Christopher joined PinkNews.co.uk as a reporter and news editor in 2010
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6 April 2012State-run TV in Malaysia to ‘ban’ programmes featuring gay characters 18 The Malaysian Information Department has banned television shows which feature gay characters, starting with state-run channels. The country’s Deputy Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Maglin Dennis D'Cruz said the ban would be effective immediately beginning with state-owned TV and radio stations. -
6 April 2012Gay former cabinet minister Ben Bradshaw mocks Government’s plans for marriage equality 387 Mr Bradshaw made the bizarre comment at a crucial moment in the battle for marriage equality, after a petition launched by the homophobic Coalition for Marriage group which insists that the institution should remain traditional - i.e. between a man and a woman – went beyond 400,000 signatures. -
30 March 2012Students in California may be asked to declare sexuality when enrolling 24 Prospective students at the University of California and California State University campuses may be asked to volunteer information when applying or enrolling next year on whether they are LGBT. -
30 March 2012Mother of 9/11 hero responds to Carson Daly about ‘gay stereotypes’ 35 Following Carson Daly's apology today for suggesting, in his Los Angeles radio show, that gay people would not have been brave enough to restrain an aggravated pilot who went into "meltdown" on a recent flight to Las Vegas, the mother of one of the passengers who charged the cockpit of hijacked Flight 93 on the morning of 9/11 has made a statement in response. -
30 March 201271-year-old Texan woman charged with gay hate crime 77 A 71-year-old Texan woman was yesterday charged with committing a hate crime after being accused of beating and choking a 25-year-old man with a wooden cane because she believed he was gay and had AIDS. -
30 March 2012Anti-gay MP is Queensland’s first female parliamentary speaker 38 Anti-gay Australian MP Fiona Simpson has been announced as the new Speaker of Queensland's parliament. Ms Simpson will be the state's first ever female Parliamentary Speaker. -
30 March 2012Connecticut man alleges past gay relationship with American baseball star 21 A man in Hartford, Connecticut is being investigated by the police after allegedly threatening Carl Pavano, an American baseball star who plays for Minnesota Twins, with the revelation that the pair had an gay relationship in high school. -
30 March 2012Nepal to host national LGBT games 10 This September, Nepal is set to host the country's first - and indeed Asia's first - national games for LGBT persons. -
30 March 2012European Parliament stands up for free movement of LGBT persons in EU 16 The European Parliament unveiled yesterday their annual report on EU citizenship, which stated that same-sex couples and their families still face considerable hurdles inside the European Union. -
29 March 2012St Petersburg ‘gay propaganda’ law could become nationwide Russian policy 21 Earlier this month, the governor of St Petersburg signed into law a bill making it an offence to "promote" gay or transgender personal identities in the city. Now, lawmakers in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk have proposed that Russia introduces the legislation nationwide. -
29 March 2012Possible end to blood ban on gay men in Israel 4 In Israel next month, a Health Ministry advisory committee on transfusion medicine will consider whether to amend the clause that forbids gay men donating blood, following a similar change here in Britain. -
29 March 2012Police in Delhi shut down gay photography exhibition 16 A photographic exhibition celebrating gay life which opened in Delhi last week has been closed by the police following an anonymous complaint that its content was obscene. -
29 March 2012Law proposed in Kansas will allow religious to veto anti-discrimination laws 61 A bill was passed in Kansas yesterday that its opponents claim legalises discrimination against LGBT persons. -
29 March 2012Welsh vicar resigns over Church’s homophobic attitudes to gay couples marrying 32 A vicar in Monmouthshire, Wales, has stepped down from his position over what he says is the Church's homophobia surrounding gay couples marrying. -
28 March 2012American military academies celebrate first gay pride events 6 This week saw the first gay pride events being celebrated at military academies in the USA, six months after the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. -
28 March 2012Man jailed for nine years after homophobic attack in Liverpool 15 A chef has been jailed for nine years this week for an attack on a young man in Liverpool's gay quarter last autumn. -
28 March 2012Irish president slams homophobia in message to youth organisation 26 Irish President Michael D Higgins has addressed a youth organisation about the evils of homophobia. -
28 March 2012Christian group pledge support for gay couples marrying 52 The Progressive Christianity Network (PCN) is the latest British faith-based group to come out in favour of legal recognition of gay marriage. -
28 March 2012Gay Chilean man dies in hospital after neo-Nazi attack 26 Daniel Zamudio, a gay 24-year-old Chilean man who was left brain-dead following an attack in Santiago by four alleged members of a neo-Nazi gang, died yesterday in hospital after three weeks in a medically-induced coma. -
28 March 2012Maltese government set to propose civil partnerships 9 The Maltese government is set to propose civil partnerships for gay couples. The country's justice minister is to pilot a cohabitation law, which will propose the regulation of same-sex relationships.
