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Bullied couple install CCTV

An anguished lesbian couple have installed CCTV after a string of homophobic attacks at their Wiltshire home.

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Art attack

A self-taught gay photographer is debuting his first exhibition in London this month.

Café culture

A new queer café in Glasgow is bringing peace, relaxing and… knitting to the West End of the city.

Members of Brighton’s Ishigaki, Britain’s only gay Ju-Jitsu group, attended the Pink Power International gay martial Arts event held in Germany’s Cologne last month.

The UK’s largest annual gay multisport festival took place in Manchester last month, with hundreds of participants from across the world gathering for an array of competitions, tournaments and sporting activities.

Manchester became a political hub last month with the annual Labour Party Conference.

Brighton and Hove has been declared the most popular place in the UK to celebrate a civil partnership.

Literary great’s hidden play comes out

Tennessee Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of A Streetcar Named Desire, may be one of the world’s literary greats, but there was one play which he never wanted performed in his lifetime – because it was openly gay.

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Hilary duffs homophobes

Hilary Duff has appeared in a commercial to combat homophobia.

Diesel gets dirty

Discount Diesel jeans available for one day only.

Schwarzenegger helps US pensioners

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governer of California, signed a bill recently to help prevent homophobia in senior-care facilities and nursing homes.

HIV scientists win Nobel Medicine Prize

French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won Monday the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced this year.

Students in gay human rights protest

The NUS LGBT Campaign will be holding a demonstration tomorrow in conjunction with Gay Rights Uganda to protest against the government-sanctioned persecution, torture and arrest of queer people in Uganda.

Chaplain urged to resign

London's Stock Exchange chaplain is under increasing pressure to quit after demanding gay men should be forced to have “sodomy” warnings tattooed on their bodies, the Evening Standard reported today.

Catfights expected at G-A-Y

Catfights are expected when the first live act at G-A-Y's new home takes to the stage.

Train crash driver is investigated

Robert Sanchez, the gay driver of a California passenger train that crashed last month, may have been sending text messages to young men – moments before the tragedy happened.

Valentine thugs get jail

Two homophobic thugs who attacked a gay couple after a Valentine’s Day meal have each been jailed for eight months.

Body found in canal

Yet another body has been found in Manchester‘s city centre canal.

Features

Interviews

Bette Midler

Pink Paper were the only UK gay press to cover The Showgirl Must Go On in Vegas and the only gay...

Interviews

Cyndi Lauper

In the 80s she was the girl that just wanted to have fun. In the noughties she clearly just wants to

Travel

Colombia

It’s well known for perhaps the wrong reason, but it’s an entirely different white substance that...

Food

King's Cross Grille

King’s Cross Grille **** King’s Cross House, 200 Pentonville Road, London, N1. 020 7841...