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17 November 2012
Northern Ireland: Funeral held of leading gay rights campaigner PA Maglochlainn 5 The funeral is being held today of one of Northern Ireland's best known LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights campaigners, PA Maglochlainn, who died from a long illness.
15 November 2012
Tributes for Northern Ireland gay rights campaigner 6 Tributes are being paid to Northern Ireland LGBT rights campaigner PA Maglochlainn, who has died from a long illness.
28 October 2012
Northern Ireland Health minister criticised by Greens over gay adoption appeal 15 Speaking at his party’s conference, Northern Ireland Green Party leader Steven Agnew said Edwin Poots was "unfit for office" over his decision to challenge a senior judge’s ruling on adoption rights for couples in civil partnerships.
26 October 2012
Northern Ireland marks landmark gay rights anniversary 5 Thirty years ago in 1982 Jeff Dudgeon, a shipping clerk and gay rights activist in Belfast, successfully challenged the criminalisation of sexual relations between men at the European Court of Human Rights.
24 October 2012
Northern Ireland attorney general isolated over gay adoption + The UK Government is seeking to distance itself from Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin’s decision to intervene in a European court case involving gay adoption laws.
18 October 2012
Northern Ireland Health minister to challenge gay adoption ruling 35 Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots has announced he will challenge a landmark ruling to overturn the ban that prevents gay couples in civil partnerships from adopting in the country.
18 October 2012
Northern Ireland gay adoption ban ruled unlawful 12 The ban preventing gay couples in civil partnerships and unmarried straight couples from adopting children in Northern Ireland has been deemed unlawful, a High Court judge has ruled.
17 October 2012
Dublin gets ready for Europe’s largest LGBT conference 3 The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe) is staging its 16th annual conference in the Irish city of Dublin from 18 – 21 October.
9 October 2012
Comment: “It was an amazing push for marriage equality” 6 Despite last week’s equal marriage defeat in the Northern Ireland Assembly, in a comment piece for PinkNews.co.uk, Gary Spedding says there are reasons to be optimistic when it comes to securing LGBT equality in Northern Ireland.
4 October 2012
Northern Ireland: Gay rights group welcomes election of archbishop 12 Changing Attitude Ireland, the Church of Ireland’s pro-gay group, has welcomed the appointment of Reverend Richard Clarke as the new primate of All-Ireland.
1 October 2012
Equal marriage defeat for Northern Ireland 39 A motion calling for same-sex couples to be given the right to marry in Northern Ireland has been defeated in the Stormont Assembly.
1 October 2012
Presbyterian Church: Equal marriage will ‘demolish’ society 42 The Presbyterian Church has written to all Northern Ireland Assembly members stating its staunch opposition to equal marriage.
11 September 2012
Comment: Homophobia is still a blight on our society 6 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk Gary Spedding says the number of anti-gay incidents in Northern Ireland shows more needs to be done to tackle homophobia in society.
10 September 2012
Northern Ireland: Green leader pushes for equal marriage 3 A private member’s motion to debate equal marriage, which previously failed to gain support, during the last session of Northern Ireland’s Legislative Assembly, has been resubmitted for the coming year.
2 September 2012
Northern Ireland: Alliance Party votes in favour of equal marriage 13 The Alliance Party in Northern Ireland has voted in favour of introducing equal marriage.
29 August 2012
Northern Ireland: Peer who compared homosexuality to bestiality quits 33 An Ulster Unionist Party peer has stepped down after making comments describing gay marriage as "deviant", and describing a Gay Pride march though Belfast as "offensive".
23 August 2012
Northern Ireland: Retired Church of Ireland cleric backs calls for marriage equality to be legalised 10 A retired senior Church of Ireland cleric has called for marriage equality to be made legal.
3 August 2012
Protest against Northern Irish gay blood donation ban 20 Calls for the Northern Irish Health Secretary to step down were voiced at an angry protest against the ban on gay blood donation in Londonderry.
1 August 2012
Lord Mayor of Belfast first DUP representative to attend Pride event 35 The Lord Mayor of Belfast, a councillor for the Democratic Unionist Party whose members have made numerous anti-gay comments in recent years, has attended a Pride event in the city.
23 July 2012
Northern Ireland: Peer reignites argument over ‘perverse’ equal marriage 46 After suggesting marriage rights for gay couples were a 'rung on the ladder' to legalising sex with animals, Lord Maginnis has said he is 'disgusted' that a Tory think tank supports the move and will campaign to challenge its private funding streams.

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