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12 July 2012Black Swan’s gay love scene prompts more complaints than any other film 39 Natalie Portman's Oscar-winning performance as a troubled ballerina in Black Swan may have appealed to critics, but her lesbian love scene earned the film more complaints than any other in the UK last year. -
12 July 2012London: Body found in gay sauna 38 The body of a man was found at the gay sauna Chariots in east London yesterday. -
12 July 2012Italy: Police apologise after manual dubs homosexuality ‘deviant’ 9 The national police force in Italy has apologised after a training manual listed homosexuality alongside bestiality, incest and necrophilia as a 'sexual deviance'. -
12 July 2012Lesbian music teacher ‘highly commended’ in national teaching awards 13 Lesbian music teacher Elly Barnes has been ‘Highly Commended’ at the annual awards ceremony held by the Times Educational Supplement for her work promoting LGBT issues in schools. -
12 July 2012Queensland priest relaunches campaign against ‘gay panic’ defence 9 A Queensland priest who started a campaign to have the 'gay panic' comprehensively removed from local law in Australia has relaunched his campaign. -
12 July 2012Call to ban anti-gay countries from London Olympics 134 Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is calling on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to ban anti-gay countries from the events this summer. -
12 July 2012York: Attempt to block rainbow flag over Mansion House at Pride 43 A bid to fly the rainbow flag over the city of York's mansion house on the day of its pride event is in danger after a Conservative councillor tabled a motion to block it. -
12 July 2012Jon Voight backs Brad Pitt’s mother on anti-gay marriage letter 40 Jon Voight, Angelina Jolie's father, has backed her husband's mother's opposition to gay marriage. -
12 July 2012Video: Kirk Cameron’s anti-gay marriage film criticised 23 Kirk Cameron has come in for criticism after recording an anti-gay marriage video for the National Organization for Marriage. -
12 July 2012Chloe Sevigny worried about reactions to trans assassin role 18 Chloe Sevigny says she feared trans people would be disappointed with her for playing a trans character in TV series Hit & Miss. -
12 July 2012US: Maryland will vote on marriage equality 11 Maryland will vote on the issue of marriage equality this November after opponents gathered enough support to challenge the state's new gay marriage law. -
12 July 2012US: 12 Episcopal bishops speak out against gay blessings 11 Twelve US Episcopal bishops have spoken out against the church's decision to approve a blessing for gay unions. -
12 July 2012Chile’s president signs hate crime legislation into law 15 Chile's president Sebastian Pinera signed anti-discrimination legislation into law today. -
13 July 2012MP received malicious anti-gay email after Commons assault 61 A court in Yorkshire has heard how gay MP Stuart Andrew received an abusive message containing a gay slur shortly after he was assaulted in a Commons bar earlier this year. -
13 July 2012Sussex: Gay vicar under ‘homophobic’ ban for refusing to confirm celibacy 105 A gay vicar in Sussex says the Church of England implemented a "homophobic" ban after he refused to say whether his civil partnership was celibate. -
13 July 2012LGBT book prize longlist announced 4 Organisers of the Polari First Book Prize have announced the long list for 2012. -
13 July 2012New Pride House launched for London Olympics 55 A new Pride House festival has been launched for the London Olympics at the last minute after a lack of sponsorship meant the original event was cancelled. -
13 July 2012Petition launched to address Turkish ‘honour killings’ 9 A petition has been started to lobby Turkey's president to address the 'honour killings' of gay and transgender people in his country. -
13 July 2012Jamaica ‘not intolerant of gays’, assistant police commissioner says 29 Jamaica's third highest ranking police official has said the country is not as anti-gay as "public hype" suggests, despite laws criminalising homosexuality. -
13 July 2012Comment: Is the Church of England homophobic? 102 Stuart Ross examines a recent case of a gay vicar unable to officiate at his church because he refused to confirm his celibacy and suggests the Church of England's problem may be that it is trying to be all things to all people.
Articles from July 2012
Top stories
Georgia: LGBT and anti-’gay propaganda’ activists face off in mob aftermath+
Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or ‘change leadership’9
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 crime1
Finland’s pro-equality ‘Marry Me’ places 24th in Eurovision final10- 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 state31
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 law9
Gay MP Mike Freer accuses fellow Tories of attempting to “derail” equal marriage bill9
- Eurovision: Same-sex kisses feature in songs for Finland and host Sweden2
- Finland's pro-equality 'Marry Me' places 24th in Eurovision final10
Birmingham: LGBT sports centre to be opened by naked charity calendar stars Warwick Rowers11
Daniel Radcliffe: When filming Kill Your Darlings, I was given 'step-by-step' gay sex scene instructions20- New York: Police say man shot in Greenwich Village was victim of homophobic hate crime1
- Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or 'change leadership'9
- Turkey urged to broadcast Eurovision following TV station cancellation over lesbian kiss14
- US: Owner of florist sued for refusing same-sex wedding files lawsuit against state31
Scotland: Trans woman threatened with ban from shopping centre for using ladies' toilets35
Video: Equal marriage parody of Finland's 2013 Eurovision entry goes viral3
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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