General Election 2010
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4 May 2010David Cameron ‘not planning’ to legalise full gay marriage despite pledge to ‘consider’ it 39 Conservative Party leader David Cameron appeared to contradict his equalities manifesto last night when he said he was "not planning" to rename civil partnerships as marriage. -
2 May 2010Sarah Brown appears at gay club night Duckie on election campaign trail 21 Sarah Brown, the wife of the prime minister Gordon Brown made a surprise guest appearance at the Duckie gay club night in Vaxhaul, South London last night. -
2 May 2010Tory candidate and Cameron advisor ran church that “cured” homosexuality through prayer 208 The Observer newspaper has today claimed that Philippa Stroud, a Conservative candidate likely to win the Sutton and Cheam at this week's general election founded a church that purported to "cure" gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people through exorcising their "demons" through prayer. -
1 May 2010PinkNews.co.uk Final general election poll 11 Last month, PinkNews.co.uk showed a decline in support for the Conservative Party within the LGBT community from 39% to 9%, with the Liberal Democrats up to 58%. -
30 April 2010Gay Tory Nick Herbert accuses other parties of having homophobic allies 55 Shadow Conservative environment secretary Nick Herbert has accused Labour and the Lib Dems of having equally unsavoury allies in Europe. -
30 April 2010UKIP candidate claims party would scrap gay equality laws 110 A parliamentary candidate for UKIP has claimed that his party would scrap "politically correct" laws allowing discrimination against gays and lesbians. -
29 April 2010Tory candidate may lose job over ‘homophobic’ comments 14 Philip Lardner, the Scottish Conservative candidate who said homosexuality was "not normal", may lose his job. -
28 April 2010Former Tory candidate attacks Cameron for ‘political correctness’ 51 The Scottish Conservative Party candidate suspended for saying homosexuality is "not normal" has attacked the party for "political correctness". -
28 April 2010David Cameron says he sacked homophobic candidate ‘within minutes’ 119 Conservative Party leader David Cameron said he took the decision to sack a homophobic Scottish candidate "within minutes" of finding out about his views after PinkNews.co.uk informed the Conservative Party of the offensive views on the candidate's website. -
27 April 2010Exclusive: Quiz Green Party leader Caroline Lucas + As part of our election coverage, we're offering our readers the chance to put questions to Green Party leader Caroline Lucas on her party's gay-friendly credentials. -
27 April 2010Peter Tatchell encourages Green voters to support Lib Dems in some seats 33 Former Green Party candidate and gay rights activist Peter Tatchell has called for Green supporters to vote for the Liberal Democrats. -
27 April 2010Comment: Labour is shunning gay Iraqis, asylum seekers 13 As he launched Labour's international LGBT manifesto last Wednesday, foreign secretary David Miliband made one howler, echoed by another in the manifesto's text. -
27 April 2010Updated: Tory candidate suspended for saying gays were ‘not normal’ 60 A Scottish Conservative Party candidate has been suspended from his party for saying that homosexuality is "not normal".
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27 April 2010Exclusive: Scottish Tory candidate says homosexuality is ‘not normal’ 34 A Scottish Conservative Party candidate's website says he believes that homosexuality is "not normal" and that Section 28 was correct.
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26 April 2010Your chance to quiz first minister of Scotland & SNP leader Alex Salmond on gay equality + We've already offered our readers the chance to put their questions to the three main party leaders and now we're giving the chance to question the smaller parties about their commitment to gay rights. -
25 April 2010Exclusive: Popularity of Conservatives among gay voters drops by 30% in 11 months while Lib Dems soar 91 Support for the Conservatives among the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community falls from 39% in June 2009 to just 9% today. -
23 April 2010Take part in the next PinkNews.co.uk political poll + With less than two weeks to go before the general election, PinkNews.co.uk is conducting the latest in its series of political polls. Have the Leaders' Debate made you change your mind? How closely have you read the LGBT manifestos of the main political parties? Is it LGBT rights or the economy that drives you to select a particular political party? -
23 April 2010Gordon Brown defends his record on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans rights 45 Gordon Brown has defended Labour's record on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) rights in a question and answer session with a student website. -
23 April 2010Nick Griffin unveils BNP manifesto 80 BNP leader Nick Griffin unveiled his party's manifesto today in Stoke. -
23 April 2010Clegg to Cameron: ‘You have aligned yourself with nutters and homophobes’ 43 Nick Clegg has said that David Cameron has aligned himself with "nutters, anti-Semites, people who deny climate change exists, homophobes" within the European Parliament during tonight's Leaders' Debate.
