London LGBT charity PACE launches new online mental health service
PACE, London’s leading charity promoting the mental health and wellbeing of the LGBT community, is launching an additional online service. It’s new Virtual Support Project will provide wellbeing...
View ArticleUS: School District relaxes policy blocking student access to LGBT...
A change in policy by the Clark County School District, which allows students access to information websites on LGBT issues, has been welcomed by civil rights groups. The American Civil Liberties Union...
View ArticleParliamentary computers used to access gay cruising and porn sites thousands...
Computers in the British Parliament have been used to access gay cruising, and hardcore pornography websites thousands of times over a fourteen month period. A Freedom of Information request filed by...
View ArticleIrish ‘hacktivist’ takes down Nigerian government website over anti-gay bill
An Irish hacker opposed to Nigeria’s stance on homosexuality, has attacked the country’s official government website in protest of the “anti-gay” bill which seeks to further criminalise gay people. The...
View ArticleBristol: Councillor criticises council for banning web access to gay film...
A councillor in Bristol has accused his local authority of “institutionalised homophobia” for blocking Wi-Fi access to a website containing reviews of gay films. Liberal Democrat Councillor Christian...
View ArticleQueer Pakistan LGBT support website blocked from inside Pakistan
The viewing of LGBT support website Queer Pakistan has been banned from from within Pakistan by the government authority responsible for internet filtering, and the site’s management have been forced...
View ArticleNick Clegg: Porn filters ‘absolutely should not’ block sexual health and gay...
PinkNews Exclusive Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told PinkNews.co.uk that he is alarmed by revelations that internet service providers have been blocking access to non-pornographic LGBT and...
View ArticleCoca Cola pulls plug on ad campaign that banned the word ‘gay’
Coca-Cola has pulled the plug on a ‘virtual coke’ website after a row erupted over the site filtering the word “gay”. The website allowed people to put their names onto the side of virtual coke cans,...
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Instagram apologises for removing ‘inappropriate’ picture of men kissing on...
Photo sharing site Instagram has apologised for removing a picture of two men kissing on their wedding day, after it was flagged as “inappropriate”. Alberto Guzman posted the a picture of himself and...
View ArticleWikipedia holds Pride ‘edit-a-thons’ to improve LGBT-related content
Wikipedia has launched a series of editing events, to improve LGBT-related information across the website. Beginning in June, states around the US began hosting edit-a-thons, gatherings where...
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Use of homophobic slurs on Reddit in ‘sharp decline’
The use of homophobic slurs on Reddit have sharply declined, according to a study. Research by RedditAlerts scraped data from the the user-generated community news site – known as the ‘front page of...
View ArticleJames Franco attacks ‘homophobic’ gossip website for implying he’s gay
Actor James Franco has labelled gossip website Gawker homophobic, over an article that claims he is in a relationship with a man. A Gawker article published yesterday questioned the friendship between...
View ArticleChicago named world’s top travel destination for closeted men
Chicago is the top travel destination for men who are in the closet, a survey has found. Dating website MissTravel polled 5,184 male members who were seeking male travelling companions, in order to...
View ArticleTaiwan: Police shut down gay lifestyle website for ‘distributing obscene...
Police in Taiwan have shut down a website which billed itself as “Asia’s largest gay lifestyle information network.” Taipei City Police Department said it shut down ‘Gayway’ on Tuesday for...
View ArticleUS: Activists hijack anti-gay politician’s website
Idaho state representative Paul Shepherd has had his official website hijacked and turned against him. Mr Shepherd made a resolution earlier this month calling to impeach federal judges who supported...
View ArticleUKIP and Tories dismiss Lib Dem claims they would repeal same-sex marriage in...
Senior Conservatives have dismissed Liberal Democrat claims that they would abolish same-sex marriage as part of a coalition with UKIP. The Lib Dems made the claim on an official parody website set up...
View ArticleLib Dem spoof site claims a Tory-UKIP coalition would abolish equal marriage
The Liberal Democrats have claimed on an official parody website that equal marriage could be abolished, if the Conservatives go into coalition with UKIP and the Northern Irish DUP. The Democratic...
View ArticleActivist buys up website domains of Republicans who voted for Indiana’s...
A tech-savvy rights activist has bought up domains related to politicians in Indiana who voted through the state’s anti-gay law. Indiana was strongly criticised last month for passing the controversial...
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These homophobes have been unknowingly advertising a gay porn site
Anti-gay protesters have been accidentally promoting a gay porn website for weeks without knowing. Earlier this month, evangelical protesters appeared outside the Carolina Rebellion rock festival to...
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Vodafone blocks LGBT website and redirects to ad for ‘flirty’ dating service
PinkNews Exclusive. Mobile phone network Vodafone has restricted access to an LGBT community website to over-18s – instead showing ads for a “flirty” dating website. A PinkNews reader spotted that the...
View ArticleThis ‘anti-gay’ Governor’s website is now a gay chatroom
An LGBT activist has bought up a web domain in the name of Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson – and re-directed it to a gay chatroom. The Republican politician has been a consistent opponent of LGBT...
View ArticleDid your hook-up info just get leaked online?
As the data from affair website Ashley Madison continues to leak, people who have used the site to have gay affairs are worried they may be outed. Hackers stole the data of more than 37 million...
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Council accidentally directs thousands of residents to gay support site
A council in Ireland accidentally directed thousands of residents to a gay support site instead of the official county council website. Wexford County Council had recently added a QR code to its...
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Vile hoax story claims Caitlyn Jenner has decided to ‘become a man again’
A number of malicious hoax stories are circulating online, spreading false information about Caitlyn Jenner. The former Olympian and reality star came out as trans in April this year, and has been...
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This new dating site is only for straight white people
A new dating site has launched – that only caters for people who are straight and white. The new site WhitePeopleMeet was developed by 53-year-old used car dealer Sam Russell — who insists he isn’t...
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Christian dating site removes ban on gay matches after legal battle
Dating site ChristianMingle has removed a ban on same-sex relationships after court action. The religious dating website had only allowed men to search for women and vice versa – but its owners were...
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Pornhub launches online sex education centre because no-one else is doing it
The world’s largest porn site has launched a centre dedicated to educating people about sexuality and sexual health – because of poor standards of sex and relationship education (SRE). In the US sex...
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CEO of gay escort service Rentboy.com Jeffrey Hurant now locked up in prison
The boss of a major escorting service has begun a six month sentence behind bars. Rentboy.com Jeffrey Hurant received the prison sentence after he was found guilty of promoting prostitution....
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Man who stabbed and strangled man he met on dating site jailed for 17 years
A man who strangled someone he met on the gay dating site Fab Guys has been jailed for 17 years. The 19-year-old attacker, Gubair Boshir, a restaurant worker, was accused of trying to murder a man he...
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Gay ‘cure’ activists forgot to renew their web domain, so I bought it to...
The idea that gay people can be ‘cured’ is nonsense, but boy is it persistent nonsense. Despite the best efforts of experts, campaigners and lawmakers, faith-based groups that believe it’s possible to...
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