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N. Ireland bakery threatened with legal action over refusing gay rights cake
A Christian-owned bakery in Northern Ireland that earlier this year refused to make a cake for a local gay rights organization’s event, has been ordered to apologize and pay compensation or face legal action. In July, Ashers Baking Co., in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, refused to bake a novelty cake featuring Sesame Street characters…
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Openly gay Scottish MEP: Gay marriage supporters are ‘equality Nazis’
David Coburn, Scotland’s UKIP (UK Independent Party) Member of the European Parliament (MEP), who describes himself as “spectacularly homosexual” and a “great big screaming poof,” said Thursday that marriage equality supporters are “equality Nazis” who are “rubbing people’s noses in the dirt.”
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Scotland’s marriage equality law to come into effect on New Year’s Eve
Same-sex couples in Scotland will be able to plan New Year’s Eve weddings, the date the country’s marriage equality law comes into effect. Scottish Health Secretary Alex Neil said gay and lesbian couples will be able to marry beginning December 31, and couples in an existing civil partnership will also be able to change their relationship to a…
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Anglicans sign open letter urging Church of England’s gay bishops to come out
LONDON — More than 300 Anglican priests, parishioners and other Christians have signed an open “love letter” to bishops in the Church of England who are secretly gay urging them to “come out” about their sexual orientation.
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Photographer blinded by gasoline in alleged anti-gay hate crime
SWANSEA, Wales — A freelance photographer has been blinded in one eye following an alleged anti-gay hate crime late last week in which his attackers threw gasoline in his face. Tyler Maddick, 20, says he was targeted by three or four men in a car as he walked home in Swansea on Sept. 11, reports the BBC.
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Same-sex dancers decry proposed UK ballroom ‘ban’
LONDON — It takes two to tango – but does a same-sex couple qualify? Britain’s governing body of ballroom dancing has stirred controversy by proposing to change the definition of a competing partnership to be “one man and one lady” – a move that equality advocates and same-sex dancers called discriminatory Friday. The world of competitive ballroom …
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Christian-owned bakery faces court action after refusing ‘gay marriage’ cake
A Christian-owned bakery in Northern Ireland could face government action for refusing to bake a novelty cake featuring Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie and the slogan “support gay marriage.” Ashers Baking Co., in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, canceled the order, which was to also featured the logo of the gay rights group QueerSpace…
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Season of Pride: LGBT people, allies celebrate Pride around the world
For gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their allies, June is a month of pride and celebration. Around the globe, LGBT Pride Month has been marked with parades and marches, festivals and dances, and in some cases, protests and counter-protests. In the United States, much of the celebrations have focused on a string of victories …
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Gay man sprayed with ammonia outside London club, may never see again
A London man may never see again following an anti-gay attack outside a London club on Sunday. London police are seeking a man and two East European women in connection with a chemical attack on three men in the Vauxhall area, London’s gay district, early on Sunday.
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Former cop sues London police claiming years of anti-gay harassment
LONDON — A former police officer is suing London’s Metropolitan Police for discrimination, claiming he was forced to quit after being told his bosses monitor the gay hook-up app Grindr, and that fellow officers taunted him by saying he should become “a hairdresser or cabin crew.”