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Britain’s married, same-sex couples get right to combine coats of arms
LONDON — Britain’s gay couples have taken a step forward — into the Middle Ages. Like blue-blooded families down the centuries, they can now have their own coats of arms.
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At midnight hour, first same-sex weddings take place in United Kingdom
LONDON — Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, it took just a few minutes to make history.
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A royal first: Queen Elizabeth II marks anniversary of LGBT group
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday congratulated one of Britain’s oldest LGBT charity and advocacy groups, the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, in what royal watchers say is the first time 87-year-old Monarch has recognized an LGBT advocacy group in her 62 years on the British throne.
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London ban on anti-gay bus ad put in doubt by court of appeal ruling
LONDON — A ban on a Christian charity’s bus advertisements suggesting that gay people can “cured” was put in doubt on Monday by a court of appeal judgment.
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UK bed and breakfast owners lose appeal in gay discrimination case
LONDON — The Christian owners of a hotel in southern England have lost a U.K. Supreme Court appeal over whether their refusal to let a gay couple stay amounted to discrimination.
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British lawmaker to introduce bill to ban conversion therapy in the U.K.
LONDON — A British parliamentarian from Wales has announced plans to introduce legislation that would ban licensed therapists from performing controversial gay-to-straight reparative therapy in the United Kingdom.
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Christian group files suit seeking removal of pro-gay ads from London buses
LONDON — An anti-gay Christian group which advocates for gay-to-straight conversion therapy has lodged a legal challenge against a London transportation company for displaying advertisements that read “Some People Are Gay, Get Over It!”
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UK transgender youth denied hormone treatment to prevent puberty
LONDON — A 12-year-old transgender boy has been denied hormone blockers by his general practitioner that he hopes would halt the onslaught of puberty on his biologically female body.
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UK House of Lords backs same-sex marriage bill in third reading
LONDON — The upper chamber of the British parliament, the House of Lords, voted Monday to back the government plans to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales.
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U.K. court rules in favor of gay couple over anti-gay Christian innkeeper
LONDON — A British court has upheld a ruling that a gay couple from Cambridgeshire were unlawfully discriminated against when a guesthouse owner wouldn’t let them share a double bed.