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May 20, 2013

Exclusive: Government ‘relaxed’ on immediate review on the future of civil partnerships

A senior Government source has told PinkNews.co.uk that the Equalities Minister Maria Miller is "relaxed" on an immediate review on opposite sex civil partnerships.

May 20, 2013

Stonewall shocked by violent homophobic south London attack

Stonewall has described a violent attack on a gay couple in south London as “shocking”.

May 20, 2013

Speaker John Bercow announces MP’s office searched investigating a ‘serious arrestable offence’

The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has made an announcement that an MP's office at Westminster, was searched at the weekend, during an investigation of a "serious arrestable offence".

May 20, 2013

UK: The simple state of play on the same-sex marriage bill and civil partnerships amendments

We have condensed the row and the possible alternatives in relation to straight civil partnerships and how this impacts on the same-sex marriage vote in one article.

May 20, 2013

Labour table civil partnership Manuscript Amendment in order to ‘rescue’ same-sex marriage bill

Labour has launched a bid to protect the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, amid fears that a "wrecking amendment" extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples could stall the legislation.

May 20, 2013

China: 18-year-old IDAHOT activist detained for 12 days

It has emerged that one of four LGBT marchers detained in the Chinese city of Changsha following Friday's IDAHOT events remains in prison, and has been sentenced to 12 days in jail.

May 20, 2013

Downing Street: Equal marriage is the Prime Minister’s ‘paramount concern’

David Cameron is in full support of equal marriage, and the matter of whether the Government supports equal marriage is not in question, a Downing Street spokesman has confirmed.

May 20, 2013

Peter Tatchell: ‘MPs should vote for heterosexual civil partnerships’

Peter Tachell notes the popularity of straight civil partnerships in the Netherlands in saying MPs should vote for civil partnerships for heterosexual couples in England and Wales.

May 20, 2013

David Burrowes: I oppose all ‘dilutions’ of marriage

Tory MP David Burrowes has once again voiced his opposition to same-sex marriage, and has revealed he will not be voting for an amendment to the bill allowing opposite-sex couples to have civil partnerships either.

May 20, 2013

Yvette Cooper: ‘David Cameron must show confidence and not allow the equal marriage bill to get sucked into Tory wrangling’

Shadow Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities, Yvette Cooper, says she hopes “David Cameron will show confidence and not allow the equal marriage bill to get sucked into another vortex of bitter Tory wrangling.”