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December 14, 2012

Brazilian student strangled to death with seatbelt in homophobic murder

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old student in Brazil, with one of the suspects declaring: “He wanted to kiss me and I wanted to kill him.”

December 14, 2012

Campaigner: Uganda’s anti-gay bill may not be passed in time for Christmas

The executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda believes the Ugandan Parliament may break up for the year without passing the notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

December 14, 2012

Bishop of Buckingham: Church will be a fool to squander the option of ‘getting real’ by backing same-sex marriage

The Bishop of Buckingham, Alan Wilson, the most senior member of the Church of England to back the Out4Marriage campaign for marriage equality has warned that the Church of England risks squandering a “precious opportunity to get real” by backing same-sex marriage.

December 14, 2012

Church of England: We weren’t consulted over the government’s same-sex marriage ban

The Church of England says it only learnt of the government’s plan to ban it from performing same-sex marriages when Culture Secretary Maria Miller took to the Commons despatch box on Tuesday.

December 14, 2012

Pope gives blessing to Uganda’s anti-gay parliamentary speaker Rebecca Kadaga

Pope Benedict XVI has been pictured giving a blessing to Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, who has promised to pass the country’s notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a “Christmas gift”.

December 14, 2012

Stephen Hawking calls for David Cameron to pardon gay code breaker Alan Turing

The scientist Professor Stephen Hawking and the broadcaster Lord Michael Grade have joined other distinguished scientists and peers to call on the Government to pardon Alan Turing.

December 14, 2012

Bryan Fischer: Being gay is the ‘result of a birth defect’ and mothers would abort gay babies

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA) has interpreted a genetic study to mean being gay is the “result of a birth defect” and has suggested that parents would be more likely to abort gay babies.

December 13, 2012

US: GOP Senator who cast deciding vote for New York marriage equality concedes

A Republican Senator who cast the key vote to legalise marriage equality in the state of New York has conceded that he has lost his re-election bid, and will not be returning to the Senate.

December 13, 2012

US: Mayor of Atlanta says ‘gay couples deserve the same protection’ as straight ones

After coming out in support of equal marriage on Tuesday, the Mayor of Atlanta has reiterated his support, and given his reasons for changing his stance, saying that "gay and lesbian couples deserve the same protection" as straight couples.

December 13, 2012

Mike Tyson gender reassignment spoof mistaken for reality by news websites

African online newspapers picked up a spoof story about Mike Tyson undergoing gender reassignment surgery, which was published on a satirical UK website at the end of November.