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6 November 2006X-Factor judges in homophobic row 3 Reality show judges Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh launched gay insults at each other during last weekend's X Factor resulting in an off camera confrontation, according to reports.The music moguls who form the show's judging panel along with Sharon Osbourne, are known to have a tempestuous on-screen relationship, but Walsh is alleged to have had enough after Cowell insinuated that the Irish pop scout is gay during the live show. -
6 November 2006Christians and Muslims unite against Scottish gays 4 The Scottish branch of radical religious party the Christian Peoples' Alliance has turned to the Muslim community for help in battling "secular values" and pro-gay laws.The party has garnered over 1,000 signatures from Muslims who are against incoming laws which would allow gay couples to adopt. -
6 November 2006Evangelist admits to gay massage 1 Evangelist Ted Haggard has admitted that he bought crystal-meth and received a massage from the gay prostitute who claims that the outspoken gay-marriage opponent was his sex client for the past three years.Reverend Ted Haggard, Senior Pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals last week and stepped down as leader of his Colorado mega-church while the two groups investigate the allegations. -
6 November 2006Alternative route set for Jerusalem gay pride 23 WorldPride organisers have reached an agreement on an alternative route for the gay pride parade as the countdown to the event begins amid rising tensions.The march will now take place away from central and religious areas of Jerusalem and instead will converge around the government office complex in Kiryat Haleom. -
6 November 2006Gay star backs World AIDS Day 1 Hollywood actor Rupert Everett will show his support for World AIDS Day later this month in Manchester.Everett, one of Hollywood's first openly gay actors, will visit the city's gay village on November 22nd as part of a promotional tour for his autobiography Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins. -
6 November 2006Which issue will swing the US mid-terms? 3 PinkNews.co.uk's Ben Leung analyses the key issues affecting tomorrow's mid term elections in America.Compare and contrast the mid-term elections with the 2004 Presidential campaign. -
6 November 2006Commentator suspended for gay slur + An American football commentator has apologised after being suspended for using the word "gay" to describe a poor pass.ESPN commentator Brian Kinchen was reprimanded after he allegedly made a homophobic comment when commenting on a college game between Iowa and Northern Illinois. -
6 November 2006French football tackles homophobia + French football is showing the red card to homophobia in a new campaign launched at one of the country's top clubs.The Carton Rouge a l'Homophobie campaign kicked off inside the Parc de Prince stadium at a match between Paris Saint Germain and RC Lens in the French capital last night. -
6 November 2006Gay councillor attacks The Sun’s gay report + A gay councillor is to lobby the government after the Press Complaints Commission rejected his claims that The Sun newspaper had broken editorial guidelines over a story about the Gay World Cup.Northampton councillor Peter Evans, complained to the PCC after the paper printed a story about London applying to host the 2008 World Cup and featured a "fantasy gay football team" allegedly ridiculing the names of existing players such as Ivan Campo and Darren Bent. -
6 November 2006Clare Balding to present Melbourne Cup 1 PinkNews.co.uk's Ben Leung looks back on a great year for BBC sports presenter Clare Balding including a civil partnership and now expert punditry status.As the American public get ready for a biennial event that is an election, on the same day - though 24 hours earlier - and on the other side of the world, another nation is gearing up for something which is equally unavoidable - the annual betting bonanza that is the Melbourne Cup. -
6 November 2006Gay rights Episcopal Bishop begins reign + Katharine Jefferts Schori was officially consecrated as the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church last weekend.She is known to support gay rights and has already ruffled a few conservative feathers as she is the 2.3 million member denomination's first female leader. -
6 November 2006Petition combats Iraqi homophobia + A Brighton MP has presented the House of Commons with a petition signed by around 250 local residents calling on the government act against the reported targeting of gays and lesbians in Iraq.David Lepper forwarded the document organised by The Pink News media partner 3SIXTY Magazine, to Commons Speaker Michael Martin. -
6 November 2006PinkNews named Publication of the Year 2 PinkNews.co.uk was named Publication of the Year at the Stonewall Awards last week.The site was described by the host Sir Ian McKellen as "the only one-stop shop for all news with a gay slant" at the charity's inaugural awards ceremony inside the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Lynne Featherstone: I support opposite-sex civil partnerships but the amendment may be a ‘cynical trap’2
Poll: 73% of MPs support civil partnerships amendment to equal marriage bill1
China: IDAHOT activists detained in two cities2
Archbishop of Canterbury endorses Church’s opposition to opposite-sex civil partnerships14
London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault51
Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans faces third claim of sexual assault+
Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion122
Georgia: LGBT and anti-’gay propaganda’ activists face off in mob aftermath+
Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or ‘change leadership’21
US: Boy Scouts vote on gay members set for 23 May+
- London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault51
- Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion122
Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2- Finland's pro-equality 'Marry Me' places 24th in Eurovision final23
- Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or 'change leadership'21
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 rebellion122
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
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
Russia: Tortured and killed gay man was 'raped with beer bottles'55
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