Christopher joined PinkNews.co.uk as a reporter and news editor in 2010
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31 May 2011Outrage at capital’s HIV services funding cut 38 London HIV prevention groups have said they are outraged at the 20 per cent funding cut. -
31 May 2011Nepalese census includes category for ‘third gender’ 4 Nepal's Central Bureau of Statistics has given official recognition to LGB and transgender people. This is being hailed as a bold move and key victory for equality given that the country only decriminalised gay relationships in 2007. -
31 May 2011New memorial to gay holocaust victims to be built in Munich 96 The German city of Munich, where the Nazis raided gay bars in the early days of the Third Reich, is to have a new memorial dedicated to the gay and lesbian victims of the holocaust. -
31 May 2011New website launched to further promote gay marriage equality in Australia 14 A newly launched Australian website, My Marriage Story is allowing LGBTI Australians to share stories and ideas about the promotion of marriage equality. -
31 May 2011Gallup poll reveals Americans believe 25 per cent of their population are gay or lesbian 26 The findings of a Gallup poll conducted in the USA last month have revealed that Americans estimate 25 per cent of their fellow countrymen and women are gay or lesbian. -
31 May 2011New Canadian exhibition looks at gay maritime life of the post-war years 7 A new exhibition has opened at The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Canada, looking into the gay and lesbian subcultures that flourished at sea on passenger cruise ships, naval vessels and freighters from the 1950s onwards. -
31 May 2011South African ambassador to Uganda found guilty of gay-hate speech 15 The South African Human Rights Commission has won a hate speech case against journalist Jon Qwelane over an anti-gay column he wrote prior to his appointment as the country’s ambassador to Uganda. -
31 May 2011Catholic Care plans to appeal a fourth time over gay adoption ruling 49 The Leeds-based charity Catholic Care are to appeal to the Upper Tribunal in the hope of quashing the ruling forbidding them to exclude gay people when considering potential adoptive parents. -
30 May 2011Trans woman asks that she be sent to a women’s prison if convicted for benefit fraud 35 A trans woman from Oldham who confessed to falsely claiming £12,000 in benefits over a period of four years, asked that she be sent to a women's prison if convicted. -
30 May 2011Chilean president Sebastian Pinera seeks ‘regulation and protection’ for gay couples 42 President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, said this weekend that he wants Congress to legalise de facto civil unions in an attempt to "regulate and protect" more than two million unmarried couples, including gay and lesbian couples. -
30 May 2011Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City ordains first lesbian rabbi 18 The Conservative movement ordained their first openly gay rabbi in a ceremony earlier this month at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. -
30 May 2011Kirk leaders believe more Scots ministers will come out following last week’s vote to allow gay clergy 76 The Church of Scotland is expecting a number of its ministers to come out as gay after last week's historic vote to allow gay men and women to practice clergy. -
30 May 2011First Prague gay pride to take place in August 17 Prague's first Pride festival will take place this summer. The organisers are confident they will put Prague on the map as Central and Eastern Europe’s capital of diversity, even though Prague is the last capital in the European Union to host such a festival. -
30 May 2011Irish minister Ruairi Quinn launches guidelines on safe and supportive schools for lesbian and gay students 16 Irish Labour Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, today launches the new publication Guidelines for Principals on Including Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students in School Policies. -
30 May 2011Scottish gay charity Equality Network present their thoughts on Moscow Pride to the Russian Consulate in Edinburgh 30 Edinburgh-based LGBT charity the Equality Network will today deliver a card of commiseration to the Russian consulate in Edinburgh regarding this weekend's violence at Moscow Pride. -
30 May 2011Birmingham Pride largely a success, despite police investigation of two homophobic incidents 14 Police are treating as homophobic two incidents that took place at an otherwise successful and peaceful Birmingham Pride over the weekend. -
30 May 2011Increasing number of countries becoming more tolerant of homosexuality, survey shows 69 Results of a new cross-national study have shown that a vast majority of countries have become more accepting of homosexuality over the past 20 years - though the trend is markedly slower in Russia and other former Communist countries. -
30 May 2011Fence-sitting senators could decide fate of New York state’s same-sex marriage vote 18 A group of undecided senators could determine whether same-sex marriage will become legal in New York state, according to a survey by Gannett's Albany Bureau. -
27 April 2011Lesbian cadet Katherine Miller refused readmission to West Point 7 Katherine Miller, the lesbian cadet who resigned from West Point military academy last year over the don't ask don't tell policy, has had her bid for readmission refused.
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27 April 2011Trans woman speaks out about Baltimore McDonald’s beating 49 Chrissy Lee Polis, a trans woman who was attacked by two girls in the ladies' room of the Rosedale Branch of McDonald's in Baltimore last week, has spoken out about her ordeal.
