Articles about Elections

3 May 2013
UK: Labour gay couple become council leader and civic mayor in Hartlepool 5 A gay couple in Hartlepool are making history by becoming the first civil partnership in the country to hold the positions of council leader and civic mayor.
3 May 2013
UKIP candidate who said ‘exercise’ in schools can prevent homosexuality fails to win seat in election 75 UKIP candidate John Sullivan who claimed regular physical exercise in schools can “prevent homosexuality” has failed to be elected as a councillor for Newent in Gloucestershire.
26 April 2013
Staffordshire: UKIP election leaflet mocks bisexuals and warns of explicit ‘Homosexual Sex Education’ 222 The name of a UKIP candidate has appeared on an election leaflet that mocks bisexuals, blasts the government’s same-sex marriage bill, and warns that it will lead to explicit “Homosexual Sex Education”.
23 January 2013
Israel: Anti-gay marriage Jewish Home party wins seats in general election 8 The Jewish Home party (Habayit Hayehudi), is predicted to have won 12 seats, less than was originally expected, in the Israeli general election held on Tuesday.
9 May 2012
New French president may signal ‘no miracle’, trans candidate says 3 Brigitte Goldberg, one of two trans candidates in the recent French Presidential election, yesterday expressed herself only slightly moved by the replacement of right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy with socialist Francois Hollande.
30 April 2012
Brian Paddick live blogs on crime, schools, marriage, Iran, transport and the gay blood ban (transcript) 17 Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick became the latest of the London Mayoral candidates to spend an hour chatting to PinkNews.co.uk readers.
27 April 2012
UKIP candidate suggested gays ‘stop complaining and start thanking straight people’ 339 A former UKIP parliamentary candidate and current Oxford City Council hopeful has said people who 'choose' to be gay should stop 'complaining about persecution' and start thanking straight people for giving birth to them.
23 April 2012
France: Presidential elections highlight trans voters’ rights gap 27 As the dust settles on the first round of the French Presidential election this morning, a sharp warning that discrimination by the French state means that trans citizens can no longer count on access to that most basic of Human Rights – the right to vote!
13 March 2012
Tory LGBT group claims Ken Livingstone ‘riddled with hypocrisy’ 56 Members of the Conservative party's LGBTory group held a protest outside Ken Livingstone's Soho fundraiser last night accusing the mayoral candidate of being 'riddled with hypocrisy'.
22 February 2012
Rick Santorum portrait made entirely from gay porn 14 When many voters see Rick Santorum, they may not see a pioneer for gay equality, but a politically-minded artist has ensured that as a next-best thing, they can see the US presidential nomination hopeful and a lot of gay pornography.

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