Opinion
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24 September 2012Comment: We must stop apologising for being like everybody else 40 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Chris Ward takes celebrity heiress Paris Hilton to task over her recent homophobic outburst. -
12 September 2012Comment: What exactly is a ‘bigot’? 107 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk Nicolas Chinardet assesses the ‘bigot’ row that has hit Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg in the past 24 hours. -
11 September 2012Comment: Why we should resist the ‘mind-creep’ commercialism of Pride 17 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Brighton and Hove Green Party Councillor Phélim Mac Cafferty pays tribute to the city’s Pride movement – which this year celebrated its 20th anniversary. -
11 September 2012Comment: Homophobia is still a blight on our society 6 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk Gary Spedding says the number of anti-gay incidents in Northern Ireland shows more needs to be done to tackle homophobia in society. -
7 September 2012Comment: What the reshuffle means for LGBT support in the government 17 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Chris Ward sums up the LGBT ramifications of this week’s reshuffle and assesses the recent equality record of the main three parties.
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5 September 2012Comment: Allan Horsfall was the ‘grandfather’ of the UK’s gay rights movement 6 Peter Tatchell recalls the contribution of LGBT rights pioneer Allan Horsfall, who passed away last month. -
5 September 2012Comment: Let me tell you all about ‘pinkwashing’ 68 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk university student and LGBT campaigner Gary Spedding warns of the dangers of separating LGBT rights from human rights when profiling individual countries.
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3 September 2012Comment: Bullying, bulimia and going back to school 9 Writing for Pinknews.co.uk, Sam Thomas, the founder and director of a national eating disorders charity, says today’s start of the new school term for LGBT students across the UK, conjures up his own difficult memories of classroom life and of homophobic bullying. -
16 August 2012Opinion: What impact will extra compulsory school sport have on LGBT pupils? 91 Writing for Pinknews.co.uk, former school governor and Surrey councillor Chris Ward ponders on what the government's new drive for competitive sport in the classroom means for LGBT students currently suffering from homophobic bullying. -
14 August 2012Comment: A strange and unpredictable step back for equality? 198 Writing for Pinknews.co.uk, Thomas Ingrham asks if some in the gay scene risk undermining the fight for equality through their attitudes towards straight people. -
10 August 2012Comment: To be gay, and in love 54 Balaji Ravichandran considers what it means to be gay and in love in a world that has been fundamentally changed by the arrival of online dating and smartphone apps like Grindr -
8 August 2012Comment: Always picked last – rediscovering sport as a gay adult 11 Daniel Sellers writes about his experience of sport at school and talks to the members of a gay-friendly running club about how it differs from the 'individualism and hedonism' of the traditional gay scene. -
3 August 2012Comment: The need to reform gay blood donation is as pressing as ever 22 Chris Ward led a campaign within the Liberal Democrats to end the ban on men who had had sex with men donating blood. -
3 August 2012Comment: Christians, we should have been first to back equal marriage 66 Mastin Kipp, founder of The Daily Love, says Jesus' message was 'about Love, not rules and regulations', and argues Christians should be the first to let their neighbours marry. -
31 July 2012Comment: UK Black Pride – a moment of discovery 19 Ahead of this month’s UK Black Pride, Scott Roberts shares his own experience of attending the event for the first time last year. -
31 July 2012Comment: Why are there so few openly gay athletes at London 2012? 80 If there were truly enough gay athletes arriving at the capital to crash Grindr, Professor Gregory Woods asks why only twenty or so are open about their sexual orientation at this year's Olympics. -
27 July 2012Comment: Steve Brookstein, spread some love, don’t ask why your enemies are HIV-free 80 David Allison writes about his run-in with Steve Brookstein when the former X Factor winner questioned on Twitter why so many people in the world have HIV while a showbusiness journalist does not. -
26 July 2012Comment: Sport and spectacle – the queer side of the Olympics 9 Gregory Woods examines some notable opening and closing ceremonies from Olympics past and reasons that there is 'something distinctly queer' about the Games. -
23 July 2012Comment: Was Anderson Cooper’s sexuality ‘news’ to you? 29 In his first commentary article for Pinknews.co.uk, Scott Roberts talks about CNN star Anderson Cooper’s recent decision to come out publicly as gay. -
17 July 2012Comment: With rare political consensus, Scotland should be next to let gay couples marry 22 Labour MP for Glasgow North East Willie Bain says equal marriage will ensure LGBT couples are no longer 'separate but equal', but warns that inequality and homophobia will still exist in Scotland.
