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26 June 2012London’s World Pride under threat after payment disputes 38 Pride London's World Pride celebrations are reportedly under threat following a dispute between the organisers and contractors according to the London Evening Standard. -
26 June 2012Man charged with murder of South African trans gay activist as anti-gay violence continues 6 A suspect in brutal murder of South African gay man Thapelo Makuthle has been charged. -
27 June 2012New York Knicks player Amar’e Stoudemire fined $50,000 for gay slur Twitter message 6 The NBA, America's top professional basketball association, has fined New York Knicks player Amar'e Stoudemire for sending a fan an anti-gay slur on Twitter. -
27 June 2012Archbishop of Canterbury ‘frustrated’ by Christian ‘disgust’ over equal marriage 100 The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of 'frustration' at those Christians whose feelings of 'embarrassment, shame and disgust' over equal marriage rights for gay couples send out 'unwelcome' messages. -
27 June 2012Former Will and Grace stars ‘pray for a gay child’ 28 Eric McCormack and Debra Messing, stars of the ground-breaking sitcom Will and Grace have joked that they now pray their children will grow up gay. -
27 June 2012Bulgaria: Government ‘should condemn priest’s call for stoning at Pride’ 15 The Bulgarian justice minister has been called on to repudiate a priest's call for physical violence against Pride marchers in the country's capital city. -
27 June 2012Cannes: Sexuality questionnaire pulled after ‘shocking’ retirees 9 Following complaints, authorities in Cannes have pulled a questionnaire intended to shed light on why the area has a higher proportion of older people being diagnosed with HIV. -
27 June 2012Egyptian diplomat suggests gays are ‘not real people’ 46 Egypt’s chief diplomatic representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva declared last week at a meeting about the universal right to association that gays do not warrant protections and are considered not to be “real people” in the Middle East. -
27 June 2012Scottish government to reveal marriage decision in two weeks 67 The Scottish government has confirmed it will announce its decision on whether or not to legalise gay marriages on 10 July. -
27 June 2012Pride London responds to cancellation rumours 15 Organisers of WorldPride 2012 Pride London have rebutted 'misrepresented rumours' that the 7 July event is in danger of cancellation and responded to 'media criticism' of the event's organisation. -
28 June 2012Pride London to host conference on LGBT rights around the Commonwealth 8 Pride London, as hosts of WorldPride 2012, will hold a conference focussing on the importance of global decriminalisation of homosexuality in the capital next week. -
28 June 2012IDAHO founder begins hunger strike for UN resolution on decriminalising homosexuality 13 The founder of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia has launched a hunger strike this week calling on the new French president to honour a promise to introduce a UN resolution on the decriminalisation of homosexuality. -
28 June 2012Queensland: Groups fear three-year prison sentences under gay surrogacy ban 12 Equality advocates are meeting to oppose the new Queensland government's plan to criminalise surrogacy arrangements for gay couples, single people and some straight couples. -
28 June 2012Video: Policing minister Nick Herbert says difference between civil partnership and marriage ‘matters’ 20 Nick Herbert, the Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice, has become the latest member of the government to join the Out4Marriage campaign to support efforts to legalise gay marriages. -
28 June 2012Coming out support booklets for gay youth and families updated 2 The national body FFLAG, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gay Men, has updated its support booklets for young people coming out to their parents and for parents themselves. -
28 June 2012Scotland: Six in ten LGBT people have seen homophobia in sport, report says 3 A report into levels of homophobia and transphobia in Scottish sport and recommendations to tackle the problems have been formally unveiled today. -
28 June 2012Pride London funding ‘shortfall’ sees WorldPride heavily scaled back 43 The WorldPride event in London on 7 July has been severely cut back with floats banned from the route and start times moved after a funding "shortfall", organisers Pride London confirmed today.
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28 June 2012German court tells lesbian asylum seeker to hide identity in Iran 23 A German court rejected the asylum application of Samira Ghorbani Danesh, an Iranian lesbian refugee who fled Iran in 2009, with the justification that she can hide her homosexuality in Iran and avoid criminal penalties. -
28 June 2012Santiago: Twelfth annual pride parade attracts 80,000 and British ambassador 4 On Saturday, Santiago's twelfth annual pride parade, March for Equality, took place with over 80,000 people demanding further advancement of LGBT rights in Chile. -
29 June 2012Comment: London’s WorldPride? It’s really WorldShame 75 A former Associate Director of Pride London argues the event has lost its way and defines the route, through giving back to the community and fighting for rights and unity, it now needs to take.
Articles from June 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 final7- 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 slur3
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’23
Georgia: Prime Minister denounces violence against IDAHOT rally5
- Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2
- Finland's pro-equality 'Marry Me' places 24th in Eurovision final7
- New York: Police say man shot in Greenwich Village was victim of homophobic hate crime0
Birmingham: LGBT sports centre to be opened by naked charity calendar stars Warwick Rowers11- 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 instructions19
Video: Equal marriage parody of Finland's 2013 Eurovision entry goes viral3
Scotland: Trans woman threatened with ban from shopping centre for using ladies' toilets29- US: Owner of florist sued for refusing same-sex wedding files lawsuit against state21
- 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
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
Russia: Tortured and killed gay man was 'raped with beer bottles'55-
Tory MP David Burrowes: I only want a referendum on same-sex marriage so I can defeat the government's bill54
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