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19 August 2010Catholic adoption agency barred from refusing gay couples 21 A Catholic adoption agency has been barred by the Charity Commission from restricting its service to heterosexual couples. -
19 August 20106,000 civil partnerships formed last year 14 Figures show that 6,281 gay couples had civil partnerships in the UK in 2009, a fall of 12 per cent compared with 2008. -
19 August 2010Costs are a barrier to lesbian couples conceiving, study finds 9 A small study of lesbian parents has suggested that many still have to turn to friends or the internet to find sperm donors, despite laws which make it easier for them to use IVF clinics. -
19 August 2010Trans woman claims she lost her job after wearing women’s clothes 10 A trans woman from Lincoln is suing her former employers, claiming that they sacked her after she began wearing women's clothes to work. -
19 August 2010Liverpool’s gay arts festival Homotopia returns for seventh year 3 Liverpool's seventh Homotopia festival will take place this November. -
19 August 2010Germany’s justice minister considering giving gay couples equal income tax rights 5 Germany's justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said today she is looking at how gay couples can be given equality in the income tax system. -
19 August 2010Public bodies to be given more freedom in how they promote equality 16 The government announced changes today in how the new Equality Duty will be implemented. -
19 August 2010A third of HIV-positive gay men show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder 19 A study has found that one third of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Articles from 19 August 2010
Top stories
US: Boy Scouts vote on gay members set for 23 May+
New York: Police say man shot in Greenwich Village was victim of homophobic hate crime+
Finland’s pro-equality ‘Marry Me’ places 24th in Eurovision final7- Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2
US: Owner of florist sued for refusing same-sex wedding files lawsuit against state21
Mixed martial arts fighter fined $20,000 and suspended for three months for anti-gay slur3
France: President Francois Hollande signs equal marriage bill into law8
Gay MP Mike Freer accuses fellow Tories of attempting to “derail” equal marriage bill8
Church of England: Allowing straight civil partnerships would ‘introduce confusion’23
Georgia: Prime Minister denounces violence against IDAHOT rally5
- Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2
- Finland's pro-equality 'Marry Me' places 24th in Eurovision final7
- New York: Police say man shot in Greenwich Village was victim of homophobic hate crime0
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
Daniel Radcliffe: When filming Kill Your Darlings, I was given 'step-by-step' gay sex scene instructions19
Video: Equal marriage parody of Finland's 2013 Eurovision entry goes viral3
Scotland: Trans woman threatened with ban from shopping centre for using ladies' toilets29- US: Owner of florist sued for refusing same-sex wedding files lawsuit against state21
- Video: Finland's pro-equal marriage Eurovision entrant stages lesbian kiss and gets into final15
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-
Tory MP David Burrowes: I only want a referendum on same-sex marriage so I can defeat the government's bill54
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