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Brighton Bothways (Bisexuals Group)
Quite a lot has happened in Brightonbothways, the bisexual group in Brighton. The group has grown from its original eight members last October, to nearer forty. "We still meet in the Queens Head, Steyne Street, at 8.00 o"clock every Thursday" says Lisa, one of the organisers, "and there"s always a w
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Pink UK: 20,000 British people may have HIV without knowing it
Benjamin Cohen, PinkNews.co.uk Editor A third of people who have HIV in the UK remain undiagnosed, a report by the Health Protection Agency has found. Despite over seven thousand new cases being diagnosed in the UK over 2005
Pink UK: Gay snub fireman receives damages
A Christian fireman who was disciplined for refusing to hand out leaflets at a gay pride march has received damages from his employers
Pink UK: 21st December 2005, definitely a day to remember!
With the Civil Partnership just around the corner, figures are starting to come in. 13 civil partnerships have already taken place under special arrangements since the 5 December
Pink UK: 25th anniversary of the THT
'2007 marks the 20th World AIDS Day and the 25th anniversary of the Terrence Higgins Trust.' Commented the Green Party's LGBT Media Spoksperson, Phelim Mac Cafferty
Pink UK: 30th April, Equality Act comes into play
At last the waiting is over. However, the commencement date has slipped from 6 April to 30 April 2007 The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Ruth Kelly): I have today published the Government's Response
Pink UK: 3.6m people in Britain are gay - official
First Whitehall figure settles long-running debate Denis Campbell, social affairs correspondent Sunday December 11, 2005 The Observer Six per cent of the population, or about 3.6 million Britons, are either gay or lesbian
Pink UK: 48hr working week: Greens strike historic blow for worker's rights
Greens strike historic blow for worker's rights, Green MEPs help scrap Britain's 'opt out' of 48 hr working week Greens 'are delighted' to have helped push through historic workers' rights legislation, that will impose a 48 hr
Pink UK: 6,500 gay couples are 'married'
More than 6,500 same-sex couples have tied the knot in the four months after laws allowing civil partnerships were brought in. Westminster, London, was the most popular authority with 238 ceremonies, followed by Brighton and Hove with 236
Pink UK: 700 gay weddings in London since December
700 gay couples from London have tied the knot in civil partnerships since the introduction of civil partnerships during December of last year. A further 500 London couples are expected to hold gay weddings over February
Pink UK: Absolutely Fabulous endorsement for Greens
Aids Memorial Poll Result - HUGE MAJORITY VOTE FOR ROMANY MARK BRUCE'S SCULPTURE
Pink UK: Adoption decision 'due next week'
Tony Blair has promised a decision next week on whether Catholic adoption agencies will be able to opt out of gay discrimination laws. The prime minister said there could also be a Commons vote, saying it was important to find 'a way through'
Pink UK: Adoption law reform wins backing
MSPs have supported a new adoption law for Scotland, allowing unmarried couples, including gay couples, to adopt children. Education Minister Peter Peacock said the move could boost the number of homes for children
Pink UK: Adviser to Tory leader attacks gay sex laws
Vikram Dodd Wednesday April 27, 2005 Guardian An adviser to Michael Howard on making the Tory party more inclusive has accused Labour of passing laws allowing children to be 'propositioned' for gay sex.
Pink UK: Ad 'likely to offend gay people'
A poster claiming that gay people want to 'abolish the family' has been criticised by the advertising watchdog. The Christian Congress for Traditional Values (CCTV) advert showed a man, woman, boy and girl with the statement 'Gay aim: abolish the family'
Pink UK: African lesbians 'not criminals'
Free the Senegal Nine Senegal! Stop persecuting human rights defenders
Pink UK: African lesbians 'not criminals'
Lesbians from across Africa have called on African governments to stop treating homosexuals like criminals. The demand came as about 75 activists gathered at a conference in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique
Pink UK: Agencies obey gay adoption rules
Half of the Roman Catholic adoption agencies who warned they would close rather than allow same-sex couples to adopt will now abide by the law.
Pink UK: Aids Memorial ARGUS POLL SAYS YES!
ARGUS READERS SAY YES TO AIDS MEMORIAL An independent poll of readers by The Argus has resulted in more than 65% of their readers being in favour of the proposed Permanent Aids Memorial
Pink UK: Aids Memorial Poll Result
Aids Memorial Poll Result - HUGE MAJORITY VOTE FOR ROMANY MARK BRUCE'S SCULPTURE
Pink UK: AIDS Memorial project moves one step closer
Expressions of interest are being sought for proposals or ideas as to how to create a lasting legacy to mark the lives of people from the city lost to or suffering from Aids/HIV
Pink UK: Airline refuse to let gay couple take travel prize
A travel group violated California's anti-discrimination laws when it refused to allow a gay couple to use tickets an employee won, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California said in a letter urging the company to change its
Pink UK: Air Wales decision supports Green Party view
Greens were right all along Air Wales decision supports Green Party view Air Wales has pulled out of Swansea airport after over two years of sustained protest from Wales Green Party. Martyn Shrewsbury' leader of Wales Green Party
Pink UK: Alert on the gay sex risk for 1 in 8
A new HIV campaign has been launched in Brighton and Hove after an anonymous survey of men in the city's gay clubs and bars revealed one in eight have HIV. Research by the Terrence Higgins Trust also found almost half of gay men had
Pink UK: Amendments to the employment (sexual orientation) regulations 2003
We are seeking views on the drafting of amendments to the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003. The Regulations outlaw discrimination in employment and vocational training on grounds of sexual orientation, and need to be amended
Pink UK: Ancient text shows 'gay activist'
The battle for gay rights may have been fought more than two centuries before the UK legalisation of homosexuality
Pink UK: An Evening with Peter Tatchell
An Evening with Peter Tatchell In conversation with Claire Armitstead of The Guardian
Pink UK: Anger as Labour plays politics with Partnership Bill
Anger as Labour plays politics with Partnership Bill in Brighton and Hove Opposition councillors on Brighton and Hove City Council have forced the withdrawal of a highly political Labour Party motion on the Civil Partnership Bill for
Pink UK: Anger at 'shameful' India gay law
India's laws on homosexuality threaten human rights and encourage the spread of HIV, a leading rights watchdog has told the prime minister in a letter. Human Rights Watch wrote to Manmohan Singh after police in the northern city of Lucknow
Pink UK: Anglicans face difficult summit
Dr Rowan Williams is fighting to save the Anglican Communion Leaders of the Anglican Church have gathered in Tanzania for a summit which is likely to be dominated by the divisive issue of homosexuality
Pink UK: Anglicans seeking tradition faced with Gay Pride
When 303 traditionalist Anglican bishops, together with clergy and lay members of the Church, ascended to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem this week, they were taking the spiritual high ground in the Anglican Communion's dispute over homosexuality
Pink UK: Anglicans to halt gay ordinations
Leaders of the Episcopal Church in the United States have agreed to halt the ordination of gay clergy to prevent a split in the Anglican Church. The Church will also no longer approve prayers to bless same-sex couples
Pink UK: Annual Gay Pride parade cancelled
The annual Gay Pride parade through Birmingham will not be held this year as organisers say significant grants are not available
Pink UK: Another successful Schools Out conference
A hundred teachers, young people, policy makers and activists from all across the country braved the weather to attend the Schools Out conference at the Drill Hall theatre in London on Sat 7 Feb.
Pink UK: Another Homophobic Murder of a Gay Man in London?
The managing director of a research consultancy specialising in gay and lesbian issues died after being attacked near his home in south east London.
Pink UK: Anti-gay attacks on rise in Iraq
Gay Iraqi men are being murdered in what appears to be a co-ordinated campaign involving militia forces, the group Human Rights Watch says.
Pink UK: Anti-gay artist Sizzla jailed for profanity
Sizzla, the Jamaican dancehall reggae star accused of promoting violence against gay people, has been jailed in his home country for using profanity during a Christmas concert
Pink UK: Anti-gay bullying 'more guidance'
A report into the suicide of a 13-year-old girl recommends that schools should be given clearer guidance on homophobic bullying. News of the report came as Laura Rhodes' parents said they had dropped legal action against her former school
Pink UK: Anti-gay gig venue gives full apology
A music venue has apologised 'unreservedly' for booking a homophobic Jamaican singer. Concorde 2 in Madeira Drive, Kemp Town, Brighton, cancelled the gig by Buju Banton after Brighton and Hove City Council threatened to withdraw its
Pink UK: Anti gay judge appointed to Supreme Court
A judge who opposed legalised abortion and gay rights has been appointed to the Supreme Court in the USA. Samuel Alito, President George Bush's second Supreme Court pick, narrowly won confirmation in the tightest race victory
Pink UK: Anti-gay police complaints 'rise'
The number of complaints about homophobia within the police has risen by almost a quarter, according to the Gay Police Association. The association said it received 350 calls to its helpline last year, compared with 260 the year before
Pink UK: 'Anti-gay views' JP investigated
A magistrate has agreed not to hear cases as an inquiry gets underway into comments he made about gay men in a BBC Wales documentary. Byron Butler is being investigated by the Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace in Mid Glamorgan
Pink UK: Anti-gay Warsaw Mayor wins Polish Presidential election
Anti-gay Warsaw Mayor, Lech Kaczynski, wins Polish Presidential election Lech Kaczynski, the conservative mayor of Warsaw who cancelled the city's Gay Pride parade earlier this year, has won the Polish presidential elections
Pink UK: Anti-Homophobia Football Sumit
Football teams from across the country will be urged to sign up to an anti-homophobia drive this week, as a gay summit hosted by the Football Association opens in Coventry
Pink UK: Archbishop's plea for tolerance
Church discrimination against women and gay people must end, the Archbishop of Wales has said in his Easter message. The Anglican church in Wales' leader warned the church has become a place where gay people feel marginalised
Pink UK: Archbishops regret gay 'wedding'
The Church of England's two most senior figures have expressed concern after the 'marriage' of two gay priests was held at a London church. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said
Pink UK: Archbishop criticises gay threats
The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned death threats made against the leader of a group representing homosexual Anglicans in England. Dr Rowan Williams said threats against Rev Colin Coward, director of Changing Attitude
Pink UK: Archbishop in lesbian wedding row (Canada)
A retired Anglican archbishop has been formally reprimanded after he admitted that he had taken part in the same-sex marriage of a lesbian couple. Archbishop Terence Finlay officiated in the ceremony during the summer, as the Anglican
Pink UK: Are the Greens the new Left?
