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March 26, 2013

US: LGBT books in California Department of Education list are ‘raping the innocence of our children’ says radio show host

A radio show host has said LGBT-themed books are "raping the innocence of our children," after the California Department of Education updated its ‘Recommended Literature List.’

March 26, 2013

West Virginia US Senator Jay Rockefeller announces same-sex marriage support

US Senator Jay Rockefeller says he now opposes a federal law banning same-sex marriage.

March 26, 2013

UK: Two Hertfordshire teens admit homophobic abuse of man on bus

Two teenage boys from Hertfordshire, who assaulted a man on a bus multiple times, have been told they must pay £235 as a punishment.

March 26, 2013

Tony Perkins: Supreme Court ruling in favour of equal marriage could mean ‘revolution’

Tony Perkins, the president of the anti-gay Family Research Council has claimed that the US Supreme Court ruling in favour of equal marriage could lead to "revolution".

March 26, 2013

US: New group launched to keep gays out of Boy Scouts – says don’t listen to Madonna or Bill Gates

A new traditional values group has been set up, calling for customers to avoid a Mexican restaurant chain, after it cancelled sponsorship to the Boy Scouts of America.

March 26, 2013

Boris Johnson: I was wrong to make up a quote about King Edward II and his gay lover Piers Gaveston

Boris Johnson has spoken of his regret on concocting a quote about King Edward II and the monarch’s gay lover, when he was a junior reporter at the Times.

March 26, 2013

US Supreme Court Justice: Considering Prop 8 means putting aside my ‘fear of homosexuals’

With the US Supreme Court gearing up to hear two landmark cases around equal marriage this week, one of the court justices said he would put "aside" his "profound fear of homosexuals".

March 26, 2013

Survey: 53% of Albanians think gay people ‘should not be free to live life as they wish’

The results of the European Social Survey (ESS), due to be published today, suggest that Albania is the most homophobic society of the countries surveyed.

March 26, 2013

Theresa May announces scrapping of ‘defensive’ and ‘secretive’ UK Border Agency

A government agency that has repeatedly been accused of deporting LGBT asylum seekers is to be scrapped and split in two, Theresa May has confirmed.

March 26, 2013

US conservative women’s group: Starbucks discriminates against straight people by supporting gay rights

A conservative women's group in the US has published a scathing article about coffee chain Starbucks, and the company's support for equal marriage, suggesting that it discriminates against straight people by doing so.