UKIP leader records spoof weather forecast following ‘gay floods’ row

• Released Date: 26-Jan-2014

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage responded to the recent ‘gay floods’ controversy on BBC One’s Sunday Politics show this morning (Sunday 26 January) by presenting his own weather forecast. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/uk

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Russian PM Medvedev claims no gays have complained about gay propaganda ban that silences them

• Released Date: 24-Jan-2014

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has told CNN that controversy over his country’s ban on so-called homosexual propaganda to minors is a foreign invention and that knows of no gay Russians who have complained about it - See more at: http://www.g

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Sri Lankan MP outed by Wikileaks says government is out to get him

• Released Date: 24-Jan-2014

Sri Lankan MP Mangala Samaraweera, outed by Wikileaks, says President Mahinda Rajapaksa is out to get him and that the government is using a man accused of stealing from his house to frame him for breaking the country’s sodomy law - See more at: http

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Mission America’s Linda Harvey claims gays are all closeted straight people

• Released Date: 24-Jan-2014

Mission America ‘media missionary’ Linda Harvey has taken to far right US website WND to claim that gay people are actually all heterosexual – and are terrified of anyone finding out. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/mission-america%

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Words matter: Obama used ‘gay’ 272 times in five years

• Released Date: 24-Jan-2014

US President Barack Obama used the word ‘gay’ 272 times over a period of five yearx, a report from the Human Rights Campaign has revealed. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/obama-has-used-word-gay-272-times-five-years240114#sthash.WnD

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Australian Government study finds kids with gay parents do as well as those with straight parents

• Released Date: 24-Jan-2014

The Australian Institute of Family Studies has released a report on the well being of children raised by gays and lesbians and found they did just as well as those raised by heterosexual men and women. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/articl

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Legislating from the Bible: The red state foundation of government ‘service’

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

While that reads like a tired bumper sticker, there are still lawmakers in the United States who use this as the very foundation of their government service.

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Gay Republican candidate in Indiana quits GOP after leadership’s power play on marriage equality bill

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

Until a day ago, Andy Markle was a gay Republican running for a seat in the Indiana House of Representatives. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-republican-candidate-indiana-quits-gop-after-leaderships-power-play-marriage-equality-

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Okla. lawmaker wants voters to ban same-sex marriage … again

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

TULSA, Okla. — Just one week after a judge struck down Oklahoma’s 2004 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, a state lawmaker has filed a bill that would call for a second vote to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to again ban same-sex marriage.

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Australia includes same-sex couples in relationship counseling voucher schem

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

From 1 July Australian couples, regardless of sexuality, will be able to receive $200 worth of free relationship counseling in an Australian Government scheme designed to combat relationship breakups - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/

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Tycoon offers $130m to marry off gay daughter to male suitor

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

A Hong Kong tycoon is considering doubling his bounty to over a hundred million dollars to find a male suitor for his gay daughter to marry. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/tycoon-doubles-bounty-marry-gay-daughter-male-suitor230114#

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After power play by speaker, House committee in Indiana approves gay marriage ban bill

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

In a vote along party lines, an Indiana House committee approved a constitutional marriage ban bill on Wednesday (22 January). - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/house-committee-indiana-approves-marriage-ban-bill-full-chamber-vote-next

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