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3 March 2006Study reveals high HIV risk from outdoor sex + People who have unprotected anal sex outdoors are at high risk of HIV reinfections, research shows.According toa Scottish Study, those who have been tested HIV are still at risk of infection, the paper "describes sexual risk behaviours and HIV testing amongst men who cruise an urban public sex environment (PSE) in southern England." -
4 March 2006Sydney Gay Pride celebrates Brokeback Mountain and Dick Cheney + Gay cowboys aping the stars of Brokeback Mountain together with Kate Moss lookalikes snorting fake cocaine and a float celebrating Dick Cheney have taken to the streets of Sydney to celebrate the city's gay pride festival.The celebrations of gay rights begun as a civil rights march in 1978 and in the 1980s attracted crowds of over half a million. -
5 March 2006Archbishop: Church faces rupture over gay clergy + The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Anglican communion faces a "rupture" following divisions over homosexuality.Dr Rowan Williams told the BBC that he fears a split that could take years to heal."If there is a rupture, it's going to be a more visible rupture, it is not going to settle down quietly to being a federation," he said. -
5 March 2006Gay penguins book banned from children’s library + A children's book about a pair of gay penguins who raise a baby has been banned from the children's section of two libraries in America after parents complained that it promoted homosexuality."And Tango Makes Three," is based on the true story of two gay penguins, Roy and Silo who hatched an abandoned egg in New York's Central Park Zoo in the late 1990s. -
5 March 2006Lowri Turner criticised by Welsh Assembly over gay comments 5 The television presenter Lowri Turner has been publicly criticised by member's of the Welsh Assembly's equality committee in relation to a "homophobic" column she wrote for a Welsh newspaper.During the height of the controversy surrounding the revelations that Liberal Democrat leadership contender Mark Oaten had engaged in a lengthy relationship with a rent-boy and that Simon Hughes, fellow candidate was bisexual, Ms Turner claimed that gay men would not make good political leaders. -
6 March 2006Brokeback Mountain scores best director award at Oscars + Despite being nominated for eight Oscars including best actor for Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain scored only three awards at the Oscars ceremony held in Hollywood yesterday.The film which has wowed audiences across Britain has scored some high profile fans including the Conservative leader, David Cameron. -
6 March 2006Google may face legal action over Ashley Cole searches 5 PinkNews.co.uk ExclusiveThe internet search engine, Google, may face legal action following the way it presents search results relating to the Arsenal and England defender, Ashley Cole.Customers seeking information using the keywords, "Ashley Cole" are controversially now shown additional information for the keywords, "Ashley Cole gay" within the main body of their requested search results. -
6 March 2006Publisher jailed after printing gay list + The newspaper publisher who outed prominent public figures he thought were gay in Cameroon has been jailed for defamation.Jean Pierre Amougo Belinga, publisher of L'Anecdote, was jailed for four months for defaming a government minister who was named in a list of 50 presumed homosexuals in the African country where homosexuality is illegal. -
6 March 2006Banker to tell tribunal he was sacked because he was gay 4 A banker's 5m compensation claim against HSBC over allegations that the City giant sacked him because he was openly gay is due to start at an employment tribunal in east London today.An investment banker who claims he was sacked from HSBC because he was gay will have his case heard at an employment tribunal this week. -
6 March 2006Ex-stripper tops the UK music charts with “Chico Time” 1 The former stripper and X-Factor constant Chico, has topped the UK charts with his debut single, "Chico Time."The singer who has quickly grown a following in the gay community thanks to his cheesy pop tunes, knocked gay icon and pop queen Madonna off her perch at the top of the charts.Fellow gay icons, the Pussycat Dolls missed out on another number one, their single "Beep" went in just below Chico at number two. -
6 March 2006Spanish gays marrying in their thousands + Over a thousand same sex couples have been married in Spain since the country's marriage equality law came into force last summer.International newspaper reports claim that 800 same sex ceremonies have been recorded on computers and that only accounts for half of the marriages performed. -
6 March 2006Gay Jews may get marriage rights + The UK Masorti movement has said it would never consider Jewish same sex unions, in reaction to its US equivalent considering allowing gay marriage and gay rabbis this week.American gay Jews may soon be allowed to get married and become rabbis after the Conservative Judaism movement meets this week.Previously the group, which is in the centre of Jewish thought between liberal and orthodox movements, has banned same sex marriage and gay rabbis. -
6 March 2006Prevalence of gay teens using clubbing drugs, says study + Gay or bisexual school children as young as fourteen are 17 times more likely than straight students to use crystal methamphetamine and other "club drugs," according to research in Canada.The study surveyed over 600 students aged 13 to 19 at Vancouver and Victoria high schools. -
