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17 December 2012Matt Damon: Why I never wanted to deny those gay rumours 13 Matt Damon says he never denied rumours of being gay because he didn't want to insult some of his friends. -
17 December 2012Russian football fan club: Please, no gay or black players in our team 20 A group representing the supporters of a Russian football team say they don’t want gay or black players in their team – but deny it’s got anything to do with bigotry. -
17 December 2012Fighter Alex Reid: ‘Sex with men doesn’t make you gay or bisexual, just like a cigarette doesn’t make you a smoker’ 98 Cage fighter Alex Reid has talked about his past of having sex with other men in an interview with Jeremy Kyle. -
17 December 2012Obama petitioned to label church that blamed Newtown school shootings on gay rights as a ‘hate group’ 22 President Obama is being petitioned to class the Westboro Baptist Church, the home of the 'God Hates Fags' campaign as a hate group. -
17 December 2012Cameroon: Court refuses to release man serving 3-year sentence for ‘homosexual behaviour’ 14 A court in Cameroon has upheld a conviction against a man found guilty of "homosexual behaviour" for sending a text message to another man. -
17 December 2012Bishop Gene Robinson: Jesus was pro-gay and spent most of his time with 12 men 16 The US Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, says we shouldn’t assume Jesus was heterosexual. -
17 December 2012Gay Essex dads to sue government over church same-sex marriage ban 91 Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow plan to mount a legal challenge over the government’s decision to ban gay couples from marrying in the Church of England. -
17 December 2012Uganda’s president: Gay people should not be killed or persecuted 26 Uganda's president has said gay people should not be killed or persecuted as the country’s parliament runs out of time to pass the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill for this year. -
17 December 2012Lib Dem MP Gordon Birtwistle: ‘Gay marriage is just not on’ 65 The first Liberal Democrat MP to voice their opposition to the government’s marriage reforms since last week's announcement has gone public. -
17 December 2012Brighton: Gay couple left devastated and traumatised after homophobic attack 32 Sussex Police are appealing for information after a gay couple were violently attacked in Brighton while holding hands on a street. -
17 December 2012US Marine Corps captain proposes to his boyfriend in the White House 15 Over the weekend, a US Marine Corp captain proposed to his partner at the White House. -
18 December 2012Anti-equal marriage Tory MP leaves Twitter after backlash 29 Conservative MP Gordon Henderson has closed down his Twitter account after speaking out against same-sex marriage. -
18 December 2012Muslim council wants exemption from “discriminatory” marriage equality law 79 Muslim leaders have spoken out about upcoming marriage equality legislation to say that all religions should be allowed exemption from the law, not just the Church of England and Church in Wales. -
18 December 2012Dolly Parton: ‘If I was gay, I would have come out of the closet just a-flying’ 4 Dolly Parton has addressed rumours that she is secretly a lesbian by saying that if she was she would have come out of the closet years ago. -
18 December 2012Gareth Thomas joins ITV’s Dancing on Ice 16 Former rugby player Gareth Thomas will be in the rink for the new series of Dancing on Ice. -
18 December 2012Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor: Same-sex marriage is an ‘abuse of language’ 74 The former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, has questioned whether David Cameron can be trusted due to his support for equal marriage. -
18 December 2012US: Judge rules that fetal death certificates should include same-sex parents 3 An Iowa judge has ordered that the Department of Public Health alter the process of issuing fetal death certificates, in order to be inclusive of same-sex parents. -
18 December 2012Vatican paper says marriage equality efforts aim for a gay ‘utopia’ 41 The media in the Vatican has likened moves towards equal marriage to a communist-like "utopia", and said that the Catholic Church will not accept "fashionable" changes in favour of equality. -
18 December 2012Colombia: Christmas gay nativity Facebook photo sparks Catholic anger 36 A Colombian couple has been condemned by the Catholic Church for posting a photo on Facebook that depicts the nativity scene with two father Josephs and baby Jesus, but no Virgin Mary. -
18 December 2012Russian football club declines “stupid” fan club request to avoid gay or black players 7 The director of sports at a Russian football club has declined the request of its largest fan club to discriminate against gay and black players.
Articles from 2012
Top stories
Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or ‘change leadership’+
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 state24
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
Church of England: Allowing straight civil partnerships would ‘introduce confusion’26
- 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- New York: Police say man shot in Greenwich Village was victim of homophobic hate crime1
Daniel Radcliffe: When filming Kill Your Darlings, I was given 'step-by-step' gay sex scene instructions19- 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 state24
Scotland: Trans woman threatened with ban from shopping centre for using ladies' toilets32
Video: Equal marriage parody of Finland's 2013 Eurovision entry goes viral3- 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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