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  • 1 Nov 2011
    Tatchell defends Christian demoted for comments on gay marriage

    Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has come to the defence of a Christian housing manager demoted over remarks be made on Facebook opposing same-sex marriages.

  • 12 Aug 2011
    Ugandan bishop speaks up for gay people

    Bishop Christopher Senjonyo from Uganda, a courageous advocate of the rights and dignity of LGBT people in Africa, is speaking at three events in the 2011 Edinburgh Festival of Spirituality and Peace this weekend.

  • 2 Oct 2010
    BBC archive release charts gay rights movement

    The BBC Archive has released a new collection of material charting the emergence of the gay rights movement in the UK.

  • 4 Apr 2010
    A picture for Chris Grayling

    A topical picture and message for Chris Grayling, Shadow Home Secretary, who is currently at the centre of a gay rights row, after he suggested bed and breakfast owners should have the right to ban homosexual couples.

  • 9 Feb 2008
    Bishop faces equal opportunities training after discrimination award

    An Anglican bishop will be expected to take equal opportunities training and faces costs of some £50,000 after a tribunal awarded a gay youth worker £47,000 compensation after ruling that he had been discriminated against.

  • 9 Nov 2007
    Equalities 'historic opportunity' for evangelicals

    The think-tank Ekklesia, which examines religion in public life, says that the controversial appointment of the head of the Evangelical Alliance UK to the new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is "a historic opportunity for evangelicals to shift toward full acceptance of the equalities agenda."

  • 11 Oct 2007
    Hate speech and free speech

    Jack Straw has decided to introduce legislation which will prohibit the incitement of homophobic hatred. It is well-intentioned, but will this legislation work? Is it necessary?

  • 10 Oct 2007
    Mixed Christian response over incitement to hatred against gays

    Plans to make inciting hatred against gay people a crime have received a mixed response from church groups.

  • 10 Jan 2007
    Anti-gay rights activists do not represent most religious opinion, say critics

    Lobbyists trying to derail recent UK equalities legislation because of their vociferous opposition to homosexuality do not represent the majority of Christians or people of faith, let alone most people in Britain, critics of protests against the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) have said.

  • 9 Jan 2007
    Faith groups are misrepresenting sexual equality rules, say critics

    Ahead of a rally in opposition to the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) outside parliament tonight (9 January 2007), which protestors predict will attract several thousand participants, supporters of the equalities legislation ‚Ä' from civil rights, religious and secular groups ‚Ä' say that the regulations are being widely misrepresented.