6 March 2006Gay army recruit refuses discharge + A gay Korean conscript is looking to highlight gay rights issues by refusing a discharge from the Korean army .Yoo Jung Min-Seok announced to the press, "My identity, the duty my country demands and my rights as a citizen are in conflict in a world where it is regarded as compulsory for men to be masculine.""I reject the harm done by the macho barracks culture and an army that produces aggressive, belligerent men." -
6 March 2006Pensioners demand right to be anti gay 2 Two Christian pensioners are planning to sue their local police and council claiming they have the right to be anti gay.The retired couple faced a police investigation for "potentially homophobic" comments in December after objecting to Wyre Borough Council's stance on gay issues.Devout Christians, Joe Roberts 73, and his wife Helen, 68, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, wrote to the Council accusing them of "pandering" to minority groups. -
6 March 2006Madonna tries to explain away gay kiss to daughter 2 The "Queen" of pop, Madonna has revealed that her girl on girl kiss with the teen pop sensation, Britney Spears left her with some tough questions from her daughter Lourdes.Madonna told an American gay magazine how her nine-year old daughter became "obsessed" with gay questions after her stunt at the MTV awards. -
6 March 2006Fans complain after tabloids say singer is gay 2 American Idol fans are suing a music company after complaining that they were duped into buying the music of a former contestant after claims that he is gay.The contestant, Clay Aiken, appeared in the 2003 series of American Idol, he was marketed through his boyish looks and Christian beliefs which have helped him sell millions of records. -
6 March 2006Gay Boyzone star to wed partner + Gay Boyzone star Stephen Gately is set to have a star studded civil partnership ceremony with his partner, internet entrepreneur, Andy Cowles, after setting a date this week.The singer is reported to have set a date for March 20 for a ceremony thought to be held at his London home. -
6 March 2006DJ files legal action over gay orgy claims 24 The DJ who was featured in an internet picture with footballer Ashley Cole after tabloid allegations of a gay orgy has initiated legal action against the Sun and the News of the World.Ian Thompson, known as DJ Masterstepz, was not named by either newspaper, both of which printed stories claiming a well-known DJ had taken part in gay sex acts with Premiership footballers. -
6 March 2006Teenager sues school for not preventing homophobia + A gay teenager is seeking compensation from his school in Oklahoma after claiming he was assaulted by another student because he was not given enough protection.Michale Bullis, 18, says he was injured last November in the Grove High School cafeteria after being attacked because he was gay.
Articles from March 2006
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Survey: LGBT acceptance at all time high in US, but discrimination remains+
X Factor star Marcus Collins takes part in anti-hate crime campaign video+
Committee says UK Government did not consult adequately with the Church in Wales on equal marriage bill8
Australia: Radio host sacked for asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard if her partner is gay31
Video: Married binational gay couple kept apart by DOMA urges US Supreme Court strike-down19
US: President Obama urges Congress to pass bill to end anti-LGBT workplace discrimination5
US: GOP Senator says he thinks businesses should be able to sack people for being gay24
Former BP CEO Lord Browne to write new book on homophobia in business4
Scottish trans woman ‘forced’ to leave town after she was branded a ‘witch’18
US: Psychotherapists slam ‘gay cure’ app still available from Google app store5
- US: GOP Senator says he thinks businesses should be able to sack people for being gay24
Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages' 60- Video: Married binational gay couple kept apart by DOMA urges US Supreme Court strike-down19
- Scottish trans woman 'forced' to leave town after she was branded a 'witch'18
- Australia: Radio host sacked for asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard if her partner is gay31
US: Gay Catholics to turn their backs on Cardinal who compared Pride to Ku Klux Klan rally11
French Olympic swimmers pose as 'imaginary gay couple' for anti-homophobia campaign12- US: President Obama urges Congress to pass bill to end anti-LGBT workplace discrimination5
In Photos: As One in the Park 201317
Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill53
Daily Mail's Andrew Pierce: I'm called a 'homophobe' and 'Uncle Tom' for opposing equal marriage102
Tory Lord Mawhinney tables 'traditional marriage' amendment for equal marriage bill61
Lord Dear proposes new amendment to equal marriage bill concerning 'traditional marriage'60-
Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages'60
Baroness Knight: The gays are still good at antiques and Section 28 was right59-
Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill53
French mayor: 'I will go to the gallows' before performing a same-sex wedding52
Labour's Clause 20 sex education amendment fails in the Commons50
Pope Francis: There is a 'gay lobby' at the heart of the Vatican 'it exists'49
YouGov poll: Next Doctor Who actor being straight less important than being male and British45
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