Joseph Patrick McCormick is a news editor for PinkNews.co.uk
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1 April 2013Zenit FC’s Hulk: ‘Homophobic football fans at my club do not think at all’ 9 A footballer at what has been described as Russia's most racist football club, has heavily criticised fans who supported a manifesto late last year calling for the club to discriminate against gay and black players. -
1 April 2013US: Arizona Congressman stands by opposition to equal marriage despite son being gay 19 A Mormon Arizona Congressman has said that, despite his own son being gay, his stance on equal marriage hadn't "evolved" for him too support it. -
1 April 2013Rugby star Ben Cohen: Elton John made me get a hearing aid and ‘changed my life’ 13 Former England rugby player Ben Cohen has said that Elton John "changed his life" by convincing him to get a hearing aid, and said that Sir Elton does more charity work than people realise. -
1 April 2013US: Boy Scouts of America rejects LGBT centre sponsored application for non-gay troop 2 The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has rejected an application from a group of scout and church leaders to create a troop, sponsored by an LGBT organisation, to be inclusive of boys whose parents opposed the BSA because of its ongoing ban on gay members. -
1 April 2013Snoop Lion on equal marriage: ‘People can do as they please’ 3 Rapper turned reggae artist Snoop Lion has confirmed that he supports equal marriage, and said that he has "no issues with nobody." -
1 April 2013Marie Osmond comes out in support of equal marriage 11 Marie Osmond, a member of the show business family The Osmonds has said that she supports equal marriage, and cited her daughter as one of the reasons she was in support. -
31 March 2013GOP Senator: ‘It is inevitable that a GOP presidential candidate will support equal marriage’ 4 A Republican Senator has spoken out to say that, despite being opposed to equal marriage himself, he thinks a future GOP candidate for the US presidency will support same-sex marriage. -
31 March 2013Archbishop of New York: Gay couples are only ‘entitled to friendship’, not sex 81 The Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan has reiterated the opposition to gay relationship by the Catholic Church, and went on to say that gay couples are only "entitled to friendship", and that “sexual love…is intended only for a man and a woman”. -
31 March 2013Church of England clergyman: ‘Lord Carey should get over his obsession with gay sex’ 45 Members of the Church of England, other faith groups and secularists have quickly responded to deny claims by Lord Carey that David Cameron's "aggressively secular" government was marginalising Christians. -
31 March 2013Archbishop of Canterbury: The Church of England must be ‘graceful’ in equal marriage row 14 The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, has said that the Church of England must remain "graceful" in its internal disagreements around equal marriage. -
31 March 2013Freddie Mercury dressed Princess Diana in drag to sneak her into a gay bar 24 Freddie Mercury dressed Princess Diana up as an "eccentrically dressed gay male model", in order to sneak her into the Vauxhall Tavern, reports have revealed. -
31 March 2013Video: Film trailer claims equal marriage will lead to the ‘criminalisation of Christianity’ 41 The trailer for a new fillm by a Christian organisation claims that the legalisation of equal marriage, and the advancement of LGBT rights will lead to the "criminalisation of Christianity". -
30 March 2013Top family lawyer: The government should stop ‘faffing around with gay marriage’ 64 One of Britain's leading family lawyers has accused David Cameron's government of "faffing around with gay marriage" rather than tackling other injustices within marital law. -
30 March 2013Clare Balding: Fans of men’s football are ‘racist and homophobic’ 19 Television sports presenter Clare Balding has hit out at men's football, has said its fans are "racist and homophobic", and that male footballers fake injuries, unlike their female counterparts. -
29 March 2013US: San Francisco bar accused of anti-gay discrimination 2 A San Francisco bar has been accused of anti-gay discrimination by two women who claimed they were kicked out after responding to homophobic remarks, and who have since called for a boycott of the bar. -
29 March 2013Gay Tea Party co-founder: I oppose equal marriage doing so is ‘not homophobic’ 35 An openly gay co-founder of the US National Capital Tea Party Patriots, has said he is opposed to equal marriage, and has said that it is "not homophobic" to oppose it. -
29 March 2013Jon Stewart: There is no excuse for the Supreme Court to delay taking a stance on equal marriage 2 Speaking on Thursday evening's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart was heavily critical of some arguments heard in the US Supreme Court around equal marriage in the first two days of hearings this week. -
29 March 2013Gay former NFL player: No gay athlete should ‘feel alone’ in being gay + Openly gay former NFL player Kwame Harris has opened up about being gay in the NFL, saying if he had the chance again he would hope to have "found the strength" to come out, and that he didn't want gay athletes to "feel alone". -
29 March 2013Anti-equal marriage former Tory candidate Maria Hutchings in Twitter spat over civil unions 23 Anti-equal marriage former Tory candidate Maria Hutchings, who stood for the Conservative Party in the recent Eastleigh by-election and came third, took to Twitter today in a heated argument around equal marriage and civil unions. -
29 March 2013Michelle Shocked responds to cancelled show following anti-gay rant by staging sit-in 4 Folk singer Michelle Shocked has responded to the cancellation of dates of her tour following a recent show in San Francisco during which she allegedly went on a homophobic rant, by turning up at a venue anyway and staging a sit-in.
