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May 20, 2013

Survey from Aibai reveals that Chinese employees are not comfortable living open lives at work

The first survey on homophobia in the workplace in China has found that only 6% of gay men and lesbians questioned are fully out at work.

The survey of 2,161 respondents found that 47.62% are fully in the closet at work and around 46% are out to some of their colleagues.

Over 50% had heard offensive words used about LGBT people, over 30% have heard or suffered personal attacks about sexual orientation and over 20% have resigned or considered resigning because of a hostile work environment.

The report, from Aibai LGBT rights group, also found: 

May 18, 2013

A lesbian woman has 30 days to evacuate her home after a judge ruled only relatives by ‘blood or marriage’ can be around her partner’s kids past 9 pm

A Republican Texas judge is forcing a lesbian couple and their children apart with a ‘morality clause'.

Carolyn Compton, who was granted divorce from her ex-husband in 2011, is facing a forced separation from her current partner Page Price with whom she’s been in a relationship with for three years.

Locked in a custody dispute over the two children she had with her ex-husband, Compton has now been slapped with a ‘morality clause’ that says anyone who isn’t related by ‘blood or marriage’ cant be around the children past 9 pm.

May 15, 2013

‘I believe I have the liberty to live by my principles,’ baker says as she turns away a gay couple before their wedding

An Oregon lesbian couple has claimed a baker has refused to make a cake for their wedding.

Erin Hanson and Katie Pugh have said they were turned away from a local bakery Fleur Cakes because they are lesbians.

‘I found a gal who was making gorgeous cakes,’ Pugh told KATU News. ‘I contacted her and we set up a time to do a tasting.’

May 12, 2013

This week’s illustrated cover of the American magazine shows two lesbian moms celebrated by their children with flowers and a card

The New Yorker magazine’s latest cover features two lesbian moms in honor of Mother’s Day.

The magazine, which featured an illustration of lesbian brides for a June cover last year, this week shows a lesbian couple in the kitchen, enjoying a Mother’s Day card and flowers as their children watch from the background.

Creator of the cover Chris Ware explained the cover on The New Yorker blog.

He wrote: ‘Fortunately, we humans are incessant editors, never happy with the first draft of anything.

May 6, 2013

Claims anyone who ministers knows 'very well that the power of God can change people's orientation'

Televangelist Pat Robertson continued his pattern of anti-gay comments on his 700 Club show Monday when he claimed that gay people can change their orientation just as murderers, rapists and thieves can change.

Robertson was telling his viewers about a case in Ecuador where a politician made anti-gay remarks and was found to have violated his country’s electoral code’s prohibition on discrimination.

Robertson said speaking out against homosexuality is not 'hate speech.'

April 25, 2013

 After 19 years, she was axed by Catholic school because her partner's name appeared in her mother's obituary

Still grieving the loss of her mother, Carla Hale was fired from her job as a high school physical education teacher - after 19 years - because the name of her lesbian partner had appeared in her mother's obituary.

But she is fighting her dismissal from Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio, and has tremendous public support from students, former students, parents and even the mayor of Columbus.

April 22, 2013

Singer and actress will grace screens in cameo role during The Fosters' first season

Jennifer Lopez will appear on screen in new drama series The Fosters, for which she is also the producer.

The show will focus on the lives of a lesbian couple and their family.

Jake Austin, who plays the foster son of Lena and Stef Foster in the series, said Lopez intends to appear in a cameo role during an episode of the show.

April 20, 2013

Many passers-by don’t know how to respond but a few approach the ‘newly-weds’ for photos and to show support

A lesbian couple has held a ‘wedding’ in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to welcome Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir and her wife.

The couple identified as Xiaoyang and Xiaoxiao went to Guangzhou’s High Street Wednesday morning (17 April) in white wedding gowns holding hands and kissing, Yang Cheng Evening News reports.

April 20, 2013

The 700 Club's Pat Robertson rails against gay marriage, the Illuminati, and French Revolution

Pat Robertson has a history of outrageous and outlandish comments whenever opining on anything LGBT related. He continued that fine tradition.

April 19, 2013

Recorded on the day of Margaret Thatcher's funeral, the team discuss if lesbians are superiour to gay men.

Recorded on the day of Margaret Thatcher's funeral, the team discuss if lesbians are superiour to gay men.

Also Lucio needs a new name, Amy tries to break up Baylen and Lucio, and a LGBT museum in Leicester?

Plus all the GayStarNews and we have an interview with Jonathan Harvey at the opening night party for the 20th anniversary production of Beautiful Thing.

April 19, 2013

Leading Ghanaian high schools kick out pupils, claiming they formed a society and were recruiting others into being gay

Fifty three students have been expelled from two of the leading high schools in Ghana for being gay.

The events have erupted into an anti-gay media frenzy in Ghana.

Ninteen pupils at Opoku Ware Secondary High School in Ashanti Ghana were dismissed for ‘practicing homosexuality’ in the school.

Ghanaian human rights activists are condemning the school’s action as ‘evil’ and ‘bad’ and are calling for the government to intervene.

April 17, 2013

AIDS Health Foundation and LA County health officials disagrees on whether it's an outbreak

Since the death of West Hollywood attorney Brett Shaad last weekend from Meningococcal meningitis, it has been revealed that two other men in Southern California had died from the same disease in recent months.

But health officials and community leaders are at odds over whether this can qualify as an outbreak among gay and bisexual men.