Are the Greens the new Left? Talking With Tatchell
Pink UK: Arrests after man raped in park
A man and a teenager have been arrested on suspicion of rape after a man was sexually assaulted at a park in Hull
Pink UK: Arrests at Russian gays protest
Arrests at Russian gays protest British gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was among those arrested Two West European MPs and a Russian gay rights leader have been arrested in Moscow, as violence broke out at a banned protest
Pink UK: Arrests for Senegal 'gay wedding'
Police in Senegal have arrested several men following the publication of pictures claiming to depict a wedding ceremony between two men. The pictures were published in Icone magazine, whose editor, Mansour Dieng, has since received death threats
Pink UK: Arrest after public toilet murder
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man was stabbed to death in a public toilet in Surrey
Pink UK: Assets warning on gay 'marriage'
Gay couples signing civil partnerships could be the next to suffer 'unfair' court judgements over their assets if they split, a think tank has warned. Judges in England and Wales often make the law on divorce instead of ruling on it
Pink UK: Aswer to Homophobic Bible bashers
An engineering professor is treating her husband, a loan officer, to dinner for finally giving in to her pleas to shave off the scraggly beard he grew on vacation
Pink UK: Australian pub bars heterosexuals
A gay pub in the city of Melbourne has won the right to ban heterosexuals - the first time such a decision has been made in Australia. The Victorian state civil and administrative tribunal ruled the Peel Hotel could ban patrons based on their sexual orientation
Pink UK: Australia overrules gay union law
Australia's conservative national government has overruled a local law allowing gay unions. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) became the first part of the country to legally recognise gay relationships
Pink UK: Australia to block gay unions
The Australian government has said it will oppose any new laws legalising gay civil unions. Prime Minister John Howard said he did not intend to allow the institution of marriage
Pink UK: Australia to improve gay rights
The Australian government has announced plans to remove about 100 laws it says discriminate against gay couples
Pink UK: A devout Christian couple allowed to provide respite care for children
A devout Christian couple will be allowed to provide weekend respite care for children under 10. Eunice and Owen Johns were rejected by an adoption panel after it emerged that Mrs Johns
Pink UK: A GAY couple have made history
Once it was the love that dared not speak its name. Now it's announced in The Times By Stefanie Marsh A GAY couple have made history by announcing their engagement in The Times today.
Pink UK: A new director for Pride in Brighton &Hove
Pride is delighted to announce the appointment of its new Director, Lesley Burn, who will take up her position in early February. Lesley has a first-class track record and brings with her a wealth of knowledge of business, sponsorship
Pink UK: A reggae festival in Paris has been cancelled after complaints about the anti-gay lyrics
Gay slur shelves reggae concert Sizzla's entry to the UK was barred A reggae festival in Paris has been cancelled after complaints about the anti-gay lyrics of singer Sizzla. French gay groups said that some of the Jamaican
Pink UK: Banaanarma join Nottingham Pride
Bananarama join in at the biggest gay party night in Nottingham ever
Pink UK: Banned Moscow gay rally broken up
More than 70 people have been arrested in Moscow after activists tried to hold the city's first gay rights rally, despite a ban on the event. About 50 gay rights supporters were held, as well as 20 people from religious and nationalist groups
Pink UK: 'Don't ask, don't tell' ban on gays in US military ends
A policy banning open homosexuality in the US military has been repealed after nearly two decades
Pink UK: BAN DANGER MASTS SAY GREENS
GREEN EURO-MP Caroline Lucas has called for an EU-wide ban on building 'TETRA' masts for emergency service communications until fears over the safety of their radiation emissions have been answered
Pink UK: Battling 'liberal' Church policies
Traditionalist Anglicans claiming to represent at least half of the membership of the worldwide communion, and more than a third of its bishops, have declared war on what they call the 'false teaching' used to justify active homosexuality
Pink UK: BBC accused of homophobia
BBC accused of homophobia Double standards on racism and homophobia
Pink UK: BBC Programme
Strapped for cash? Up to your neck in debt? If you are aged 21-35 and have left home then the BBC would like to hear from you
Pink UK: BBC show can help you buy your first home
BBC show can help you buy your first home Are Brighton house prices out of your reach? Are you sick of throwing money away renting? Would you rather be paying off your own mortgage? Would you consider
Pink UK: BBC TV OPPORTUNITY!!
We are urgently looking for a gay or lesbian couple planning to have a commitment ceremony before end August (with Brighton & Hove City Council registrars)
Pink UK: BBC want soon-to-Med
We are urgently looking for a gay or lesbian couple planning to have a commitment ceremony before the end of August, at Brighton & Hove City Council register office for a BBC series of documentaries called Wedding Stories
Pink UK: Being gay is not a disease!
LGBT Greens: Being LGBT is not a disease! Anglican Mainstream Organisation should be stopped from preaching their so-called 'treatment'
Pink UK: Belgium backs gay adoption plans
Belgian MPs have backed plans to allow adoption by gay couples, two years after legalising same-sex marriage. The lower house of Belgium's parliament voted 77-62 in favour of the measure, which must also pass the upper house
Pink UK: Bid to stop 'anti gay' reggae gig
Campaigners are calling for a nightclub to cancel a performance by a controversial reggae star over his alleged homophobic lyrics
Pink UK: Bid to stop gay group funds fails
A councillor in south west Scotland has criticised the use of public funds to support a group for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
Pink UK: Bishops criticise Anglican leader
Conservative Anglican leaders have opened talks in Jerusalem on the future of the Church with criticism of its leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury
Pink UK: Bishop's fear for marriage status
Civil partnerships for gay and lesbian couples should not be called marriages, the Bishop of Lichfield has said. The Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill also criticised a 'national experiment to downplay marriage', saying the tax system penalises
Pink UK: Bishop criticises gay community
A Catholic bishop has claimed gay campaigners are conspiring against Christian traditions
Pink UK: Bishop faces gay claim tribunal
An Anglican bishop has begun giving evidence before an employment tribunal in Cardiff, accused of refusing to employ a man because of his sexuality. John Reaney, 41, from Llandudno, Conwy, claims he was refused a job as a youth worker
Pink UK: Bishop loses gay employment case
A gay man has won his case for unlawful discrimination after he was refused a youth official's job by a Church of England bishop
Pink UK: Bishop vote avoids gay clergy row
The Anglican Church has avoided a potentially damaging row over gay clergy after California's Episcopal Church chose a married man as bishop. Mark Andrus, a Suffragan Bishop in Alabama, was elected after three rounds of voting by lay and
Pink UK: Blair questions Papal gay policy
Tony Blair has questioned the Pope's attitude towards homosexuality, arguing that religious leaders must start 'rethinking' the issue
Pink UK: Blair's EU speech undermineds his credibility on climate change
BLAIR'S CREDIBILITY ON CLIMATE UNDERMINED BY EU SPEECH' WARNS MEP BLAIR SOUNDS RETREAT ON CLIMATE CHANGE DURING SPEECH TO MEPs PRIME Minister Tony Blair has completely lost any credibility on climate change by devoting just
Pink UK: Blair proud of gay rights record
Tony Blair has said he is proud of his achievements on gay rights while prime minister, and that Britain has had a cultural change since 1997. Addressing campaign group Stonewall, Mr Blair said civil partnerships had had a 'civilising effect'
Pink UK: Blanket 12 month gay blood ban is unjustified
Blanket 12 month gay blood ban is unjustified safe gay blood donors are still excluded excessive restrictions cause needless blood shortages
Pink UK: Bournemouth's Got The Bourne Free Pride Factor
Bournemouth's Got The Bourne Free Pride Factor... And Possibly A New Drag Idol Strictly In The Xchange
Pink UK: Bournemouth's Gay Pride This Weekend!
This weekend, on Saturday 14th July, the Bourne Free Pride Festival takes over Bournemouth town centre with a colourful celebration of all diversities that live in the area and the constant strive towards universal equality for all
Pink UK: Brighton Cash-hit Pride future 'secured'
Brighton Pride's future as a free event has been secured after the organisers received a £20,000 loan from the city council to help meet a £50,000 deficit.
Pink UK: Brighton and Hove Greens become largest party on council with 23 seats
Greens are now the largest party on Brighton & Hove City Council after election results today
Pink UK: Brighton pride's fundraising gets off to promising start
Pride in Brighton & Hove's drive to raise £50,000 has got off to a promising start
Pink UK: Brighton Pride Fundraising update 2009
Brighton has been named by the Vegetarian Society as the best destination in the UK for vegetarians
Pink UK: Brighton Pride launches appeal
Brighton Pride launches appeal to raise £50,000
Pink UK: Brighton's Greens publish 'gay manifesto'
Brighton and Hove's Green Party has shown its pink credentials by drawing up a 15 point manifesto for the LGBT community
Pink UK: BRIGHTON'S TAYLOR TO SPEAK TO THE NATION
Keith Taylor' the Convenor of the Brighton &Hove Green Group of Councillors and the Party's hottest prospect
Pink UK: Brighton winter Pride events 2009
Brighton Winter Pride 2009 full listings
Pink UK: Brighton and Hove LGBT Greens 15 Election Pledges to the Local LGBT
Brighton and Hove LGBT Greens' 15 Election Pledges to the Local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgend 16 Mar 2007
Pink UK: Brighton and Hove Libraries LGBT services
Brighton &Hove libraries are committed to providing a service to the whole community' through the provision of information and book collections to reflect the entire city population
Pink UK: PRIDE'S FUNDRAISING GETS OFF TO PROMISING START
Brighton &Hove Volunteer Bureau is a successful and expanding Volunteer Development Agency providing volunteering opportunities to over 2500 people a year' supporting in excess of 300 groups and organisations working with volunteers
Pink UK: Brighton best destination in the UK for vegetarians
Brighton has been named by the Vegetarian Society as the best destination in the UK for vegetarians
Pink UK: Brighton Best Pride Ever
On Saturday 5th August around 120,000 enjoyed Brighton Pride. The 'Carry On Pride' Parade was the most spectacular and colourful with over 50 LGBT charities, groups and companies proudly displaying their hard work over the past months
Pink UK: Brighton Body Positive forced to close
An AIDS and HIV support group has been forced to close after 15 years because of a lack of funding. Brighton Body Positive, based at Community Base, Queens Road, Brighton, was formed in 1991 as a drop-in centre designed to help people
Pink UK: Brighton councillor calls for nightclub to cancel performance by anti-gay singer
A Brighton Green councillor is calling for a large concert venue in the city to cancel a performance by controversial 'dancehall' singer Buju Banton who has written and performed songs urging the shooting and killing of gay people
Pink UK: Brighton councillor condemns Tory "gay paedophile" remarks
Green councillors in Brighton and Hove, a city renowned as the 'gay capital' of England, have condemned comments by a right-wing Conservative councillor from Hove who has admitted to branding all gay men as
Pink UK: Brighton Councillor Welcomes Ban on 'Murder Music'
BRIGHTON COUNCILLOR WELCOMES BAN ON 'MURDER MUSIC' SINGER Brighton & Hove Green City Councillor Simon Williams, who is openly gay, is welcoming the Home Office's decision to ban 'Sizzla Kalonji' [real name Miguel Orlando Collins]
Pink UK: Brighton gay councillor to stand down in next city elections
Simon Williams, one of Brighton's few openly gay councillors, has announced that he won't be standing for re-election to the city council in elections in 2007
Pink UK: Brighton Pride launches appeal
Brighton Pride launches appeal to raise £50,000
Pink UK: Brighton Hate Crime Agencies are Discriminating against the LGBT Community
Brighton Hate Crime Agencies are Discriminating against the LGBT Community says Gay Councilor
Pink UK: Brighton HIV cases on the rise
Newly-diagnosed HIV infections are on the rise in Brighton and Hove. The number of people attending NHS services for HIV in the city is increasing by ten to 15 per cent a year
Pink UK: Brighton IDAHOBIT
Event: Brighton IDAHOBIT Communities against hate event Date: Saturday 17May 2008 Time: 7:00pm Location: Brighton Seafront, next to the volks railway/crazy golf course
Pink UK: Brighton may elect first Green MP
Party's hopes high after Euro-election surge Sarah Hall, political correspondent
Pink UK: Brighton Police to fly gay flag
Brighton's police station is set to temporarily replace its flag with that of the Gay Police Association (GPA) in time for the city's Pride events
Pink UK: Brighton Popstarz Party Bus'
Mofo Promotions presents 'Popstarz Party Bus' Fridays will never be the same again.
