James Park is a reporter for PinkNews.co.uk
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20 December 2012Ireland: Lesbian couple get engaged via Tweets projected onto Dublin building 5 The Irish state broadcaster RTE has reported on how a festive tweets promotion by AOL turned into a surprise civil partnership proposal for a lesbian couple. -
20 December 2012Campaigners: Same-sex marriage in Spain of Australian government minister must spur on marriage equality 7 Equal marriage campaigners in Australia have said that the marriage in Spain by a gay government minister to his long term partner shows how pressing the need for a change in the law is. -
20 December 2012Ireland: Number of gay couples registering civil partnerships drops 7 The Irish Central Statistics Office has reported that the number of gay couples entering into civil partnerships has dropped by a third since its introduction last year. -
20 December 2012Video: Australian TV host flirts outrageously with God Hates Fags protestor in spoof news report 12 The Australian satirical news team The Chaser has surprised a the son of the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, home of the God Hates Fags campaign by flirting with him on national television. -
19 December 2012Pastor uses banana on TV to show ‘the anus is for exit only’ & claims lesbians have sex with cucumbers 59 The Reverend Martin Ssempa, a homophobic pastor in Uganda who is well known for his lectures against homosexuality has stunned television viewers in Uganda by demonstrating with fruit and vegetables how he believes gay men and women have sex. -
19 December 2012Gay bareback porn star dies of HIV related complications 106 Gay adult star Josh Weston (real name Chad) has died aged 39. He had previously starred in a string of bareback porn films for a variety of different porn houses. -
19 December 2012Study: The larger a gay man’s penis is, the more likely they are to have unprotected sex 41 An academic study of the correlation between penis size and condom usage among gay and bisexual men to be published in full next year has found that the larger a man's penis, the less likely they are to use a condom. -
19 December 2012Trans model gives Michelle Obama a run for her money on cover of trans magazine + Candy, the transversal style magazine has featured trans model Connie Fleming as a Michelle Obama style "Candydate" of choice. -
18 December 2012Confusion over Tweeted saucy Santa photo of Glee star Darren Criss 12 Confusion reigns over whether Glee will be releasing a saucy calendar after the show's creator Ryan Murphy apparently tweeted an image of star Darren Criss. -
18 December 2012Early and highly influential AIDS activist Spencer Cox dies aged 44 33 Spencer Cox, one of the most significant AIDS activists in America has died aged 44 of AIDS related causes. -
18 December 2012KKK step in to counter ‘God Hates Fags’ picket at military memorial ceremony 46 Your enemy's enemy is your friend? The Ku Klux Klan stepped in to counter a protest by the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church at the Arlington National Cemetery yesterday. -
17 December 2012US Marine Corps captain proposes to his boyfriend in the White House 15 Over the weekend, a US Marine Corp captain proposed to his partner at the White House. The photos posted to Facebook have been liked hundreds of times. -
17 December 2012Obama petitioned to label church that blamed Newtown school shootings on gay rights as a ‘hate group’ 22 President Obama is being petitioned to class the Westboro Baptist Church, the home of the 'God Hates Fags' campaign as a hate group. The church has outraged America by blaming the masacre at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut on the state's equal marriage policies. -
17 December 2012Fighter Alex Reid: ‘Sex with men doesn’t make you gay or bisexual, just like a cigarette doesn’t make you a smoker’ 98 Cage fighter Alex Reid has talked about his past of having sex with other men in an interview with Jeremy Kyle. -
16 December 2012Tory, Labour and cross-bench Peers and MPs say Government is ignoring public ‘opposition’ to equal marriage 53 Almost 60 Conservative, Labour and cross-bench MPs and peers have signed up to a new Parliamentary plan to oppose same-sex marriage. The politicians and former clergymen have signed a strongly worded letter to the Daily Telegraph where they accuse David Cameron and Nick Clegg of “ploughing on regardless” in the face of what it claims was an “overwhelming public response” in opposition to equality. -
16 December 2012Mail on Sunday poll: 60% of British voters support David Cameron’s plans for same-sex marriage 16 A poll for the Mail on Sunday, a newspaper that is opposed to equal marriage has found that the majority of the public support changing the law. The poll also found that half of Conservative voters support David Cameron’s plans for gay equality. -
16 December 2012Video: The sick film that Westboro Baptist Church made to blame gay rights for Newtown school masacre 25 The Westboro Baptist Church, the home of the 'God Hates Fags Church' has released a sickening video to explain how that 'God Sent the Shooter' to kill children at a Connecticut school because of the state's acceptance of same-sex marriage. -
16 December 2012Anonymous hacks ‘God Hates Fags’ church after it announced plans to picket Newtown school shooting funerals 43 The hacking collective Anonymous has continued a long running battle with the Westboro Baptist Church, the home of the ‘God Hates Fags’ church. Hackers attacked the church’s website and begun posting the personal contact details of its main organisers after the church said it would picket the funerals of children murdered at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. -
16 December 2012US church: ‘Gay rights caused Newtown school shooting massacre’ 121 The Westboro Baptist Church, that affectionately dub themselves the ‘God Hates Fags Church’ has announced that the cause of the shootings in a Connecticut primary school was homosexuality. -
14 December 2012US Radio host: Gays aren’t human so aren’t protected by the US constitution 167 An American Christian radio host who last week said that same-sex marriage encourages children to have gay sex has now said that as she believes humans aren’t naturaly homosexual, gays aren’t ‘people’ and shouldn’t be protected under the definition of a person.
