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1 March 2012Video: Footballer’s Spanish ad ‘showed black men as animalistic homosexuals’ 38 A Spanish insurance company has pulled an advert after accusations it was racist in its depiction of black people as 'stupid, backward, animalistic homosexuals'. -
1 March 2012George Clooney: I will never deny gay rumours 51 George Clooney has said he will never deny rumours that he might be gay because it would be 'unfair and unkind' to the gay community to give someone the opportunity to make it 'seem like being gay is a bad thing'. -
1 March 2012Former diplomat contests Tunisian leader on gay rights 26 Farhat Othaman questions spiritual leader Rashid Ghannouchi over new Tunisia's commitment to human and LGBT rights -
1 March 2012Graduate hands back Oxford degree over Christian Concern conference 106 An Oxford graduate has handed back his degree over a college's arrangement to host conferences in association with a religious group which has regularly opposed advances in gay rights and backed 'gay cure'. -
1 March 2012Over 30,000 Gaydar users opt in to STI notifications 9 Backers of a new service which asks online dating site users to opt-in to receive updates from former partners who are diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections have welcomed the take-up among the gay community. -
1 March 2012Gay online encyclopaedia debuts 47 WikiQueer, a gay, bi and trans online encyclopaedia has launched publicly this week. -
1 March 2012MP brands equal marriage rights for gays ‘completely nuts’ 73 The MP for Wellingborough in Northamptonshire has suggested the Church of England reply to the government's consultation on equal marriage on the basis that it is 'completely nuts'. -
1 March 2012Trans charity reports papers to Leveson on ‘child safety concerns’ 12 The Leveson Inquiry has received a charity's submission regarding several articles about trans people published in recent weeks which it is says 'deliberately misrepresented' the realities of gender dysphoria. -
1 March 2012YouTube to broadcast Proposition 8 play live 11 YouTube has announced it will broadcast the star-studded LA reading of Duston Lance Black's Proposition 8 play this weekend. -
2 March 2012Newcastle United player fined £6,000 for anti-gay tweet 48 Nile Ranger and Manny Smith have been fined for making anti-gay comments on Twitter. -
2 March 2012US principal resigns after ‘telling gays they were going to hell’ 78 A high school principal in the US state of Tennessee has stood down following allegations she told gays students they were 'going to hell'. -
2 March 2012Maryland governor signs equal marriage into law 25 Maryland has become the eighth state in the union to agree to allow gay couples to marry after its governor signed the bill into law, saying 'We are one Maryland'. -
2 March 2012Interview: Gays and the Libyan revolution, before and after (part two) 5 In the second part of this interview with a Libyan activist, Dan Littauer says there is hope for the future among gay and trans Libyans after the revolution, but a recognition that progress towards a freer society may be slow. -
2 March 2012Female apes’ volume during gay sex ‘depends on partner’s social status’ 11 Research suggests a female bonobo will call out more loudly during sex with another female if her partner has a higher social status or a more important ape is watching. -
2 March 2012MPs defend taking interns from ‘gay cure’ event sponsor 108 An MP who received interns from a religious charity which opposes gay equality and sponsored a 'gay cure' event has backed the charity and claimed to have met 'ex-gays'. -
2 March 2012Feature: Gay testimonies from the Emirates 18 The removal of an anti-gay video, made in the United Arab Emirates, from YouTube has started the first stirrings of positive dialogue around lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in the Emirates. -
2 March 2012Gay wedding issue of Archie comic sells out despite protest 41 The American group One Million Moms' protests over the gay wedding issue of the Archie comics series have failed to dent the publication's success with the news that the issue has sold out. -
2 March 2012Video: Call to boycott St Petersburg over anti-gay law 17 International protest against St Petersburg's new law banning the promotion of "sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism” have continued with a video highlighting the law's effect. -
4 March 2012UK Catholic cardinal: Gay marriage is ‘a grotesque madness proposed by a disingenuous government’ 178 Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the most senior Catholic in Scotland, Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, has said that gay marriage is a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right". -
4 March 2012Video: Star studded Prop 8 play made available online 10 Featuring Brad Pitt as Judge Vaughn Walker, 8 tells how the California ballot measure which revoked gay citizens' right to marry was ruled unconstitutional for the first time in 2010.
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Video: Married binational gay couple kept apart by DOMA urges US Supreme Court strike-down+
US: President Obama urges Congress to pass bill to end anti-LGBT workplace discrimination2
US: GOP Senator says he thinks businesses should be able to sack people for being gay11
Former BP CEO Lord Browne to write new book on homophobia in business4
Scottish trans woman ‘forced’ to leave town after she was branded a ‘witch’10
US: Psychotherapists slam ‘gay cure’ app still available from Google app store3
Mixed martial arts fighter: ‘Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages’49
Dale Cregan sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering gay police officer and her colleague3
Russia: Fans warn anti-gay law poses 2018 World Cup violence risk6
US Supreme Court ruling on Proposition 8: Six possible outcomes3
- US: GOP Senator says he thinks businesses should be able to sack people for being gay11
- Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages' 49
US: Gay Catholics to turn their backs on Cardinal who compared Pride to Ku Klux Klan rally10
French Olympic swimmers pose as 'imaginary gay couple' for anti-homophobia campaign12- Scottish trans woman 'forced' to leave town after she was branded a 'witch'10
US: Caterpillar Inc cuts ties with Boy Scouts over lack of progress on gay leadership2- Video: Married binational gay couple kept apart by DOMA urges US Supreme Court strike-down0
- US: President Obama urges Congress to pass bill to end anti-LGBT workplace discrimination2
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard: It's 'absurd' to think my hairdresser partner Tim Mathieson is gay16
Nebraska: University withdraws lesbian student for 'immoral homosexual acts'18
Daily Mail's Andrew Pierce: I'm called a 'homophobe' and 'Uncle Tom' for opposing equal marriage102
Tory Lord Mawhinney tables 'traditional marriage' amendment for equal marriage bill61
Lord Dear proposes new amendment to equal marriage bill concerning 'traditional marriage'60
Baroness Knight: The gays are still good at antiques and Section 28 was right59
French mayor: 'I will go to the gallows' before performing a same-sex wedding52
Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill51
Labour's Clause 20 sex education amendment fails in the Commons50-
Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages'49
Pope Francis: There is a 'gay lobby' at the heart of the Vatican 'it exists'48
YouGov poll: Next Doctor Who actor being straight less important than being male and British45
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