# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
The Russian authorities have been accused of stoking violent attitudes towards gay people following the torture and murder of a young gay man.
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# lgbt-rights - Friday 29 March, 2013
Catholic Bishops say they won’t recognise Ireland’s civil marriage system if it permits same-sex couples to wed.
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# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
Ivana Bacik and by-election candidate Eoin Holmes publish a bill which removes the same-sex ban on civil marriages.
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# lgbt-rights - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
The landmark ECtHR ruling found that a person cannot be forced to give up their child before an adoption by someone of the same sex.
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# lgbt-rights - Thursday 14 February, 2013
The EU Affairs minister tells the BBC she expects a referendum soon, but “genuinely” can’t predict whether it would pass.
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# lgbt-rights - Friday 25 January, 2013
The Bill was only opposed by one MP out of 450, and could lead to fines for any gay demonstrations in public.
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# lgbt-rights - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Demonstrators held placards condemning homophobia after Pope Benedict said same-sex unions “destabilise marriage”.
# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
Fears have been raised over Uganda vowing to pass an extreme homophobic law that includes a provision prescribing the death penalty for gay people.
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# lgbt-rights - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
Tammy Baldwin is projected to defeat her Republican rival Tommy Thompson, becoming the Senate’s first openly gay member.
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# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
The nationalist parties and three UUP members backed the motion, which was opposed by the two main unionist parties.
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# lgbt-rights - Monday 1 October, 2012
The state’s governor says the legislation should relegate such treatments “to the dustbin of quackery”.
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# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied that his criticism of homosexuality amounted to a denial of individual freedoms.
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# lgbt-rights - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
The government allows MPs to have a free vote in the House of Representatives – meaning a 98-42 defeat.
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# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Gays will also be allowed to adopt children, either as individuals or as a couple, from 2013 onward.
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# lgbt-rights - Sunday 2 September, 2012
A motion before the council’s monthly meeting tomorrow night asks it to support “the same rights and entitlements” for all.
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# lgbt-rights - Friday 17 August, 2012
Stacey gives a personal account of life as a transgender person in a small Irish town.
# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
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This demonstrator against same-sex marriage tried to make his point outside a corporate HQ. It didn’t go according to plan.
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# lgbt-rights - Monday 30 July, 2012
The first American woman in space kept her coming out until her self-penned obituary. Some wish she’d done it earlier.
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# lgbt-rights - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
The Scottish government says it will try to amend UK law, so that celebrants who refuse to marry gays cannot be prosecuted.
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The stakes are high for elected representatives in picking a stance on same-sex marriage, writes Scott de Buitléir – and don’t they know it.
# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 10 July, 2012
Transport minister Leo Varadkar has also expressed cautious support for full marriage equality.
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# lgbt-rights - Friday 6 July, 2012
Many workers still feel they have to hide their sexual orientation, writes Davin Roche. Changing this would be good for business.
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# lgbt-rights - Monday 2 July, 2012
The justice minister has become the second senior Cabinet member to show support for full marriage equality.
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# lgbt-rights - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
An appeals court has struck down an appeal in rehear the case – and supporters of the ban say they’re heading for D.C.
# lgbt-rights - Friday 18 May, 2012
The Department of Finance commits to making the final changes necessary to give equal treatment to same-sex partners.
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# lgbt-rights - Thursday 10 May, 2012
The Republican presidential candidate apologised after reports he led a group who cut off a gay classmate’s long hair.
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# lgbt-rights - Wednesday 9 May, 2012
He became the first US president to support full marriage equality, saying his daughters have friends whose parents are same-sex couples.
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# lgbt-rights - Sunday 6 May, 2012
Joe Biden is the highest-ranking US politician to come out in support of equal marriage rights.
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# lgbt-rights - Friday 13 April, 2012
Boris Johnson intervenes to stop the ‘Core Values Trust’ from taking out ads advocating therapy for homosexuals.
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# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 10 April, 2012
The contest will allow transgender women from next year, following the outcry when a Canadian entrant was kicked out.
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All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the few bits and pieces you might not have seen.
The education minister is “determined” to amend laws allowing schools to discriminate on the basis of their religious ethos.
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# lgbt-rights - Sunday 8 April, 2012
The forum will be established alongside a working group on tackling homophobic, racist and cyber-bullying.
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# lgbt-rights - Saturday 31 March, 2012
The result of the vote means that all of Ireland’s major political parties are in favour of considering a referendum.
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# lgbt-rights - Thursday 22 March, 2012
A large Republican majority in the state House of Representatives is not enough to overturn laws allowing full gay marriage.
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# lgbt-rights - Saturday 10 March, 2012
The Pope has denounced the “powerful” US gay marriage lobby, while Catholics in Britain have been urged to defend heterosexual unions.
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# lgbt-rights - Monday 16 January, 2012
Sweden’s government delays proposals to overturn laws which require people undergoing sex changes to be surgically sterilised.
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# lgbt-rights - Tuesday 27 December, 2011
Most adults in Ireland can now be openly gay, writes Michael Barron – but the reality for young people is very different.
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# lgbt-rights - Wednesday 7 December, 2011
“Gay rights are human rights,” says Hillary Clinton, announcing that the US will use diplomatic tools to promote LGBT rights.
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# lgbt-rights - Monday 5 December, 2011
The Mayo-based group believes major parts of the Civil Partnership Act are in conflict with the Constitution and therefore illegal.
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