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25 May 2013Birmingham Pride kicks off with Peter Tatchell leading Equal Love carnival + Birmingham Pride festivities begin today at noon with an 'Equal Love' themed carnival march and will continue over the Bank Holiday weekend. -
24 May 2013Friend of George Michael slams car accident suicide rumours as ‘absurd’ 8 One of George Michael's closest friends has blasted reports suggesting the star threw himself out of a moving car at 70mph last week in a bid to end his own life -
24 May 2013Nick Clegg: I am proud to fly the rainbow flag at Whitehall, and hope others will be too 14 Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, has said he was "proud" to fly the rainbow flag at Whitehall last year for the very first time, and said he hopes other departments will do the same this year. -
24 May 2013Tory MP Richard Drax: The equal marriage bill is ‘intolerant legislation’ 40 Conservative MP Richard Drax has complained of the lack of “tolerance” towards “the millions who believe that ‘marriage’ can only be between a man and a woman.” -
24 May 2013Comment: How God Hates Fags and its friends like Linda Harvey further gay rights 45 Our readers sometimes ask why it is that PinkNews reports on the latest vile outbursts by God Hates Fags organisers, the Westboro Baptist Church or the most recent ludicrous and illogical statement by US radio personalities such like Linda Harvey. -
24 May 2013UK: Police criticised after gay killer escapes from prison and ends up in gay bar 2 A report by Northumbria's Police and Crime Commissioner has criticised police over their response after an escaped prisoner who previously killed a gay man was found drinking in a gay bar. -
24 May 2013Brighton: Footballers cleared of sexual assault as woman lied about being drugged at gay pride 1 Four Brighton footballers have been cleared of sexual assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room, as it was found that she had lied about several details, including that she had attended a gay pride event, and was drugged. -
24 May 2013UK: Card Factory accused of homophobia for selling offensive ‘fag’ birthday card 132 The mother of a PinkNews.co.uk reader has spoken of her disgust after coming across an allegedly homophobic greeting card sold in a branch of Card Factory in Essex. -
24 May 2013Nick Clegg and Francis Maude agree to fly rainbow flag from Cabinet Office for Pride week 7 Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude and Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg both intend to demonstrate the government's commitment to equality by allowing the rainbow flag to fly from the Cabinet Office during Pride week in the capital. -
24 May 2013Lib Dem MP Gordon Birtwistle defends voting against equal marriage 38 Liberal Democrat MP Gordon Birtwistle has defended voting against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill and has cited opposition from a local mosque. -
24 May 2013Question Time: Ian Paisley Jr defends saying he was ‘repulsed’ by gays and lesbians 48 The DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr was challenged on Question Time about his 2007 interview where he said that he was "repulsed" by gays and lesbians. -
23 May 2013UK: Ugandan rapist who claimed he was at risk of homophobic persecution deported 13 A Ugandan rapist, who was jailed after admitting on Facebook that he attacked a woman, has been deported after immigration officials dismissed claims he would face persecution because he stated he was gay. -
23 May 2013Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: I’ve not come out strongly against same-sex unions, but we don’t do them 59 Speaking to Sir David Frost, the Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, has rejected a suggestion that he had “come out strongly” against same-sex unions. -
23 May 2013US church: Equal marriage bill is to blame for violent Woolwich murder 20 The adamantly homophobic Westboro Baptist Church has tweeted PinkNews to say that God sent the killers in the suspected terror killing in Woolwich, London, because the equal marriage bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday. -
23 May 2013Peter Tatchell: ‘I may disagree with David Cameron on austerity, but on equal marriage I salute him’ 16 Peter Tatchell has warm praise for Prime Minister David Cameron, for “sticking to his guns” on equal marriage in the face of considerable opposition from his own party -
23 May 2013Cornwall: Tory deputy chair Sarah Newton defends abstaining in equal marriage Commons vote 18 MP Sarah Newton, also a deputy chair of the Conservative Party, is defending herself from claims she broke a promise to her constituents after abstaining in this week’s vote of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. -
23 May 2013Sir Gerald Howarth: ‘I should have used ‘militant’ rather than ‘aggressive’ to describe homosexuals 61 Responding to a letter from a PinkNews.co.uk reader, Tory MP Sir Gerald Howarth says he should have used the word “militant” rather than “aggressive” when describing parts of the “homosexuality community.” -
23 May 2013Lib Dem MP John Pugh criticised for voting against equal marriage bill — Simon Hughes and Tim Fallon abstained 20 Liberal Democrat MP John Pugh has been criticised for voting against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill – as both Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes, party president Tim Farron and Health Minister Norman Lamb abstained in this week’s vote. -
23 May 2013Tory MP Sir Gerald Howarth defends ‘aggressive homosexual community’ equal marriage slur 66 Former Conservative defence minister Sir Gerald Howarth has defended his comments about the “aggressive homosexual community”. -
23 May 2013Columnist Richard Godwin: Does Tory MP Sir Gerald Howarth ‘dream that everyone in Soho wants to bum him?’ 10 London Evening Standard columnist Richard Godwin jokes Sir Gerald Howarth’s recent comments about the “aggressive homosexual community” maybe because “he really does dream that everyone in Soho wants to bum him.”