Pink UK: Brighton Pride encouraged over 150,000
Pride Does it Again Brighton Pride encouraged over 150,000 to celebrate LGBT diversity in the city over the weekend. An estimated £7.5 million additional revenue was brought to the city's hotels, restaurants, bars
Pink UK: Brighton Pride hails police chief support
Brighton's gay community has hailed the decision of Sussex Chief Constable Joe Edwards to lead this year's Pride parade as a 'massive statement'
Pink UK: Brighton Pride launches stunning new website
Pride in Brighton &Hove has launched a brand new website in keeping with the theme of this year's Summer Pride event: The Musicals. Design, development, hosting and maintenance of the new site has been donated by Real City Network, the company
Pink UK: Brighton Pride organisers call for sponsors
Lesbian and gay business leaders have called on 'straight' companies to show more support to the annual Pride festival. The organisers of the internationally renowned Brighton lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
Pink UK: Brighton Prowler Store
London gay sex and lifestyle shop, Prowler Stores, is to open a branch in Brighton this spring. The chain's sixth shop will be on the corner of St James Street and Broad Street, right in the heart of the city's gay village
Pink UK: Brighton Pubs' pride party anger
Some of the most high-profile gay bars in Brighton and Hove are leading a revolt against Pride after accusing organisers of ruining the annual festival. At least three bars have already decided to withdraw the promise of donations
Pink UK: Brighton Seafront to turn pink
Thousands of light bulbs will be used to turn a seafront pink to celebrate the UK's biggest gay festival. About 5'000 bulbs will be installed above the promenade between Brighton's two piers by road maintenance company Colas to mark the
Pink UK: Brighton 'too racy' for gays
A tourism agency is to dump Brighton and Hove as the star of its camp advertising campaign after research found its image was too racy. VistBritain, which targets a number of niche markets, including gay and lesbian travellers, said sexy
Pink UK: Brighton &Hove AIDS Memorial
Vote for your choice at aidsmemoria from September 3, 2007. In July 2007 a public call was made for expressions of interest from people and
Pink UK: The Gay Wedding Show - Brighton Hilton Metropole
Well the last show is fast approaching us, and this Sunday will see the final show for 2008 and celebrates 5 years of the UK's official Gay Wedding Show, 6 years of Pink Weddings and this coming
Pink UK: Christian loses sex therapy case
A relationship counsellor who refused to offer sex therapy to gay couples has lost his unfair dismissal appeal
Pink UK: Britain tipped to win Gay World Football Championship
London hosts gay footie title - backed by Football Association Opening ceremony this Sunday in London Finals at Leyton Orient FC on Saturday 30 August
Pink UK: British Naval Ship To Host First Gay Wedding
A battleship in the Royal Navy will host its first gay wedding later this week as a senior Navy officer is taking advantage of the United Kingdom's recent legalization of civil unions by tying the knot with his longtime boyfriend
Pink UK: Bromley councillors refused to back down
Despite the threat of legal action and guidelines from the Department of Trade and Industry' Bromley councillors have refused to back down and allow council premises to be used for civil partnership ceremonies
Pink UK: Bromley Faces March Over Gay Ban
Protestors and campaigners are set to take to the streets of Bromley this weekend' in a march against the London borough's stance on civil partnerships
Pink UK: Brookside hunk for Pride parade
TV hunk Philip Olivier will lead the Brighton Pride Parade on a giant throne Philip' known to millions as Brookside's Tinhead and winner of Channel 4's The Games' will sit alongside a 20ft-high sculpture of a bicep
Pink UK: Brookside hunk for Pride parade
TV hunk Philip Olivier will lead the Brighton Pride Parade on a giant throne. Philip' known to millions as Brookside's Tinhead and winner of Channel 4's The Games' will sit alongside a 20ft-high sculpture of a bicep
Pink UK: Brown attacks US gay marriage ban
Gordon Brown has condemned California's ban on gay marriage as 'unacceptable' and warned people to be vigilant against all forms of discrimination
Pink UK: Brown pushes for gay rights in Eastern Europe
Gordon Brown is pushing for British civil partnerships to be recognised across the EU - including Eastern Europe, he has told Attitude magazine
Pink UK: BT gets behind renewable energy
British Telecom has announced a three-year plan to get all of its energy needs from renewable sources - the biggest such project in the world. The electricity used, worth hundreds of millions of pounds, could power a city the size of Nottingham.
Pink UK: Bursting with Pride
by Miriam Wells (the Argus) More than 110'000 people poured into Brighton and Hove at the weekend' boosting the city's economy by millions as
Pink UK: Bush condemns gay rights ruling
Mr Bush went to Iowa to raise funds for Mr Lamberti President George W Bush has used a rare campaign appearance to condemn a New Jersey verdict giving gay couples the same rights as heterosexual couples
Pink UK: Bush renews gay marriage ban call
President George W Bush has again urged the US Senate to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage when it debates the issue this week. Mr Bush said marriage between a man and a woman was the most fundamental institution of civilisation
Pink UK: Businesses 'retain gay prejudice'
Gay people still face discrimination in the corporate world, Sir Michael Bishop, the former head of the UK's second biggest airline, BMI, has said.
Pink UK: BY-ELECTION STRENGTHENS GREENS
CITY COUNCIL BY-ELECTION STRENGTHENS GREENS' GRIP ON BALANCE OF POWER Brighton and Hove's six Green councillors now hold the overall balance of power on Brighton and Hove City Council following last night's Labour loss of a seat in a
Pink UK: B and B owner: I'll go to jail before I let in gays
The owner of a B&B who sparked a national outcry when he barred a gay couple from sharing a bed at his lodgings has repeated claims that he will go to jail before letting lesbian and gay people stay in his house
Pink UK: Cabinet split over new rights for gays
The cabinet is in open warfare over new gay rights legislation after Tony Blair and Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, who is a devout Catholic, blocked the plans following protests from religious organisations
Pink UK: California Voters Pass Gay Marriage Ban
California voters have approved a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage that overturns the state Supreme Court decision that gave gay couples the right to wed just months ago
Pink UK: California lifts gay marriage ban
California's top court has ruled that a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples is unconstitutional. The state's Supreme Court said the 'right to form a family relationship' applied to all Californians regardless
Pink UK: California ushers in same-sex weddings
It was a very public wedding. Robin Tyler and Diane Olson wanted the world to see them become one of the first same-sex couples to get married legally in California. In the end, it was televised live on three local networks, and media
Pink UK: Calls for Councillor to resign after gay slur
The gay community is calling for the resignation of councillor Brian Pidgeon from an equalities forum. The call for the Brighton and Hove City councillor's resignation from the Equalities and Social Justice Forum' follows Coun Pidgeon's
Pink UK: Call for non-violent direct actionagainst 'murder music' industry
Brighton and Hove's gay community must take non-violent direct action against 'murder music' industry says gay councillor Brighton and Hove Green city councillor Simon Williams will call for the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual
Pink UK: Call for Robinson to resign now
In response to the petition put on the Prime Minister's website calling for the PM to reprimand Iris Robinson MP and MLA[1][1], LGBT Greens react: While to some degree of course LGBT Greens respect the autonomy of the decisions
Pink UK: Call to cut parking fee for eco-friendly cars
A DRIVER has accused city leaders of failing to encourage eco-friendly cars. Dave Walsh drives a Honda Insight hybrid car which runs on both petrol and battery power. He wants a graded parking system introduced in which drivers of environmentally
Pink UK: Call to end gay donor blood ban
Campaigners are calling for tight restrictions on sexually active gay men donating blood to be relaxed. The National Blood Service says clear evidence shows gay men have a greater chance of passing on HIV and other infections in donated blood.
Pink UK: Call to strengthen hate crime law
A bill to strengthen laws on hate crimes against gay or disabled people in Scotland is to be brought forward. The proposal, by Green MSP Patrick Harvie, would make attacking someone because of their sexual orientation or their disability
Pink UK: Canada diocese backs gay blessing
A diocese of the Anglican Church in Canada has voted for the blessing of same-sex relationships in church. The vote, by a wide majority, sets back efforts to stem the disintegration of the worldwide Anglican Communion
Pink UK: Canada Senate backs gay marriage
The Canadian Senate has approved a bill legalising same-sex marriages' following a similar decision by the lower house of parliament last month. It makes Canada the fourth country in the world to give gay couples the same rights as male-female
Pink UK: Canada upholds gay marriage law
Canada legalised gay marriage in 2005 Canadian MPs have rejected a proposal by the governing Conservative party to overturn a law allowing gay marriage. Twelve Conservative MPs, including several members of the cabinet
Pink UK: Canterbury 'not gay unfriendly'
The cathedral city of Canterbury has been cleared over complaints it was unwelcoming to gay people.
Pink UK: Can HIV drugs protect against HIV?
