James Park is a reporter for PinkNews.co.uk
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29 March 2012Christian Voice: Mice infestation at Tesco store is divine retribution for gay pride support 90 A Tesco Metro store has been forced to close due to a mice infestation, but according to the extremist Christian Voice organisation, it's linked to the company's support for LGBT rights. -
29 March 2012Tory MEP begs David Cameron not to contintue his ‘bizarre attempt to redefine marriage’ 90 The Conservative MEP for South West England and Gibraltar has written to his party leader and prime minister, David Cameron, to complain about the Government's proposals to introduce civil marriage equality. -
29 March 2012Rick Santorum angers gay rights campaigners with pink bowling ball ‘joke’ 35 Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has angered gay rights activists in the United States after he told a boy not use a pink bowling ball during a campaign photo opportunity at a Wisconsin bowling alley. -
28 March 2012Public meeting to discuss MP who asked if Shakespeare would be rewritten if gay couples marry 48 A public meeting is to be held in Thanet after local Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale, who has been North Thanet's MP for nearly thirty years, wrote an article describing prime minister David Cameron's plans to introduce civil marriage equality as "almost Stalinist" that would "rewrite history and tradition". -
22 March 2012David Walliams teases Simon Cowell with gay jokes on Jonathan Ross show 42 Talent show mogul Simon Cowell was left visibly squirming during the filming of the Jonathan Ross show after Little Britain star David Walliams repeatedly teased the X Factor boss questions on his sexuality. -
22 March 2012Film Review: Bel Ami 1 Bel Ami is a name perhaps more familiar to many of us for a certain brand of shall we say gay 'themed' entertainment. But it's also the name of a film staring heartthrob Robert Pattinson. -
22 March 2012Travel: Architectural wonders of Europe 6 Heading off to to Europe over Spring? If you are, don't forget to do some sightseeing. Here are our five top architectural picks to look out for. Europe's great ruins and cities are mighty testament to the ancient and modern world. These are cities of legendary proportions, each with its unique charm, history and works of classical and modern art. Europe is on your doorstep: take a journey through its wondrous history. -
22 March 2012Dan Savage: If Rick Santorum wants to pray for me, I’ll gay for him 12 The creator of the It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage, has hit back at the Republican candidate Rick Santorum after the later offered to "pray for" the gay rights hero in an interview. -
21 March 2012New Hampshire House votes to retain equal marriage for gay couples 68 An attempt to overturn New Hampshire’s legislation to allow equal marriage has failed by 133 votes against equal marriage to 202 to retain equality for gay and straight couples. New Hampshire’s equal marriage law has been under attack since it came into effect in 2010 and progress on a repeal bill was delayed from early last year to this month. -
16 March 2012Video: The UK same sex civil marriage debate 69 Channel 4 News has aired a debate between the Coalition for Marriage and the Coalition for Equal marriage on the Governemnt's plans to introduce same sex civil marriage. -
14 March 2012Home Secretary Theresa May: Government will introduce same sex marriage whatever the Church says 176 Writing in The Times, the Home Secretary and cabinet Minister for Equality, Theresa May, argues that marriage should be for everyone regardless of their sexuality. She strongly dismisses claims by the Church of England to determine who should be able to marry. -
14 March 2012Daniel Radcliffe: Newspapers believed I was gay because I had a ‘gay face’ 54 Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has said he was thrilled that newspapers suspected he was gay because he had a “gay face.” In an interview carried in the Daily Express, the star said that he became fodder for gossip columns after being catapulted to fame as the boy wizard. -
11 March 2012UK Equality Minister: Church’s opposition to same sex marriage is ‘Dark Age’ homophobia 73 Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat minister for equality has said that the language the Church of England and the Catholic Church have used is homophobic and that the views that the leaders are expressing belong in the Dark Ages. -
10 March 2012Polls: More support gay couples marrying in the UK than oppose 64 An ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph and a YouGov poll for The Sunday Times have found more people are in favour of changing the law to allow gay couples to marry than are opposed. -
9 March 2012Video: MSNBC bans advert criticising network for regularly featuring homophobic guest 20 MSNBC has rejected attempts by pro-LGBT rights activists to screen an advertisement criticising the homophobic views of the network’s frequent guest Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC). -
8 March 2012Jack Straw: Church’s marriage views imply I’m a better person because I was born straight 82 The former Labour Justice Secretary, Jack Straw has attacked the opposition to marriage equality by the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. He writes: "“I didn’t choose to be straight. It’s how I am. It would be no different if I were gay. I would neither be a better, nor a worse, person because of it. It would simply be how I was." -
8 March 2012Daily Mail columnist: ‘Church’s opposition to gays marrying shows its irrelevance’ 70 A columnist for The Daily Mail has published a blistering attack on the Church of England and the Catholic Church for arguing against same sex civil marriage. Former UKIP candidate Abjijit Pandya says “fear and disgust towards homosexuals” is “the last great prejudice of our times.” The newspaper is more usually associated with the columnist Melanie Phillips, named Stonewall's Bigot of 2011. -
8 March 2012Australian comedian to host ‘mass gay TV wedding’ 2 Australian comedian and television presenter Adam Hills is to host Australia's first 'mass gay TV wedding'. -
4 March 2012Video: Star studded Prop 8 play made available online 10 Featuring Brad Pitt as Judge Vaughn Walker, 8 tells how the California ballot measure which revoked gay citizens' right to marry was ruled unconstitutional for the first time in 2010. -
4 March 2012UK Catholic cardinal: Gay marriage is ‘a grotesque madness proposed by a disingenuous government’ 178 Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the most senior Catholic in Scotland, Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, has said that gay marriage is a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".
