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28 September 2010
Judge rules sacked lesbian flight nurse should be reinstated + A flight nurse sacked under Don't Ask, Don't Tell should be reinstated, a federal judge has ruled. Former Major Margaret Witt was sacked in 2007 after 19 years of service in the Air Force and Air Force Reserves.
28 September 2010
Hollyoaks star Kieron Richardson ‘relieved’ at coming out 12 Kieron Richardson, the actor who plays Ste Hay in Hollyoaks, has said he is relived to have announced he is gay. The 24-year-old came out on This Morning earlier this month.
28 September 2010
Police detain gay cruisers in Beijing 9 Dozens of gay men have been detained at an outdoor cruising site in Beijing, China. According to AFP, a gay rights campaigner claimed that more than 80 men at a forested pick-up spot in Mudanyuan, to the north of the city, on Sunday and Monday.
27 September 2010
Anti-gay pastor Eddie Long vows to ‘fight’ gay sex claims + Eddie Long, the anti-gay leader of one of America's largest church congregations, has said he will fight allegations he coerced young men in his flock to have sex with him. Last week, three young men filed lawsuits alleging that Mr Long gave them money, cars and holidays in return for massages, oral sex and masturbation.
22 September 2010
Lesbian feminist writer Jill Johnston dies aged 81 6 The feminist author Jill Johnston has died of a stroke at the age of 81. she lived with her wife and partner of 30 years Ingrid Nyeboe in northwestern Connecticut after their second marriage last year.
22 September 2010
Brian Paddick: My marriage is ‘downgraded’ in Britain 32 The former most senior out gay police officer in the UK, Brian Paddick, has revealed how his wedding in Norway changed his mind about civil partnerships. Writing in the Independent, Mr Paddick recounted his 2009 wedding to Petter Belsvik in Oslo.
20 September 2010
London’s gay art festival GFEST announces programme 1 London's gay art and culture festival GFEST has announced its programme for this year. The event will be held across venues in London between November 8th-21st and is now in its fourth year.
20 September 2010
Lady Gaga to join gay rights protest 7 Lady Gaga will join a protest in Maine against the ban on out gay soldiers in the US military. A spokesman from the Servicemembers Legal Defence Network said the bisexual singer would join LGBT veterans at the event today in Portland.
20 September 2010
AA Gill nominated for Stonewall’s ‘Bigot of the Year’ award 24 Sunday Times columnist AA Gill has been nominated for Stonewall's 'Bigot of the Year' award for offending lesbian TV presenter Clare Balding. Gill wrote in a July column that Balding was a "dyke on a bike, puffing up the nooks and crannies at the bottom end of the nation".
16 September 2010
Missing Russian gay rights campaigner ‘in Minsk’ 4 Nikolai Alekseev, the Russian gay rights campaigner who was arrested at an airport in Moscow yesterday, is believed to be in Minsk. Mr Alekseev, who is unpopular with Russian authorities for attempting to hold Pride marches, was arrested by border control police yesterday at Domodedovo airport after passing through passport control.
6 September 2010
Lady Gaga ‘training’ to become a minister to perform gay marriages 9 Popstar Lady GaGa is reportedly training to become an ordained minister in order to perform gay marriages for her LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) fans. According to British tabloid, the Daily Star, the bisexual singer has been spurred on by the continuing row over gay marriages in California.
19 August 2010
A third of HIV-positive gay men show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder 19 A study has found that one third of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. Researchers were surprised to find that starting HIV medication was the strongest trigger for PTSD.
19 August 2010
Germany’s justice minister considering giving gay couples equal income tax rights 5 Germany's justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said today she is looking at how gay couples can be given equality in the income tax system.
19 August 2010
Trans woman claims she lost her job after wearing women’s clothes 10 A trans woman from Lincoln is suing her former employers, claiming that they sacked her after she began wearing women's clothes to work.
19 August 2010
6,000 civil partnerships formed last year 14 Figures show that 6,281 gay couples had civil partnerships in the UK in 2009, a fall of 12 per cent compared with 2008. According to the Office for National Statistics, 3,227 male and 3,054 female couples tied the knot last year.
16 August 2010
Teenager shot dead at Brazil pride festival 1 A teenage boy was killed in a shooting at a pride festival in south-east Brazil on Saturday. The teenager was killed at the Juiz de Fora Pride, which attracted nearly 70,000 people.
12 August 2010
98 per cent of PinkNews.co.uk readers want full marriage equality 46 A poll of almost 800 LGBT PinkNews.co.uk readers has found that the vast majority want equal marriage rights. The survey found that 98 per cent agreed that marriage laws should be gender-neutral, while just two per cent feel civil partnerships are adequate.
29 July 2010
MP Angela Eagle defends Australian lesbian minister’s opposition to gay marriage 35 Labour MP Angela Eagle has defended an Australian lesbian politician for publicly opposing equal marriage. Ms Eagle, who was the only out lesbian in parliament until this year, said that Australian Labor politicianPenny Wong should be commended for her previous record on gay rights.
29 July 2010
Banking heir sues for libel over Peter Mandelson story + Nathaniel Rothschild is suing the Daily Mail over a story which claimed he set up a meeting between Lord Mandelson and a Russian billionaire. The newspaper's story, published on May 22nd of this year, was titled "Mandelson, an oligarch and a £500m deal".
26 July 2010
British man wins French civil partnership tax victory 15 A French court has ordered that a British man should be returned more than £30,000 he paid to tax authorities after inheriting a home from his civil partner.

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