Does a drug that can protect against HIV already exist? It is a question being asked by a growing number of scientists and doctors. Tenofovir has been given to people with HIV since 2001. It is now routinely used in combination with other
Pink UK: Capleton concert axed by Swiss
Capleton Concert cancelled in Basel, Switzerland Singer broke Reggae Compassionate Act agreement
Pink UK: Cardinal criticises same-sex bill
The leader of Ireland's Catholics has criticised civil partnership legislation in the Republic of Ireland
Pink UK: Cardinal warns of 'new morality'
Ministers have been accused of trying to impose 'a new morality' by ruling Catholic adoption agencies should not be exempt from gay rights laws. Tony Blair has ruled against an opt-out despite agencies saying they will close rather than act
Pink UK: Caroline Lucas MEP
As the Green Party's MEP for the South East, Caroline has been fighting hard in Europe for environmental and social justice. Now wanting to stand as an MP in Brighton and Hove at the next general election, she could be the UK's first Green Member of
Pink UK: Caroline Lucas to contest 'gay capital' constituency for Greens
Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas hopes to become Britain's first Green MP at the next general election by contesting Brighton Pavilion constituency in the city widely known as the 'gay capital' of England
Pink UK: Caroline takes on homophobic Polish mayor
The Mayor of Warsaw could be made to face a European Court for his refusal to allow a gay pride march in the city. Lech Kaczynski will be taken to court by lesbian and gay groups in the country who believe he discriminated against them
Pink UK: Cash grants to young people
Nicola works for the Prince's Trust in Cumbria and at the moment i am trying to get in touch with young people's groups in the area as i am working with the national lottery fund with what is called the Big Boost
Pink UK: Castro champions gay rights in Cuba
There is a Castro who is fighting to introduce radical changes in Cuba. Transsexuals have a chance to meet at support group sessions
Pink UK: Catholic leaflet's gay support
Catholic leaflet offers gay support English Catholics reject Vatican homophobia Call for gay understanding and acceptance Acknowledgement of homophobic 'oppression'
Pink UK: Catholics reject gay bully policy
The Archbishop of Birmingham has defended the way Catholic schools teach children about homosexuality
Pink UK: Catholic threat on gay rights law
The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has said adoption agencies will close if they cannot opt out of new gay rights laws. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has written to Cabinet ministers saying church teaching prevented its
Pink UK: Celebrities join Iran gay protest
A host of celebrities have lent their support to the protest against the execution of two gay teenagers in Iran. Comedian Matt Lucas' actors Jeremy Sheffield and Simon Callow and Boy George have all sent messages of support
Pink UK: Changing times for Mexico's gay couples
When Mexican pop band RBD sang of love with their hit Tu Amor (Your Love), few took its lyrics to be about anything other than affection between a boy and a girl. It has taken years for same-sex unions to be accepted
Pink UK: Channel 4 carries 'Green Party: Real Progress' launch
Political Slot, 7.50 p.m. tonight The Green Party's new Real Progress theme will feature in tonight's Channel 4 Political Slot, to be broadcast at 7.50 p.m. after the early evening news
Pink UK: Channel 4 'Gay Week'
LGBT History Month's Tony Fenwick welcomed the decision of Channel 4 to finish off the month on February with a 'Gay Week' of programmes aimed at young people. British rapper QBoy is to present a schools programme for Channel 4
Pink UK: Charity urges men to test for HIV
A charity has urged black and Asian men in east London who have gay sex to be tested for HIV. Positive East, which is based in Tower Hamlets, has launched a confidential text service and website to raise awareness about the issue
Pink UK: China bans film over gay themes
A South Korean hit film has been banned from cinemas in China because of its homosexual subtext. Censors also decided against passing The King and the Clown due to sexually explicit language, distributors CJ Entertainment told Reuters news
Pink UK: China gay group 'gets approval'
A homosexual group has been officially registered at a mainland Chinese university campus for the first time, a Hong Kong-based activist has said. The Sun Yat Sen University in Zhuhai, southern China, has allowed a gay and lesbian
Pink UK: China launches first gay TV show
Chinese TV channel has launched what it says is the first ever programme to focus on gay issues in China. The programme is being broadcast over the internet and will feature gay presenters discussing issues related to the homosexual community.
Pink Uk: Christian hoteliers lose gay discrimination case
christian hoteliers lose gay discrimination case 'victory for equality, defeat for discrimination', says tatchell
Pink UK: Christian registrar loses same-sex partnership case
A Christian registrar disciplined for refusing to conduct same-sex civil partnerships has lost her appeal against the ruling
Pink UK: Christian Voice protested at London gay pride
'Love versus hate' Couples staged an impromptu kiss-in as hate-filled activists from the Christian Voice protested at London's gay Pride march on Saturday
Pink UK: Christian Voice protested at London gay pride
'Love versus hate' Couples staged an impromptu kiss-in as hate-filled activists from the Christian Voice protested at London's gay Pride march on Saturday. And five gays were arrested as tempers flared
Pink UK: Church challenges sodomy ad ban
A Belfast church has won the right to legally challenge a decision to ban a newspaper advertisement which described sodomy as an abomination.
Pink UK: Guernsey's Churches have mixed view on gay age of consent
There has been a mixed reaction from Guernsey's church leaders to proposals to bring down the gay age of consent
Pink UK: Churches unite over adoption row
The Church of England has backed the Catholic Church in its bid to be exempt from laws on adoption by gay couples. Catholic leaders in England and Wales say its teachings prevent its agencies placing children with homosexuals and they will
Pink UK: Church gay advert breached codes
A newspaper ad placed by Sandown Free Presbyterian church in Belfast breached advertising codes, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled
Pink UK: Church gay ceremonies ban lifted
Peers have voted to lift the ban on same sex couples holding civil partnership ceremonies inside churches
Pink UK: Church leader in gay adoption row
A bishop has said the Roman Catholic church will have to sever its ties with a Preston charity if it allows same-sex couples to adopt
Pink UK: Church rejects gay parents claims
The Roman Catholic Church has reacted angrily to comments endorsing gay parenthood from a charity with strong links to the Church.
Pink UK: Church comments on Anglican rows
The Church of England has made clear its disapproval of Anglican provinces which intervene in the affairs of other churches without authorisation
Pink UK: Church makes threat over gay row
No to Vatican. Call for a Secular Europe End Vatican's privileged legal status and political influence Stop the Pope's crusade against condoms and women's and gay rights
Pink UK: Church ponders rules on disputes
The Church of England is to consider possible rules for settling disputes in the Anglican Church, amid divisions over the ordination of gay priests. Its general synod, meeting in York, is to hear from the Most Reverend Drexel Gomez
Pink UK: Church seeks unity on gay rights
When the Synod of the Church of England meets this week the shadow of another meeting thousands of miles away on the shores of the Indian Ocean will be hanging over it
Pink UK: Church wants to 'understand gays'
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has voted to adopt a new policy on homosexuals at its general assembly. It is to adopt the recommendations of an internal report on the issue
Pink UK: City's Mardi Gras event cancelled
Cardiff's annual Mardi Gras has been cancelled because of a lack of financial and community support, organisers of the event have announced. The free gay and lesbian event has been held every year since 1999 and has attracted up to 40,000
Pink UK: City landmark goes pink for Pride
The Selfridges building is being lit up for a week Shoppers in Birmingham will see the city's landmark Selfridges building illuminated in pink as part of a gay pride festival. The exterior lighting of the structure, which is clad
Pink UK: City may be first with ban on murder music
Music which encourages violence towards minority groups could be banned in Brighton and Hove in the first move of its kind in the country
Pink UK: City seeks 'anti-gay' album ban
The first city-wide boycott of reggae and rap albums with
Pink UK: City set to outlaw 'murder music'
Music inciting hatred towards minorities will be outlawed at pubs and clubs in Brighton under council plans. Under the policy, the playing of all so-called 'murder music' could lead to a venue losing its licence
Pink UK: City votes for 'murder music' ban
Venues in Brighton and Hove which allow musicians or other acts to incite violence face losing their licences
Pink UK: Civil Partnerships Market drops by 46%, or has it?
The Office for National Statistics latest press release reports that Civil Partnerships have dropped by 46%, with 8,728 Civil Partnerships formed in 2007. We all know facts do not lie; statistics can all too easily be misinterpreted
Pink UK: CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT
CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT - GREENS URGE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR SAME SEX BENEFITS REGIME Commenting on the opening of the Civil Partnership Register Nigel Tart National LGBT Spokesperson for the Green Party of England and Wales said:
Pink UK: Clapham Common Gay Murder
A man has been beaten to death in an attack on Clapham Common in south London which murder squad detectives are treating as a homophobic incident. The 24-year-old victim was found unconscious in the early hours of Saturday but died later
Pink UK: Clashes at Bosnia's gay festival
At least eight people have been injured in clashes during the opening ceremony of Bosnia's first gay festival in the capital Sarajevo, police have said
Pink UK: Clashes erupt at Poland gay march
A gay tolerance march in the southern Polish city of Krakow has been attacked by a rival demonstration of young nationalists. Police using riot shields and batons kept the two demonstrations apart
Pink UK: Clashes mark Romanian gay pride
Militant protesters trying to break up a gay rights march in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, have clashed with riot police who made dozens of arrests. Ten people were reportedly injured in the violence at the GayFest event which saw hundred
Pink UK: Clergy reject gay 'false gospel'
Traditionalists within the Anglican church have promised an alternative to what they call a 'false gospel' on issues such as homosexuality. The group, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, has been meeting to discuss
Pink UK: Clerics call for gay ceremonies at religious venues
Senior Anglican clergy have called for gay couples to be allowed to hold civil partnership ceremonies in churches, synagogues or other religious venues
Pink UK: Climate change is "weapon of mass destruction"
Lords inquiry told: Climate change is 'weapon of mass destruction' Global warming is 'biggest threat to world's economy in 21st century,' Green expert tells House of Lords inquiry A leading Green academic will tell a House of Lords
Pink UK: Club night launched for Gay teens
A new club night catering for lesbians and gay men under-18 is to be launched in Bristol, with the aim to offer more space to gay teenagers. The night, called X-Rated and hosted by the city's Vibe's club, will take place in December
Pink UK: Colombia gay rights step closer
Congress in Colombia has approved a bill to grant homosexual couples the same rights to social security benefits as heterosexual couples. If ratified by the Senate and signed by President Alvaro Uribe, it would make Colombia the first Latin country
Pink UK: Community Safety
Dear friend, Kuen-Wah Cheung am working on behalf of the Brighton & Hove Community Safety Team to produce card aimed at people who have experienced homophobia or transphobia.As a result of feedback from the Spectrum mailing list, I
Pink UK: Community Safety Cards - What Do You Think?
