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19 December 2012US: Baseball player apologises for tweeting homophobic slur 1 A New York Mets baseball player has apologised after he used a homophobic slur in a twitter conversation with a friend earlier this month. -
19 December 2012Trinidad and Tobago: Prime Minister to give ‘due consideration’ to LGBT discrimination 4 The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago has gone on record to say that she will give "due consideration" to the issue of discrimination raised by LGBT people. -
19 December 2012Nate Silver: My friends describe me as ‘sexually gay but ethnically straight’ 11 US statistician, Nate Silver, said his friends would describe him as "kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight", in a recent interview. -
19 December 2012Scottish clergy promise to defy any Church of Scotland ban on them marrying same-sex couples 14 Church of Scotland clergy have said that they will join more than 150 Church of England vicars to defy any bans placed on them from holding same-sex marriages. -
19 December 2012US Pentecostal churches blamed for homophobia ‘surge’ in Africa 25 Extreme elements of the US Pentecostal Church are behind the ‘surge’ in homophobia across Africa, according to human rights groups. -
19 December 2012Ireland: ‘Gay’ chef to spend 8 years behind bars for raping lesbian 6 A 46-year-old man accused of raping a lesbian, having previously told her he was gay, has been jailed. -
19 December 2012Trans model gives Michelle Obama a run for her money on cover of trans magazine + Candy, the transversal style magazine has featured trans model Connie Fleming as a Michelle Obama style "Candydate" of choice. -
19 December 2012UK: Gay couples denied access to heterosexual divorce laws 28 Gay partners in England and Wales who have an affair with someone of the same sex will not be able to use adultery laws as grounds for divorce, lawyers have warned. -
19 December 2012Study: The larger a gay man’s penis is, the more likely they are to have unprotected sex 41 An academic study of the correlation between penis size and condom usage among gay and bisexual men to be published in full next year has found that the larger a man's penis, the less likely they are to use a condom. -
19 December 2012UK: Envoy to the prime minister to vote against same-sex marriage 32 Conservative MP Stephen O'Brien, who is also the Prime Minister's Envoy & UK Special Representative to the Sahel region in Africa, has confirmed he will vote against equal marriage. -
19 December 2012US: Republican Todd Akin pushes for homophobic ‘licence to bully’ law 44 Missouri Republican Representative Todd Akin is giving one last push to an anti-gay bill before leaving the US House of Representatives. -
19 December 2012Moscow: Gay rights campaigners attacked outside Russian Parliament 1 Gay rights campaigners have been attacked outside the Russian Parliament as lawmakers debate passing a federal homophobic law. -
19 December 2012New York: Gay hospital worker jumps in front of train after paedophilia charges 13 A man who was one of the first gay people to marry on top of the Empire State Building has been hit by a subway train just hours after he was bailed in relation to indecent images of children. -
19 December 2012Gay bareback porn star dies of HIV related complications 106 Gay adult star Josh Weston (real name Chad) has died aged 39. -
19 December 2012Australian gay politician travels to Spain in order to marry partner 13 A gay Australian politician and his partner were married in Spain on Wednesday after flying halfway around the world to skirt Australia’s laws banning marriage equality. -
19 December 2012UK: Primary school writes to parents to explain that their child’s teacher will be changing gender 60 A Church of England primary school has written to parents to explain that their children's teacher will be changing genders from male to female. -
19 December 2012Pam Ann: “Julia Gillard is like a ginger lesbian Harry Potter lookalike” 13 Pam Ann, the air hostess alter-ego of Australian comedienne Caroline Reid, has taken time out from jetting across the skies to do a quick Q&A with PinkNews.co.uk – and she doesn’t have kind words for Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard. -
19 December 2012Pastor uses banana on TV to show ‘the anus is for exit only’ & claims lesbians have sex with cucumbers 59 The Reverend Martin Ssempa, a homophobic pastor in Uganda who is well known for his lectures against homosexuality has stunned television viewers in Uganda by demonstrating with fruit and vegetables how he believes gay men and women have sex. -
19 December 2012Brighton: Police launch special website into gay man’s murder 7 A website to assist Sussex Police in tracing a suspect being sought over the unsolved murder of a Brighton gay man has been set up by the force. -
19 December 2012Video: This Christmas, George Takei will help you come out for your family for $99 8 In a spoof infomercial sketch for last night's Conan show, Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's longtime sidekick with a little help from Star Trek star George Takei offered to help viewers come out to their family at the Christmas dinner.
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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
Birmingham: LGBT sports centre to be opened by naked charity calendar stars Warwick Rowers11- New York: Police say man shot in Greenwich Village was victim of homophobic hate crime0
- 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
- Church of England: Allowing straight civil partnerships would 'introduce confusion'23
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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