Benjamin Cohen founded PinkNews.co.uk in 2005 and was editor until 2006. He was technology correspondent at Channel 4 News between 2006 and 2012.
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10 October 2005More Gay Fun For Doctor Who? + Doctor Who's bisexual friend, Captain Jack Harkness will be returning for more mischief in series three of the popular revival.
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10 October 2005Gay Muslim Faces Deportation to Iran 1 A Gay Iranian faces deportation to his home country where three gay men have been executed in the past few weeks.The man, aged 29, who has not been named for legal reason fled the country after his gay friend was arrested as a result of a video seized by religious police that allegedly shows the men kissing.
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10 October 2005Princess Margaret’s Gay Affair -Channel 4 Drama + The late Princess Margaret, sister of the Queen will be portrayed as a drug taking bisexual in a new drama from the often controversial Channel 4.The drama, 'The Queen's Sister' will show Margeret kissing another woman, smoking a suspect cigarette and unzipping the trousers of her then fiancé Anthony Armstrong-Jones at a party.
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10 October 2005Princess Margaret’s Gay Affair -Channel 4 Drama + The late Princess Margaret, sister of the Queen will be portrayed as a drug taking bisexual in a new drama from the often controversial Channel 4.The drama, 'The Queen's Sister' will show Margeret kissing another woman, smoking a suspect cigarette and unzipping the trousers of her then fiancé Anthony Armstrong-Jones at a party.
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10 October 2005Princess Margaret’s Gay Affair -Channel 4 Drama + The late Princess Margaret, sister of the Queen will be portrayed as a drug taking bisexual in a new drama from the often controversial Channel 4.The drama, 'The Queen's Sister' will show Margeret kissing another woman, smoking a suspect cigarette and unzipping the trousers of her then fiancé Anthony Armstrong-Jones at a party.
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10 October 2005Gay Sex Prisoners Released From Fijian Jail + Two men who were sentenced to two years in a Fiji jail for consensual gay sex have been freed after a Fijian High Court Appeal.
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10 October 2005Anti-Gay Artists Barred from MOBO Awards + After years of protests from organisations including Outrage, the gay rights campaigning group, the MOBO (Music of Black Origin) organisers appear to have blocked the nominations of anti-gay musicians.The black music industry's key artists have long been accused of homophobia.
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10 October 2005Manchester Parties to Gay Pride + 200,000 people turned out in Manchester to watch the city's annual August bank holiday Gay Pride parade. An attempt by extremists to sabotage the event failed when only five members bothered to turn up.The Demonstration that was organised by the rightwing extremist group, the National Front, ended up in humiliation when their five protestors were outnumbered by fifty Unite Against Fascism counter protestors.
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10 October 2005Gay Cruising Row Over EU Summit Policing + Gay Men who use Gosforth Park a popular open space in Newcastle for cruising, have been warned to stay away next week.European Interior Ministers (Home Office Ministers) are due in the area to join the British Home Secretary, Charles Clarke (pictured) in debating issues such as terrorism and asylum.
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10 October 2005California Votes to Legalise Gay Marriages + California's Senate has defied the US President George Bush by voting to legislate for gay marriages.Although many areas in the USA do offer some form of Gay marriage, this is the first time that a State Senate has passed a bill legalising same-sex marriages. The bill passed with 21 votes compared to 15 votes from those opposing moves.
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10 October 2005Poll Shows Americans Support Gays in the Army + A poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 58% of Americans support allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military, up from 52% in 1994.The percentage of those who strongly opposed allowing open service fell from 26% in 1994 to 15% in 2005.
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10 October 2005Isle of Man Plans to Reduce the Gay Age of Consent + The Isle of Man's Council of Ministers has announced that the state will be looking to equalise the age of consent for gay and straight sex.The Isle, which has its own legal system, but is a British Crown dependency, is currently the only place in the British Isles where the age of consent is unequal
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10 October 2005Schwarzenegger Rejects Gay Marriage Plans + Just two days after California's Same-Sex Marriage Bill was approved by the upper house of the state's parliament, Arnold Schwarzenegger(pictured), the Governor of California has announced that he will veto the bill.The Governor, was initially expected to have supported the change in the law, however Mr Schwarzenegger has stated that he believes that gay marriage would be unconstitutional.
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10 October 2005UK Gay TV Channel Scrapped + Faze, the UK's first general gay programming channel will not launch after all. Despite 8 months of work, advertising and promotions, the channel's operators failed to reach an agreement with Sky over the funding for the service.
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10 October 2005Gay Weddings Banned by Hotels and Councils 1 As Britain gears up for its first civil partnership ceremonies this December, it has emerged that hundreds of traditional wedding venues including hotels and even some registry offices have been turning away so called "gay weddings".
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10 October 2005I’m the Only Gay in the Top Trump Set! + Daffyd, the only gay in the village of Llanddewi Brefi is to join the other characters of the hit comedy sketch show, Little Britain in a brand new set of Top Trumps.The 1980s classic kid's game is being brought up to date with the charcters immortalised by David Walliams and Matt Lucas.
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10 October 2005Registrars May Boycott Gay Weddings + It has emerged that Registrars who are opposed to civil partnerships (often called Gay Marriages) may plead a "conscientious objection" to the relationship and as such refuse to officiate over the ceremonies when they begin in December of this year.
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10 October 2005Westlife and V Singer Reveal They Are Gay Lovers 4 Westlife singer Mark Feehily has revealed he is gay. The singer in the leading Irish band told the Sun that he's gay and "very proud of who I am".
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10 October 2005Gay HIV Rates Rise Due to Crystal Meth + Crystal Methamphetamine users are shown to be at least three times more likely to be infected with HIV than those who don't use the drug, according to a new US government-sponsored study.
