Stephen joined PinkNews.co.uk as a reporter in 2010 and was appointed acting online editor in November 2011
Twitter: @stephenjgray-
6 February 2012Male models back after falling foul of Facebook rules 1 A Facebook page which posts photo shoots of male models to a generally gay audience was suspended on Friday afternoon after an image was singled out for being inappropriate. -
6 February 2012Attitude magazine speaks up for bullied gay youth 19 Daniel Radcliffe returns to the cover of Attitude magazine for next month's issue, which is devoted to tackling homophobic bullying and telling the stories of bullied gay youths. -
6 February 2012Lost man ‘jumped’ from gay cruise 12 A man is feared dead after reportedly jumping from a gay cruise near Mexico. -
6 February 2012Amazon sells book on ‘gays going to hell’ 96 Amazon's Kindle Store has sparked a backlash by offering a fundamentalist religious text which tells gay and trans people they are going to hell. -
6 February 2012Top Tory blog editor backs gay marriage 43 A prominent Tory commentator and editor of the Conservative Home website has come out in favour of gay marriage. -
3 February 2012Video: PinkNews.co.uk founder records It Gets Better video on being gay, Jewish and condemning gay cures 73 PinkNews.co.uk founder and Channel 4 technology correspondent Benjamin Cohen discusses Cohen, 29, discusses coming out to his Jewish family in the time of Section 28, when discussion about being gay was limited in schools. He also condemns repartive therapy for same sex attractions. His former school, JFS, was criticised last month for showing sixth form students a slide about "gay cure" treatments. -
3 February 2012China: 16 million women ‘married to gays’ 19 A university professor in China has estimated that 16 million women in the world's most populous country are married to gays. -
3 February 2012Amsterdam’s ‘gay cure’ declaration rabbi reinstated 39 The chief rabbi of Amsterdam's Orthodox Jewish community has been reinstated after reportedly accepting he should not have signed a 'gay cure' declaration with the title. -
3 February 201222,500 thank JC Penney for hiring Ellen after anti-gay complaint 24 US retailer JC Penney is being thanked for hiring Ellen Degeneres after a group said she should be sacked because a lesbian spokesperson would lose them business. -
3 February 2012Bishop of Salisbury backs gay marriage 78 The new Bishop of Salisbury, The Rt Revd Nick Holtam, has come out in favour of gay marriage today, saying he is "no longer convinced" by arguments that marriage should be between a man and a woman. -
2 February 2012Ann Widdecombe: Let unhappy gays try to turn straight 220 Ann Widdecombe has backed the ability of therapists to offer so-called 'gay cure' treatments to clients who want to become straight. -
2 February 2012Guilty verdict for killer of gay teen Jack Frew 18 A jury in Scotland has found gay teenager Craig Roy guilty of the murder of Jack Frew in 2010. -
2 February 2012Priests ask for choice over gay ceremonies 20 In a letter published today, over a hundred clergy from the Diocese of London have asked the Church of England to let individual priests be free to conduct civil partnership ceremonies for gay couples if they so wish. -
2 February 2012Maryland girl: For my birthday, ban gay marriage 198 A committee at the Maryland state senate, where equal marriage legislation is being considered, has heard the birthday wish of a 14-year-old girl: to keep the ban on gay marriage. -
2 February 2012US police ‘told gay couple faggots don’t deserve to wear pants in jail’ 46 A US gay couple arrested on assault charges say they were denied trousers for a day after being told "faggots don't deserve to wear pants in jail".
