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30 April 2013John Amaechi: The NBA is light years ahead of British football when it comes to dealing with gay players 8 British football still has a long way to go in accepting gay players, retired basketball star John Amaechi has said. -
29 April 2013Comment: To Australia’s Prime Minister: Follow the lead of your homeland (Wales) & support marriage equality 23 Murray Lipp, an Australian citizen living in New York and administrator of the Facebook page ‘Gay Marriage USA’, discusses Australia’s slow progress towards marriage equality in a comment piece for PinkNews. -
29 April 2013Northern Ireland: Protests take place at Assembly as equal marriage measures fail again 11 Northern Ireland's Assembly on Monday voted narrowly to reject legislation to legalise equal marriage in the country. -
29 April 2013Q&A: LGBT professional business networking with Radius 5 Tuesday evening sees the latest event for Radius, the London based LGBT professional networking event, this time held at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. -
29 April 2013UK: Ethnic minority church leaders call for same-sex marriage referendum 63 Leaders representing more than a million British ethnic minority churchgoers have called for a referendum on equal marriage. -
29 April 2013Vatican not to conduct inquiry into Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s ‘inappropriate sexual conduct’ 44 The Catholic Church is to take no further action over Cardinal Keith O'Brien's admission of inappropriate "sexual conduct", following accusations from four priests. -
29 April 2013Daughter of anti-gay marriage Tory MP makes ‘Misérable Lesbians’ equal rights movie 9 The daughter of an anti-equal marriage Conservative MP has produced a film in support of gay rights called Misérable Lesbians. -
29 April 2013Admiral Duncan pub nail bomb memorial ‘missing’ 8 The memorial plaque installed to commemorate the victims of a nail bomb at central London pub the Admiral Duncan, has disappeared. -
29 April 2013Elton John: My feud with Madonna is now over 10 Sir Elton John has managed to end his showbiz feud with Madonna. -
29 April 2013UKIP LGBT group: ‘Extremely angry and disappointed’ by the ‘obnoxious beliefs’ of David Nixon and John Sullivan 86 UKIP’s affiliated LGBT group has condemned two of the party’s local election candidates for their alleged public displays of homophobia and biphobia. -
29 April 2013UKIP blasted over ‘insulting’ and ‘disturbing’ homophobic, biphobic election leaflet 30 Labour and the Liberal Democrats’ LGBT groups have criticised UKIP over an election leaflet that mocks bisexuals and attacks same-sex marriage. -
28 April 2013Northern Ireland: Alliance Party leader ‘treated harshly’ by his church over equal marriage support 10 Lord Alderdice, the predecessor to David Ford, the current leader of Northern Ireland's Alliance Party, has said that Ford has been treated harshly by his church over his equal marriage support. -
27 April 2013Northern Ireland: Same-sex marriage motion vetoed by DUP before debate 30 The DUP has once again blocked progress on same-sex marriage legislation in Northern Ireland, having effectively vetoed it through a 'petition of concern'.
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26 April 2013London: Exhibition of LGBT stories told through the barber’s chair 7 A Camden-based hairdresser is running an exhibition to tell the stories of LGBT clients who open up to her while sitting in the barber's chair. -
26 April 2013Yvette Cooper: ‘Parliament does not have enough openly gay and lesbian MPs’ 9 Labour's Yvette Cooper has called on British businesses and the world of politics to do more to celebrate diversity and not merely to “tolerate” LGBT staff. -
26 April 2013US: Bill to ban ‘ex-gay’ therapy to be introduced in New York 3 Two Democratic Senators in the US state of New York have announced plans to introduce legislation to outlaw the practice of controversial "gay conversion therapy". -
26 April 2013Staffordshire: UKIP election leaflet mocks bisexuals and warns of explicit ‘Homosexual Sex Education’ 222 The name of a UKIP candidate has appeared on an election leaflet that mocks bisexuals, blasts the government’s same-sex marriage bill, and warns that it will lead to explicit “Homosexual Sex Education”. -
26 April 2013Vladimir Putin: Russia may change its law to stop foreign gay couples from adopting our orphans 8 Russian President Vladimir Putin, has confirmed reports that the country may change its agreements for the foreign adoption of Russian children, in the light of France legalising equal marriage, to prevent gay, married couples from adopting. -
26 April 2013National AIDS Trust: Tweet us your ‘birds and bees’ cupcakes 47 National AIDS Trust (NAT) is holding a 'birds and bees'-themed competition to get people talking about safer sex and HIV, as part of the Bake Aware campaign. -
26 April 2013US: ‘Ex-gay’ 1990s ambassador says he’s always been gay and apologises for campaign 41 The former face of an "ex-gay conversion therapy" campaign from the 1990s, has left his wife and said he has always been gay, despite claiming throughout the campaign that he had "turned" straight.
