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16 April 2012
Call to complain over ‘startlingly homophobic’ Daily Mail column 124 Thousands of people have been asked to complain about a 'startlingly homophobic' opinion piece published on the Daily Mail's Mail Online website as part of a Facebook campaign.
23 March 2012
Stonewall unveils Facebook Timeline of key gay events since 1989 4 Stonewall had relaunched its Facebook page utilising the new timeline facility to record key moments for the gay community's struggle for equality since its foundation in 1989.
22 March 2012
Letter: 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'.
15 March 2012
Tunisian gay magazine hacked 19 Yesterday, homophobic hackers attacked Tunisia’s main LGBT title, Gay Day Magazine, taking over its email, Twitter and Facebook accounts.
27 February 2012
Facebook to fix system which tried to suggest ads for ‘faggots’ 9 Facebook has confirmed to PinkNews.co.uk today it will be introducing a fix on an automated system which suggests advertisers try to use racial and gay slurs, including 'faggot' and 'sissy', to target customers.
23 February 2012
Kurdish gay rights group hacked on Facebook 10 An extremist Turkish Nationalist hacking group called “Ayyıldız Tim” hacked the Facebook page of Hebûn, the Kurdish LGBT Association based in Diyarbakir, this weekend.
6 February 2012
Male models back after falling foul of Facebook rules 12 A Facebook page which posts photo shoots of male models to a generally gay audience was suspended on Friday afternoon after an image was singled out for being inappropriate.
13 January 2012
Man arrested for Facebook gay date in Saudi Arabia 109 As British prime minister, David Cameron visits Saudi Arabia today, activists report the plight of a man arrested by the religious police who may face corporal punishment.
3 January 2012
New Zealand company pulls “transphobic” advert 43 Libra, a company which manufactures feminine hygiene products in Australasia, has pulled an advert which provoked outrage among the trans community.
29 December 2011
Barnes and Noble pulls “anti-gay” calendar amid online feud 32 US bookseller Barnes & Noble confirmed this week it would stop selling a calendar criticised for its depiction of gays, while its author hit back at critics.
24 November 2011
Bradford Bulls rugby player warned over shirtless photo shoot comment 15 Elliott Whitehead had said Stuart Reardon's shirtless photo shoot in Australian DNA magazine "really let the bradford bus down [sic]".
31 October 2011
Devon man avoids prison after affair with 14-year-old boy 44 The defendant, aged 20, was said to be naive and not predatory, and must attend a sex offenders' treatment programme.
19 October 2011
Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to mark ‘Spirit Day’ for bullied gay teens 18 Facebook will mark 'Spirit Day' tomorrow by turning several pages purple and encouraging employees to learn about the event.
14 October 2011
New Jersey teacher accused of anti-gay Facebook comments 114 A teacher in New Jersey, US, has been criticised for allegedly saying homosexuality is "perverted" and "breeds like cancer" on her Facebook page.
20 September 2011
Poll: Young people see online anti-gay or racist slurs as ‘just joking’ 35 A poll suggests that most US young people are not offended by online anti-gay, racist or sexist slurs.
12 September 2011
LGBT foster parents condemned for ‘dressing boy in girl’s clothes’ 41 A couple in Australia have been condemned for allegedly dressing their six-year-old foster son in girl's clothes and putting a photo on Facebook.
25 August 2011
US teacher returns after anti-gay rant “did not violate code of conduct” 79 High school teacher who "almost threw up" on hearing about gay marriage legislation did not "disrupt" the school districts processes.
7 June 2011
‘Gay girl in Damascus’ blogger feared kidnapped 12 Relatives of Amina Abdallah, author of the "Gay Girl in Damascus" blog, say she has been abducted.
3 June 2011
Facebook belatedly remove transphobic hate page 17 Facebook came under fire yet again this week for what some are claiming is a pattern of failure to take seriously attacks on the LGBT community.
2 June 2011
Update: homophobic Facebook page removed 187 A homophobic Facebook group called The New Anti-Gay Movement has now been removed from the site.

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