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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