LONDON (CNN) — UK lawmakers are to vote on a bill to introduce same-sex marriage Tuesday, an issue that has prompted widespread rebellion within Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party. Three top party members appealed to Conservative MPs to get behind the controversial legislation in a letter published in the Telegraph newspaper Tuesday. The letter,…
Second major crisis to hit the BBC within months LONDON (CNN) – Two British Broadcasting Corporation executives have “stepped aside” pending a review into the BBC‘s handling of allegations of sex abuse surrounding its late TV presenter Jimmy Savile, the media organization said Monday. The moves by the BBC‘s director and deputy director of news…
(CNN) – Like many parents, Carrie Goldman was thrilled to learn that Britain’s biggest department store recently reopened its toy department with a fresh look: dolls and trucks side by side. Instead of organizing toys into color-coded aisles of pink for girls and blue for boys, Harrods’ new 26,000 square-foot “Toy Kingdom” is broken into…
MANCHESTER, England – Thousands lined the streets of Manchester’s city center to watch one of the U.K.’s largest LGBT Pride parades, this past weekend. Locals and visitors alike defied the forecasted rain to turn out in their thousands to support this year’s Manchester Pride parade, featuring more than 100 participating companies, individuals, sponsors, and local…
The lesbian love scene between Natalie Portman and co-star Mila Kunis in the movie Black Swan drew more complaints than any other in the U.K. last year according to the British Board of Film Classification’s (BBFC) annual report just released. The Independent reported that the “standout issue” for most of the cinemagoers, who complained, was…
LONDON – The U.K. deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, has voiced personal support for religious same-sex marriage rights. In an interview to mark last week’s World Pride festival in London, Clegg said churches should not be prevented from conducting same-sex weddings if they wished. Clegg told the London Evening Standard: “This is a personal view…
LONDON – Gay and lesbian couples will be eligible for free fertility treatment on the NHS (National Health Service), the publicly funded healthcare system in the United Kingdom, under controversial new proposals. According to a Sky News report, same-sex couples would be allowed artificial insemination, even if they don’t have a diagnosed fertility problem, according…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) LGBT group commemorated the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), May 17, with a message of hope and appeal for dialogue and change, reports pinknews.co.uk. Abdalla, the chair of the group said, “On the 17th of May 1990 the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality…
Video footage has emerged of Rosie O’Donnell involved in a strongly-worded exchange with a street preacher who calls her a ‘lesbian pig’. Pinknews.co.uk reported that the footage, posted to YouTube in March, surfaced this week and shows O’Donnell becoming embroiled in the spat as her family watches on. The preacher tells her, “You are an…
A story has appeared on an unnamed Web site claiming that Bruno Mars admitted he was gay during an interview with a Chicago radio station, perhaps as an April Fool’s Day joke. The star was quoted as saying in the mysterious interview, “The timing is bad. I hadn’t realized it was April Fool’s Day, but…
