Associated Press updates its style guide on whether to call married gay...
The Associated Press is once again under scrutiny for terms used to describe the LGBT community. The Huffington Post reports that the foremost authority on journalistic style and standards released an...
View ArticlePeter Tatchell claims Reading University colludes with far-right extremist...
Peter Tatchell writes about last week’s decision of Reading University’s Student Union to cancel an event where the anti-gay Islamic preacher Abu Usamah at-Thahabi was due to attend. Reading...
View ArticleUS: Muslim caller tells TV host gay Americans should be beheaded
The host of a phone-in programme in New York was left stunned after a caller suggested gay Americans should be beheaded in accordance with Sharia law. Identifying himself as Chris, from Willowbrook,...
View ArticleJeremy Irons: Same-sex marriage could lead to fathers marrying their sons for...
Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons says equal marriage could lead to fathers marrying their sons. Although the 64-year-old stressed he “doesn’t have a strong feeling either way” on the issue of marriage...
View ArticleActor Alan Cumming blasts Jeremy Irons for his ‘ignorant’ anti-gay marriage...
Scottish actor Alan Cumming has criticised Jeremy Irons after he suggested equal marriage in Britain could lead to fathers marrying their sons in a bid to avoid inheritance tax. Irons, 64, made the...
View ArticleJeremy Irons: ‘I don’t know the difference between a same-sex marriage and a...
Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons says he should have “buttoned” his lip when he joked equal marriage could lead to fathers marrying their sons, although he now admits that he doesn’t know the...
View ArticlePeru: Father named ‘Hitler’ accused of setting his gay HIV positive son on fire
A father in Peru has been accused of setting his son on fire after learning he was gay and HIV positive. The attack occurred in Loreto, a region of Peru deep in the Amazon. Hitler Baneo Núñez, 49,...
View ArticleLabour fear late night House of Lords vote could threaten equal marriage bill
Labour’s shadow equalities minister Baroness Glenys Thornton says David Cameron has been “absolutely brilliant” in his support for equal marriage, but warns a late night vote in the House of Lords next...
View ArticleUK: Government moves equal marriage House of Lords vote to later next day
Next week’s House of Lords vote on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill will now take place on Tuesday in the daytime after supporters warned voting in the early hours could put the bill at risk. At...
View ArticleNew book claims Matthew Shepard was a meth addict, murdered by his bisexual...
An award winning journalist is set to release a book on the young man Matthew Shepard who was tied to a fence and killed in 1998, arguing against original accounts that the murder was in fact not an...
View ArticleHIV campaign disagrees with media link between David Dimbleby’s scorpion...
The decision of The Times, Metro and The Huffington Post to claim gay men use a scorpion and other “biohazard” symbols to indicate they are HIV positive has surprised gay men’s health charity, GMFA....
View ArticleEthiopian Children’s Minister slams Uganda over anti-gay law – but Twitter...
There’s confusion after Ethiopia’s Minister of Women, Children and Youth Affairs reportedly criticised Uganda’s President for passing his country’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill – only for her Twitter...
View ArticleTory minister Alan Duncan: Anti-gay laws are a problem in ‘primitive cultures’
International Development Minister Alan Duncan has rejected calls to cut foreign aid to countries with anti-gay laws. The gay Conservative MP told The Huffington Post that the UK was “increasingly...
View ArticlePhotos: #WhatBiLooksLike brings bisexual visibility to Twitter
The hashtag #WhatBiLooksLike is challenging assumptions made about people who identify as bisexual. The hashtag, started by The Huffington Post on Twitter, has inspired bisexual people to submit photos...
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