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Next step for gay marriage bill
Political Editor Gary Gibbon explores the future of the gay marriage bill.
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Unsafe sexual behaviour and poorly targeted testing are blamed in a new report for a failure to reduce the number of new HIV infections in gay men in the past decade.
Political Editor Gary Gibbon explores the future of the gay marriage bill.
The head of Ukip’s youth wing is dropped from the party in a spat played out on Twitter after being reprimanded for supporting gay marriage.
The Church of England is to allow gay clergymen to become bishops, so long as they promise to remain celibate. It’s a question that has divided the church for a decade.
The scrapping of a gay-friendly mass because it was incompatible with the Catholic church’s teachings on homosexuality has met with mixed reaction from gay Catholics.
A court in Kampala dismisses the case against British theatre producer David Cecil, who faced two years in a Uganda jail for putting on a play about homosexuality.
After the Archbishop of Westminster calls the government’s gay marriage plans a “shambles”, a high court judge says the proposals are the “wrong policy” and affect a minority of the population.
Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols describes the government’s plan for gay marriage as undemocratic and a “shambles”.
The government sets out its plans to legislate for same-sex marriage, but not in the Church of England. One gay MP tells Channel 4 News it is is “one step forward, two steps back”.
Ahead of the government’s plans for same-sex marriage, Culture Secretary Maria Miller was forced to the Commons to respond to Tories who say church weddings for gay couples will alienate grass roots.
The former prime minister throws his support behind same-sex marriage in religious settings, joining high-profile Tories Boris Johnson and Michael Gove who also back the move.
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove launch a new group campaigning for gay marriage, threatening a split from party traditionalists in opposition to the proposals.
It is already being described as the biggest civil rights case for a generation. Felicity Spector writes on how the Supreme Court of the United States is wading into the gay marriage issue.
David Cameron says he supports gay weddings in churches, synagogues and other places of worship in a move which could cause deep division in the Tories.
Is gay marriage a constitutional right – and should same sex partners get the same benefits as heterosexual couples? America’s highest court is poised to wade into the debate.