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March 28, 2013

US magazine editor: Gay NFL players should stay in the closet

The editor of a Christian magazine has weighed into the debate over there being no openly gay US professional athletes, said that being gay is "clearly a sin", and that gay NFL players should not come out.

March 28, 2013

West Ham footballer Matt Jarvis: People ask my wife if I’m gay because of my Attitude magazine shoot

West Ham footballer Matt Jarvis says posing topless for Attitude magazine has meant that people have asked his wife about his sexuality.

March 28, 2013

Bill Maher: Is one of the criteria for being allowed to marry ‘ejaculating in a vagina’?

Television host Bill Maher weighed in on the equal marriage debate when the Supreme Court heard arguments around two cases this week, as he took to Twitter to joke that people might accept equal marriage if they called it by a different name.

March 28, 2013

UK: Sexual abuse victim claims council would have treated case differently if father had not been gay

A man who was sexually abused by his gay father and his partner claims the abuse was swept under the carpet by Wakefield Council.

March 28, 2013

US: Kentucky overrules veto on bill protecting actions motivated by religious belief

The Senate and House of Kentucky have voted to override the Governor's veto on a religious freedom law, which opponents worry may protect those who discriminate against LGBT people.

March 28, 2013

Fox News host refuses to apologise for linking equal marriage to bestiality

A Fox News radio host has refused to apologise after causing controversy by tweeting that legalising equal marriage across the US could lead to the legalisation of bestiality.

March 28, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to stop gay couples from adopting Russian orphans

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken steps towards ordering the country's government and Supreme Court to write amendments to the adoption procedure prohibiting foreign gay couples from adopting Russian children.

March 28, 2013

BBC apologises for naming South African official ‘gay marriage’ in TV news caption

The BBC has apologised for accidently naming a South African civil servant with the name “gay marriage” in a TV news report about a diplomatic conference.

March 28, 2013

US: Arizona House panel approves amended law targeting trans people

A panel of lawmakers from the Arizona House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass a bill which would allow business owners to discriminate against trans people by barring their use of facilities that don't correspond to the gender on their birth certificate.

March 28, 2013

UK Border Agency accused of trying to deport Ugandan female rape victim

Human rights campaigners have once again accused the UK Border Agency (UKBA) of trying to deport a vulnerable female asylum seeker to Uganda.