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9 February 2012
Comment: Ken Livingstone broke new ground for gay Londoners 16 Yesterday, former mayor of London Ken Livingstone was criticised for telling a journalist that the Conservative party was "riddled" with gays.
9 February 2012
Comment: Ken Livingstone is not homophobic 34 Peter Tatchell says Ken Livingstone's comments this week that the Tory party was "riddled" with homosexuality have to be taken in context and with regard to his record on equal rights for gays.
8 February 2012
Comment: Why I made an It Gets Better video on being gay and Jewish 15 On Friday afternoon, I posted a video to YouTube.
8 February 2012
Comment: Does today mean change for the trans community? 13 Listen.
3 February 2012
Comment: Football needs a culture change, not a gay role model 42 While football may be dragging itself into the 21st century, Amal Fashanu only scratched the surface.
3 February 2012
Comment: Homosexuality is prohibited in orthodox Judaism but so is eating bacon, everyone is welcome 157 Following the controversy surrounding the issue of reparative therapy for people with same sex attractions within the Jewish community, orthodox Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet argues that religious leaders should separate biblical condemnation of homosexual acts from the way the religion treats gay people.
2 February 2012
Comment: No more stalling, gay and straight couples deserve equality now 74 On the first anniversary of the Equal Love campaign's appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, Peter Tatchell examines the inequalities of straight marriage and gay civil partnerships.
31 January 2012
Comment: The story of LGBT History Month 10 Sue Sanders writes about the background to the annual LGBT History Month, which was first celebrated in 2005 and begins its eighth national incarnation tomorrow.
31 January 2012
Comment: The Canadian rule which bans transgender flight 37 Jane Fae examines the rules, introduced last July but only now coming to light, which state that an air carrier “shall not transport a passenger if [...] the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents”.
31 January 2012
Comment: Archbishop Sentamu has no right to block gay civil marriages 49 Peter Tatchell argues that Archbishop Sentamu has no right to block gay civil marriages, the clergyman's demand for discrimination against gay couples is itself dictatorial and Anglican leaders are divisive, intolerant and out of touch.
30 January 2012
Comment: Bangladesh’s invisible minority 6 Rainer Ebert comments on life for the gay community of Bangladesh, where same-sex intercourse a crime punishable by imprisonment for life.
17 January 2012
Comment: Repeal the Public Order Act’s sweeping Section 5 86 Peter Tatchell argues the law criminalising 'insulting' speech is open to abuse by over-zealous police and prosecutors and constitutes a ban on free speech and the right to protest.
10 January 2012
Comment: Future sex – beyond gay and straight 172 Peter Tatchell argues that gay and straight identities will be insignificant in a future without homophobia: With the demise of "straight supremacism" and the gay labels we use in self-defence, people will be free to acknowledge desires for all genders.
4 January 2012
Comment: Sex, blood and the status quo 22 While Northern Ireland continues to drag its feet on lifting the lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, recent developments in Great Britain are no great victory, Nine argues.
20 December 2011
Comment: Should the law protect us from insults? 271 PinkNews.co.uk reader Stuart Ross discusses his experience of receiving offensive comments online amid the ongoing debate over whether to remove the use of "insulting words" from the offences in the Public Order Act.

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