Articles about Leeds

22 May 2013
Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland brands student a s**t in equal marriage Twitter row 8 Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland has used highly colourful language in a row with a student over his actions during the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill.
1 May 2013
Former Leeds footballer who came out as gay in February may return to play in the US 3 Former Leeds United footballer Robbie Rogers, who came out as gay in February shortly after retiring from the sport, may return to play, as he resumes training with a US team.
29 March 2013
Ex-Leeds player Robbie Rogers: There’s no way I could have stayed in football after coming out as gay 23 Robbie Rogers has explained why coming out as gay meant he had to retire immediately as a professional footballer, saying: "I don't think I would have been able to go training the next day".
23 November 2012
UK: Radio station fined after presenter calls gay people ‘evil’ 65 A radio station in Leeds, which is aimed at the Asian community, has been fined after a presenter advocated homophobic violence and branded gay people as “evil” and “shameful”.
16 November 2012
Beautiful Thing to return to the stage 9 Jonathan Harvey’s classic gay play, Beautiful Thing, will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year with a new UK-wide tour.
2 November 2012
UK: Catholic adoption charity loses anti-gay legal appeal 35 Catholic Care has lost its latest appeal in its fight to be allowed to prevent gay couples from using its adoption services.
13 September 2012
UK Catholic adoption charity resumes anti-gay legal fight 49 Catholic Care’s latest appeal in its ongoing campaign to be allowed to prevent gay couples from using its adoption services has begun at the Upper Tribunal in central London.
15 June 2012
Leeds: Anti-gay radio sermon was likely to incite crime, regulator rules 55 Broadcasting regulator Ofcom has ruled that a sermon on a local radio station in Leeds was 'likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime' against the gay community.
22 March 2012
Council to consider official gay quarter for Leeds 29 Leeds City Council will address a motion to formally recognise its gay quarter next week.
17 August 2011
Leeds campaigners want official city gay quarter 6 Gay rights activists in Leeds hope to persuade the city council to officially recognise the gay village.
7 June 2011
Policeman and former Mr Gay UK denies sex offence charges as trial continues + A police constable who won the Mr Gay UK title in 2006 was in court yesterday accused of raping a man in a Leeds hotel.
31 May 2011
Catholic Care plans to appeal a fourth time over gay adoption ruling 49 The Leeds-based charity Catholic Care are to appeal to the Upper Tribunal in the hope of quashing the ruling forbidding them to exclude gay people when considering potential adoptive parents.
27 October 2010
Emmerdale star sorry for ‘abusing’ gay fan 45 Emmerdale actor Adam Thomas has apologised after allegedly abusing a gay fan.
24 December 2009
Former Mr Gay UK arrested for alleged ‘serious sex offence’ + Police officer Mark Carter, the 2006 Mr Gay UK winner, has been arrested on suspicion of a sex attack.

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