Stephen Gray joined PInkNews.co.uk as a reporter in 2009 and was editor from October 2011 to August 2012.
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16 July 2012Scotland: Catholic equal marriage referendum ‘a colossal waste of money’ 113 The call by Cardinal Keith O'Brien, head of the Catholic Church in Scotland and the most senior Catholic in the UK, for a referendum on equal marriage rights for gay couples has been criticised by advocates of the move. -
16 July 2012Video: Equal marriage film seeks votes for national awards 6 Makers of the equal marriage short film Homecoming, which was released earlier this year to support government plans to legalise gay marriages in England and Wales, are appealing for help promoting the film to show in cinemas nationwide. -
16 July 2012London: Police continue to appeal over gay sauna death 1 Police in London are continuing to appeal for information after a body was discovered in a gay sauna in east London early on Wednesday morning. -
13 July 2012Jamaica ‘not intolerant of gays’, assistant police commissioner says 29 Jamaica's third highest ranking police official has said the country is not as anti-gay as "public hype" suggests, despite laws criminalising homosexuality. -
13 July 2012Petition launched to address Turkish ‘honour killings’ 9 A petition has been started to lobby Turkey's president to address the 'honour killings' of gay and transgender people in his country. -
13 July 2012New Pride House launched for London Olympics 55 A new Pride House festival has been launched for the London Olympics at the last minute after a lack of sponsorship meant the original event was cancelled. -
13 July 2012Sussex: Gay vicar under ‘homophobic’ ban for refusing to confirm celibacy 105 A gay vicar in Sussex says the Church of England implemented a "homophobic" ban after he refused to say whether his civil partnership was celibate. -
13 July 2012MP received malicious anti-gay email after Commons assault 61 A court in Yorkshire has heard how gay MP Stuart Andrew received an abusive message containing a gay slur shortly after he was assaulted in a Commons bar earlier this year. -
12 July 2012York: Attempt to block rainbow flag over Mansion House at Pride 43 A bid to fly the rainbow flag over the city of York's mansion house on the day of its pride event is in danger after a Conservative councillor tabled a motion to block it. -
12 July 2012Call to ban anti-gay countries from London Olympics 134 Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is calling on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to ban anti-gay countries from the events this summer. -
12 July 2012Queensland priest relaunches campaign against ‘gay panic’ defence 9 A Queensland priest who started a campaign to have the 'gay panic' comprehensively removed from local law in Australia has relaunched his campaign. -
12 July 2012Lesbian music teacher ‘highly commended’ in national teaching awards 13 Lesbian music teacher Elly Barnes has been ‘Highly Commended’ at the annual awards ceremony held by the Times Educational Supplement for her work promoting LGBT issues in schools. -
12 July 2012Italy: Police apologise after manual dubs homosexuality ‘deviant’ 9 The national police force in Italy has apologised after a training manual listed homosexuality alongside bestiality, incest and necrophilia as a 'sexual deviance'. -
12 July 2012London: Body found in gay sauna 38 The body of a man was found at the gay sauna Chariots in east London yesterday.
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12 July 2012Black Swan’s gay love scene prompts more complaints than any other film 39 Natalie Portman's Oscar-winning performance as a troubled ballerina in Black Swan may have appealed to critics, but her lesbian love scene earned the film more complaints than any other in the UK last year. -
11 July 2012South Africa: Church billboard lists homosexuality with alcoholism 20 The South African Advertising Standards Authority has received a complaint over a billboard which listed homosexuality among vices and personal problems a church could help people with. -
11 July 2012Soho: Woman ‘thrown out of bar’ over Hitler wine complaint 107 A woman claims she was 'violently thrown out' of a private club in London's gay district of Soho after complaining about an image of Hitler on a wine bottle behind the bar. -
11 July 2012Russia: Group calls for Facebook ban over gay marriage icon 53 Religious activists in Russia are calling for a nationwide ban on Facebook now the social network allows gay couples to use an icon to represent their marriage. -
11 July 2012Boy George in Twitter spat over WorldPride photos 66 Boy George criticised a photographer today over a series of images of him performing at WorldPride in London this weekend. -
11 July 2012London: Gay bookshop burgled 7 London's gay bookshop Gay's the Word is currently closed after a break-in overnight saw computer equipment and its safe stolen.
