Articles about Internet

5 March 2013
Yorkshire: Man admits to breaching sexual offences prevention order after searching for gay porn and Tom Daley images 20 A man has admitted to breaching the terms of a sexual offences prevention order after he told police officers that he had been searching the internet for gay pornography and images of Olympic diver Tom Daley.
23 February 2013
Italy: British murder suspect thought to have targeted victims via gay chat rooms + A man from London has been arrested in connection with the murder of a tour guide and the attempted killing of another man in Italy – with police sources indicating he met both victims through gay chat rooms.
20 February 2013
Comment: The dark side of gay dating sites 57 Although gay dating sites provide a useful platform in allowing men to meet each other, Christopher Halton writes for PinkNews of how they can also put some gay men at risk.
31 January 2013
China: ‘Two Old Men’ stream footage of their wedding but are disrupted by son 22 A gay couple who attracted thousands of fans on a Chinese microblogging site have broadcast footage of their symbolic wedding, but were interrupted by the son of one of the men.
23 January 2013
Facebook apologises for deleting an ‘offensive’ photo of a mixed-race gay couple’s wedding 28 Social media site Facebook has apologised for deeming that a photograph of a mixed-race gay couple was offensive.
4 January 2013
US: Pentagon bans access to gay news websites 2 The United States Department of Defence has reportedly banned access to several gay media websites on its network of computers.
9 July 2012
China: Wives of gay men ‘defrauded by support website’ 2 Fifty wives of gay men in China say a website set up to provide them with support in their marriage has defrauded them, state media reports.
10 April 2012
Comment: Addicted to Grindr 47 The location-aware gay social app Grindr is celebrating its third birthday with 3.5 million users in 192 countries.
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.
8 March 2012
Gaydar seeks investment for ‘global growth ambitions’ 12 The parent company for international gay dating site Gaydar.co.uk is seeking a 'significant cash investment' to fund its 'ambition for global growth'.
1 March 2012
Gay online encyclopaedia debuts 47 WikiQueer, a gay, bi and trans online encyclopaedia has launched publicly this week.
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.
13 January 2012
US group aims for ‘dot gay’ web domain 19 As applications for new top level domains on the web open today, an American group is trying to secure '.gay' for the LGBT community, saying it will make it "an exemplary beacon of social entrepreneurship and an empowering resource".
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.
7 October 2011
Gay.xxx domain name sells for $500,000 3 The internet domain name gay.xxx has been sold for half a million dollars.
17 August 2011
Gay rights group sues Missouri school district over website blocks 7 A school district in Missouri, US, is being sued by a gay rights group for restricting access to informative gay websites.
12 April 2011
More US schools warned about gay censorship 6 The American Civil Liberties Union has written to more schools to question their filters on LGBT support websites.
11 January 2011
New Zealand McDonald’s lifts ban on some gay websites 1 McDonald's says it has begun lifting the blocks on some gay websites in its New Zealand restaurants.
22 January 2010
Culture chief receiving hate mail over gay Bible exhibition 25 The head of Glasgow’s museums and art has described receiving harassment and hate mail after an exhibition on homosexuality and the Bible.

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