Wales

Qatari officials are taking anything that looks like a rainbow away from fans. They even confiscated a Brazilian state flag with a rainbow.

“She’s fucking evil. Sadistic,” one witness said about one of the murderers. So why did the prosecutor say it was the victim’s “sexual predilections were to be his undoing”?

23 year-old Owen Hurcum has long stood up for trans equality. Now they’re the youngest mayor in Wales.

Andrew Dymock told investigators that he can’t be part of an anti-LGBTQ extremist group because he himself is “bisexual, but lean[s] towards being homosexual.”

*sniffles*

Paul Yore’s piece about queer subjectivity in the face of homophobic hatred was reported to police as a hate crime in itself. Now the gallery has been forced to take it down.,

He changed his name to “Jesus Christianity,” but his behavior was decidedly devilish.

The boxer says he hopes by winning Saturday’s bout he will quiet “the homophobic people talking bad” to the LGBTQ community.

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.

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.

Children who are bullied — and especially those who are frequently bullied — continue to be at risk for a wide range of poor social, health, and economic outcomes nearly four decades after being victimized, according to new research by King’s College London.

LONDON — Elton John and David Furnish say they plan to exchange vows for a second time to celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage in the 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.

LONDON — Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives.

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday gave her royal stamp of approval to Scotland’s Marriage and Civil Partnership Act 2014, clearing the way for same-sex marriage to begin by the end of the year.

LONDON — An proposal by a group of conservative British lawmakers to ban HIV and Hepatitis B positive immigrants from entering the United Kingdom, was shot down Thursday in the House of Commons.

LONDON — Save the date: The British government announced Tuesday that the country’s first same-sex weddings can be held on Saturday, March 29.

LONDON — Britain’s Minister of State for Care and Support, (Health) Norman Lamb, told an audience during a special debate in Westminster Hall Wednesday that practitioners trying to convert gay patients to heterosexuality is “wholly abhorrent.”

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scotland’s lawmakers on Wednesday were told to “get a move on” after England and Wales legalized marriage equality on Tuesday.

LONDON — The French like to make fun of the British, joking about their repressed ways in matters of the heart. But when it came time to debate same-sex marriage, it was France that betrayed a deep conservative streak in sometimes violent protests — while the British showed themselves to be modern and tolerant.