I am working for the Brighton & Hove Community Safety Team to produce a card to share information on how to deal with homophobic/transphobic crime
Pink UK: Concern over gay adoption views
A charity has expressed dismay about a survey suggesting adoption by single people or gay couples is opposed by more than one out of three people
Pink UK: Concern over low prosecution rate for gay hate crime in Brighton
Brighton and Hove City Councillor Simon Williams has written to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) asking why there were so few prosecutions for gay hate crime across Sussex last year relative to the number of reported homophobic crimes
Pink UK: Concern over scrub clearance work
Scrub clearance work on Bristol Downs has raised concerns among some gay men who use the area for sex, the city council has said
Pink UK: Confidence and Courage
Confidence and Courage a no cost seminar for LGBT people and their friends focusing on the self-esteem issues which can limit our lives, particularly in regard to fruitful work funded by Brighton and Hove City Council and Global Grants
Pink UK: Conservatives force EU climbdown on outlawing Homophobia and Ageism
The EU has abandoned plans for a far-reaching anti-discrimination directive that would have outlawed homophobia and ageism and guaranteed freedom of religion
Pink UK: Conservatives 'gay weddings' warning
study into prejudice has found homophobic attitudes are more common than racism. The study will be presented today, 16th January 2009, at the British Psychological Society's Division of Occupational Psychology annual conference in Blackpool
Pink UK: Conservative Equality Spokeswoman slammed over gay rights
Britain's only openly lesbian MP has condemned the Conservative Party for trying to allow small hotels and b&bs (bed and breakfasts) to ban gay couples. The Equality Bill, which is currently having its second reading in the House of Commons
Football to boot out homophobic fans
Football fans who hurl anti-gay taunts at players, referees and other supporters will be identified and prosecuted in a new clampdown on behaviour at matches.
Pink UK: Lessons fight anti-gay prejudice in Cornwall
New lessons have started in Cornish schools aimed at cutting the number of suicides among gay people
Pink UK: Cornwall Gay PRIDE at risk from police!
Fear of Police reprisals causes Gay PRIDE members to leave. Some members of the 2007 Cornwall (UK) LGBT Gay PRIDE steering group have stood down out of fear of homophobic police reprisals against them as gay persons
Pink UK: Councillors condemn anti-gay BBC 'Question Time'
City's gay councillors condemn anti-gay Question Time Brighton and Hove's two gay city councillors have today united and issued a joint statement condemning BBC1's Question Time programme for allowing a homophobic religious leader
Pink UK: Councillors propose investigation into city HIV/AIDS cuts
Green Party councillors have asked the city council to investigate the impact of recent budget cuts on people living with HIV and AIDS in Brighton and Hove
Pink UK: Councillor quits over gay 'joke'
A councillor who sent an email saying Noah would have to let gay animals on to a modern day ark has resigned from the Conservatives. David Clutterbuck will remain with the borough council in Bournemouth, where this week the Conservatives held
Pink UK: Councils's new Learning Disability Charges are
CITY COUNCIL'S NEW LEARNING DISABILITY CHARGES ARE 'HEARTLESS AND SHORT-SIGHTED' SAY GREEN COUNCILLORS
Pink UK: Council 'coconut shy'
Thu 3 June, 6-8pm, at the Brighthelm Centre, North Rd Spectrum is hosting an open meeting for the LGBT community to question elected councillors and senior council officers about their progress in addressing the needs of our community
Pink UK: Council consults on gay weddings
Gay people in North Yorkshire are being consulted by the county council as it prepares for its first civil partnership ceremonies later this year
Pink UK: Council proud of gay-friendly tag
Shropshire County Council has said it is proud of being named one of the UK's top 100 gay-friendly employers
Pink UK: COUNSELLING FOR THE LGBT COMMUNITY
Life can present many challenges, particularly for people in minority groups such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community. It can sometimes help to talk about life's challenges, painful feelings, or work through difficult decisions
Pink UK: Couple's appeal over hate crime
A gay couple who were assaulted as they walked through Cardiff hand-in-hand are appealing for help finding the people who attacked them. Students Martin Packer and Chris Hughes had just left a club in the city centre early on Sunday 30
Court backs decision to bar Christian foster couple
A decision to bar a Christian couple from fostering children because of their views on homosexuality has been backed at the High Court.
Pink UK: Court to review gay marriage ban
California's highest court says it will hear legal challenges to a ban on gay marriage, but that the ban will remain in place pending its ruling.
Pink UK: Court told of 'gay sex predator'
A man accused of blackmailing a Royal Family member told a court his intent was to unmask a 'predatory homosexual'. Ian Strachan, 31, and Sean McGuigan, 41, are accused of demanding £50,000 to prevent them selling tapes of alleged
Pink UK: CPS drop case against preacher after Tatchell offers to defend him
CPS drop case against street preacher Charges withdrawn after Tatchell offers to testify for defence Home Secretary urged to issue new guidelines to police and CPS Arrest for anti-gay views is unjustified and heavy-handed Freedom of speech must be defended, even for homophobes
Pink UK: Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
Monday MPs are debating the amendments to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill to potentially create something similar for the LGBT community when it comes to homophobic public outbursts
Pink UK: Croatia's homosexuals go public
More than 1'000 Croatian gays and lesbians have had their names published in several of the country's newspapers in a bid for greater tolerance. One thousand two hundred names appeared in the advert under a banner reading:
Pink UK: Crowds brave rain for Mardi Gras
About 5,000 people braved the rain in Birmingham city centre for the best attended Gay Pride Mardi Gras in the parade's history
Pink UK: Cutting Waste Would Boost Economy -MEP
'CUTTING WASTE WOULD BOOST ECONOMY' - MEP GREEN EURO-MP CALLS FOR ZERO WASTE AT RECYCLING CONFERENCE
Pink UK: Damming evidence to the Human Rights Inquiry
Queer West News supplies damming evidence to the Human Rights Inquiry. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced on 6th March 2008 that it was proposing to launch an inquiry to find out how public authorities are
Pink UK: Darling Urged to Ditch £47m Hastings Link Road
DARLING URGED TO DITCH £47m HASTINGS LINK ROAD LINK ROAD WILL DESTROY VALLEY AND COST JOBS, EURO-MP WARNS
Pink UK: 'Day without a gay' protest in US
Campaigners have urged US homosexuals to stay away from work for a day in protest at recent bans on gay marriage in some states including California
Pink UK: Deadly new form of MRSA emerges
A deadly strain of the superbug MRSA which can lead to a flesh-eating form of pneumonia has emerged. Research suggests it may be more prevalent among the gay community - the gay San Francisco district of Castro appears to have been hardest
Pink UK: Deputy joins partnership calls
A Jersey deputy has joined calls for a civil partnership law for gay couples
Pink UK: Did Aids change America?
More than 500,000 people have died from Aids-related illnesses in the US in the last 27 years - but has Aids really changed the country?
Pink UK: Distribution of remaining LGBT Community Safety Forum funds
Derek Peacock and I are signatories to the old Safety Forum's Bank Account. I am sure you will appreciate there was no lead in to the closure of the Forum which took members of the Committee, at that time
Pink UK: Divisions persist over gay marriage ban
Waving rainbow flags and placards, thousands marched through east Los Angeles, chanting: 'Gay, straight, black, white! Marriage is an equal right!'
Pink UK: Doctors criticise 'gay treatment'
Plans to promote medical treatment for homosexuality at a religious conference have been criticised by doctors
Pink UK: Documentary series
I am a documentary film director, currently working with Pier Productions (producers of 'Home Planet' and 'Making History' for BBC Radio 4 amongst many other programmes) in Brighton
Pink UK: Documentary series
I am a documentary film director, currently working with Pier Productions (producers of 'Home Planet' and 'Making History' for BBC Radio 4 amongst many other programmes) in Brighton. We have had very strong interest from a terrestrial broadcaster
Pink UK: Drag Queens in World Record Bid
Revellers at Manchester's Gay Pride festival are hoping to witness a new world record in the city centre over the Bank Holiday weekend. Organisers are planning to beat the current record for the biggest number of drag queens dancing in a line
Pink UK: Dr Who writer backs gay film fest
Russell T Davies, the writer who revived Doctor Who, is backing what organisers claim is the world's biggest gay and lesbian short film festival
Pink UK: DUP 'are opposed to gay adoption'
The DUP will oppose any proposal to change the law to allow unmarried and gay couples to adopt children, Jeffrey Donaldson has said. Earlier this week, Lord Chief Justice Sir Brian Kerr dismissed a bid to overturn the current law
Pink UK: DVD to fight schools homophobia
A DVD produced by gay rights group Stonewall Cymru has been launched to help schools across Wales tackle homophobic bullying
Pink UK: EARTH DAY statement from the GREEN PARTY
ECO-CRISIS IS 'NOT ABOUT PROGRESS BUT ABOUT THE FAILURE TO PROGRESS,' SAY GREENS
Pink UK: 'Eastenders' MEP in DUP gay row
A former Eastenders TV star has accused the DUP MP Iris Robinson of encouraging 'hatred and intolerance' with her recent comments about gay people. Michael Cashman, who is now an MEP, told Mrs Robinson he was dismayed by her remarks
East End Gay Pride cancelled over EDL claims
A gay pride march in east London has been cancelled following allegations that one of its organisers had links with the English Defence League (EDL).
Pink UK: East Asian ban a misunderstanding
East Asian ban a misunderstanding' says gay club Rude Boyz says it opposes racism and welcomes East Asian club-goers 'Following protests over the exclusion of East Asian men from the London gay club Rude Boyz'
Pink UK: ELECTION News from the Green Party
ELECTION News from the Green Party Green to stand expected 200 candidates: 25% increase from 2001 'Greens are radical, honest, electable, and getting stronger by the year.'
Pink UK: Elton John adoption bid
Elton John & David Furnish adoption bid Gay adoption role model Will help erode prejudice & promote same-sex parenting
Pink UK: Elton John gives Kiev HIV concert Kiev
Elton John has given a free concert in the main square of Ukraine's capital, Kiev, to promote HIV-Aids awareness. President Viktor Yushchenko and other leading politicians were among the 200,000 people attending the show
Pink UK: End ban on religious civil partnerships, Greens urge
End ban on religious civil partnerships, Greens urge Current law forces churches to discriminate against gay couples
Pink UK: Environment, Society and Politics course
I am writing with details of a part-time course in Environment' Society and Politics on offer at the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE)' University of Sussex
Pink UK: Environment Commissioner praises Green MEP
NVIRONMENT COMMISSIONER PRAISES GREEN MEP OUTGOING European Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom has thanked Green Euro-MP Caroline Lucas for her commitment to sustainable development
Pink UK: Equality Bill "Leaves door open for homophobia"
Equality Bill 'Leaves door open for homophobia' Bill promises 'equality for all... except for Gay and Lesbian people.'
