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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
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.
30 November 2012
Comment: New rules must stop press homophobia 12 Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has welcomed the publication of this week's Leveson Report - in a comment piece for PinkNews.co.uk he says he hopes it can lead to greater protection for LGBT people from press intrusion.
29 November 2012
Leveson Report: Press has failed to respect the dignity of trans people 3 Trans Media Watch (TMW), the charity that works to improve media coverage of transgender and intersex issues and had previously submitted testimony to his inquiry, has welcomed the publication of Lord Justice Leveson’s report into media standards.
16 March 2012
Daily Mail: Ministers ‘viciously bullying’ Church over marriage equality 114 The Daily Mail has published an editorial today questioning whether there is real public demand for allowing gay couples to marry.
9 March 2012
Syrian paper claims gays are ‘infesting society’ through uprising 22 A popular privately owned daily newspaper has published an article alleging gays and lesbians are 'prospering' due to the Syrian uprising and are held responsible for social problems.
1 March 2012
Trans charity reports papers to Leveson on ‘child safety concerns’ 12 The Leveson Inquiry has received a charity's submission regarding several articles about trans people published in recent weeks which it is says 'deliberately misrepresented' the realities of gender dysphoria.
21 February 2012
MPs condemn media hunt for trans man who gave birth 46 Leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas has tabled an Early Day Motion at Parliament condemning the media's attempts to discover the identity of a transgender man who gave birth to a child.
17 February 2012
Trans media charity slams attempts to ‘expose’ man who gave birth 32 Calls to identify the anonymous transgender man reported to be the first in the UK to give birth have been decried by a charity calling for accuracy and respect for trans people in the media.
19 January 2012
Seventy mayors to press Obama on gay marriage 19 A number of large-city mayors in the US have formed a coalition with the hope to achieve same-sex marriage equality.
12 January 2012
Sean Bean takes on trans role for BBC drama 75 The BBC has announced Sean Bean will play a transgender character in an episode of its drama Accused, in a storyline it said was "untold on mainstream television".
23 December 2011
George Michael says doctors were “keeping him alive” during pneumonia 25 George Michael has returned to the UK after being treated in an Austrian hospital for pneumonia.
2 December 2011
Russian minister’s call for national version of St Petersburg’s anti-gay law was “only about paedophilia” 11 Dmitry Kozak's press secretary says his comments only applied to the section on paedophilia, not LGBT issues.
23 November 2011
Denmark set to introduce gay religious wedding ceremonies “in spring 2012″ 33 The Lutheran Church, Denmark's state church and most popular religious denomination, should be able to hold full gay wedding ceremonies next year under new proposals.
11 November 2011
Lesbian writer and publisher Barbara Grier dies, aged 78 7 Grier will be remembered for founding Naiad Press, at its height one of the world's most successful gay publishing houses.
6 October 2011
Ugandan campaigner says gay bar was shut down 14 A Ugandan LGBT campaigner says that her gay bar was forcibly shut down.
4 October 2011
Obama ‘still working’ on gay marriage views 95 US President Barack Obama says he is "still working" on his personal view of gay marriage.
20 September 2011
Poll: Young people see online anti-gay or racist slurs as ‘just joking’ 35 A poll suggests that most US young people are not offended by online anti-gay, racist or sexist slurs.
10 February 2011
Shot pro-gay congresswoman begins speaking again 8 Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman shot in the head last month, has begun speaking again.
27 January 2011
Ken Livingstone accused of hypocrisy for earning money from anti-gay Iran 23 London mayor candidate Ken Livingstone has been criticised for earning thousands of pounds for his work as a presenter for an Iranian TV channel.

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