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13 May 2012
Tory ministers Philip Hammond and Tim Loughton come out against equal marriage for gay couples 88 Two senior Conservative ministers have come out against prime minister David Cameron's plans to introduce equal marriage for same sex and opposite sex couples.
12 May 2012
Update: ‘Homophobic’ woman from Nebraska has ‘mental health problems’ 152 A woman who made startlingly graphic and homophobic comments during an anti-discrimination legislative hearing in Lincoln Nebraska, the video of which went viral within days, has been described as having 'mental health problems' and being diagnosed with schizophrenia.
12 May 2012
North Carolina Governor denounces Amendment One 36 The Governor of North Carolina, Democrat Beverly "Bev" Perdue, has denounced the recent passage of Amendment One, which outlaws all civil unions outside heterosexual marriage, which she said made the state "look like Mississipi."
12 May 2012
Four Iranian men due to be hanged for sodomy 212 Iran court sentence four men from the town of Choram, in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, to death by hanging for sodomy. Four men named 'Saadat Arefi', 'Vahid Akbari', 'Javid Akbari' and 'Houshmand Akbari' are due to be executed shortly after their verdict was approved recently by high court judges, according to a report from the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) in Iran.
11 May 2012
Poll: 51% of Americans agree with Obama’s support of equal marriage 13 More than half of Americans have said that they approve of President Obama's support for equal marriage, though 60% of the respondents also said that this announcement would have no bearing on their voting decisions, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll released this evening.
11 May 2012
University of Wolverhampton students to host equal marriage support day 43 Students at the University of Wolverhampton who launched an 8,500-strong petition in favour of marriage equality for gay and straight couples will be holding an awareness day next week.
11 May 2012
Comment: Barack Obama joins an unstoppable global trend towards equality 13 President Obama has, at last, moved with the flow of history and an unstoppable global trend towards equality, writes Peter Tatchell.
11 May 2012
Comment: A U-turn on equal marriage would set the Tories back years 34 Matthew Todd writes that he has watched the Conservative party’s evolution with nervous optimism and that if those MPs now speaking out against marriage equality have their way, the 'dark and divisive' instincts of Conservatism will be revealed to a new generation.
11 May 2012
David Walliams, Stephen Fry and The Saturdays come @Out4Marriage 13 Celebrities including Stephen Fry, Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams and The Saturdays have already pledged their support of introducing equal marriage in the UK.
11 May 2012
New Zealand prime minister ‘not opposed’ to marriage for gay couples 20 New Zealand's prime minister has said he is 'not personally opposed' to allowing gay couples to marry, but added that it was not part of the government's legislative programme.
11 May 2012
Bristol Palin criticises Obama for listening to children on marriage 84 Bristol Palin, daughter of former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has criticised Barack Obama for letting his children's views contribute to his support of marriage for gay couples.
11 May 2012
Cuba: President’s daughter praises Barack Obama’s support for equal marriage 13 The daughter of Cuba's president praised US president Barack Obama yesterday after he came out in support of equal marriage rights for gay couples.
10 May 2012
Leon Panetta: Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ going ‘very well’ 6 The US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, said today that the repeal of the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy, which prohibited openly gay personnel from serving in the military, has not affected military morale or readiness.
10 May 2012
Romney bullied gay classmates, US media reports 105 The Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, was forced to apologise today, just hours after the Washington Post reported that he had held down a gay classmate, and cut off his bleached blond hair when he was a student at an elite private school.
10 May 2012
Petition aims to send 100,000-person ‘thank you’ to Barack Obama for equal marriage support 13 A petition has been launched by AllOut.org to deliver a thank-you card to US President Barack Obama for his support for marriage equality for gay couples.

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