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13 March 2008Jodie Foster stalked linked to bomb threat + More than two decades ago, a crazed fan of Oscar winner Jodie Foster alleged he shot president Ronald Reagan on behalf of his favourite actress.Now, another "fan" of Foster has mailed a bomb threat to a Los Angeles airport, and mentioned her by name in the letter.Michael Smegal was busted yesterday for mailing a bomb threat to Van Nuys Airport back in December, according to E! Online. -
13 March 2008Obama faces tough questions from the press pack + Despite pulling off a handy win in Wyoming and running well ahead in Mississippi, the Obama campaign is still dogged by the kind of questions the Senator is said to be growing increasingly weary of answering.According to the Jack McCormick's The Swamp column in the Baltimore-Sun, Barack Obama has been testy ever since suffering stinging defeats in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.In recent days he has reportedly avoided talking with the press corps on his plane. -
13 March 2008Clinton pushes for Florida and Michigan votes to be counted 1 New York Senator Hillary Clinton is calling on the Democratic National Committee to either seat delegates from Florida and Michigan or hold new primaries in the states.Both states were stripped of delegates for moving their primaries up on this year's election calendar.DNC chairman Howard Dean is in favour of holding new primaries, but says the party will not pay for them. -
13 March 2008Brighton and Manchester Pride want you + Two major gay celebrations in England are inviting people to get involved.Pride in Brighton and Hove is holding an open meeting for anyone who is interested in joining the parade, applying for a grant or having a stall at this summer's event.Manchester Pride, celebrating its 18th year, is urging people who wish to take part in 2008 to submit applications as soon as possible. -
13 March 2008Bishop claims gays use the Holocaust to get “sympathy” 53 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Motherwell has claimed that the "gay lobby" attends Holocaust memorials "to create for themselves the image of a group of people under persecution."The Right Reverend Joseph Devine was giving a lecture entitled Sectarianism and Secularism: Bugbears for the Catholic Church in Scotland on Tuesday night when he made his comments.The bishop said there is a "giant conspiracy" going on and claimed he is taking on the forces of secularism. -
13 March 2008Charity calls for HPV vaccines for boys + The UK's leading dental charity is appealing to the government to include males in a planned vaccination programme to guard against the sexually transmitted HPV virus.The British Dental Health Foundation's appeal was in response to a new large scale US study of 46,000 mouth cancer cases.It found that the number of deaths caused by the sexually transmitted HPV virus has increased by a third over the last 30 years and is now the highest it has ever been. -
13 March 2008Bigot bishop’s comments raised in parliament 53 The Bishop of Motherwell's recent outburst about gay people and the Holocaust could be debated in the Scottish Parliament.Patrick Harvie, the Green party MSP for Glasgow Region, was so incensed by the bishop's comments that he has tabled a motion condemning his comments.Bishop Joseph Devine, speaking at an event on Tuesday, accused the gay community of "aligning itself with minority groups. -
13 March 2008Lords try to stop gay teenager’s deportation 21 Senior peers, including former Speaker of the Commons Betty Boothroyd and former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf, have asked the government not to deport a gay teenager back to his home country of Iran.More than 60 members of the House of Lords signed a letter to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith urging the government to "show compassion" to Mehdi Kazemi, who fears he will be executed for homosexual acts if he is returned. -
13 March 2008Homophobic politician gets a call from lesbian icon 18 "Hi! It's Ellen DeGeneres. -
13 March 2008Gay Iranian teen’s case will be reviewed says Home Office 21 An Iranian teenager who was facing deportation and possible execution will have his case reviewed.The decision was announced moments ago. -
13 March 2008Greek gays find loophole in marriage law 1 A gay and lesbian rights organisation is threatening to sue local authorities in Greece who refuse to marry same-sex couples after discovering that a 1982 law on civil wedding ceremonies refers only to "persons."The group, OLKE, has announced its intention to test their interpretation of the law.The Greek government is planning to grant new legal rights to unmarried couples later this year. -
13 March 2008Comment: Hillary and the Eliot Spitzer effect + On the heels of Samantha Power "resigning" from Barack Obama's campaign for calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" comes news that LGBT Council member Maxim Thorne has been bumped from his post for a similarly tactless use of words.In an email blasting Clinton's "who do you want answering the phone at 3am" rhetoric, Thorne wrote:"At 3am, Hillary said she and Bill were in bed and she knows of all the calls a President gets at different times of the day and night.Really?"
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London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault141
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