James Park is a reporter for PinkNews.co.uk
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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". -
18 February 2012Maryland House of Delegates approves gay marriage bill 37 The Maryland House of Delegates has passed a bill legalising same-sex marriage that is widely expected to be passed by the state senate and already has the support of the governor Martin O'Malley. -
13 February 2012Washington Governor: Signing gay marriage law is my proudest moment 24 Governor Chris Gregoire, a Democrat and a Roman Catholic, signed into law Washington State's gay marriage legislation. The North Western state becomes the seventh in the United States to offer gay marriage equality. -
12 February 2012Trans man becomes first male in UK to give birth 58 A trans man is believed to have become the UK's first 'male mother' to give birth despite having already had gender reassignment surgery. According to the Sunday Times, the man in his thirties gave birth to a child last year via a caesarean section. -
8 February 2012Washington House of Representatives votes for gay marriage 19 Washington state's House of Representatives has passed a bill to introduce gay marriage by 55 votes to 43. The state's senate has already approved the measure which is also supported by the state governor. -
7 February 2012Appeals court rules California’s gay marriage ban breaks US constitution 18 California's voter initiated ban on gay marriage has been ruled unconstitutional by a US federal court, upholding a decision by a judge to lift the ban in 2010. -
6 February 2012Court to rule tomorrow if California’s gay marriage ban is constitutionally valid 22 A federal appeals court will rule tomorrow on whether California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage is constitutionally valid. Prop 8, the 2008 voter initiative that banned gay and lesbian marriages has been the subject of constant legal battles.
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2 February 2012Video: Washington state governor: ‘States can’t be in the business of discrimination’ 11 The governor of the north-western US state of Washington has recorded a video for the Human Rights Campaign where she affirms her support for gay marriage, likely to be introduced in the state. -
29 January 2012UN secretary general: African governments must respect gay rights 36 The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has told African leaders that they must respect gay rights in an unusually outspoken declaration made at an African Union summit in Ethiopia. -
29 January 2012Archbishop of York compares David Cameron to a dictator over his support of gay marriage 335 In a forthright interview with the Daily Telegraph, the second most senior cleric in the Church of England, the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has compared prime minister David Cameron to a dictator over his support of gay marriage. -
25 January 2012Video: Peter Tatchell through the years 11 In celebration of his 60th birthday and more than 45 years of campaigning, the Peter Tatchell Foundation has created a video showing some iconic images from the life and times of Peter Tatchell. -
15 January 2012Gay dean to sue Church of England after twice being rejected as bishop due to his sexuality 93 Britain’s most senior openly gay cleric has threatened to sue the Church of England unless it promotes him to Bishop. The Very Rev Jeffrey John, currently the Dean of St Albans has twice been overlooked to become a bishop due his sexuality. Dr John is in celibate civil partnership. -
13 December 2011100 take part in first gay pride march in Pune, India 6 Around 100 people participated in the first gay pride march to be held in Pune, India's eighth largest city. The rally was organised by Samapathik, a local men's sexual health organisation. -
13 December 2011Republicans block appointment of US ambassador to El Salvador over pro-gay rights article 26 Last night, the US senate blocked president Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to El Salvador after Republicans expressed outrage at an article she wrote in support of gay rights and unfounded rumours that an ex-boyfriend was a Cuban spy. -
13 December 2011US gay serviceman reinstated following Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discharge 11 A gay linguist who was discharged from the US Navy under the now-repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DODT) ban on openly gay men and women from serving in the armed forces has been reinstated, his attorneys have announced. -
13 December 2011One half of Canadian ‘gay’ penguin couple finds a straight mate 60 One half of Canada's best known gay couples, a pair of African penguins, has found a new mate, of the opposite sex. Toronto's zoo split up a pair of male penguins, Buddy and Pedro, in order to coax them into breeding. -
11 December 2011Marcus Collins loses out in final of X Factor 14 Marcus Collins, who is openly gay, lost out to girl band, Little Mix, on the television talent show X Factor at the final broadcast this evening on ITV 1 and filmed in front of an audience of 10,000 at Wembley Stadium.
