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September 3, 2013

Ireland: Gay activists urge leaders to take clear measures against Russian anti-gay laws

The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) has urged leaders in Ireland to take a clear stance on their intended actions against Russia's notorious anti-gay "propaganda" laws.

September 3, 2013

Canadian speed skater attacks Russia’s anti-gay law and admits she’s ‘proud to be gay’

Canadian Olympic hopeful, Anastasia Bucsis has admitted that she is proud to be gay and has spoken out against Russia's gay propaganda law

September 3, 2013

Exclusive Video: X Factor finalist Melanie Masson backs equal marriage for Scotland

X Factor Finalist Melanie Masson is the latest to speak out in support of equal marriage in Scotland as part of the Equality Network’s It’s Time video campaign.

September 3, 2013

My parents who believe that being gay is OK went to Russia and this is what they did

The parents of PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen have performed an impromptu gay rights protest in the Russian city of St Petersburg, the birthplace of the country's recently passed anti-gay laws. Here he explains what they did.

September 3, 2013

Oman: Newspaper issues front page apology for publishing a sympathetic article about gay life

A newspaper in Oman has printed a front page apology for a sympathetic article it published last week on the story of a young gay man in the country.

September 3, 2013

US: Gay couples claim a third of all marriage licenses in Minnesota

An Associated Press survey has found that ever since same-sex couples have been allowed to marry in Minnesota, gay couples have received nearly a third of all marriage licenses in the state.

September 3, 2013

Jamaican police: Gay people are no more victims of crime than ‘the ordinary citizen’

A Jamaican Assistant Commissioner of Police has said LGBT are no more at risk of criminal abuse than any other group in the country, despite its current upsurge of homophobic hate crimes.

September 3, 2013

US: Oregon bakery which refused cake for same-sex wedding closes down

Sweet Cakes, an Oregon Bakery sued in August for refusing to provide a wedding cake to a same-sex couple, has closed its doors.

September 3, 2013

Portsmouth vicar refuses to baptise the son of a same-sex couple

A vicar in Portsmouth has refused to baptise the son of a lesbian couple after he insisted that both of them could not be listed as the child's mother, saying "for all we know it they may have pinched the child."

September 2, 2013

Obama to meet gay Russian activists while in St Petersburg for G20

President Barack Obama is reportedly to meet LGBT activists in the Russian city of St Petersburg during his trip to the city as part of a G20 Heads of Government meeting.