Gay News: civil rights

Global Grind reports that after a hard fought Super Bowl game, the Baltimore Ravens are World Champions; however, one player has been a champion in a lot of people's hearts for a long time....(...)

Conservative Equalities Minister Helen Grant says the government willbe offering tax breaks to married and civil partnered couples in next month's Budget. (...)

Amnesty International has spoken out against the Russian draft law which outlaws the propaganda of homosexuality among minors, saying that it restricts the human rights of LGBT people. (...)

Upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster, Ian McKellen praised work done by politicians to protect the rights of LGBT people, but said that the situation was "worse than ever" in some places. (...)

The San Francisco Gate reports that the Boy Scouts moved toward ending their gay ban; word came that the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A stopped donating to antigay causes; and the Mormon-founded...(...)

DIVA editor Jane Czyzselska tells PinkNews.co.uk what's changed since the queer women's title was launched in 1994 and what she believes still needs changing. (...)

A bill to extend domestic partnership rights to gay couples in the US state of Wyoming has been defeated. (...)

Thelma Houston, the Grammy award-winning singer of the gay anthemDon't Leave Me This Way, lived through the early days of the gay liberation movement.Yet while she provided part of the sound-track for the movement she never(...)

The Speaker of the House of Commons set aside his impartial position to reveal his support for LGBT rights at the London 2018 Gay games bid. (...)

The pastor who gained international acclaim for burning copies of the Koran has made headlines again involving fire. But this time he burned an effigy of President Barack Obama during the weekend preceding the inauguration. (...)