Pink UK: Erect Pink Heritage Plaques for Brighton's Famous Gay Citizens, Says City Councillor
Brighton and Hove, renowned as the 'gay capital' of England, should introduce pink heritage plaques to celebrate the contribution to the city from members of its large lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, says Green Party
Pink UK: 'Etiquette guide' for Thai monks
A Buddhist preacher in Thailand has announced plans for new guidelines aimed at curbing the flamboyant behaviour of gay and transgender monks
Pink UK: European Parliament committee backs extension of anti-discrimination protection
Yesterday evening, the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee approved the report by Dutch Green MEP Kathalijne Buitenweg on extending anti-discrimination legal protection beyond the workplace for discrimination grounds of age, disability, sexual orientation and religion or belief
Pink UK: European Parliament condemns new homophobic Legislation in Lithuania
An annual gay rights conference in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, was attacked with smoke bombs, after a rally in the city was banned. Over 200 gays, lesbians and transsexuals attended the meeting
Pink UK: European Parliament votes to extend anti-discrimination legislation
Today the European Parliament adopted the report by Dutch Green MEP Kathalijne Buitenweg, which extends discrimination protection beyond the labour market to goods and services for the discrimination grounds of sexual orientation, disability, age and religion/belief
Pink UK: EUROPEAN BIG CAT PUSHED TO VERGE OF EXTINCTION
EUROPEAN BIG CAT PUSHED TO VERGE OF EXTINCTION - IBERIAN LYNX FACES 'EXTINCTION EMERGENCY', WARNS EURO-MP
Pink UK: European Parliament demands comprehensive anti-discrimination directive
Today, the European Parliament rejected moves to stall or limit the extension of European legal protection against discrimination on grounds of age, disability, faith and belief, and sexual orientation. Reacting to the debate on Elizabeth Lynne
Pink UK: European Parliament votes to save Mehdi Kazemi from deportation to Iran
Jean Lambert MEP today appealed to the European Parliament to support Mehdi Kazemi, a gay, 19 year old faced with deportation to Iran where he could face the death penalty
Pink UK: Europe-wide legislation is needed to ensure equality for LGBT community
Green Euro MP Jean Lambert will tomorrow call for progress on LGBT rights as she pledges her support for the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO). She has called on the European Commission to implement comprehensive anti-discrimination
Pink UK: EURO ELECTIONS BRIGHTON AND HOVE RESULT
The Brighton and Hove votes for the European elections have just been counted and it looks like we have a good excuse to celebrate, we came second, ahead of Labour!! Brighton voting results: Conservative 15,844 Green
Pink UK: Euro-election news from THE GREEN PARTY
Euro-election news from THE GREEN PARTY 'A 30% cut in EU CO2 emissions by 2020' Greens set out 'smart' EU climate change strategy Tomorrow, the Greens will launch their climate change strategy for the EU
Pink UK: Euro-MPs bid to free Isle of Wight yachtsman
EURO-MPs BID TO FREE ISLE OF WIGHT YACHTSMAN A CROSSPARTY group of Euro-MPs has launched a bid to free Cowes yachtsman John Packwood, who is being held in a Madrid prison awaiting extradition to Morocco after being arrested in Malaga
Pink UK: Euro-MPS Condemn Seige of Polish Gay Club Greens Warn of Culture of Homophobic Discrimination
GREEN Party Euro-MPs have warned of escalating state-sponsored homophobia in Poland after police in Warsaw blockaded 'Le Madame', a hugely popular gay club hosting political and cultural activities
Pink UK: EURO-MPs DEMAND END TO NUCLEAR POWER
EURO-MPs DEMAND END TO NUCLEAR POWER AS CHERNOBYL'S CHILDREN TURN 18 GREEN Party Euro-MPs Jean Lambert (London) and Caroline Lucas (South-East England) have called on the Government to mark the 18th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster
Pink UK: Euro-MP Calls For International 'Tsunami Tax'
EURO-MP CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL 'TSUNAMI TAX' - BRUSSELS BID LAUNCHED FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND A CROSS-PARTY group of Euro-MPs has launched a parliamentary bid for an international 'tsunami tax' to fund emergency aid
Pink UK: Euro-MP 'furious' at Hastings Link Road go-ahead'
EURO-MP ‘FURIOUS' AT HASTINGS LINK ROAD GO-AHEAD ‘£47m LINK ROAD WILL DESTROY VALLEY AND COST JOBS' SUSSEX Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has reacted angrily to the government's attempt to ‘bury' its decision to fund the proposed
Pink UK: EU backs gay man's pension rights
A gay man in Germany may be entitled to his dead partner's pension following a ruling by the highest court in the EU. Tadao Maruko's partner died in 2005 but the pension fund refused him a widower's pension and the case was sent
Pink UK: EU Environment Ministers uphold GM ban
EU ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS UPHOLD GM BAN EU environment ministers have rejected proposals to force five member countries to abandon national bans on a Monsanto variety of GM maize
Pink UK: EU hosts first ever Equality Summit
EU hosts first ever Equality Summit and inaugurates Year of Equal Opportunities for All
Pink UK: EU MINISTERS UPHOLD GM BAN DESPITE UK OPPOSITION
EU MINISTERS UPHOLD GM BAN DESPITE UK OPPOSITION UK BID TO END GM MORATORIUM THWARTED
Pink UK: EU must stand up to homophobic urges Green MEP
EU must stand up to homophobic and racist violence urges green MEP On the occasion of a European Parliament resolution against racism and homophobia, adopted today, Green MEP Jean Lambert commented:
Pink UK: EU-Wide GM Labelling Rules Come into Force
EU-WIDE GM LABELLING RULES COME INTO FORCE BUT MORATORIUM ON NEW GM AUTHORISATIONS FACES NEW THREAT NEW rules requiring the labelling of all food and animal feed containing GM ingredients come into force this week, giving the EU one of
Pink UK: Event to remember gay suffering
A special ceremony took place at Liverpool's St John's Gardens in memory of the thousands of homosexuals who suffered at the hands of the Nazis
Pink UK: Exorcism of gays in the UK
Exorcism of gays in the UK Protest against abuse by fundamentalist Christians
Pink UK: Facebookers Urged To 'Post Gay Kiss Pictures'
LGBT activists across the world are furious following an allegation that Facebook has banned pictures of same-sex kisses. This emerged following a blog post on the website ‘Dangerous minds’, and follows last week’s furore with the John Snow pub in Soho, where Jonathan Williams, 26 and Jamie Bull, 23, were asked to lea
Pink UK: FA chief: Homophobia is a priority
FA chief: Tackling homophobia is a priority FA Working Group to propose new action plan 'Give homophobia the red card' says Tatchell
Pink UK: Facing hate crime in Turkey
A report by Human Rights Watch says gay and transgender people in Turkey are subject to 'endemic abuses', and calls on the government to act to protect them. The BBC's Sarah Rainsford met some of the victims
Pink UK: Fears over Iraq gay killing spate
The Iraqi government must do more to protect homosexuals in the wake of a reported spate of killings of gay young men, Amnesty International has urged
Fears over third gay killing in Edinburgh
Police are trying to allay fears among Edinburgh's gay community following three deaths in the past month
Pink UK: Fears of Poland's gay community
As Warsaw's annual gay rights march got under way outside the Polish parliament a music system blared out its anthem: 'Homophobia, the worst disease, you can't love who you want to love in times like these.'
Pink UK: Festival to offer gay film prize
Films with a gay theme or character are to be recognised with a new award at the Venice Film Festival. The Queer Lion award, a take on the festival's main Golden Lion prize, will go to the best full-length film featuring a gay theme
Pink UK: Fighting against the HIV comeback
An innovative publicity campaign has dramatically increased the number of HIV tests being carried out in Lothian. The HIV Comeback Tour was launched by NHS Lothian in 2006 amid concern that many people had become complacent about the risk
Pink UK: Fight to allow gay blood donors
A petition by gay rights campaigners against what they believe is discrimination over who can give blood is to be considered by MSPs. The LGBT Network said safe sex practices meant men who have had sex with other men could give blood.
Pink UK: Fire boss defends conference cash
The chair of the Avon Fire Authority has defended money spent on a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality in the Fire Service conference
Pink UK: Fire union row on minority rights
A row is brewing in the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) over voting rights held by black, gay and women representatives on its executive committee. The FBU conference later this month will hear a proposal to reduce the power of the three groups so
Pink UK: First City Council To Take Stand Against 'Murder Music'
FIRST CITY COUNCIL TO TAKE STAND AGAINST 'MURDER MUSIC' Brighton and Hove, renowned as the 'gay capital' of England, is the first city council in the country to take a stand against 'murder music'
Pink UK: First Fairtrade Fair and local Farmers Market
We're holding the first Fairtrade Fair &local Farmer's market- supporting producers here &abroad. Its on Saturday Feb 28th, 11-5, at the Friends' Meeting House, Ship St. There will be Fairtrade produce, art & crafts, and local
Pink UK: First figures for gay hate crime
The first set of figures for homophobic crimes in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire have been released by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Between April 2004 and March 2005' the CPS prosecuted five cases with a homophobic element in the
Pink UK: First gay football cup final held
A Bournemouth football team has won the first gay football cup final to be held in England. Birmingham Blaze recently joined the Gay Football Supporters Network (GFSN) National League and hosted the tournament in Sutton Coldfield
Pink UK: Five years for gay sex attacker
A man who kidnapped young male victims and sexually assaulted and robbed them has been jailed for five years
Pink UK: Football Association gay video
Top football players to speak out against homophobia 'Give homophobia the boot', says OutRage!
Pink UK: Football 'failing on homophobia'
English football is 'institutionally homophobic', the gay rights group Stonewall has claimed
Pink UK: Football to boot out homophobic fans
Football fans who hurl anti-gay taunts at players, referees and other supporters will be identified and prosecuted in a new clampdown on behaviour at matches.
Pink UK: France chided over gay adoption
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that France discriminated against a lesbian nursery school teacher by refusing to let her adopt a child
Full pardon urged for gay offenders
government plan will not 'delete' gay sex convictions offences will be merely 'disregarded' they will still remain in criminal records
Pink UK: Funding for gay arts festival cut
Plans to cut funding for a popular gay and lesbian arts festival have been criticised by MPs. Arts Council England is to end its funding of queerupnorth in March, meaning the end of the organisation and its annual festival in Manchester
Pink UK: Future of Kent's rural rail network
Event: MEP Caroline Lucas meets Cllr Malcolm Robertson to discuss the future of Kent's rural rail network at a pump-trolley train exhibit Place: Market Square, High Street, Maidstone Time: Wednesday, April 14th, 1pm EURO-MP ADDS
Pink UK: Gambia gay death threat condemned
Gay rights activists have condemned Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's threat to behead homosexuals. Last week he told a political rally that gay people had 24 hours to leave the country
Pink UK: Gay blessing vicar is reprimanded
A vicar in Gwynedd has been reprimanded by the Archbishop of Wales for blessing a gay civil partnership between two women
Pink UK: Gay blood donor appeal rejected
The blood transfusion service has rejected calls from gay men's groups to lift the ban on them donating blood
Pink UK: Gay campaign bid to calm Tory row
The Conservatives are monitoring their new partners in Europe for evidence of homophobia, a gay rights chief says
Pink UK: Gaydar founder death fall probed
The co-founder of the Gaydar brand has been found dead outside his south London apartment. Gary Frisch, who launched the online dating website in 1999, was found lying injured on the ground outside his Commodore House flat on Saturday
Pink UK: 12 gay footballers, says Paul Elliott
12 gay footballers, says Paul Elliott BBC's Bob Ballard criticises FA and Chelsea Action plan to tackle anti-gay abuse Homophobia is Football's Final Taboo
Pink UK: Gay group appeals over drowning
Anyone who may have information about the death of a man in a Manchester canal is being encouraged to speak to the Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF)
Pink UK: Gay group celebrates Darwin day
The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) will be celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin
Pink UK: Gay man targeted in blackmail con
Police in County Durham have arrested two men in what officers have described as a 'gay blackmail' investigation.
