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24 April 2013
Ireland: Hotel manager sacked for opening gay sauna awarded unfair dismissal compensation 3 A former hotel leisure centre manager, who was sacked after he opened a gay sauna, has been awarded over 25,000€ (£21,000) in compensation.
6 March 2013
New research calls for better guidance about HIV transmission and the law 4 Support services offered to people living with HIV will be able to benefit from better information around prosecutions arising from the sexual transmission of HIV, according to new report released today, which found that there was significant confusion around legal terminology and precautionary measures as a defence.
18 January 2013
US: Sperm or egg donors to same-sex couples could be liable to pay child support 7 Questions on whether or not sperm or egg donors could be liable to pay child support have been raised since a US judge ruled that a man must pay child support for the child of a lesbian couple who he donated sperm to, after they split up.
12 January 2013
Malta: Labour government would grant civil partnerships and trans identity law if elected 9 The leader of the Labour party in the Maltese House of Representatives has said his party would allow gay couples to have civil unions, a gender identity law for trans people, and that he would appoint a minister for civil rights and equality.
8 December 2012
Chile: Motel fined for discriminating against lesbian couple 4 In the first ruling under a new anti-discrimination law, a Chilean judge has fined a motel for refusing entry to a same-sex couple, and ordered that it can't refuse entry in future.
13 April 2012
Analysis: The multi-million pound ‘gay divorce’ 6 Brenda Long writes that though civil partners can be assured the principles of dissolution are the same as divorce, this brings its own set of issues.
17 October 2011
US Republican lawsuit: ‘Gays don’t need heightened legal protections’ 22 A lawsuit filed by US Republicans says that gay people do not need the same level of legal protection accorded to other minorities because they are "not politically powerless".
14 October 2011
Lesbian confirmed as US federal judge 4 The US senate has confirmed a lesbian to serve as a US federal judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
17 January 2011
Christian therapist may be struck off for trying to turn gay man straight 73 A Christian 'conversion therapist' may be struck off this week after telling a gay undercover reporter that she could turn him straight.
15 December 2009
Updated: Christian registrar Lillian Ladele loses appeal 254 An Islington registrar who refused to carry out civil partnerships for gay couples has lost her appeal.

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