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10 April 2012
Three admit drunken assault after anti-gay taunts 29 Two women and a man have admitted drunkenly assaulting a man outside a gay pub saying they were provoked by his gestures through the window and homophobic taunts.
5 April 2012
Victim denies homophobia prompted pizza restaurant attack 8 The victim of an assault denied a lawyer's suggestion she inflamed the incident by making homophobic comments to her attacker, as her assailant was jailed yesterday.
5 April 2012
Guyana: Public consultation on removal of anti-gay laws 37 Authorities in Guyana are planning a series of public consultations on whether to repeal the country's anti-gay laws.
5 April 2012
Cameroon: Authorities ‘shut down gay rights workshop’ 51 A gay rights workshop in Cameroon's capital city, Yaoundé, was shut down last week by authorities after it was discovered the human rights under discussion were relating to sexuality, Human Rights Watch said today.
4 April 2012
Voters appear to reject gay and trans protections in Anchorage 8 Proposition 5, which would expand the anti-discrimination laws in Anchorage, Alaska, to include sexual orientation and gender identity appears to have failed to gather enough votes to pass.
4 April 2012
Comment: Forget the ‘nests of snakes’, equal marriage could iron out our current quirks 47 Far from being a "nest of snakes", family law executive Lisa Burton-Durham says equal marriage legislation could let us address outdated legal concepts.
4 April 2012
Man arrested after stabbing at Jessie J party 12 A man has been arrested following the stabbing of a party-goer last night at an event hosted by bisexual singer Jessie J.
3 April 2012
New Senegalese president called on to protect gay rights 31 Macky Sall, the new president of Senegal who takes office this week, has been called on to improve the legal protection for gay and lesbian people in his country.
2 April 2012
Potential new EU member states told to improve gay and trans laws 13 Last week, the European Parliament adopted its annual enlargement progress reports for Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo.
22 March 2012
Northern Ireland Attorney General: Ban on gay adoption will remain 37 There are no plans to retract the ban on gay and unmarried couples from adopting children in Northern Ireland, the country’s Attorney General has said.
22 March 2012
Equal marriage opponents call for Starbucks boycott 31 A US organisation opposed to marriage equality is calling on people around the world to boycott Starbucks over its support of equal marriage rights for gays.
20 March 2012
Tony Blair avoids question on Liberian anti-gay law 38 Former UK prime minister Tony Blair avoided answering a question about his view on Liberia's anti-gay laws during an interview with President Sirleaf.
20 March 2012
Muslim Council of Britain: Marriage equality for gays ‘unnecessary and unhelpful’ 173 The Muslim Council of Britain has backed opposition to marriage equality for gays, calling equality an 'unnecessary and unhelpful' exercise.
20 March 2012
Netherlands: Catholic Church ‘castrated boys as gay cures and punishments’ 47 A newspaper in the Netherlands claims to have uncovered cases in which boys in Roman Catholic care over half a century ago were castrated to stop them being gay or to punish them for uncovering abuse.
19 March 2012
French gay couple lose adoption appeal at European Court 58 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against a lesbian couple from France who were seeking to jointly adopt a child one of them had conceived.
16 March 2012
Tyler Clementi’s room-mate guilty on hate crime charges 56 A jury has found a New Jersey university student who watched Tyler Clementi kissing another man in their room days before he killed himself guilty of 15 charges.
15 March 2012
Comment: Protection pre-conception, should gay parents consider it? 10 Should gay couples enter pre-conception agreements with a 'third parent' when planning to have a child? Family lawyer Amanda Melton examines the issues.
15 March 2012
Zimbabwe senator asks for ‘sex gadgets’ to stop prisoners turning gay 71 A Zimbabwean senator has suggested giving prisoners sex toys to curb gay impulses while they are behind bars.
14 March 2012
Government to unveil consultation plans for equal marriage in England and Wales tomorrow 29 Consultation plans for the UK government's introduction of civil marriage equality for gay couples are expected to be unveiled tomorrow.
14 March 2012
Call to recommend gay and trans protections in new Commonwealth Charter 7 Individuals and organisations are being called on to suggest specific gay, transgender and intersex protections in a new consultation on the draft Commonwealth Charter.

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