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28 April 2012Utah: Gay teenager commits suicide 52 A 17-year old from Mountain Green, Utah, has killed himself due to homophobic bullying, local media organisations report. -
29 April 2012Video: US Catholic school disinvites alumnus over his homosexuality 20 A Catholic school in Michigan, US, has withdrawn the invitation it issued to one of its alumni to be the keynote speaker at his brother's graduation, after authorities there discovered he was gay and engaged to his partner. -
29 April 2012Northern Ireland: Priest who ‘inadvertently’ projected gay porn to shocked parents to leave diocese 51 The Catholic priest who 'inadvertently' displayed pornographic images of men to a group of parents at a primary school in Northern Ireland is to leave the area. -
29 April 2012Mail on Sunday: Tory Chief Whip says equal marriage proposals will ‘not come to a vote’ 136 The Tory Chief Whip, Patrick McLoughlin, has privately assured anxious Tory backbenchers that the current proposals for equal marriage will "not come to a vote," and that they will be "kicked into the long grass," the Mail on Sunday reports. -
29 April 2012Video: President Obama and Jimmy Kimmel make gay-friendly jokes at reception 12 During the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner yesterday, President Obama said that if his first term saw the repeal of the infamous 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, the second term would introduce a policy called 'It's Raining Men.' -
30 April 2012Live Q&A with London mayoral candidate Brian Paddick + Join us for a live Q&A with London mayoral candidate for the Liberal Democrats Brian Paddick. -
30 April 2012David Furnish calls marriage equality the ‘next great civil rights battle’ 51 David Furnish has described the fight for marriage equality for gay couples as the 'next great battle' for civil rights. -
30 April 2012Brian Paddick live blogs on crime, schools, marriage, Iran, transport and the gay blood ban (transcript) 17 Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick became the latest of the London Mayoral candidates to spend an hour chatting to PinkNews.co.uk readers. -
30 April 2012Scottish Catholic Education Service says equal marriage would ‘undermine teachers’ 85 The Scottish Catholic Education Service has said the introduction of marriage equality would stop state-funded Catholic schools teaching children the faith's views that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. -
30 April 2012UKIP candidate Dr Gasper: PinkNews readers ‘should be sectioned under Mental Health Act’ 257 Outspoken UKIP city council candidate Dr Julia Gasper has said today that PinkNews.co.uk readers have made 'anonymous death threats and hysterical accusations of being a murderer' against her, and that most should be involuntarily committed for psychiatric treatment. -
30 April 2012Filipino beauty queen apologises for calling homosexuality ‘a lie from the devil’ 74 Filipino actress and former beauty queen Miriam Quiambao has apologised for calling homosexuality a 'lie from the Devil'. -
30 April 2012Coalition for Equal Marriage campaign film reaches 500,000 views 27 A short film released to support equal access to marriage for gay people has amassed over half a million views in less than a week. -
30 April 2012Audio: Boris Johnson plans to unveil LGBT manifesto ‘to an amazed world’ 31 Incumbent Mayor of London Boris Johnson has reaffirmed his support of marriage equality for gay couples and said he will release his LGBT manifesto ahead of London's elections this week to an "amazed world". -
30 April 2012Q&A: London mayoral candidate Jenny Jones answers readers’ questions 8 The Green Party's candidate for London mayor Jenny Jones came to answer PinkNews.co.uk readers' questions last week. -
30 April 2012Scotland: Pro-equality and anti-equality faith groups both step up campaign 27 A broad alliance of faith groups has released an open letter, sent to all Members of Scottish Parliament (MSPs), demanding the right to conduct marriages for same-sex couples, while an anti-equality group has said it will send a leaflet to every house in Glasgow, campaigning against marriage equality, ahead of Thursday's council election. -
30 April 2012New Hampshire Episcopalians may elect a second gay bishop 4 One of the three priests nominated to succeed Bishop Gene Robinson at his Diocese of New Hampshire is an openly gay man and married to his partner, Boston Globe reports. -
30 April 2012UK issues global LGBT rights report, where US lags behind 28 The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has issued its annual Human Rights and Democracy report today, where a separate section outlines the state of LGBT rights around the world, and the government's own commitment to it.
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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 discrimination1
US: GOP Senator says he thinks businesses should be able to sack people for being gay7
Former BP CEO Lord Browne to write new book on homophobia in business3
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’43
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 gay7
US: Gay Catholics to turn their backs on Cardinal who compared Pride to Ku Klux Klan rally10- Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages' 43
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
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard: It's 'absurd' to think my hairdresser partner Tim Mathieson is gay15
Nebraska: University withdraws lesbian student for 'immoral homosexual acts'18
US: Gay Jewish activist wins $3.5M lawsuit against cousin for 'brutal' childhood abuse9- US: Psychotherapists slam 'gay cure' app still available from Google app store3
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
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'48
YouGov poll: Next Doctor Who actor being straight less important than being male and British45
Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill45-
Labour fear Lord Dear will table a new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill43
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