Maori organisation in New Zealand support marriage equality bill
New Zealand’s Maori child advocacy organisation Ririki has said they are in favour of MP Louisa Wall’s marriage equality bill. The bill, which would legalise equal marriage, passed its first reading...
View ArticleJudge suggests Detroit lesbian couple challenge state’s marriage equality ban...
A federal judge in Detroit this week suggested a lesbian couple challenge the state of Michigan’s ban on marriage equality – which is preventing them both being registered as their children’s parents....
View ArticleCatholic college teacher in New Zealand suspended over marriage equality views
A teacher at a Catholic college in Whangarei, New Zealand, has been suspended and students allegedly threatened in a row with the college’s principal over marriage equality. The reasons for the...
View ArticleRepublican Senator of Utah disagrees with Romney over marriage equality ban
The Senator of Utah, who is Mitt Romney’s most high-profile Mormon supporter in the US Senate, has disagreed with the new presidential candidate on amending the Constitution to ban marriage equality....
View ArticleNew Government-funded Catholic faith school proudly announce they will not...
A newly-opened faith school in Cornwall has hit back at critics who they claim are seeking to “undermine” them for their anti-LGBT stance. St Michael’s Catholic free school in Truro is the UK’s first...
View ArticleArizona lesbian couple found dead in likely murder-suicide
A lesbian couple from Arizona have been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. It is thought that 32-year-old Dallas Augustine – the daughter of a Nevada lawmaker who was murdered in 2006 – is...
View ArticleOne Million Moms vow to get Jennifer Lopez’s new lesbian comedy-drama off air
A pilot for Jennifer Lopez’s new comedy-drama about a lesbian couple and their children which has been bought by the ABC television network has been targeted by anti-LGBT group One Million Moms. The...
View ArticleSame-sex adoption bill drawn from ballot in New Zealand
New Zealand’s 50-year-old adoption laws are to be debated by parliament in order to potentially bring about changes that would allow same-sex couples to adopt. Labour MP Jacinda Ardern’s Care of...
View ArticleBill to allow lesbian women equal access to fertility services passes...
The California State Senate this week voted 26 to 10 to approve a bill that ensures women in same-sex relationships – and single women – can access fertility services on the same terms as women in...
View ArticleClint Eastwood to speak at Republican convention – despite being pro-marriage...
Clint Eastwood is to be guest speaker at the Republican National Convention, despite his pro-marriage equality stance which does not chime with the party’s ideology. Eastwood was previously a...
View ArticleDanish Prime Minister denies fresh rumours that her husband is gay
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has again dismissed claims about the sexuality of her husband, the son of Neil Kinnock. Stephen Kinnock and his wife were audited by government tax...
View ArticleProp 8 contributor and church youth leader indicted on child abuse charges
A church youth leader in California who donated money to the anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 campaign has been indicted on charges of child molestation. Caleb Douglas Hesse, 52, of Yucca Valley,...
View ArticleAustralian Football league launches major anti-homophobia drive
The Australian Football League (AFL) has “declared war” on homophobia in a new initiative. League chief Andrew Demetriou, Olympic flag bearer Lauren Jackson and Collingwood president Eddie McGuire will...
View ArticleSpoof Todd Akin article that claims ‘homosexuality can be cured by...
An article on satirical American website The Daily Currant which claimed that a Republican senate nominee suggested breast milk could cure homosexuality has outraged thousands on Twitter, despite its...
View ArticleMaryland LGBT groups join up with immigrants over November ballot
LGBT groups in Maryland teamed up with the state’s largest Latino and immigrant rights group yesterday, hoping to build support for November ballot questions which, if passed, will allow marriage...
View ArticleMaltese LGBT rights group say they feel let down by cohabitation bill
The Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM) has expressed disappointment at a bill to regulate cohabiting couples, which has just been launched in the country. The MGRM say the law has failed to accede to...
View ArticleGay Republican says platform banning marriage equality will be last gasp of...
Gay Republican and former Representative of Arizona, Jim Kolbe said he believes this will be the last time the Republican Party’s platform will endorse amending the US Constitution to stop states from...
View ArticleAngela Merkel says no to equal tax laws for LGBT couples
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected calls to give to LGBT couples the tax breaks enjoyed by heterosexual married couples. Speaking to public broadcaster ARD at the weekend, Ms Merkel said her...
View ArticleGay Met inspector claims he was pushed out of the force by ‘bullying’
A gay police inspector has claimed he was forced out of his role after being unlawfully arrested by allegedly homophobic special constables. As reported in the Evening Standard, Richard Hendron, 31,...
View ArticleNew Zealand MP appeals to opponents and fence-sitters over marriage equality...
New Zealand’s equal marriage bill is to be heard for the first time today in parliament, and various lobby groups and a number of MPs will also be declaring their opposition to it. There are currently...
View ArticlePsychological tests for trans pilots in US is abandoned owing to a one-woman...
Psychological testing for trans people who wish to become pilots has been abandoned after one woman sustained a three-year campaign. Tamsyn Waterhouse from San Francisco has been flying since she was a...
View ArticleGay-Straight Alliance sue California school over sex abstinence drive
A united group of parents, doctors and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network are suing the Clovis Unified School District in California over a sex education drive championing abstinence until marriage. The...
View ArticleSouth African pastor blames gay men, lesbians and feminists for ‘culture of...
Pastor Errol Naidoo of South Africa’s Family Policy Institute has blamed the LGBT community for creating a “culture of death” that led, among other things, to the Marikana mine massacre. In his latest...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland: Retired Church of Ireland cleric backs calls for marriage...
A retired senior Church of Ireland cleric has called for marriage equality to be made legal. Canon Charles Kenny, who retired from St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast in 2000, told the Belfast Telegraph...
View ArticleRepublican amendments to marriage equality rejected
Two Republican Party delegates had their suggestions on amending the party’s official position on marriage equality rejected this week. As reported by the Washington Wire, Republicans drafting the...
View ArticleBulgaria: Hackers use gay pop singer’s video to attack Russian court’s website
Unidentified hackers attacked the website of the Moscow-based court who sentenced Pussy Riot last week by posting on it a video by Azis, a gay Bulgarian Romani pop singer. Along with anti-government...
View ArticleTalk show host Geraldo Rivera suggests US Homeland Security is staffed by a...
Fox News and US chat show host Geraldo Rivera suggested on a TV debate earlier this week that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was becoming “some kind of lesbian cabal”. The discussion took...
View ArticleOpponents of marriage equality gather to protest Scottish government’s...
A cabinet meeting hosted by the Scottish leadership at Renfrew Town Hall yesterday drew a crowd of around 200 people protesting against their government’s plans for marriage equality. Inside the town...
View ArticleManchester Pride to send message of solidarity to St Petersburg
The thousands who attend Manchester Pride this weekend are being urged to use the event to send a message of solidarity to LGBT people in its sister city of St Petersburg. Earlier this year, the local...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Police in Harare close down GALZ offices
Police in Harare have now pressed charges against Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) and closed down their office. This closure is likely to affect its members greatly, as many depended on it for...
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