April 17, 2013

Carla Hale's firing came after the name of her female partner appeared in her mother's obituary

After 19 years, Carla Hale was fired from her job as a physical education Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio.

The firing from the Catholic high school came shortly after a parent complained about the name of Hale's female partner appearing in a newspaper obituary on 28 March for Hale's mother who recently died.

April 15, 2013

An attack on a 17-year-old teenager is being treated by police as a possible hate crime

A lesbian teenager was attacked and beaten by a group of  four teenage boys in the Canadian city of Calgary last week.

The attack, which happened late at night last Thursday (11 April), is being treated by police as a possible hate crime.  

The 17-year-old victim was approached by the group as she was on her way home from a friend’s house, CTV News reports.

April 10, 2013

Pornography has been downloaded and shared in the hub of the Roman Catholic Church

Someone in the Vatican is illegally downloading hardcore pornography featuring transgender stars, bondage and lesbians.

Discovered by Torrent Freak, an American website that analyses file sharing, a number of films and pornographic clips were downloaded in the hub of the Roman Catholic church.

April 4, 2013

Lesbian asylum seekers asked if they've read Oscar Wilde, what clubs they go to and if they use sex toys

Lesbian asylum seekers in the UK are subjected to ignorant and inappropriate questions from judges based on western stereotypes of gay women, new research from the University of Southampton shows.

March 28, 2013

Jenna Wolfe and Stephanie Gosk are expecting a baby this summer

Jenna Wolfe and Stephanie Gosk are both well-known faces to viewers on NBC various news programs.

What viewers did not know until Wednesday (27 March) morning is that the two star network news journalists are a couple and are expecting a baby this summer.

Wolfe appeared on The Today Show (she co-hosts the weekend edition of the show) to share the news that she is pregnant and went public about her relationship with Gosk, a foreign correspondent.

March 22, 2013

Gian Paolo Vanoli makes the headlines in Italy after saying 'Every vaccine is a poison that blocks your personality' but believes drinking urine is a 'perfect cure'

Italian scientist and journalist Gian Paolo Vanoli is making the headlines in Italy after claiming vaccines make you gay or lesbian.

Interviewed by Vice.com, Vanoli said: ‘When a vaccine is injected into a child, it is a sort of poison and makes the child gay.

‘This is a problem we’ll notice in the next generations, because now gay people want children and these children will inherit their parents’ DNA.

‘Homosexuality is a disease. I know that the World Health Organization does not think so, but I don’t care.

March 13, 2013

While mortality rates for gay men has decreased since they introduced civil unions, it is the opposite case for women in same-sex unions

Getting married is apparently the key to help gay men to live longer, according to a new Danish study.

Published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, the study examined 6.5 million adults from 1982 to 2011.

The mortality rate for married gay men plummeted during the course of the study, now hovering slightly lower than the rate observed for unmarried or divorced heterosexual men.

‘Among men in Denmark, it is more dangerous to be unmarried or divorced than to be married to another man,’ lead author Morten Frisch said.

March 12, 2013

85% of Russians oppose same-sex marriage and gay prides in Russia, as only 4% said they supported gay rights

While it feels like the majority of the world has gradually more accepting of homosexuality, in Russia it is the opposite story.

Over the past eight years, the number of Russians who believe gays and lesbians should be left ‘to themselves’ has declined by 7%, while the percentage of Russians who think they should be ‘cured’ has climbed from 17% to 22%. 

The percentage of those who believe gay people should be isolated from society has increased from 12% to 16%.

March 11, 2013

Iconic actress Angela Lansbury said that many women have 'given up' on men and turn lesbians because of a lack of good men

Actress Angela Lansbury, famous for her role in the Murder She Wrote TV show, said that some women have been so frustrated with men's sex obsession that they turn to women instead and become lesbians.

The American TV show, Murder She Wrote, was a hit  from 1984 to 1996 landing Lansbury with many awards for her role, including Member of British Empire (CBE).

March 6, 2013

Kenneth Miller will serve 27 months in prison, but only after a lengthy appeal which could take up to two years

An US pastor was sentenced to 27 months in prison for aiding the international kidnap of a lesbian mother’s daughter on Monday (4 March).

Kenneth Miller, from Virginia, was accused of helping a woman flee the country to stop her former lesbian partner from visiting their daughter.

In a victory for Miller, his lawyers have argued Vermont, where an original custody battle over the girl took place, was an improper venue for an alleged crime that took place in Virginia and elsewhere.

March 2, 2013

Sondra Scarber was punched and kicked repeatedly by a man as he hurled homophobic slurs

A 27-year-old woman was beaten unconscious by a man hurling anti-gay slurs at her after she tried to protect her girlfriend's son from bullies on a Texas playground.

Sondra Scarber's jaw has been wired shut as she recovers from the attack which occured nearly two weeks ago.

She and girlfriend Hillary Causey are frustrated with police who at this point are not considering it a hate crime.

March 1, 2013

Comedian Zoe Lyons will be leading a walk for charity to put a stop to bullying in schools

British comedian Zoe Lyons will host Stonewall's Brighton Equality Walk, which is entering into its 10th year, and has so far raised almost £400,000 ($600,000 €460,000) over the last decade.

Gay Star News was the 100th participant to sign-up for the event this year, which will take place on 5 May.

The openly lesbian TV personality takes the helm of the event which fights anti-gay bullying in schools.

Lyons said in a statement: 'It's 2013 - anti-gay bullying in schools just shouldn't be happening.