the bill.The Governor, was initially expected to have supported the change in the law, however Mr Schwarzenegger has stated that he believes that gay marriage would be unconstitutional.
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10 October 2005An Open Letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger 1 Ross von Metzke reacts to Schwarzenegger's decision to veto gay marriages.
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10 October 2005UK Gay TV Channel Scrapped + Faze, the UK's first general gay programming channel will not launch after all.
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10 October 2005Fox TV Station Refuses Gay Democrats Campaign Ad + A New York affiliate of the Fox network is refusing to run a commercial for a gay Democratic candidate running for Manhattan Borough President.
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10 October 2005HSBC to Drop Gay Quiz on Mortgage Applications + A HSBC branch in Porthmadog, North Wales, says it will no longer ask gay couples to take HIV tests when applying for a mortgage.
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10 October 2005Elijah Wood Doesn’t Mind Being Seen as Gay + The Lord of the Rings star, Elijah Wood yesterday told US chat show host, Conan O'Brien that he thinks the websites that prove that he's gay are very funny."There's one that's called elijahwoodisveryverygay, which is actually a personal favourite of mine, it's absolutely hilarious."
Articles from 2005
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Pope Francis urges French delegates not to follow ‘fashionable’ ideas1
UK: Muslim group seeks mosques for all sexualities7
Bermuda: Anti-discrimination law adopted amid equal marriage controversy1
Gibraltar LGBT activist awarded OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours list1
German Cabinet adopts bill to give gay couples equal tax benefits8
Gay rights opponent Tory MP Edward Leigh knighted in Queen’s Birthday Honours list25
Lord Tebbit: I wouldn’t have been surprised if Jimmy Savile was homosexual51
Mixed martial arts boss to fighter who linked equal marriage to incest: ‘Leave talking to smart people’6
TV presenter Clare Balding awarded OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours list5
Canada: Hockey player apologises after tweeting anti-gay slur about NBA player2
- Lord Tebbit: I wouldn't have been surprised if Jimmy Savile was homosexual51
- Mixed martial arts boss to fighter who linked equal marriage to incest: 'Leave talking to smart people'6
Despite strong intolerance of gays, Pakistan leads in world for gay porn searches40- Gay rights opponent Tory MP Edward Leigh knighted in Queen's Birthday Honours list25
Gay police officer leaves Savile inquiry job in order to take part in Big Brother 13
Northern Ireland elects first openly gay mayor 5
French Olympic swimmers pose as 'imaginary gay couple' for anti-homophobia campaign12
San Francisco: Gay blogger sentenced for taking toilet photo of gay supervisor Scott Wiener 2- TV presenter Clare Balding awarded OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours list5
- Canada: Hockey player apologises after tweeting anti-gay slur about NBA player2
Daily Mail's Andrew Pierce: I'm called a 'homophobe' and 'Uncle Tom' for opposing equal marriage102-
Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages'69
Baroness Knight: The gays are still good at antiques and Section 28 was right61
Tory Lord Mawhinney tables 'traditional marriage' amendment for equal marriage bill61
Lord Dear proposes new amendment to equal marriage bill concerning 'traditional marriage'60
Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill60
French mayor: 'I will go to the gallows' before performing a same-sex wedding53
Labour's Clause 20 sex education amendment fails in the Commons51-
Lord Tebbit: I wouldn't have been surprised if Jimmy Savile was homosexual51
Pope Francis: There is a 'gay lobby' at the heart of the Vatican 'it exists'50
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