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November 28, 2013

Watch a 13-year-old use his Bar Mitzvah speech to call for equal marriage for gay couples

A 13-year-old Jewish boy has used his Bar Mitzvah speech to call for same-sex couples in his home state of Oregon to be granted the right to marry. Watch him take his community with him as he explains why the biblical definition of marriage is nothing like what those who oppose equality say it is and by the end you'll be...

November 28, 2013

Human rights group calls on Croatia to stand up for equality at same-sex marriage referendum

International LGBT rights group ILGA-Europe has called on citizens in Croatia to do the right thing in voting in favour of equal marriage in a referendum this Sunday, 1 December.

November 28, 2013

MP Caroline Lucas takes HIV test and says ‘we need to remove the stigma around testing’

Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, has taken an HIV test in support of the Halve It campaign, which is aiming to halve rates of late and undiagnosed HIV in the UK by 2015.

November 28, 2013

Poll finds that Church of England sexuality report is ‘out of touch with Anglicans’

As a report on human sexuality is published recommending that the Church of England should offer blessings to same-sex married couples and tackle homophobia, polls suggest that even the report is out of touch with Anglicans, a majority of whom now support same-sex marriage.

November 28, 2013

London: College Principal steps aside after lecturer revealed to be extreme homophobe

The Principal of Newham College, Denise Brown-Sackey, has stepped aside from her post following revelations that a senior lecturer compared gay teachers to the Ku Klux Klan.

November 28, 2013

Senior adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron to marry same-sex partner

Michael Salter, the Prime Minister’s Head of Broadcasting, is to marry his long-term partner Rob Church, it has been announced.

November 28, 2013

UK: Lecturer and therapist compares gays to Ku Klux Klan and rants at Elton John’s ‘gayism’

A senior lecturer at one of London’s biggest colleges has been suspended after comparing gay teachers to the Ku Klux Klan and admitting that he loathed Sir Elton John for his "over-burdensome gayism".

November 28, 2013

Church of England report on sexuality recognises tension on gays in church but urges for understanding

Today the Church of England published a report on "human sexuality" which notes a tension between the church and contemporary culture, but which recommends that same-sex marriages and civil partnerships should be blessed, and that homophobia should be tackled across the church.

November 28, 2013

UK man held in Uganda for breaking anti-gay laws could be deported next week

A British man charged in Uganda after images of him having sex with a man were published in a newspaper says he is due to be deported back to the UK.

November 28, 2013

Robbie Williams: ‘I am 49% gay because I love musical theatre’, but not sex with men

Robbie Williams has spoken out about his sexuality, to say that he thinks he is "49% homosexual" because he loves musicals and "other things that are often associated with gays," but that he doesn't like having sex with men.