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8 August 2012Liverpool: 52,000 attend city’s third annual Pride celebrations 4 Over 52,000 people are believed to have attended a rainy Liverpool Pride 2012, organisers have said. -
8 August 2012Team gold for Britain’s only openly gay Olympian Carl Hester 14 The only openly gay Olympian in Team GB has helped his equestrian team secure gold at the London Olympics. -
8 August 2012Matthew Mitcham ‘most influential Australian Olympian on Twitter’ 11 Openly gay gold medal-winning diver Matthew Mitcham is the most influential athlete on the Australian team at this year's London Olympics, according to a PR firm in his home country. -
8 August 2012Bret Easton Ellis: ‘Ludicrous’ to cast a gay actor like Matt Bomer in Fifty Shades of Grey 98 Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, has said it would be 'ludicrous' to cast a gay actor to play the straight male lead in the film adaptation of the sexually-explicit Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. -
8 August 2012Comment: Always picked last – rediscovering sport as a gay adult 11 Daniel Sellers writes about his experience of sport at school and talks to the members of a gay-friendly running club about how it differs from the 'individualism and hedonism' of the traditional gay scene. -
8 August 2012Gay former mayoral aide not guilty of extreme image charges at ‘#porntrial’ 77 Gay former London mayoral aide, barrister and city alderman Simon Walsh has been found not guilty of five counts of possessing extreme pornography and one count of possessing an indecent image. -
8 August 2012London: LGBT sports clubs offer free taster sessions for budding athletes 1 The capital’s LGBT community is being urged to seize upon the spirit of the Olympic Games and try out a new sport. -
8 August 2012Australia: Former Olympic trampolinist reveals he is HIV positive 5 A gay former Olympic athlete from Australia has come out as HIV positive after seeing an interview with the diver Greg Louganis. -
8 August 2012Bermuda: Accomplished US academic dies after bike collision + A prominent gay professor from Indiana University has died after being hit by a motorcycle while on holiday in Bermuda. -
8 August 2012Survey: 7 percent ‘led to unprotected sex’ by bareback porn 11 A survey of over 1,000 gay men by sexual health charity GMFA suggests just under 7 percent believe they were led to having unprotected sex after watching bareback pornography, but more than half thought it led others to do the same. -
8 August 2012Brighton: Green Party councillor faces possible exclusion over equal marriage row 25 A Green councillor in Brighton and Hove may have compromised her signed declaration as a representative of the party after opposing equal marriage for same-sex couples. -
8 August 2012Vatican rejects Bulgarian lawyer for job over gay sex book 5 A 39-year-old lawyer has seen his hopes of becoming a new aide to the Pope dashed. -
8 August 2012London: Protest against Russian Winter Olympics’ ban on Pride House tomorrow 21 A protest is to be held tomorrow at an exhibition in London promoting Russia's Winter Olympics at Sochi after Pride House events celebrating gay inclusion in sport were banned. -
8 August 2012Berenstain Bears told to stay away from Chick-fil-A 9 The publisher of a line of children’s books has been urged to cut their ties with the US fast food chain Chick-fil-A - due to its position on equal marriage. -
8 August 2012St Petersburg: Madonna responds to hate with pink wristbands 2 The pop icon’s official Facebook page talks of the fashion accessories forming “part" of her upcoming show in the Russian city. -
8 August 2012US: Montana man falsely claimed he was beaten in anti-gay attack 13 A Montana man has admitted falsely reporting that he was injured in an anti-gay attack. -
8 August 2012Obama opposes Scouts anti-gay discrimination 8 President Obama is opposed to the Boy Scouts of America's ban on gay members, volunteers and staff, his spokesman said today. -
8 August 2012US: Trans man’s doctor ‘failed to tell him he had cancer’ 13 A New York transgender man has revealed that his doctor didn't tell him he had breast cancer because he was confused by his patient's transgender status. -
8 August 2012Lesbian sends dinner request to Chick-fil-A chief 16 A lesbian business owner in Atlanta, Georgia, has invited Chick-fil-A chief Dan Cathy to have dinner with her family.
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Poll: 7 in 10 Russians are against the ‘justification and display of homosexuality’14
Portugal: Parliament grants same-sex couples some adoption rights2
Comment: Dear Philip Hammond, equal marriage might upset people, but it is worth it for equality12
Italian Chamber of Deputies President: ‘Macho culture reduces gay people to caricatures’1
US: Mixed martial arts fighter suspended for tweeting the word ‘fag’3
Sunderland Football Club flies rainbow flag in support of IDAHOT2
Scotland: Trans woman threatened with ban from shopping centre for using ladies’ toilets9
National AIDS Trust: ‘Passing equal marriage will help in the fight against the UK’s HIV epidemic’2
France: Final marriage equality hurdle passed as Constitutional Council approves bill21
Turkey urged to broadcast Eurovision following TV station cancellation over lesbian kiss1
Daniel Radcliffe: When filming Kill Your Darlings, I was given 'step-by-step' gay sex scene instructions7- Video: Finland's pro-equal marriage Eurovision entrant stages lesbian kiss and gets into final14
Uma Thurman to star in biopic as anti-gay campaigner Anita Bryant 12
Philip Hammond: 'No great demand for gay marriage and it's upsetting vast numbers of people'63
Study: Audiences don't mind gay actors playing straight roles 11
ILGA-Europe releases 2013 European LGBT rights map 48
Georgia: IDAHOT rally attacked by thousands of violent protesters13
Channel 4 Big Breakfast creator Charlie Parsons acquires global dating site Gaydar3- Scotland: Trans woman threatened with ban from shopping centre for using ladies' toilets9
Tory MP Nadine Dorries: 'The gay marriage bill is taking the sex out of marriage'89
US: Minnesota Republican moved to tears over 'heartbreaking' same-sex marriage bill73
Bret Easton Ellis slams GLAAD and says gay basketball player Jason Collins treated like a 'baby panda'65
Government to consider abolishing civil partnerships or opening up to straight couples64-
Philip Hammond: 'No great demand for gay marriage and it's upsetting vast numbers of people'63
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
New Zealand: B&B owner says 'not in my home' to lesbian couple56
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