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22 March 2012Letter: Mark Zuckerberg, please allow users to list their gender as ‘other’ 20 In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Facebook, Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal's first openly gay MP has asked for the social network to give users the option to describe their gender as 'other'. -
23 March 2012Public invited to equal marriage forums over coming month 87 Members of the public are being invited to consultation events around England over the next month to discuss how best to introduce equal marriage rights. -
23 March 2012Kent MP: If gays marry, will Shakespeare be in danger? 168 A twice-divorced Kent MP has questioned whether allowing gay couples to marry will result in Shakespeare being rewritten to redact gender-specific words like 'husband' and 'wife'. -
23 March 2012Nepal’s first gender-neutral public toilet to be unveiled 4 Nepal's first openly gay MP has secured the opening of the country's first gender-neutral toilet. -
23 March 2012Video: Stephen Schwartz’s It Gets Better anthem released 28 Written and performed by the 275 members, the piece was set to music by Stephen Schwartz and begins with an unflinching look at the desperation felt by many young people coming to terms with their sexuality but features the positive message that the experiences awaiting adults mean it gets 'more than better'. -
23 March 2012Catholic Archbishop ‘invites 80 MPs’ for equal marriage talks 76 More than eighty MPs have reportedly been invited to meet the Catholic Archbishop of Southwark to discuss the equal gay marriage proposals being publicly consulted on by the government. -
23 March 2012Stonewall unveils Facebook Timeline of key gay events since 1989 4 Stonewall had relaunched its Facebook page utilising the new timeline facility to record key moments for the gay community's struggle for equality since its foundation in 1989. -
23 March 2012Video: Ban Ki-moon’s gay and trans rights speech remixed 1 The speech made by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the UN Human Rights Council discussion on gay and transgender protections earlier this month has been given a remix by AllOut.org. -
23 March 2012Gay Sikhs invite Lord Singh to WorldPride after marriage ‘attack’ comment 25 A group for gay and transgender Sikhs in the UK has written to the prime minister and Lord Singh to protest the latter's comments about equal marriage being a 'secular attack' on religion and to invite him to WorldPride. -
23 March 2012Peter Tatchell and Sun’s Dear Deidre columnist new FFLAG patrons 5 Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, Deidre Sanders of The Sun's agony aunt column Dear Deidre and psychologist Professor Ian Rivers have become patrons of FFLAG. -
23 March 201237,000 sign petition to thank Starbucks for equal marriage support 19 More than 37,000 people have signed a petition to thank coffee giant Starbucks for its equal marriage support after marriage opponents called for an international boycott. -
23 March 2012Chile: Lesbian judge whose sexuality ‘put daughters at risk’ wins legal battle 7 A gay judge has won a custody case against the Chilean courts which had taken away her three daughters in 2004 believing her sexuality to put their development 'at risk'. -
23 March 2012Madonna may be arrested in St Petersburg 41 The author of the St Petersburg anti-gay bill has said that he would want Madonna charged under that law, should she speak out against it during her forthcoming concert in the city. -
23 March 2012Dharun Ravi denies responsibility for suicide of gay room-mate Tyler Clementi 23 In his first interview since being convicted on fifteen charges last week, Dharun Ravi has denied acting out of homophobic hatred, and has said that he never felt uncomfortable with Tyler Clementi’s sexuality. -
23 March 2012The BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival is launched 10 The 26th annual London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival is being launched at the BFI tonight, with a wide range of films from around the world, but with only one new British Film in the list. -
23 March 2012US student sues school over gay prom policy 23 A high school student from Atlanta has filed a federal lawsuit against his school, alleging that the administrators removed him as student body president, after he proposed to make the prom more inclusive to LGBT students. -
24 March 2012Petition against equal marriage reaches 300,000 signatures 155 The Coalition for Marriage has announced today that it has received more than 300,000 signatures in support of its petition to keep the definition of marriage restricted to that between a man and a woman. -
24 March 2012American footballer apologises for gay slur 14 Colin Clark, the midfielder for Houston Dynamo, has apologised for using a homophobic slur against a ball boy, who refused to throw the ball back to him during Friday’s game with the Seattle Sounders. -
24 March 2012India’s attorney-general blames Victorian Britain for anti-gay laws 77 In an apparent change of heart from the position it adopted three years ago, the Indian government has said that homosexuality was tolerated in pre-colonial India, and it was only the British who imposed their Victorian values of morality on what was a largely liberal land. -
25 March 2012‘Smash,’ Lady Gaga and anti-bullying teenage campaigner triumph at GLAAD awards 2 Lady Gaga, the NBC musical drama ‘Smash,’ and a teenager from Michigan who has been campaigning to make it easier for children to see a forthcoming documentary on bullying have all been crowned at the annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) media awards, announced a few hours ago.
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Video: Married binational gay couple kept apart by DOMA urges US Supreme Court strike-down5
US: President Obama urges Congress to pass bill to end anti-LGBT workplace discrimination4
US: GOP Senator says he thinks businesses should be able to sack people for being gay15
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’12
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 risk7
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 gay15
- Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages' 49
- Video: Married binational gay couple kept apart by DOMA urges US Supreme Court strike-down5
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'12
- US: President Obama urges Congress to pass bill to end anti-LGBT workplace discrimination4
In Photos: As One in the Park 201317
US: Caterpillar Inc cuts ties with Boy Scouts over lack of progress on gay leadership2
Nebraska: University withdraws lesbian student for 'immoral homosexual acts'19
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 bill52
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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