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19 October 2012BNP leader Nick Griffin defends gay couple protest remarks 80 The leader of the British National Party is refusing to apologise for putting the address of a gay couple who won a court case on the internet and has said people have the “right to discriminate”. -
19 October 2012US: Court official faces same-sex marriage fraud charges 1 An investigation has been launched into the case of a court official from Iowa, who allegedly filed false documents saying she had married a same-sex couple from Florida, despite never having met the men, who had never travelled to Iowa for a ceremony. -
18 October 2012Manchester: Christian equal marriage Facebook case begins 37 A Christian man in Manchester who was demoted after questioning the merits of religious same-sex marriages on his private Facebook page has taken his employer to court. -
18 October 2012Far-right Greek MP filmed shouting homophobic abuse over ‘gay’ play 28 An extremist Greek MP, who last week was captured shouting homophobic and racist insults at a theatre director in a YouTube video, has spoken of his pride at his violent behaviour. -
18 October 2012BNP leader Nick Griffin urges supporters to protest outside gay couple’s home 115 Cambridgeshire police has launched an investigation after the leader of the British National Party reportedly posted the address of a gay couple on the internet. -
18 October 2012UK: Gay couple win B&B case against Christian owners 81 Michael Black and John Morgan have each been awarded £1,800 each at Reading County Court. -
18 October 2012US: Westboro Baptist Church loses appeal against Missouri funeral picketing restrictions 19 The Westboro Baptist Church lost an appeal this week against a law in the state of Missouri restricting their protests at military funerals, which often contain anti-gay slurs. -
17 October 2012Madonna ordered to appear in Russian court for breaking anti-gay law 43 Madonna has been sent a summons to appear in a Russian court for breaking St Petersburg’s homophobic censorship law, during her concert in the city, earlier this summer. -
17 October 2012US: Cousins accused of attacking gay victim in a park stand trial 9 Two cousins in the US state of Kentucky charged with attacking a gay man in a park have gone on trial. -
17 October 2012Cameroon urged to release jailed men for wearing ‘gay’ clothes and for drinking Baileys 15 The US, EU and campaign groups have strongly condemned Cameroon’s appalling gay rights record ahead of a court appeal involving two men. -
17 October 2012US: Gay prisoner sues jail, claims another prisoner bit off part of his nose + On Tuesday, a gay inmate of a Kentucky prison filed a lawsuit against a fellow prisoner, as well as the prison itself, claiming that he had part of his nose bitton off in an attack following days of harassment. -
16 October 2012Anti-gay church pickets funeral of lesbian US Army sergeant 34 Westboro Baptist Church has attempted to disrupt the funeral of US Army Staff Sergeant Donna Johnson, a married lesbian soldier who was killed this month along with several other people in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. -
16 October 2012Wales: Teenager jailed for killing man after meeting victim on a gay website 31 A teenager who murdered a man after meeting the victim through a gay website has been jailed for a minimum of 28 years. -
16 October 2012California: Man accused of anti-gay hammer attack appears in court + A man in California has appeared in court over an alleged homophobic attack on a gay couple as they walked their dog. -
16 October 2012Stonewall: Tackling anti-gay crime should be a priority for new police commissioners 4 Stonewall has launched a campaign calling on candidates standing to become Police and Crime Commissioners to promise to tackle homophobic crime. -
15 October 2012San Francisco: Man sues gay porn company over erection injections 10 A stage assistant from San Francisco has launched legal action against a gay pornography company after he was allegedly forced to inject performers with a controlled drug to prolong their erections. -
15 October 2012New York: Corkscrew used to castrate gay TV journalist shown to jurors 12 The instrument allegedly used to castrate a murdered gay TV fashion journalist has been shown to a jury in New York. -
15 October 2012UK: Gay asylum seeker loses deportation fight 54 A gay Nigerian asylum seeker who was living in Bradford has been deported from the UK. -
15 October 2012UK: Transgender ex-Broadmoor patient talks of Jimmy Saville abuse 37 A transgender man, who was a former patient of Broadmoor Hospital, has spoken of being sexually abused by the veteran entertainer Sir Jimmy Savile. -
12 October 2012Derren Brown’s ex-cleaner jailed for theft 4 Derren Brown's former cleaner has been jailed for 16 months for stealing blank cheques from the TV magician's home which were cashed in at more than £33,000.
