California has taken a huge step towards legally recognising non-binary people

• Released Date: 01-Jun-2017

California has taken a huge step towards legally recognising non-binary people. The state Senate has passed a bill which would allow people to choose a third gender on official forms like driving licences and birth certificates.

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Theresa May defends Tory candidate who penned homophobic blog posts

• Released Date: 01-Jun-2017

Theresa May has defended a Tory candidate who failed to turn up to his local LGBT hustings after it emerged he once penned a string of homophobic blog posts. 34-year-old Peter Cuthbertson is the Conservative candidate for Darlington in next

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Q&A: Green Party leader answers questions from PinkNews readers

• Released Date: 01-Jun-2017

Green co-leader Jonathan Bartley has answered questions from PinkNews readers on a range of issues ahead of the General Election. Bartley, the co-leader of the Green Party with Caroline Lucas, is the latest leader in our series of readers’

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Margaret Court says ’tennis is full of lesbians’ as row escalates

• Released Date: 31-May-2017

Tennis great criticises push to have her name removed from a show court at Melbourne Park, as Samantha Stosur says her latest outburst is ‘pretty crazy stuff’The former tennis champion Margaret Court has claimed tennis is full of lesbians following a

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Theresa May under fire for changing her mind about gay rights

• Released Date: 31-May-2017

Lib Dem peer Brian Paddick disputes Tory claim that the PM was the ‘unsung hero’ of the same-sex marriage actTheresa May’s support for LGBT people was called into question at an election hustings in which parties laid out their policies regarding equ

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Stosur says tennis players could boycott Margaret Court Arena over gay marriage comments

• Released Date: 30-May-2017

Samantha Stosur says players may decide not to play in arena named after legend who expressed opposition to same-sex marriageGrand slam champion Samantha Stosur has hinted that tennis stars may try to boycott Margaret Court Arena at next year’s Austr

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Cambodia’s Pride ends in a rainbow tuk tuk race

• Released Date: 29-May-2017

Pride events around the world tend to be fairly stock standard. They have parades, live performances and rainbow flags fly high.But Cambodia’s pride parade ended with a record number of entrants in rainbow tuk tuk race.In its fourth year, 64 colourfu

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Theresa May meets with pastor who claimed gay rights are ‘an affront to Christians’

• Released Date: 29-May-2017

Theresa May this week worshipped with a pastor who described gay rights as Christianophobic. On Sunday the Prime Minister made an unannounced visit to London’s Jesus House church, which is part of the Nigerian-based Redeeme

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France takes in first gay refugee from Chechnya

• Released Date: 29-May-2017

The president of French LGBTQ rights organization SOS Homophobie announced today that France has started taking in gay refugees from Chechnya.The first gay Chechen refugee arrived on French land, Joël Deumier said on the radio station FranceInfo. So

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The Guardian view on Taiwan and same-sex marriage: a sudden victory years in the making

• Released Date: 28-May-2017

The crowd in Taipei on Wednesday was not huge; a few hundred people. But the joy and relief on their faces radiated around the world. The constitutional court had just ruled in favour of allowing same-sex marriage, in Asia’s first such judgment. The

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Gay man punched & hit with a cane in possible hate crime

• Released Date: 28-May-2017

A man in the Bronx who shouted anti-gay epithets at someone and hit him on the head with a cane was arrested.The attacker, Derik Harry, 27, tried to start a conversation with a young woman who was walking with the victim at 2:30 AM Thursday. Accordin

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Racism is a big problem in the gay community, survey finds

• Released Date: 28-May-2017

Over 850 black, white, Asian, South Asian, Arab, and mixed race gay men participated in a survey by the Fact Site where they shared their thoughts on race in the gay community.The survey found that 80% of black men, 79% of Asian men, 75% of South Asi

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