Pink UK: Gay marriage & Cornish rights
Gay marriage and Cornish rights Tatchell backs same-sex marriage and Cornish self-rule
Pink UK: Gay marriages to benefit island
A charity promoting equality for same-sex couples in Jersey fears gay skilled workers could leave the island if their partnerships are not recognised.
Pink UK: Gay men blood donor ban to be lifted
The lifetime ban on blood donations by homosexual and bisexual men will be lifted in England, Scotland and Wales
Pink UK: Gay men 'report higher cancer rate than straight men'
Homosexual men are more likely to have had cancer than heterosexual men, a US study has suggested
Pink UK: Gay minister Scott Rennie says marriage is evolving
Scotland's first openly gay minister has questioned claims that legalising gay marriage would have huge social implications.
Pink UK: Gay Muslims made homeless by family violence
A UK charity is dealing with an increasing number of young gay Muslims becoming homeless after fleeing forced marriages and so-called honour violence
Pink UK: 'Gay penguins' rear adopted chick
Two 'gay' male penguins have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents, says a German zoo
Pink UK: Gay row minister to be inducted
The gay minister whose appointment sparked a furious debate in the Church of Scotland is set to be formally inducted in Aberdeen
Pink UK: Gay sex assaults 'not reported'
Police in Lancashire say many sexual assaults in the gay, lesbian and transgender community are not reported
Pink UK: Gay sex scandal Rocks Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI has been humiliated by a gay sex scandal located in the very centre of the pontiff's power base. The scandal involves a gay prostitution ring operating within the Vatican.
Pink UK: Gays 'have a duty to vote Tory'
Prospective parliamentary candidate Margot James believes the Conservative Party really has changed its attitude to homosexuality - not just in the Cameroonian salons of fashionable Notting Hill but in the rural heartlands as well
Pink UK: Gay soldier harassment award cut
A lesbian ex-soldier who won £187,000 damages after being sexually harassed has had her payout cut by a third
Pink UK: Gay soldier receives MOD apology
A lesbian soldier who was subjected to a campaign of sexual harassment by a male sergeant has received an apology from the Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Pink UK: MOD must pay gay soldier £190,000
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been ordered to pay nearly £190,000 to a lesbian soldier who was sexually harassed by a male sergeant
Pink UK: Gays and lesbians are going greener faster
Gays and lesbians are going greener faster than any other group of people, accordingto research Gays and lesbians are going greener faster than any other group of people, according to research. Findings by
Pink UK: Gays condemn homophobic Anglicans
Bigoted clerics stir up anti-gay witch-hunts in Africa 'This breakaway Anglican faction is fundamentalist, homophobic and sexist' It opposes equal rights for women and gay people
Pink UK: Gays could be granted church weddings
Homosexuals will be able to marry in church if the Swedish government follows the suggestion of a report due to be presented next year. The report will suggest ditching the civil partnership law and allowing church weddings for gay
Pink UK: Gays in Iraq fear for their lives
I don't want to be gay anymore. When I go out to buy bread, I'm afraid. When the doorbell rings, I think that they have come for me. That is the fear that haunts Hussein, and other gay men in Iraq
Pink UK: Gays pick Brighton to marry
Brighton and Hove is winning the race to become the UK's favourite place to hold a gay wedding. Almost 200 couples have registered for a civil partnership ceremony in the city this year. They will take advantage of a new law
Pink UK: Gay Tories hold first pride night
The party on Tuesday night on Manchester's Canal Street was a political one.
Pink UK: Gay UK Cannibal chef given life sentence
A gay chef who stabbed his lover to death before cutting flesh off his thigh and cooking and eating it has been jailed
Pink UK: Mr Gay UK cooked victim's flesh
The first winner of Mr Gay UK stabbed a man to death before cutting a piece of flesh from his thigh, cooking it and trying to eat it, a court has heard
Pink UK: Gay activist and former councillor defects from Labour to Greens
One of Brighton's first openly gay local councillors has joined the Green
Pink UK: Gay adoption proposed in reform
Gay and unmarried couples in NI would be allowed to adopt a child for the first time under government plans to overhaul adoption legislation. Health Minister Paul Goggins launched a consultation document on changes aimed at putting the needs
Pink UK: Gay adoption rules 'rail-roaded'
The government has been accused of 'rail-roading' through gay equality laws that, Catholic adoption agencies argue, will force them to close. Some Tory MPs criticised the 'unseemly haste' with which ministers sought to pass regulations through
Pink UK: Gay adoption tribunal appeal due
An ex-magistrate who failed to get an exemption from hearings in which he might have to place children with gay couples is beginning an appeal. Andrew McClintock, of Sheffield, says he faces discrimination for his Christian beliefs
Pink UK: Gay adoption vote due for Lords
New rules requiring religious adoption agencies to accept gay couples as adoptive parents are due to be debated in the House of Lords. Church leaders say Parliament has not had enough time to debate the changes, part of the new Equality Act
Pink UK: 'Gay affair' Tory MP defies calls to resign
A Tory MP at the centre of claims that he left his wife for a man refused to resign last night, despite calls from local party members to stand down
Pink UK: Gay and Christian police in row
Two staff associations within the UK's largest police force - the Metropolitan Police - are at the centre of an increasingly bitter dispute. The advert has sparked an investigation between the Gay Police
Pink UK: Gay Asians 'marrying to conform'
Asian gays and lesbians in the UK have married people of the opposite sex in a bid to conform to traditional values and beliefs, it has been claimed
Pink UK: 'Gay attack' on Israel synagogue
A Tel Aviv synagogue has been attacked and daubed with graffiti, apparently in response to religious Jewish attempts to ban a gay pride march in Jerusalem. Ultra-orthodox Jews have opposed the march, scheduled for next week
Pink UK: Gay banker to sue HSBC for £5m after dismissal
gay investment banker at HSBC has begun a £5m court case over his dismissal' which he claims was motivated by his sexuality. 43-year-old Peter Lewis is openly gay and was sacked by the banking giant for 'gross personal misconduct'.
Pink UK: Gay bars opt for safety first policy
of late-night violence is prompting gay bars to install futuristic security systems. Two Kemp Town bars are introducing fingerprint identity checks, while others are tightening their door policies to avoid problems from late-night
Pink UK: Gay Bar Accuses Brighton Police Of 'Bully Boy Tactics'
One of Brighton's most popular gay pubs is accusing the police of bully boy tactics over Brighton Pride. The Queens Arms has won a 'David and Goliath' style fight over the right to have a street bar after it went to Brighton and Hove
Pink UK: Gay bar row over 'straight' sign
A complaint has been made to police over a banner declaring a former gay bar in Sunderland city centre has now gone 'straight'. The sign outside the Retox bar, in High Street West, read:
Pink UK: Gay bishop attacks Catholic stand
The first openly gay Anglican bishop, Gene Robinson, has called for the Roman Catholic church's attitude to homosexuals to be confronted. He received a standing ovation after his speech, in which he spoke of how he had faced prejudice
Pink UK: Gay bishop move rejected by Kenya
The head of Kenya's Anglican Church has rejected a compromise over gay bishops by US Episcopal Church leaders. They have said they will halt the ordination of gay bishops and public blessings of same-sex relationships to prevent a split
Pink UK: 'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award
Pioneering research into a 'gay bomb' that makes enemy troops 'sexually irresistible' to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes
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Almost two thirds of homosexual pupils in Britain's schools have suffered homophobic bullying, a survey suggests. Almost all of those had experienced verbal bullying but 41% had been physically attacked, while 17% said they had received death threats
Three quarters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Brighton and Hove have been verbally or physically assaulted in the past five years. The majority of those attacked said sexuality was a factor
Brighton gay community's voice could be lost in Sussex-wide NHS merger warns councillor Brighton lesbian and gay community's voice could be lost in Sussex-wide NHS merger warns councillor Frontline NHS services in Brighton and
Debating whether to lower the gay age of consent in Guernsey is not expected to happen until later in the year, according to a politician. Jersey has already made the move to lower the legal age for homosexual sex to 16
Plans to hold the UK's first gay weddings at midnight have been shattered The Government has decided that the three couples due to make history in Brighton on Wednesday' December 21' will have to wait another eight hours
In protest to Bromley Councils homophobic press release dictating their refusal to offer ceremonies for the Civil Partnership' over 100 people gathered at the Crown and Anchor Public House to start the march that bought Bromley to a stand still
Two years on, and it is now mainstream for gay couples to be tying the knot. About 18,000 civil partnership ceremonies have been held. After 16 years together, Craig Davidson and Steven Butterill have come to Brighton Town
Gay couples whose relationships will be legally recognised from December are piloting an online civil registration system for England and Wales. It is eventually expected that all births, deaths and marriages will be recorded via Registration
A couple beaten up by homophobic yobs have told of their terror Tim Evemy and his partner were set upon as they walked home following an afternoon spent on Brighton beach
A relaxing weekend of cream teas and strolls amid the rolling hills of North Devon beckoned. What David Allard and Bryn Hughes did not expect to find in the idyllic countryside was homophobia
Police say they are 'actively engaging' with gay communities Recorded crimes against gay and lesbian people in Wales are on the increase but most offences go unreported, a BBC Wales investigation has found
Measures to stop schools, companies and other agencies refusing people services because of their sexualtity will be put in place in April, the government says. Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly said gays and lesbians needed effective protection
Gay doll in 'tribute' to the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Brazilian priest Edino Fonseca. The controversial handmade doll created by the Brazilian sculptor Fernando Carpaneda in New York
A film festival featuring what the organisers claim is largest ever prize for a gay and lesbian short film is opening in Cardiff. The inaugural Iris Prize Festival will screen the 30 films shortlisted for the prize
The gay World Cup has kicked off in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, showcasing more than 500 footballers from 28 countries Teams from North and South America, Europe and Australia are competing
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A gang of thugs are touring Brighton and Hove by car to attack and rob gay men they can find. The men have claimed two victims in the last week and detectives fear they will continue picking off targets until they are stopped
Sitcom Ugly Betty has been honoured by a US gay lobby group at a Los Angeles awards ceremony. The sitcom was named outstanding comedy series for the second year in a row at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards
A hotel, bar and club has been granted a 24-hour drinking licence despite opposition from neighbours. Legends, the UK's largest exclusively gay hotel, is reopening this month after a £3 million makeover and will now be able to
Gay prisoners are to be allowed to kiss and cuddle their partners during visiting time at jails in England and Wales. The Prison Service is also planning to allow gay offenders to 'marry' their partners when civil partnership ceremonies
The home secretary is to review the case of Iranian homosexual teenager Mehdi Kazemi, who has said he will be executed if forced to return to Iran
