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Archbishop of Canterbury backs campaign against same-sex marriages
Monday 20 February 2012
David Cameron is to face a mass petition opposing plans to launch a "hostile strike" on the traditional view of marriage, campaigners said today.
Owen Jones: Gay people have come a long way – but hatred is still out there
Friday 27 January 2012
Outright bigotry is in retreat, but a substantial chunk of the population still has a problem
Calls to lift ban on gay men giving blood
Sunday 12 June 2011
Ministers are dragging their heels to end the restriction despite advice from medical experts
Diary: Revenge on our Hugh
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Wily swordsman Hugh Grant doubtlessly thought he was a right old clever dick when he pulled a fast one over that tabloid weasel Paul McMullan the other week.
Prince William urged to back gay marriages
Monday 25 April 2011
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell today delivered an early wedding card to Buckingham Palace calling on Prince William and Kate Middleton to "express their support" for same-sex marriages.
Free kicks: 20 years of Stonewall FC
Sunday 30 January 2011
Stonewall Football Club has been tackling homophobic prejudice for 20 years – and now even the Queen is paying attention
At last, the stigma of 50 years is removed
Sunday 30 January 2011
Gay men convicted for something no longer an offence win right for criminal records to be expunged
Ugandan woman wins last-minute deportation victory
Saturday 29 January 2011
A woman fighting deportation to Uganda on the grounds she is a lesbian won a last minute reprieve last night in her battle to stay in the UK. Her legal team won an injunction against deportation shortly before a plane was due to take off from Heathrow.
Joan Smith: Even the ancient Romans had different forms of marriage
Wednesday 22 December 2010
In retrospect, Blair's eagerness to reduce (but not eradicate) discrimination against gay people created a situation that is unfair and unsatisfactory all round
Gay marriage ban challenge delayed
Tuesday 21 December 2010
A plan to test the UK's ban on gay marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships has been stalled by a local government council incorrectly replying to one of eight English couples set on arguing the twin bans are unlawful and should be reversed.
Letters: Can bid failure help restore sanity to English football?
Saturday 04 December 2010
The failure of our World Cup bid may finally bring reforms that restore sanity to English football (report, 3 December).
Once Aids was a death sentence. Now it's become a way of life.
Wednesday 01 December 2010
Michael Hardwicke plans to marry his partner of nine years next August, on his 40th birthday. By then he will have spent more than half his life with HIV, and the past 11 years on drugs to hold the disease in check.
Strasbourg rules Russian ban on gay marches 'illegal'
Friday 22 October 2010
Russia was told by the European Court of Human Rights yesterday that its ban on gay marches is illegal.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The forces of hate are still with us
Monday 04 October 2010
The powerful appear now to be entirely focused on the white working and workless classes. As if there is room for only one injustice in the collective conscience
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