Politics
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13 June 2013Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill 13 Lord Hylton, the peer who accused gay people of stealing the word ‘gay’ from its original meaning, has tabled a new wrecking amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. -
13 June 2013Anti-equal marriage activist names Tour de France as target for protest 4 Opposition to France's equal marriage law have said they will use the "extraordinary international visibility" of the Tour de France to protest in an attempt to get the recently established law repealed. -
13 June 2013Russia: LGBT activists call for jailing of ‘homosexual propaganda’ bill sponsor + LGBT activists in Russia have started a legal complaint against the lawmakers behind the country's anti-gay 'propaganda' bill, which was approved by the Duma on Tuesday. -
13 June 2013Former Talksport presenter furious after being branded a ‘homophobic radio z-lister’ 7 Former Talksport broadcaster Mike Mendoza has launched a furious rebuke on his Facebook page after he was confronted at a market by a man accusing him of being homophobic. -
13 June 2013Tory Lord Mawhinney tables ‘traditional marriage’ amendment for equal marriage bill 49 Lord Mawhinney has tabled a new amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, urging for heterosexual marriages to be lawfully described as “traditional marriage”. -
13 June 2013US: Major League Soccer teams up with anti-discrimination campaign 1 The football league representing the highest level in the US, Major League Soccer (MLS), has announced that it is upping efforts to tackle anti-LGBT discrimination by joining up with the You Can Play Project. -
13 June 2013US: Southern Baptist Convention officially ‘disapproves’ of Boy Scouts inclusivity but doesn’t cut ties 12 On Wednesday, the largest Protestant denomination in the US, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), adopted a resolution to disapprove of the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) recent decision to allow gay youth members. -
12 June 2013New Zealand: Female rugby fan abused by three men for asking homophobic chants to stop 14 A female rugby fan in New Zealand has said she was verbally abused, and tapped on the head, after asking other fans at a rugby match to stop using the words "homos" and "faggots". -
12 June 2013US: Boston police adopt new rules for treatment of transgender people 1 Boston police have issued new guidelines on the treatment of transgender people by officers. -
12 June 2013Republican Mike Huckabee: ‘Every fear’ over same-sex marriage has come true 41 Mike Huckabee, Fox News presenter, former governor of Arkansas, and 2008 Republican presidential candidate, warned on Monday that "every fear" over same-sex marriage has come true, including "television commercials portraying same-sex couples". -
12 June 2013Lord Dear proposes new amendment to equal marriage bill concerning ‘traditional marriage’ 57 Lord Dear is proposing a new amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples Bill), protecting those who believe marriage is “the union of one man and one woman for life to the exclusion of all others.” -
12 June 2013Largest Protestant denomination in US to vote on measure disapproving of Boy Scouts gay inclusion 3 The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the US, is expected on Wednesday to vote on a resolution which would express disapproval of the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) new policy accepting gay youth members.
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12 June 2013New York: Mayoral candidate receives death threats after endorsement from anti-gay group 11 A New York City mayoral candidate says he's received death threats because of an endorsement from America’s leading anti-equal marriage group. -
12 June 2013French Olympic swimmers pose as ‘imaginary gay couple’ for anti-homophobia campaign 10 Two male French Olympic swimmers have posed in an intimate shot as an "imaginary couple", as part of a campaign to tackle homophobia, which also features images of Eva Longoria and Lara Fabian. -
12 June 2013Human rights groups condemn passage of Russian anti-gay ‘propaganda’ law 12 Human rights groups have heavily condemned the passage of a law yesterday through the Russian State Duma, which would ban "homosexual propaganda" across the country, as "outrageous and incredibly dangerous". -
12 June 2013Croatia to stage twelfth pride march in protest for equal marriage 3 A Croatian gay pride parade will take to the streets on Saturday against a backdrop of a proposed referendum to define marriage as a heterosexual union. -
12 June 2013MPs who voted against the Clause 20 sex education amendment 6 Tuesday’s vote on amending the Children and Families Bill to include statutory Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Education, making it mandatory for teachers to inform students about same-sex relationships, was voted down on party lines. -
12 June 2013Labour’s Clause 20 sex education amendment fails in the Commons 39 A Labour amendment for mandatory sex and relationship education in schools failed to get the support of enough MPs last night and Children’s Minister Edward Timpson confirmed PSHE would remain a non-statutory subject. -
12 June 2013Latin American Catholic Church group says ‘sorry’ for Pope Francis’s ‘gay lobby’ remarks 2 A Latin American Catholic Church group has apologised for the "confusion" caused by the publication of members' accounts of a meeting with Pope Francis where he is quoted as referring to a “gay lobby” inside the Curia. -
12 June 2013French mayor: ‘I will go to the gallows’ before performing a same-sex wedding 52 The mayor of the town of Arcangues, in southwest France, has refused to marry a gay couple, and as well as facing a backlash from the LGBT community, he could face charges of discrimination.
