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The 50 weirdest and coolest facts from LGBTI history
- Released Date: 20-Feb-2015
Did you know churches blessed gay marriages in the 1st century?
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Swedish hotel accused of refusing access to gay couples
- Released Date: 17-Feb-2015
A hotel in Sweden has been accused of refusing access to gay couples, and lying to say they were closed for refurbishment, when same-sex couples enquired.
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Judge: India’s anti-gay law is ‘discriminatory’ and mentally damaging
- Released Date: 17-Feb-2015
The chairman of India’s Law Commission has condemned the country’s Supreme Court for recriminalising homosexuality.
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Interview: Stonewall CEO Ruth Hunt on why the charity is going trans inclusive
- Released Date: 16-Feb-2015
As Stonewall England and Wales announced plans to begin lobbying on trans issues, PinkNews caught up with CEO Ruth Hunt to talk about the reasons why, and why now.
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Tim Cook: Sacrificing cyber privacy could have dire consequences for gays
- Released Date: 16-Feb-2015
Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned that allowing internet privacy to be eroded could have dire consequences for gay people.
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Second Tokyo district to recognise gay relationships
- Released Date: 16-Feb-2015
A second district in Tokyo has announced that it will recognise same-sex relationships.
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Chinese short film appealing to parents to accept their gay children goes viral
- Released Date: 15-Feb-2015
A touching short film, which tells the story of a young gay man who became estranged from his parents after coming out, and eventually being accepted by them years later, has gone viral with over 100 million views
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Diane Abbott to urge government to act on LGBT mental health issues
- Released Date: 12-Feb-2015
Diane Abbott is set to address the issue of growing mental health issues in the London LGBT community.
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Was the UK really more tolerant of gays in Victorian times than the 1960s?
- Released Date: 12-Feb-2015
A new study has shown that there were more convictions for homosexuality in the 1960s than the ‘prudish’ Victorian era.
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Tokyo district will recognise gay relationships for the first time in Japan
- Released Date: 12-Feb-2015
For the first time in Japan, a district of Tokyo has announced plans to recognise gay couples’ relationships through partnerships certificates.
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Star of Russian sitcom comes out as gay
- Released Date: 11-Feb-2015
Odin Biron, who stars in the Russian version of Scrubs, titled Interny (Interns), in which he plays an American exchange student at a Russian hospital.
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David Axelrod reveals the truth about Obama and gay marriage
- Released Date: 10-Feb-2015
In his new memoir Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod admits that the president supported gay marriage privately back in 2008 but concealed his position for political expediency.
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