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November 15, 2013

Tribunal rules Northern Ireland Health Minister’s blood ban advice can remain secret

Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots has won the right to withhold the legal reasons for enforcing a lifetime ban preventing gay and bisexual men from donating blood in the province.

November 15, 2013

Francis Bacon artwork breaks art auction world record at £89 million

A triptych of portraits by the openly gay artist Francis Bacon has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at an auction, totalling £89.6 million.

November 15, 2013

Pope Francis distributes surveys to Catholics on ‘modern questions’ including gay relationships

Pope Francis has urged members of the Catholic church to fill out surveys on the Vatican's teaching of "modern" topics, including same-sex sexual relationships, in order to gauge whether what the church preaches is still practical in today's society.

November 15, 2013

Lithuania: Homophobic politician delivers trousers with anal zip to LGBT group

A pair of sexually provocative trousers, featuring a zip directly where a male's buttocks would meet, has been delivered to an LGBT group by a Lithuanian Member of Parliament who equates homosexuality with paedophilia.

November 15, 2013

US: Gay activists to campaign outside New York Stock Exchange during Russian government visit

Gay activists in New York have planned a demonstration outside Wall Street's federal hall during an upcoming Russian government visit, to campaign against anti-gay laws in the country.

November 14, 2013

Study: 238 trans people were murdered across the world in the past 12 months

Brazil and Mexico lead the list for the most reported killings of trans people in the past year, according to the report published yesterday.

November 14, 2013

David Cameron urged to raise LGBT rights at Commonwealth summit

David Cameron has been told to raise the issue of LGBT rights at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which begins on Friday in Sri Lanka.

November 14, 2013

Swaziland confirms young black student suffered anti-gay and racist ‘trauma’ by Russian gang

A young male student has returned to Swaziland having been allegedly tortured in a homophobic and racist fashion by a neo-Nazi Russian gang.

November 14, 2013

Video: Russian officials spy on LGBT activist meeting to portray Western ‘homosexualist infiltration’

Russian officials bugged a private strategy meeting of LGBT activists recently, and used the recording as part of a public television exposé on the “threat to Russia” posed by the “homosexualists who attempt to infiltrate our country.”

November 14, 2013

Comment: Northern Ireland’s Health Minister will only be remembered for homophobia

Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Levi Greene says Northern Ireland's Health Minister, Edwin Poots, is an example of someone with "distasteful views" being in a position of power.