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Australia’s ambassador to France has offered his resignation after Prime Minister Tony Abbott reportedly told his same sex partner to wait in the car when Abbott arrived in Paris on ANZAC day. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the ambassador, Stephen Brady, was on the airport tarmac with his partner of 32 years, Peter Stephens, waiting to meet […]
Vangardist, a leading German men’s monthly has printed its May issue using ink infused with HIV positive blood. Three people living with the HIV virus donated blood for the 3000 copies of the May issue of the German monthly Vangardist. The magazine says the use of HIV positive blood was to “break the taboo” and stigma […]
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has spoken out in favour of making marriage equality a reality in Australia. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Joyce who is openly gay says “As I’ve gone and talked about my sexuality, and talked about diversity in general, I’ve had people coming up to me in the business community and saying that […]
Nigel Farage has denied his party is anti gay after releasing it’s ‘Christian manifesto.’ In the manifesto, titled ‘Valuing Our Christian Heritage’, the party reveals that it will offer legal protection to those who oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds in the workplace, if it wins the 2015 general election. However, Farage denies that the […]
GLBT Russians were allowed to march in the May Day march in St Petersburg this year. May 1 is a public holiday in Russia which is usually marked by state-sanctioned political demonstrations. However, a GLBT group was part of this larger rally on Friday, which saw almost 100,000 people take to the streets, in an […]
A Tasmanian couple will have to marry in New Zealand in order to fulfil the dying wish of a woman who has only weeks to live. Sandra Yates and Lee Bransden first met about 30 years ago, when Sandra volunteered to pick apples in an orchard Lee managed. But Sandra was married with children at the […]
22 year old Mr Gay Germany Klaus Burkart has beaten 20 other men to take home the Mr Gay World title. The 1.83m tall milk technician from Wangen im Allgäu was presented with the Mr Gay World sash and trophy by 2014 winner Stuart Hatton in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday night. Burkart says […]
A US politician in the state of North Dakota who only recently voted against a gay rights bill has been caught out sending nude pictures of himself on popular gay dating app Grindr. Randy Boehning, a Republican representative from Fargo, North Dakota, was outed by Fargo newspaper ‘The Forum’. In an interview the next day, […]