A 22 year old Iranian' known only as Amir has escaped his home country after being subjected to 100 lashes which left his back covered in huge bloody welts
An Iranian homosexual man who has said he will be executed if he is deported from the Netherlands has had his claim for asylum overturned. Mehdi Kazemi has said his life is in danger if he is returned to Iran, where he says his boyfriend named
The Pope opposes legal recognition of gay partnerships Muslim fury at Pope Benedict XVI over his comments on Islam has overshadowed another sensitive issue involving the Vatican - the question of gay rights in Italy
A builder who brutally attacked a gay man during Brighton Pride weekend has been jailed. Jamie Pearce, 25, stamped on the victim's head and face on Brighton beach after seeing the gay man kissing his boyfriend
Gay rights campaigners oppose any exemptions on religious grounds New gay equality laws which are opposed by the Roman Catholic Church are a 'major step forward', the Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly has said
The Church of England wants all faith schools exempted from a planned ban on discrimination against homosexuals. In its response to a government consultation, the church says it makes a distinction between people's sexual orientation and their
Mandy Power's gay lover and the woman initially arrested on suspicion of her murder, has spoken of her relief that David Morris is again found guilty. Alison Lewis, 39, has now been cleared of any involvement in the murders of her ex-lover
Leading magazine the Pink Paper has shortlisted Brighton & Hove city council as one of the best at serving its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
Two men have been jailed for life for the horrific killing of barman Jody Dobrowski on Clapham Common in south London in October 2005. It comes as a grim reminder to an increasingly confident gay community that the threat of homophobic violence
Police were last night searching for two teenage assailants who launched a series of brutal attacks on gay men along London's South Bank, leaving one dead and others injured. David Morley, 37, who lived and worked at a pub in Chiswick, west London
A gay man who claims he has repeatedly been a victim of hate crime has said he has lost confidence in the way Kent Police has handled his case. 'Dave' who does not want his real name known' moved to Chatham in 2002
A gay man who is on the run after infecting his former boyfriend with HIV has been jailed for four years and three months in his absence
A gay Christian who won a claim against the Church of England has been awarded more than £47,000 in compensation. John Reaney took the Hereford diocesan board of finance to an employment tribunal after his appointment as a youth worker
About 2'500 gay rights campaigners have marched in the Polish capital' Warsaw' defying a ban by the city's mayor. The marchers carried rainbow flags and banners with slogans including 'A gay is not a paedophile' and 'Law and justice for all'
Russian gay rights campaigners say they will hold a gay pride rally on Saturday despite a ban by Moscow's mayor. The organiser of Russia's first gay and lesbian festival, Nikolai Alexeyev, told the BBC that the gay activists would find an
Gay 'marriage' could boost the mental and physical health of homosexuals, doctors believe. Rates of depression, drug abuse and cancer are higher in the gay community than among heterosexual people
A spiritual, sexual and self development retreat style hotel exclusively for gay and bisexual men is located right here in England. Owned and run by a gay man and his team
Gay men employ the same strategies for navigating as women - using landmarks to find their way around - a new study suggests. But they also use the strategies typically used by straight men, such as using compass directions and
Gay men are being urged to get HIV tests more regularly and practise safe sex in a bid to halt the high numbers of new cases in the UK. The Health Protection Agency made the warning after new diagnoses among gay men topped 2,600
Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following their arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria, the state-owned news agency, Nan, reports. The men were arrested in a hotel in north-eastern Bauchi State
Throughout South Asia' homosexuality has been a taboo subject. But there are signs in some areas that gay people are now becoming more open in their behaviour. In this column a gay man in Pakistan talks about the advantages of being gay there
A Gay Police Association (GPA) advert which linked a rise in homophobic attacks to religious belief breached advertising rules. The advert showing a Bible and a pool of blood led to 553 complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
A student who called a mounted policeman's horse
A new staff support team for homosexual police officers working in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire has been formed. The group will focus on tackling homophobic behaviour in the workplace
Public gestures of affection of the most innocent kind between a man and a woman, such as holding hands, can upset Sasha, a young gay man from Siberia
Homosexuality is illegal in India. Hundreds of gay rights supporters have marched in the Indian capital, Delhi, for the first time. Gays, lesbians and transgender people gathered in the central Connaught
An event promoting tolerance and cultural dialogue in Georgia has been cancelled, after rumours spread that it was in fact a gay parade. The highly influential head of the Georgian Orthodox church spoke out against the event
Gay rights champion and former MP Leo Abse has died at the age of 91, according to a family friend. The former Labour MP for Pontypool and then Torfaen died at Charing Cross Hospital, west London, on Tuesday night after a short illness
Weddings have been suspended at a 300-year-old church in north London in protest at 'unjust' religious marriage rights of same-sex couples. Newington Green Unitarian Church will only conduct a ceremonial blessing for both heterosexual
A transgender opposition candidate in Italy's general election this April is campaigning for improved gay rights. Vladimir Luxuria, standing for the Communist Refoundation party, intends to challenge conservatives in her own country
Gay rights protesters have marched in the Latvian capital, Riga, despite an angry reaction from conservatives. Some of the marchers held placards with messages such as 'Love is a human right', 'Equality is a human right', and 'No to hatred'
A gay rights group has unveiled a new booklet with advice for employers on tackling homophobia
Gay rights laws challenge fails New rules outlawing businesses from discriminating against homosexuals have been upheld in the House of Lords
New laws banning discrimination against gay people in the provision of goods and services face a Lords challenge. The Sexual Orientation Regulations have been criticised by some religious groups
Controversial new gay rights laws are being bulldozed through parliament despite protests from Churches and other groups. The Sexual Orientation Regulations, which the Government appeared to have dropped a few weeks ago, are being
Gay rights campaigners from the north west visited Stormont on Tuesday to protest against recent comments made by Iris Robinson. The DUP MP and MLA described homosexuality as an 'abomination' and urged gay people to seek counselling
New equality laws mark another major step in protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination. Coming after a series of landmark reforms, is the job now done for gay rights campaigners?
A bishop whom a tribunal ruled had rejected a man for a youth worker job because he was gay has apologised for the 'hurt and pain' he has caused. John Reaney, of Conwy, won his case for unlawful discrimination against the Hereford diocesan board
Two bishops at the centre of divisions in the US over homosexuality have not been invited to next year's Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion. Openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson, of New Hampshire, and Martyn Minns, of the breakaway
When I set about making a documentary on Northern Ireland's first recognised gay friendly rugby team, I wasn't sure what the outcome would be. I first approached the team in the summer of 2007.
The seventh annual EuroGay Cup Regatta will be held in Brighton in June
Singer Ian 'H' Watkins' has told of the 'complete nightmare' of growing up gay in the south Wales valleys. The former Steps singer, who is from the Rhondda, filmed a personal account for BBC Wales' Week In Week Out
A tory councillor has been convicted of a public order offence for calling gay men paedophiles Peter Willows, of Hangleton Valley Drive, Hove, made the comments when he was confronted by two gay men about his views at a civic function
Nine firefighters who refused to offer safety advice to people attending a gay pride march have been disciplined. A watch manager in Glasgow has been demoted to crew manager with a £5,000 salary cut
A lesbian soldier who was subjected to a campaign of sexual harassment by a male sergeant has won her case of discrimination at a tribunal
An Essex bishop travelling with 20 clergy in Africa has been ostracised by the head of the church in Kenya because of his liberal views on homosexuality. The Rt Rev John Gladwin, Bishop of Chelmsford, was told he was no longer welcome
9th December, CLUB ICE Quake Woking Surrey The final event of the year for the charity Gay Surrey is definitely a cold one; CLUB ICE hits the Quake in Woking, Surrey
Gay teacher wins apology and compensation for homophobia A young gay teacher described as 'Gay Dave' and criticised for the way he walked by his head has won an award of £9,500 compensation and an unqualified apology
Gay business owners have vowed to boycott a club that booked a homophobic performer. Brighton and Hove Gay Business Forum has pledged to avoid using Concorde 2 in Madeira Drive, Brighton until managers apologise for inviting Buju Banton
Private letters have been published revealing Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams believed gay sexual bonds were 'comparable to marriage'
Anglican leaders have issued an ultimatum to the US Church by demanding an end to the appointment of gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex couples. US bishops have until 30 September to respond to the communique, issued after archbishops met
An openly gay vicar faces disciplinary action after taking part in a civil partnership ceremony with another man. The Rev Christopher Wardale, 59, from Darlington, and retired Northumbria University lecturer Malcolm Macourt, 58, exchanged vows
The director has received death threats, religious groups have condemned it and those who have actually seen the film do not want to be identified for fear of attack
Eight Guernsey deputies are calling on the States to consider new laws recognising same sex couples
More than 15,500 gay and lesbian couples united in civil partnerships in the first nine months after new laws were brought in the UK. The Office of Statistics revealed there were 15,672 civil partnerships between December 2005 and September 2006
MANCHESTER ROCKED Remember, Remember the 6th November when Manchester Town Hall opened its doors to the first ever official Gay Wedding Show. With over 60 suppliers, the Pink City in the Lord Mayors Parlour for all our legal
Actor George Takei and his partner were among the first Californian couples to get a wedding licence after the state lifted its ban on same-sex marriage
A gay employee of Clinton Cards claims he was suspended the day after he told his boss that he had been diagnosed with HIV. Karl Nugent, 23 from Northallerton in north Yorkshire told an employment tribunal investigating his suspension
A gay quality assurance worker who was suspended from his job after he complained about homophobic graffiti has won a constructive dismissal claim. Chris Martin, 31, won a claim of sexual harassment and discrimination against Parkam Foods Ltd
About 20 per cent of homeless young people in Brighton and Hove are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), according to a new report
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Ghana's government has banned a conference for gay men and lesbians due to take place there later this month. Information Minister Kwamena Bartels said as homosexuality was illegal in Ghana the gathering was not permitted
When Patrick Williams told his mother he was gay, she packed his bags and threw him out of the house, disowning her son for what she saw as an evil act
