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Alexander Kindred was cleared of assault

Homophobic teen who initiated murder cleared of assault

A Scottish teenager who initiated the murder of a gay man was cleared of a vicious street assault this week. Alexander Kindred, now aged 18, was 15 when he claimed that council worker James Kerr, 51, had made sexual advances to him in a park.

California's gay marriage battle may run for another two years (Photo: Tim Schapker)

California state won't be forced to defend Prop 8

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney-General Jerry Brown will not be forced to defend the state's ban on gay marriage.

Birth parents will able to state whether they would prefer straight couples to adopt their children (Photo: D Sharon Pruitt)

New South Wales adoption bill passes lower house

A bill to allow same-sex couples to adopt in New South Wales, Australia, has narrowly passed in the lower house. It passed a vote 46-44 yesterday, and after amendments were made, passed 45-43 today.

Gay men are currently barred for life from donating blood in the UK

Tory gay group says it will campaign against blood donation ban

The Conservative Party's gay group has launched a campaign to highlight the inequality of the UK's ban on gay men donating blood.

Gay couples cannot divorce in Texas, a court ruled

Texas appeal court says gay couples cannot divorce

Gay couples in the state of Texas cannot get divorced, an appeal court has ruled. The case concerns a gay couple who wed in Massachusetts in 2007 and then returned to Dallas.

Christian protesters at London Pride in July

Manchester council hopes to ban anti-gay protesters from Pride

Manchester city council is hoping to work with police to see if anti-hate laws can be used to ban homophobic protesters from next year's Pride march.

Police believe the victim may have been followed

Gay man attacked in West Dulwich

A gay man was verbally abused and pushed to the ground in a homophobic attack in West Dulwich, south-east London.

Same-sex civil unions made overseas will now be automatically recognised in Tasmania

Tasmanian LGBT activists welcome recognition of Interstate and overseas same-sex unions

Legislation has been passed by the State Lower House in Tasmania which will allow same-sex couples in interstate or overseas unions to be automatically recognised under Tasmanian law without the need to re-register their status.

Rev Jane Adams Spahr was rebuked by a California Presbyterian court for performing same-sex marriages

Lesbian Presbyterian minister plans to appeal against court ruling regarding same-sex marriages

A retired lesbian minister who officiated at a number of same-sex weddings during the period in which they were legal in California, says she will appeal against the ruling of a Presbyterian court last Thursday which rebuked her for going against the constitution of her denomination.

The same-sex adoption bill is to be debated in Australian parliament on Thursday

Australian same-sex adoption bill debate heats up

Approximately 200 people were present in Sydney's New South Wales (NSW) Parliament House earlier today for a Council of Churches meeting and a public protest against the same-sex adoption bill.

















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