Day: April 2, 2013
50th Sitting Senator, Republic Mark Kirk, Endorses Marriage Equality
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the U.S largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today celebrated the announcements by Sens. Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware, and Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois, that they support marriage equality.
Manchester Pride: Village still a vital community space
Fundraising charity, Manchester Pride has committed its future to Manchester’s Gay Village asserting that the area remains a vital space for the City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and visitors.
Donal Óg has high hopes for gay marriage
The Cork goalkeeper, who revealed he was gay in 2009, wants Pope Francis to let him get married in his parish church in Cloyne, Co Cork, because it is so much part of his local community.
Man jailed for homophobic attack
On the 14th of March a young 20 year old, Connor Anthony Pollard, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court for ABH Assault occasioning actual bodily harm in Torquay, Devon in September 2012.
Attempts to equate same-sex unions with marriage will always fail, says bishop
The chairman of the Catholic bishops’ Council for Marriage and the Family, Bishop Christopher Jones, has said he would welcome the opportunity to make an oral submission on same-sex marriage to the Convention on the Constitution.