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8 June 2013
Ghana: Journalists Association president rebuked for urging anti-gay slant in media 17 The president of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has come under fire for encouraging the media to take an anti-gay stance in their reports.
29 May 2013
Daily Mail defends transphobic Richard Littlejohn column despite criticism by Lucy Meadows’ coroner 28 Following stinging criticism by coroner Michael Singleton, the Daily Mail has defended an article by Richard Littlejohn about transgender primary school teacher Lucy Meadows.
28 May 2013
UK: Teacher Lucy Meadows was hounded by a transphobic press says coroner 20 The coroner investigating the death of transgender primary school teacher Lucy Meadows says the media should be ashamed of themselves.
28 May 2013
Inquest for trans teacher Lucy Meadows resumes today 2 An inquest has been re-opened into the death of school teacher Lucy Meadows, a trans woman whose gender transition was the subject of undue media scrutiny.
10 May 2013
Online campaign targets homophobia in Arab world 2 An online magazine has launched a campaign asking readers in Arab countries to photograph themselves with messages speaking out against homophobia.
2 May 2013
US: Ohio trans woman killed, media coverage denounced by GLAAD 3 The death of Cemia Dove, also known as Ci Ci, a transgender woman from Ohio, has highlighted both the hate crimes faced by the transgender community, and the "dehumanizing" effect of much of the media coverage of such crimes.
18 April 2013
US: Senator claims the media has ‘bamboozled’ the public into thinking gay relationships can be happy 30 A Republican Senator in Iowa surprised colleagues by using time set aside for free discussion to declare that society, and in particular children, were "bamboozled" by portrayals of fulfilling gay relationships in the media.
12 April 2013
Study: Support for equal marriage boosted by television portrayal of gay couples 41 A poll has found that in the US, more people say their perception of gay people has been positively influenced by television's portrayal of them, than say it has had a negative impact.
2 April 2013
London: NUJ to host debate on homophobia and transphobia in the media 4 The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is hosting a debate on homophobia and transphobia in the media, later this month.
26 March 2013
Comment: The Lucy Meadows bandwagon 54 In the wake of Lucy Meadows’ death, Paul Canning casts a spotlight on several online petitions that are now calling for the sacking of the Daily Mail’s columnist Richard Littlejohn.
22 March 2013
Analysis: Trans suicide and the way the media reports the trans community 37 Following the death of Lucy Meadows, Maeve Regan explores for PinkNews the impact of transphobic language in the media and the findings from the Trans Mental Health Study.
22 March 2013
UK: Activist Helen Belcher to meet MPs over media mistreatment of trans people 8 Helen Belcher of Trans Media Watch has contacted MPs over the mistreatment of Lucy Meadows, the trans teacher who was hounded by the media, and who was found dead this week.
12 March 2013
Study: Sexuality can be revealed by the type of music you ‘like’ on Facebook 12 Information about sexuality can be revealed from the things you choose to ‘like’ on Facebook, a study suggests.
22 February 2013
Interview: BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Adele Roberts shares her Big Brother coming out story + BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Adele Roberts has been interviewed by PinkNews’ Scott Roberts about a documentary she is presenting this weekend on the subject of coming out.
21 February 2013
UK: News giant Reuters announces support for same-sex marriage bill 7 International news and media giant Thomson Reuters, which runs the Reuters news agency, is throwing its weight behind the same-sex marriage bill for England and Wales.
22 January 2013
Video: Trans community speak of their hurt at Julie Burchill’s Observer article 23 Scottish Transgender Alliance is championing a YouTube video that shows personal individual responses to a transphobic article published in the Observer this month.
14 January 2013
Observer editor John Mulholland withdraws Julie Burchill column accused of transphobia 9 The editor of the Observer, John Mulholland, has withdrawn a column by Julie Burchill published yesterday which came under heavy criticism for accusations of transphobia.
14 January 2013
Protesters to demonstrate amidst accusations of Transphobia at the Observer and the Guardian 4 Protesters are set to demonstrate outside the offices of the Observer newspaper on Thursday, following a column written by Julie Burchill yesterday, which came under heavy criticism for being transphobic.
6 January 2013
Vatican newspaper says equal marriage ‘deceives humanity’, compares it to communism 67 In not the first attack of its kind, the semi-official newspaper of the Vatican has likened global moves towards marriage equality to 20th century socialist promises which "deceived humanity".
18 December 2012
Vatican paper says marriage equality efforts aim for a gay ‘utopia’ 41 The media in the Vatican has likened moves towards equal marriage to a communist-like "utopia", and said that the Catholic Church will not accept "fashionable" changes in favour of equality.

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