Articles by Paul Canning

26 March 2013
Comment: The Lucy Meadows bandwagon 54 In the wake of Lucy Meadows’ death, Paul Canning casts a spotlight on several online petitions that are now calling for the sacking of the Daily Mail’s columnist Richard Littlejohn.
6 July 2011
Comment: One year on from gay asylum ruling, have things changed? 26 One year ago, the Supreme Court unanimously handed down a landmark decision in LGBT human rights. Asylum campaigner Paul Canning examines whether things have changed.
18 January 2011
Updated: Iranian men to be stoned to death over gay sex 55 Two young men who filmed themselves having sex have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran. The film was discovered on the mobile phones of Ayub and Mosleh, 20 and 21 years old, by agents of the Iranian regime in the Kurdistan city of Piranshahr in northwest Iran.
6 December 2010
Czech Republic uses ‘gay tests’ on asylum seekers 19 The Czech Republic has been condemned for using "phallometric testing" to check whether asylum seekers who claim to be gay are lying. The tests check the physical reaction to straight porn.
10 September 2010
Comment: The effect of censorware on gay websites 7 Reports of mobile phone providers blocking access to gay website are no surprise to those who've been following the use of the software which blocks these sites - known as 'censorware' - for more than a decade.
27 April 2010
Comment: Labour is shunning gay Iraqis, asylum seekers 13 As he launched Labour's international LGBT manifesto last Wednesday, foreign secretary David Miliband made one howler, echoed by another in the manifesto's text. He said: "Under Labour the UK will continue to be a beacon of hope for LGBT people."
24 March 2010
Comment: Iraq is the most dangerous place on earth for gays 37 It often shocks people to hear this but talk to Iraqi gays who've made it out and they'll tell you - life was better under Saddam.
6 July 2009
Comment: How very dare he! Woolas claims UK fair on LGBT asylum 10 In a shameless piece of bandwagon climbing, immigration minister Phil Woolas has published a piece on LabourList claiming that his department is fair on LGBT asylum. He says he is “proud” that people were at Saturday’s London LGBT Pride march who have won asylum.
26 May 2009
Opinion: The gay community will no longer accept spurious claims of homophobia 50 Paul Canning argues that recent claims of homophobia by MPs exposed for extravagant expenses will no longer wash with the gay community.
24 March 2009
Opinion: Ending the DINK myth 4 For around twenty years the perception of lesbian and gay people has been biased. There is a overwhelming myth about gays and lesbians which is tied to their public profile, particularly that of well-known people, that gay people are better off.
19 June 2008
COMMENT: Why Obama could be good for gays 8 When Hillary Clinton explicitly called for gay rights (twice) in her concession speech it was noteworthy. Why?
22 May 2008
COMMENT: A crack in the UK’s asylum edifice 3 It's very hard for most British gay men and lesbians to imagine what it's like to grow up in a country like Iran. To fear what you are and to have to act with care 24 hours a day.

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