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LGBT History Month website down 5 Jun 2011 | 10:05 pm
We are currently experiencing technical problems with our website. As a result it is currently unavailable. We are working on sorting this out and hope to back online as soon as possible. Our apologie...
Uganda Drops Anti-Gay Bill 16 May 2011 | 07:41 pm
Uganda has dropped - or shelved it's proposed anti-gay bill. Parliament closed yesterday after failing to implement it. Although Parliament has been extended to run on Monday and Tuesday, only adminis...
Joan Armatrading marries girlfriend 15 May 2011 | 06:42 am
Singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading and her partner, artist Maggie Butler, had a civil partnership on 2 May in Shetland. Armatrading began her music career in the 1970s and quickly gained a strong les...
40 years on: where are LGBT rights? 13 May 2011 | 08:18 pm
The 40 year anniversary of the founding of GLF in the UK on the LSE campus gave momentum to look back how LGBT rights have developed and become globalized in this period. The conference is an opportun...
David Cairns MP Dies 11 May 2011 | 08:14 pm
David Cairns MP 1966-2011 David Cairns, the Labour MP for Inverclyde, has died at the age of 44 after a short illness. Read an obituary in Pink News here. David Cairns on wikipedia
Pride Sports encourages LGBT Sports participants to help shape sport in England 6 May 2011 | 08:13 pm
Last week, Pride Sports, the UK’s LGBT sports development organisation launches a campaign to ensure that the voices of LGBT people are heard in Sport England’s Satisfaction Survey. The Sports Council...
Church Schools in the Netherlands can fire gay and lesbian teachers 5 May 2011 | 08:06 pm
Gay teachers can be dismissed by religious schools if it can be shown that their homosexuality clashes with the ethos of the institution. The Dutch Interior Minister, Guusje Ter Horst, made this state...
Joanna Russ Dies 5 May 2011 | 07:54 pm
> Joanna Russ 1937-2011 The lesbian science fiction writer and critic, and author of The Female Man (1975), Joanna Russ, has died peacefully. Read an obituary by Locus Magazine, here.
Islamic Cleric: "It's okay to be gay" 3 May 2011 | 08:04 pm
Muhsin Hendricks is an Islamic cleric and a gay man. The South African runs a foundation called The Inner Circle, which helps Muslims, who are struggling to accept their sexuality. He is on tour and ...
Olympic Gymnast Comes Out 1 May 2011 | 01:11 am
Dutch Olympic Gymnast Jeffrey Wammes has come out and asserted that he is gay in a special edition of Linda magazine dedicated to gay sports stars. Wammes said:“There was already a lot of speculation...
