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21 March 2012First UK conference on gay China begins this week 14 A dozen leading figures from the Chinese gay and lesbian community will speak at The University of Manchester this week in the first event of its kind in the UK. -
21 March 2012Jacqui Smith ‘happy’ to see civil partnerships make way for equal marriage 52 Jacqui Smith, who was deputy minister for women and equalities when she unveiled the proposals for civil partnerships eight years ago, has said the system should be amended, or even repealed, to make way for equal civil marriage. -
21 March 2012Man jailed after endangering plane with anti-gay air steward abuse 72 A British man has been jailed after shouting homophobic abuse at air stewards and endangering the safety of a flight to Tenerife. -
21 March 2012Liberal Democrat president speaks out on religious charity’s internship scheme 54 Liberal Democrats president Tim Farron spoke out in defence of the internship scheme funded by religious charity CARE this week, saying it provides valuable access to Parliament for young people, but his office will look into indications gay MPs have not been allowed to participate. -
21 March 2012Petition to feature Alan Turing on next £10 note launched 39 A petition to put an image of gay computer pioneer and Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing on the next £10 note has been launched, securing over a thousand signatures in its first day. -
21 March 2012Kirk Cameron: ‘Insensitive’ to focus on anti-gay ‘sound bite’ 44 Former child actor Kirk Cameron has stood by the comments he made about gays being "destructive to civilisation" on Piers Morgan's show earlier this month but said focusing on that comment does not reflect his "full heart" on the matter. -
21 March 2012Brighton police warn teen over homophobic comment drive-by 35 A teenager who shouted homophobic abuse at a group of people outside a Brighton bar has been reprimanded by police. -
21 March 2012Video: Spoof Tube announcements prompt gays to ‘mind the gap’ over HIV testing 26 HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has partnered with GaydarRadio to create a series of spoof public transport announcements, encouraging gay and bisexual men in London to ‘mind the gap’ between their HIV tests. -
21 March 2012Liberal Democrat president: Any discrimination in CARE internships unacceptable 44 The president of the Liberal Democrats has said any discrimination on the grounds of sexuality in the religious Westminster internship scheme operated by the charity CARE (Christian Action Research & Education) which he defended this week would be 'unacceptable'.
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21 March 2012New Hampshire House votes to retain equal marriage for gay couples 68 An attempt to overturn New Hampshire’s legislation to allow equal marriage has failed by 133 votes against equal marriage to 202 to retain equality for gay and straight couples.
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Committee says UK Government did not consult adequately with the Church in Wales on equal marriage bill2
Australia: Radio host sacked for asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard if her partner is gay17
Video: Married binational gay couple kept apart by DOMA urges US Supreme Court strike-down15
US: President Obama urges Congress to pass bill to end anti-LGBT workplace discrimination5
US: GOP Senator says he thinks businesses should be able to sack people for being gay24
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’15
US: Psychotherapists slam ‘gay cure’ app still available from Google app store5
Mixed martial arts fighter: ‘Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages’59
- US: GOP Senator says he thinks businesses should be able to sack people for being gay24
- Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages' 59
- Video: Married binational gay couple kept apart by DOMA urges US Supreme Court strike-down15
- Scottish trans woman 'forced' to leave town after she was branded a 'witch'15
- Australia: Radio host sacked for asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard if her partner is gay17
US: Gay Catholics to turn their backs on Cardinal who compared Pride to Ku Klux Klan rally11
French Olympic swimmers pose as 'imaginary gay couple' for anti-homophobia campaign12- US: President Obama urges Congress to pass bill to end anti-LGBT workplace discrimination5
In Photos: As One in the Park 201317
Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill53
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-
Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages'59
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Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill53
French mayor: 'I will go to the gallows' before performing a same-sex wedding52
Labour's Clause 20 sex education amendment fails in the Commons50
Pope Francis: There is a 'gay lobby' at the heart of the Vatican 'it exists'49
YouGov poll: Next Doctor Who actor being straight less important than being male and British45
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