Australian Political Parties Show Increased Support For Gay Rights In New Election Pledges

All three of the main political parties in Australia have acted to show support for the LGBT community in their election pledges. Marking a big step forward for a country that has seen it’s government do little to combat homophobia, the three parties have all put forward very unique policies.
For the Labor party the focus [...]

Civil Partnerships In Churches Ban Lifted Following Late Night House Of Lords Vote

Late last night saw the House of Lords did something that many had begun to think would happen – vote in favour of civil partnerships being held in religious premises.
Passed by a majority of 74, the latest amendment to the Equality Bill, which was tabled by Lord Alli, gained cross party support, with both the [...]

Daily Mail’s Jan Moir Free To Write Homophobic Columns Thanks To PCC Ruling

The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) have made the decision to reject a complaint made by Andrew Cowles, the husband of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately who died in Majorca last October.  The complaint concerning an article written by Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir saw more than 25,000 complaints in total to the PPC (the most it [...]

Mother Of Michael Causer Gives Support To Play Challenging Homophobic Bullying In Schools

Marie Causer, the mother of Michael Causer, a gay man who was beaten to death at a party on Merseyside is helping promote a new play aimed at educating and tackling homophobia.
Whilst Michael’s murder was deemed by the judge to not be homophobic, Marie believes that it is crucial people learn and accept the fact [...]

Republicans Push For Ban On Gay Marriage Rejected By Iowa House And Senate

Republicans yesterday attempted to move forward on a resolution that would act to place a ban on gay marriage. Focused on amending the Iowa Constitution so that the state would only recognise marriage as being between a man and a woman, identical resolutions were put forward in both houses, but neither were given the opportunity [...]

Harriet Harman Announces Government Are Dropping Gay Discrimination Employment Law Bid

Harriet Harman, the Equality minister has announced that the government will no longer try to force through legislation that would have prevented churches from discriminating against gays and lesbians in terms of who they employed.
Tabling amendments that would have allowed the church to only discriminate against the LGBT community when they were hiring for positions [...]

David Cameron Makes Clear It’s More Important To Be Strong In Europe Than Fight Homophobia

The Conservative leader, David Cameron has, in an interview with gay magazine Attitude, defended the alliances that Conservatives in the European parliament have formed with the Polish Law and Justice Party.
Accused of being both homophobic and anti-semitistic, the Polish Law and Justice Party was founded in 2001 by twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Lech, who [...]

Born Again Christian Stephen Baldwin Says He’s Against Gay Marriage (And Wants Everyone To Turn Heterosexual)

Stephen Baldwin, the youngest of the Baldwin brothers and a born again Christian has said in an interview with the  The Guardian, following his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, that he believes that gay men should, through their faith,  reject their homosexuality and settle down in heterosexual marriages.
And just in case that didn’t make it [...]

3 Out Of 4 Bisexual And Gay Men Would Be Blood Donors If They Were Allowed

Last year the National Blood Service received 2.1 million donations of blood from 1.6 million donors. On first glance this may look  impressive, however the reality is it only reflects 4% of the population donating a couple of times a yea, and with the NHS requiring 7000 units of blood each day (something which equates [...]

Homophobic Slurs Get San Francisco Radio Hosts Sarah And Vinnie Suspended From Their Show

Sarah and Vinnie, the hosts of the popular morning show on San Francisco radio station Alice Radio have been suspended from their morning show with many pointing to homophobic slurs heard in the show being the reason why.
Taking the decision to not broadcast the show at all, the  Vice President of Alice Radio instead was [...]

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