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11 January 2007Colin and Justin set a date for civil ceremony 11 Interior designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan are to become civil partners. -
11 January 2007Orkney composer cancels ceremony plans 5 Composer Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies has decided to shelve plans to marry his partner on the Orkney Islands.Sir Peter, the Master of the Queen's Music, was at the centre of a media storm earlier in the week when he accused council officials on the islands of homophobia.Orkney Island Council had told Sir Peter, 72, that the registrar on the island of Sanday, where the composer lives, is not legally able to carry out civil partnerships ceremonies. -
11 January 2007Lesbian loses rape charity tribunal + A 40-year-old Glasgow woman has lost an employment tribunal against Scottish Rape Crisis Network.Claire Phillips had claimed that she was fired after complaining that she had been outed as a lesbian by a fellow employee.She did not want her colleagues to know she is gay, she told the tribunal. -
11 January 2007Suspect arrested in trans murder case 1 A 43-year-old man has been charged with murder after police in Washington DC found the body of a transsexual woman in an apartment in the city.The victim has been identified as Grafton Lee Person, 42.Police arrested the suspect, Preston Logan, after he was caught shoplifting at a 7-Eleven at 8:30am last Saturday. -
11 January 2007Cruz laughs off rumours of love affair with Hayek 1 Penelope Cruz has reacted to speculation that her close relationship with fellow actress Salma Hayek is more than just platonic.During an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, the Spanish film star, who used to be romantically involved with Tom Cruise, spoke about reports of a gay relationship with Hayek.Rumours had been fuelled by a raunchy photoshoot the two actresses did for US magazine Interview. -
11 January 2007Leicester bar attacked in hate crime + Police in Leicester are treating a series of attacks on a bar popular with gay people as hate crimes.The Leicester Mercury reports that a gang of young men armed with hammers and baseball bats smashed windows and verbally abused customers at the Amber bar in Northampton Street last Friday night.The bar is popular with gay and lesbian people. -
11 January 2007“Gay JFK” to be honoured with bust 3 Harvey Milk, the first out gay male politician in American history, is to be honoured with a bust in San Francisco City Hall.Milk, known during his lifetime as "The Mayor of Castro Street," is regarded as a political icon amongst gay activists for his ability to build the LGBT community into a grassroots political force. -
11 January 2007EuroGay regatta comes to Brighton + The Gay UK Sailing Team has announced that Barclays will be sponsoring the seventh annual EuroGay Cup Regatta, to be held in Brighton on the 9th and 10th of June.This is the second time GUST will be hosting the event in the UK. -
11 January 2007Gay penguins to stay on library shelves 3 A children's book featuring a young penguin and his two male parents has been returned to school libraries in North Carolina.The saga of And Tango Makes Three made headlines across the world.After queries from a handful of parents, fearful that the book was promoting homosexuality, staff members took copies off the shelves. -
11 January 2007£9,000 gay chatline bill run up by thief 1 An unlucky Liverpool businesswomen has been told by a judge that she is still liable for £9,000 worth of calls to gay chatlines made on her mobile phone.The Liverpool Echo reports the unusual case of Mrs Anne Jeffrey, who runs a successful ironing business.The business had several mobile phones on contract from Genesis Communications, one of which Mrs Jeffrey lent to her son. -
11 January 2007Lesbian Avengers studio could close 6 BBC Television Centre, the iconic West London building that for 50 years has been the embodiment of the Corporation in the eyes of viewers, may close as part of a cost-cutting exercise.The BBC's desire to move production of children's programming, sport and other departments to Manchester could sound the death knell for the Wood Green studios.Corporation bosses are considering closing Television Centre and selling the 13-acre site.
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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 bill+
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 assault50
Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans faces third claim of sexual assault+
Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion121
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 assault50
- Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion121
Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2- Finland's pro-equality 'Marry Me' places 24th in Eurovision final22
- 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 rebellion121
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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