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21 February 2007Gay MP backs Out At Work campaign 1 Angela Eagle, the only openly lesbian member of parliament, has joined with trade union leaders to call for action on LGBT people's rights at work.Unionlearn and TUC Education launched Out At Work, a new workbook which makes legal rights within the workplace clear, yesterday.It is designed to promote equality and inclusion among the UK's workforce. -
21 February 2007Air Force rape trial exposes Don’t Ask Don’t Tell 5 A captain in the US Air Force charged with drugging and raping four men says they are lying to avoid being exposed as gay.Capt. -
21 February 2007American lesbians marry across the border + A couple from Texas have become the first non-Mexicans to take advantage of a new law that recognises same-sex couples.Maria Carreon Lara, 39, and Amparo Maldonado, 24, of Midland, Texas, travelled to the Mexican state of Coahuila, currenly the only state in the country to have passed such a law.Mexico City will also recognise gay unions from next month. -
21 February 2007Scottish Parliament hosts equality review + The chairman of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) is to speak at a conference on equality in Scotland.Trevor Philips, who is currently head of the Commission for Racial Equality, will address the gathering of more than 80 different age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation groups.LGBT Youth Scotland are to attend the conference this Friday at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. -
21 February 2007Polish president’s homophobia outrages the Irish 17 Remarks about homosexuality during a state visit to Ireland have caused more trouble for the controversial President of Poland.Speaking to an audience at Dublin Castle on the final day of his three day visit, Lech Kaczynski said that the promotion of homosexuality would lead to the eventual destruction of the human race. -
21 February 2007Gay health charity moves onto MySpace 1 Gay Men Fighting Aids is using an internet community resource to ask for feedback on their new advertising campaigns.The charity, which was founded in 1992, is responsible for HIV and STI prevention strategy and delivery in the London area.They produce three new mass media campaigns a year, which run in the gay press. -
21 February 2007Mayor supports Euro gay bullying campaign + The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has given his backing to the European Parliament's call for action on homophobic bullying.Research by gay rights group ILGA Europe and their youth wing last year examined social exclusion among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) kids in Europe.They spoke to over 750 young LGBT people from 37 countries and found that over half (53%) had experienced bullying in school. -
21 February 2007French court blocks lesbian adoption + An attempt by a French mother to allow her lesbian partner to adopt her child has failed.The Appeals Court in Paris ruled yesterday that the only way the mother could legally allow her partner to adopt the child would be to renounce her own parental rights.If the lesbian couple were allowed to marry, then they could share parental responsibility.
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The state of play on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in the House of Lords committee stage1
US: Florida LGBT groups launch effort to repeal state ban on equal marriage+
Travel: Is Las Vegas a ‘Fabulous’ gay holiday destination?+- Humanist weddings amendment withdrawn from equal marriage bill13
Russia: LGBT rights group fined 500,000 rubles under ‘foreign agent’ law6
Amendments urging for civil registrars to opt out of equal marriage ceremonies withdrawn from bill9
Gay fashioner designer Stefano Gabbana sentenced for tax evasion16
US: Third Republican Senator comes out in favour of equal marriage3
South Africa: Gay imam spreads message of empowerment when it comes to homosexuality and Islam9
South Australia officially congratulates New Zealand on equal marriage, ahead of introduction of its own bill2
- Humanist weddings amendment withdrawn from equal marriage bill 13
- South Africa: Gay imam spreads message of empowerment when it comes to homosexuality and Islam 9
- Travel: Is Las Vegas a 'Fabulous' gay holiday destination?0
- Gay fashioner designer Stefano Gabbana sentenced for tax evasion16
- Amendments urging for civil registrars to opt out of equal marriage ceremonies withdrawn from bill9
Liberace's ex-lover claims he had six year relationship with Michael Jackson18- US: Florida LGBT groups launch effort to repeal state ban on equal marriage0
Gay dating website for 'homosensible' Catholic priests being run out of the Vatican20- US: Third Republican Senator comes out in favour of equal marriage3
Tory MP John Glen criticises Bishop of Salisbury for voicing support for equal marriage32
New 'Gay Marriage No Thanks' group launches with 'ten good reasons' to oppose equal marriage88
Barry Cryer brands ITV's Vicious 'homophobic' television85
Lord Tebbit: I wouldn't have been surprised if Jimmy Savile was homosexual84
Archbishop of York: Would the Church of England rather bless 'sheep and trees' than gay couples?84
Lib Dems' Baroness Williams to support anti-equal marriage 'union' amendment71
Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages'69
Maria Miller tables Public Order Act amendment protecting critics of equal marriage67
Labour MSP Elaine Smith: 'I'm against equal marriage but don't call me homophobic'65
Tory Lord Mawhinney tables 'traditional marriage' amendment for equal marriage bill62
Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill62
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