Opinion
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8 April 2012Update: Investigation suggests serious flaws in the Coalition For Marriage petition 168 PinkNews.co.uk's Edmund Broch explores how accurate the reliable the system is that appears to suggest that the Coalition for Marriage has amassed 400,000 signatures in opposition to the Government's plans to allow gay couples to marry and asks 'do their numbers add up?' -
8 April 2012Comment: Why do so many gay guys not ‘do’ relationships? 213 Ethan Bourne wonders why it is that he finds so many gay guys just don't want to be in conventional relationship. -
4 April 2012Comment: The Church should beg society’s forgiveness for its treatment of gay people 74 Matthew Todd says the Church should help young people become the upstanding, caring citizens they can be, unfettered from sexual shame and dogma, not fight a fierce battle over something that will not harm, hurt or even affect anyone except gay couples who wish to marry. -
4 April 2012Comment: Forget the ‘nests of snakes’, equal marriage could iron out our current quirks 47 Far from being a "nest of snakes", family law executive Lisa Burton-Durham says equal marriage legislation could let us address outdated legal concepts. -
2 April 2012Comment: Continued LGBT discrimination at the BBC would let down a new generation 62 As a public service broadcaster, the BBC is failing to meet some important obligations, and if things don't change a new generation may be forced to suffer the consequences, David Mason argues. -
2 April 2012Comment: The real issues in stories of the priest, the porn and the memory stick 54 Having had a giggle at the expense of the Catholic priest who accidentally displayed gay porn to a roomful of primary school parents, Jane Fae says, we should address the real issues the story raises: bigotry and quick condemnations. -
2 April 2012Comment: What is ‘gay’? 89 As we abandon terms like 'gay marriage,' and seek greater equality and assimilation in society, Edmund Broch asks a question that is all the more fundamental. -
1 April 2012Comment: Why can’t gay couples feel safe enough to hold hands everywhere in the UK? 110 Ethan Bourne asks why in a supposedly tolerant country like the UK, being visibly gay seems only to be acceptable in certain areas.
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30 March 2012Comment: Why Christian Concern should be ejected from the University of Oxford 46 “It is time to stand up to a militant homosexual lobby who are unable to tolerate difference of opinion and who seek to coerce behaviour and thought.” So said Andrea Minichiello Williams, CEO of Christian Concern (and various other anti-LGBT lobbying organisations) of which an offshoot, the so-called “Wilberforce Academy”, is currently being hosted by Exeter College, Oxford as a private commercial booking. -
29 March 2012Comment: Do alternative parenting arrangements work? 18 Same-sex parenting and "alternative families" are currently being hotly debated following a widely publicised dispute between the two lesbian mothers and the gay father of a two-year old boy (the 'DN v MD and AR [2012]' case). -
27 March 2012Editorial: Should we ditch the term ‘gay marriage’? 120 Given the current relentless focus on the UK Government's proposals for civil marriage equality, we are currently holding our own review into the use of the term 'gay marriage'. -
27 March 2012Comment: Biased BBC skews the debate on LGBT issues 140 The BBC's reporting on marriage equality proposals is more proof the corporation does not take LGBT issues seriously. -
25 March 2012Comment: Should straight people be barred from entering gay clubs? 279 Singer and song writer Ethan Bourne asks whether it's right for gay clubs to exclude straight people because of their sexuality.
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22 March 2012Letter: Mark Zuckerberg, please allow users to list their gender as ‘other’ 20 In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Facebook, Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal's first openly gay MP has asked for the social network to give users the option to describe their gender as 'other'. -
22 March 2012Comment: Britain must stop fudging its way to equality and let religions marry gay couples 35 Following the launch of the government's public consultation on how to implement equal civil marriage rights, Rabbi Aaron Goldstein, the co-chair of Rabbinic Conference of Liberal Judaism, says religious ceremonies must be included in the final result. -
16 March 2012Comment: Equal marriage plans must include religion, writes Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper 209 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Yvette Cooper says the Government's plans for marriage equality must go further if they are to respect religious freedom and tackle discrimination. -
15 March 2012Comment: Protection pre-conception, should gay parents consider it? 10 Should gay couples enter pre-conception agreements with a 'third parent' when planning to have a child? Family lawyer Amanda Melton examines the issues. -
15 March 2012Comment: Gay marriage proposals are welcome but flawed 52 Peter Tatchell says the government's consultation proposals today to allow civil marriage for gay couples but not religious ceremonies or straight civil partnerships are a welcome move but still discriminate and hinder religious freedom.
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14 March 2012Home Secretary Theresa May: Government will introduce same sex marriage whatever the Church says 176 Writing in The Times, the Home Secretary and cabinet Minister for Equality, Theresa May, argues that marriage should be for everyone regardless of their sexuality. -
14 March 2012Comment: Catholic Archbishops misled the faithful on equal marriage plans 46 Peter Tatchell writes that in their letter on a 'duty' to oppose marriage equality, Catholic Archbishops mislead the faithful - either deliberately or by careless omission.
