FACEBOOK BLOCKS ANOTHER GAY PIC
Despite claiming to be a progressive and gay-friendly company, Facebook has banned yet another innocuous picture simply because it shows two men kissing. The black and white photo, which was posted on the Have a Gay Day Facebook page, shows a close up of the men as they kiss. A statement is included below the […]
GAY WAR HERO MOVIE ON ITS WAY
In honour of the Queen’s pardoning of gay World War II hero Alan Turing, producers have tweeted the first picture from a new film about his life. British star Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, Star Trek Into Darkness) stars in The Imitation Game as the late mathematics genius. Turing (1912 – 1954) has been described as […]
MILLIONS FOR GAY MARRIAGE BATTLE
The American state of Utah has been slammed for planning to spend millions in taxpayers’ money to fight the recent court ruling legalising same-sex marriage. On Thursday, the Utah Attorney General’s office confirmed that it would be continuing its appeal of federal Judge Robert Shelby’s 20 December decision that the ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. […]
VATICAN FLIP FLOPS ON GAY RIGHTS
While the Pope’s representative to Uganda says he’s opposed to the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, a bishop in Spain has attacked same-sex marriage. According to New Ways Ministry, Archbishop Michael Blume, the papal nuncio (representative) to Uganda, has written that he hopes that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni does not sign the bill into law. Blume made the […]
US GAY BOY SCOUTS FROM 1 JAN
Openly gay youth will finally be allowed into the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) as from the 1st of January 2014. In May, the BSA leadership voted to allow gay youth to join the movement after growing pressure to change its 103-year-old anti-gay policy. The new policy applies to the boys-only Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts […]