Stephen Gray joined PInkNews.co.uk as a reporter in 2009 and was editor from October 2011 to August 2012.
Twitter: @stephenjgray-
27 June 2012Scottish government to reveal marriage decision in two weeks 67 The Scottish government has confirmed it will announce its decision on whether or not to legalise gay marriages on 10 July. -
27 June 2012Cannes: Sexuality questionnaire pulled after ‘shocking’ retirees 9 Following complaints, authorities in Cannes have pulled a questionnaire intended to shed light on why the area has a higher proportion of older people being diagnosed with HIV. -
27 June 2012Bulgaria: Government ‘should condemn priest’s call for stoning at Pride’ 15 The Bulgarian justice minister has been called on to repudiate a priest's call for physical violence against Pride marchers in the country's capital city. -
27 June 2012Archbishop of Canterbury ‘frustrated’ by Christian ‘disgust’ over equal marriage 100 The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of 'frustration' at those Christians whose feelings of 'embarrassment, shame and disgust' over equal marriage rights for gay couples send out 'unwelcome' messages. -
27 June 2012New York Knicks player Amar’e Stoudemire fined $50,000 for gay slur Twitter message 6 The NBA, America's top professional basketball association, has fined New York Knicks player Amar'e Stoudemire for sending a fan an anti-gay slur on Twitter. -
26 June 2012Scotland could learn from California’s experience on equal marriage, state governor says 43 The Governor of California has reportedly called on Scotland to lead on marriage equality legislation and to benefit from the experiences of California. -
26 June 2012Audio: Phil Brown accidentally dubs Italian midfielder ‘homophobic’ 7 The former Hull City manager Phil Brown accidentally dubbed an Italian midfielder 'homophobic' this week, seemingly intending to suggest he was homesick. -
26 June 2012San Francisco: Missing man returns a week after social networking app meeting 24 A 22-year-old man in San Francisco has resurfaced having been missing for a week after meeting a stranger on a social networking app before the city's pride celebrations. -
26 June 2012Church of England ‘threatens to obstruct democracy’ with equal marriage opposition 47 A legal opinion commissioned by the National Secular Society says the Church of England's response to the government's public consultation on marriage equality 'confuses the issues'. -
26 June 2012Texas: Teenage lesbian couple shot in possible hate crime 10 Two teenage girls in the US state of Texas have been shot in a possible hate crime, with one being fatally wounded. -
26 June 2012Oreo unveils rainbow cookie image for Pride 92 US cookie maker Oreo has unveiled a new, rainbow-coloured cookie for Pride. -
25 June 2012New Archbishop of Uganda called gays ‘unacceptable’ but opposed death penalty bill 26 The new Archbishop of Uganda has been announced as the Rt Rev Stanley Ntagali, who has spoken out against the death penalty for people convicted of homosexuality in the African state while also calling the sexual orientation "categorically unacceptable". -
25 June 2012Lord Tebbit: If gays can marry people of the opposite sex, there is no marriage inequality 110 Former Conservative party chairman Lord Tebbit has said if gay people are able to marry members of the opposite sex there is no marriage inequality and has repeated his call to allow siblings to become civil partners. -
25 June 2012Proposition 8 trial witness to stop opposing marriage for gay couples 22 David Blankenhorn, founder the Institute for American Values and a witness at the trial of the ballot which led to California's gay marriage ban says he will no longer fight against marriage rights for gay couples. -
25 June 2012Australia: Senate committee backs marriage equality in ‘watershed’ report 5 A cross-party senate committee in Australia has published recommendations for a free vote on marriage equality legislation in the country's federal parliament and called on senators to support the move. -
25 June 2012Bishop: Church’s equal marriage views may not reflect even a ‘sizeable minority’ of members 35 Two bishops in the Church of England have spoken out publicly against the faith's public opposition to marriage equality for gay couples, with one describing a "sea change" in opinion within the Church. -
25 June 2012Couple ‘bullied’ after posing for anti-gay marriage petition in wedding clothes 128 A newly-wed couple who posed in formal wedding attire while delivering the Coalition for Marriage's petition to Downing Street have received hate mail following a PinkNews.co.uk story, the Telegraph reported this weekend. -
22 June 2012Ugandan minister: Gays have freedom of assembly 5 The Ugandan government has issued a statement following reports of gay rights workshops being broken up and NGOs being dissolved saying gay people have the right to freely assemble in the African state. -
22 June 2012New anti-homophobia award named in honour of Alan Turing 16 Ahead of the centenary of his birth, the Lesbian and Gay Foundation has unveiled a new award in its Homo Heroes series dedicated to gay computer genius and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing. -
22 June 2012France: Cohabiting gay men ‘twice as likely to be unemployed as straight counterparts’ 32 French researches say they have determined that men in co-habiting gay relationships are twice as likely to be unemployed as straight men living with a female partner.
