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10 January 2013
Comment: The truth about being a gay 16-year-old at an all boys boarding school 164 16-year-old Olly Hudson writes for PinkNews.co.uk about his experiences of being gay at a private all boys boarding school in the UK.
28 December 2012
Ugandan bishop: I have never seen homosexuality in my country — only in Europe 53 According to an Anglican Bishop in Uganda, same-sex relationships don’t occur in his country because “African sexual values are completely heterosexual".
14 December 2012
Bryan Fischer: Being gay is the ‘result of a birth defect’ and mothers would abort gay babies 99 Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA) has interpreted a genetic study to mean being gay is the “result of a birth defect” and has suggested that parents would be more likely to abort gay babies.
13 December 2012
San Francisco: Gay-friendly ‘Queen James’ Bible launched 25 A San Francisco Episcopal minister has launched what’s been described as a new “Gay Bible”.
13 December 2012
Yahoo asks users if ‘homosexuality is a choice’ and 300,000 people say yes 58 Following the publication of research suggesting the way that homosexuality could be passed on genetically, the US internet company Yahoo has asked users if they believe homosexuality is a choice.
13 December 2012
Study: Homosexuality passes from fathers to daughters and mothers to sons 36 New research published in the Quarterly Review of Biology suggests genetics which make a person more likely to be gay are passed from fathers to daughters or mothers to sons
28 October 2012
Ian McKellen: ‘Being forced to hide my homosexuality made me a great actor’ 16 Speaking at a school in London, Sir Ian McKellen said that he thinks hiding his sexuality for years was pivotal in perfecting his acting skills.
26 October 2012
Northern Ireland marks landmark gay rights anniversary 5 Thirty years ago in 1982 Jeff Dudgeon, a shipping clerk and gay rights activist in Belfast, successfully challenged the criminalisation of sexual relations between men at the European Court of Human Rights.
27 September 2012
Australia: Defeat for equal marriage bill in Tasmania 22 Tasmania's same-sex marriage bill has failed to pass the Legislative Council after a key member indicated he would vote against it.
24 September 2012
President Ahmadinejad: Gays are ugly and are like thieves 85 Interviewed on Piers Morgan Tonight, the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad equates homosexuality to stealing and tells the presenter that being gay is ugly.
3 September 2012
Tatchell: PM urged to repeal ‘insults’ ban 42 Peter Tatchell has urged David Cameron to reform Section 5 of the Public Order Act - which in the past has been used by lawyers to prosecute homophobic religious preachers and gay rights campaigners.
1 August 2012
Bid to decriminalise gay acts in Northern Cyprus at European court 11 The European Court of Human Rights has registered a case to decriminalise homosexuality in Northern Cyprus, the last place in the Council of Europe where being gay is a criminal offence.
25 July 2012
Lords bill aims to pardon gay computer genius Alan Turing 28 A private member's bill has been introduced in the House of Lords today seeking to pardon the gay computer genius Alan Turing, who was prosecuted for gross indecency in 1952 after a relationship with another man.
20 July 2012
Desmond Tutu: Anti-gay laws ‘as wrong as apartheid’ 94 Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for the global decriminalisation of homosexuality to aid the fight against HIV, comparing anti-gay laws to racial segregation in his home country of South Africa.
28 June 2012
Pride London to host conference on LGBT rights around the Commonwealth 8 Pride London, as hosts of WorldPride 2012, will hold a conference focussing on the importance of global decriminalisation of homosexuality in the capital next week.
20 June 2012
Uganda to dissolve 38 NGOs which ‘promote homosexuality’ 49 Uganda is reportedly set to dissolve 38 non-governmental organisations in the African state who it believes are promoting homosexuality and 'recruiting' people into a gay lifestyle.
8 June 2012
Poland: Teaching materials for nurses ‘calls gays socially dangerous’ 40 Anger has been expressed over teaching materials for nurses in Poland which reportedly describe homosexuality as a 'pathology'.
18 May 2012
Malawi: New president ‘to decriminalise homosexuality’ 103 The Malawian president has said she will repeal the laws which make it illegal to be gay in the central African state, it has been reported.
17 May 2012
Poll: 47 percent of Russians believe the media can turn people gay 40 47 percent of Russians believe the media can turn people gay, a state-owned polling agency says.
16 May 2012
UAE: Two men jailed for alleged public gay ‘fondling’ highlight privacy issues 29 Two men were sentence for jail terms and deportation from the UAE following a complaint from a member of the public.

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