England
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2 June 2011Amsterdam city officials to be annually questioned on their support for gay marriage 9 Marriage commissioners in Nieuw-West district of Amsterdam will have to undergo an annual evaluation in order to ensure their consistent support for same-sex marriage. -
2 June 2011Ugandan woman branded with iron for being a lesbian faces deportation from UK 87 A 22-year-old Ugandan woman who was subjected to being branded with a hot iron in her home country as a punishment for being a lesbian, may be deported from the UK. -
1 June 2011Commonwealth secretary general speaks out against homophobia following Tatchell’s criticisms 29 The Commonwealth secretary-general, Kamalesh Sharma, has written an article in the Nairobi Star speaking out against homophobia. -
1 June 2011Man fined for East End anti-gay stickers 111 An 18-year-old Muslim man has been fined for posting homophobic stickers around London’s East End. -
1 June 2011London borough tries to reassure critics after homophobic Catholic charity awarded £89,000 contract for counselling in schools 54 The south-west London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, which earlier this year awarded an £89,000 contract to the homophobic Catholic Children’s Society to offer counselling and support to children in the borough’s school, are seeking to reassure critics over the decision. -
1 June 2011Lesbian woman subjected to homophobic rant from doctor at Atos medical assessment 127 A gay woman who was instructed to attend an Atos Healthcare assessment in order to assess her benefit entitlement claims she was subjected to a homophobic outburst by the doctor who examined her. -
31 May 2011Outrage at capital’s HIV services funding cut 38 London HIV prevention groups have said they are outraged at the 20 per cent funding cut. -
31 May 2011Twitter user claims popstar had lesbian affair while married + A Twitter user is claiming that a popular British singer had a lesbian affair during her second marriage. -
31 May 2011Catholic Care plans to appeal a fourth time over gay adoption ruling 49 The Leeds-based charity Catholic Care are to appeal to the Upper Tribunal in the hope of quashing the ruling forbidding them to exclude gay people when considering potential adoptive parents. -
30 May 2011Trans woman asks that she be sent to a women’s prison if convicted for benefit fraud 35 A trans woman from Oldham who confessed to falsely claiming £12,000 in benefits over a period of four years, asked that she be sent to a women's prison if convicted. -
30 May 2011Birmingham Pride largely a success, despite police investigation of two homophobic incidents 14 Police are treating as homophobic two incidents that took place at an otherwise successful and peaceful Birmingham Pride over the weekend. -
28 May 2011Courtney Love: Lady Gaga is a ‘sexless Barbie Doll surrounded by gays’ as Gaga poses with Stephen Fry 95 Courtney Love, one time rock-star and wife of the late Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain has some choice words for Lady Gaga, warning against surrounding herself with gays as the Gaga posed on the cover of the Financial Times magazine with Stephen Fry. -
27 May 201126-year-old gay club in Portsmouth to close down 14 One of the few gay night clubs in Portsmouth, England is to close its doors for good on Monday evening. -
25 May 2011Plymouth man banned from city pubs over anti-gay abuse 12 A Plymouth man has been barred from all of the city centre's pubs for 18 months after hurling anti-gay abuse at a group of women. -
23 May 2011Consultation on Liverpool’s gay village ends 34 The consultation on developing Liverpool's gay village has ended. -
11 May 2011Two drag queens attacked in Liverpool’s gay quarter 44 Two drag queens have been attacked in separate incidents in Liverpool's gay quarter.
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3 May 2011PinkNews.co.uk poll: Gay voters back AV, huge drop in Lib Dem support 83 A PinkNews.co.uk poll suggests that the UK's LGBT community will back the alternative vote system in Thursday's referendum. -
29 April 2011Spike in searches causes Google to suggest “James Middleton Gay” + The search engine Google has begun to auto-suggest "James Middleton gay" following a surge in searches on the younger brother of Catherine 'Kate', Duchess of Cambridge. -
27 April 2011Gay man beaten in homophobic south London attack 229 A gay man has received hospital treatment after being beaten up in an unprovoked homophobic attack at the weekend. -
25 April 2011Giant card and demonstration call on Prince William and Kate Middleton to support gay marriage 89 Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and the Equal Love campaign have presented Prince William and Kate Middleton a wedding card that calls for their support for gay marriage.
