England
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5 August 2011Liverpool council ‘should officially recognise gay quarter’ 19 A Liverpool council report says that the city's gay quarter should be officially recognised. -
1 August 2011Liverpool’s Homotopia art festival wins three-year funding 8 Liverpool's Homotopia art festival has been granted funding for the next three years. -
18 July 2011Man carjacked and left half-naked at gay cruising spot 67 A man who was tricked into removing his trousers was carjacked at a gay cruising spot near Coventry. -
18 July 2011In photos: Lovebox Out and Fierce 2011 (Gay day) 9 Tens of thousands of people attended Lovebox Out and Fierce 2011 (Gay day) in Victoria Park, East London on Sunday. -
16 July 2011Ben Daniels rejects Rupert Everett’s advice for aspiring gay actors not to come out 26 Ben Daniels, star of the BBC hit series Cutting It, has dismissed claims made by Hollywood star Rupert Everett that it is better for aspiring gay actors to stay in the closet despite homophobia he experienced at the BBC. -
16 July 2011Video: Queen unveils monument at Bletchley Park, home of gay genius codebreaker Alan Turing 34 The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh yesterday unveiled a monument to commemorate the contribution made by code breakers at Bletchley Park to victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. -
15 July 2011Pixie Lott, Blue and The Sugababes for Manchester Pride 13 Pop star Pixie Lott is to headline next month's Manchester Pride for the event's 21st birthday. -
14 July 2011Men attacked in Vauxhall after London Pride 129 Two men were attacked and robbed in Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, after London Pride. -
1 July 2011Tory gay group says Ken Livingstone should be banned from Pride 62 Updated: The Conservative Party's LGBT group, LGBTory, has called for mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone to banned from London Pride over his alleged "close friendship" with an anti-gay extremist. -
26 June 2011Sir Ian McKellen on why he never came out to his parents 52 Sir Ian McKellen, who is fronting an advertising campaign for the Albert Kennedy Trust on gay teenagers kicked out of home for coming out has explained in an interview for The Times why he never came out to his own parents. -
21 June 2011Trans woman wants drag acts banned from Pride festival 144 A transgender woman in Calderdale is calling for the area's Pride festival to ban drag acts or publish a disclaimer about them. -
8 June 2011London hospitals to offer routine HIV tests to A&E patients 40 Two hospitals in London are to offer routine HIV tests to Accident and Emergency (A&E) patients, making them the first in the UK to do so and aiming to save lives by reducing the number of cases of undiagnosed HIV. -
7 June 2011Gay rugby team King’s Cross Steelers win 2011 Union cup 17 Gay rugby club Kings Cross Steelers RFC, have retained the title of European champions for the third time after winning the 2011 Union Cup. -
7 June 2011Policeman and former Mr Gay UK denies sex offence charges as trial continues + A police constable who won the Mr Gay UK title in 2006 was in court yesterday accused of raping a man in a Leeds hotel. -
6 June 2011BFI has footage of first known male-to-male television kiss – featuring Sean Connery 33 TV researchers at the British Film Institute (BFI) have revealed they have footage of what is believed to be the first male-to-male kiss on UK television featuring Sean Connery. -
6 June 2011Gay men verbally abused through PA system by Trafalgar Square busker 305 Two gay men were verbally abused by a busker using a PA system in Trafalgar Square last week. -
3 June 2011This weekend marks 30th anniversary of first HIV cases but ignorance is growing, say National AIDS Trust 83 This Sunday 5 June marks 30 years since the first cases of HIV. -
3 June 2011Facebook belatedly remove transphobic hate page 17 Facebook came under fire yet again this week for what some are claiming is a pattern of failure to take seriously attacks on the LGBT community. -
2 June 2011First same-sex Jewish marriage takes place in Manchester 108 The first same-sex Jewish partnership ceremony officially to be termed a marriage by Liberal Judaism - a major British progressive strand of the religion - took place in Manchester last weekend. -
2 June 2011Stephen Fry says he finds fame ‘exhausting’ and that suicide is always an option 78 Stephen Fry has said that he finds his celebrity 'exhausting' and that there's every possibility he'd consider suicide one day.
