Gay marriage

Church of England leaders have just voted to throw out a controversial report on same-sex marriage and homosexuality.

A majority of Northern Ireland Assembly members vote to legalise gay marriage, but the law will not be changed.

The historic gay marriage referendum should be held up as an example for the rest of the world, a campaigner has said.

The writer Colm Toibin says the Catholic church “has no moral authority to speak on civil matters” ahead of Ireland’s gay marriage referendum.

“We need to engage everyone” to undo opposition to homosexuality in Uganda, says Frank Mugisha, Uganda’s leading LGBT activist and a founder of Sexual Minorities Uganda.

Twitter and Facebook is playing a key role in contributing to the volatile atmosphere in Israel following today’s killings, with everything from cartoons to Kit-Kats being used in the propaganda war.

As four boys die in a shell attack in Gaza, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev says: “The story with these four boys is a tragedy – let’s be clear the Israeli military does not target civilians.”

A bakery that refused to bake a cake featuring the slogan “support gay marriage”, alongside Sesame Street’s most sexually ambiguous couple, is facing court if it refuses to get baking.

Flags are flown across the country to hail the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. David Cameron calls it a victory for equality.

Gay and lesbian asylum seekers in Britain can face intimate sexual questions to “prove” their sexuality – and even then many are not allowed to stay in the country.

Employees of software company Mozilla, best known for its Firefox internet browser, launch a Twitter campaign asking new chief executive Brendan Eich to step down over his stance on gay marriage.

Inigo Gilmore meets US pastor Scott Lively, one of a group of Americans thought to have influenced a new law in Uganda which carries some of the harshest penalties in the world for openly gay people.

Two grooms on the cake, two aisles in the venue, and plenty of champagne: what’s on the to-do list ahead of the first gay weddings in England and Wales this week.

On Saturday, gay couples will be able to marry for the first time in Britain. Fiances Benjamin Till and Nathan Taylor debate gay rights with journalists Milo Yiannopoulos and Eleanor Margolis.

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