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20 January 2012Blackmail alleged at gay teen murder trial + The jury at the Scottish trial of Craig Roy, accused of killing gay teenager, Jack Frew, has heard claims that the defendant was being blackmailed by the schoolboy and that the two had slept together. -
20 January 2012Joey Barton: Gay footballers would face discrimination 22 Central midfielder and Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton attributed gay professional footballers' fear of coming out to managers' discrimination. -
20 January 2012Three anti-gay leaflet defendants guilty 540 Three of the defendants accused of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation in Derby have been found guilty. -
20 January 2012Edinburgh called on to stop St Petersburg anti-gay law 7 A coalition of groups has called on the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland to intervene on St Petersburg's postponed anti-gay law. -
20 January 2012Video: Gay girl forced to use boys’ changing room 26 In a video posted a month ago by LGBT Youth North West a schoolgirl from Oldham, Manchester tells her account of being made to change in the boys' changing rooms at school after coming out as lesbian. -
20 January 2012Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrisson in Prop 8 play 4 Glee stars Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison are the latest stars to sign up to the one-night-only LA production of Dustin Lance Black's play about the Proposition 8 ballot. -
20 January 2012Virginia gay adoption battle kicks off 1 At the General Assembly in Richmond, Virginia, a battle is heating up over whether adoption agencies should be allowed to discriminate against prospective parents based on their sexual orientation. -
22 January 2012Tunisian Interior Minister in a gay sex video scandal 20 Tunisia’s new interior minister, Ali Larayedh, has been embroiled in controversy and scandal as a leaked video allegedly shows him in a gay prison sex video. -
23 January 2012BMI ‘batty’ ad defended 123 UK airline bmi has defended a reference to "batty" prices in a new radio ad. -
23 January 2012Zulu king: Gays are rotten 25 Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, King of the Zulu people, has reportedly said gay relationships are a new invention and are "rotten". -
23 January 2012Grindr ‘mandatory update’ to tackle hack 1 Man-locating app Grindr has said it will release a mandatory security update after thousands of Australian users' accounts were put at risk. -
23 January 2012Gareth Thomas favourite to win Celebrity Big Brother 16 Gay rugby player, Gareth Thomas has been named as the favourite to win Celebrity Big brother according to the odds on several online bookmakers. -
23 January 2012Jane Lynch to get ‘authentic gay life’ honour 5 Gay actress Jane Lynch is to be honoured by the National Center for Lesbian Rights for "blazing a path not just for the artists who follow in her footsteps, but for young people everywhere who look up to her." -
23 January 2012Gay presidential candidate through first-round Finnish vote 15 Pekka Haavisto, the openly gay candidate in Finland's presidential race, has come second in the first round of voting. -
23 January 2012Olivia Newton-John greases wheels for gay marriage 12 Olivia Newton-John is backing Australian Marriage Equality, and the campaign towards equal marriage rights in Australia. -
23 January 2012Zulu prince: King’s ‘rotten gays’ comment was ‘mistranslated’ 23 Comments by the Zulu king that gay relationships were "rotten" have been dismissed as a mistranslation by the royal family.
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23 January 2012Ex-South African president: Ugandan anti-gay bill makes no sense 23 The former president of South Africa, Thabo MBeki, has criticised Uganda's infamous anti-gay bill, saying it does not "make sense" to intervene in people's private lives. -
24 January 2012Michael Ball fined £6,000 for anti-gay Antony Cotton tweet 34 Leicester City player Michael Ball has been fined £6,000 by the FA for anti-gay comments he made on Twitter. -
24 January 2012Washington Senate has votes for marriage equality 10 State senator Mary Margaret Haugen became the crucial 25th supporter of proposed legislation, saying "none of us holds a monopoly on what it means to be an American". -
24 January 2012Russia: Gay pride suspicion stops nationalist jog 10 Police in the Kaliningrad outpost of Russia have reportedly stopped a group of right-wing joggers after being wrongly tipped that they were staging an illegal gay pride parade.
Articles from January 2012
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 final1- 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 slur2
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’22
Georgia: Prime Minister denounces violence against IDAHOT rally5
- 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 instructions16
Scotland: Trans woman threatened with ban from shopping centre for using ladies' toilets29
Video: Equal marriage parody of Finland's 2013 Eurovision entry goes viral3
Birmingham: LGBT sports centre to be opened by naked charity calendar stars Warwick Rowers11
Philip Hammond: 'No great demand for gay marriage and it's upsetting vast numbers of people'68- Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2
France: Final marriage equality hurdle passed as Constitutional Council approves bill37
Georgia: IDAHOT rally attacked by thousands of violent protesters20- 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
US: Minnesota Republican moved to tears over 'heartbreaking' same-sex marriage bill73
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
New Zealand: B&B owner says 'not in my home' to lesbian couple56
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