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		<title>31 January</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday 31 January 2012 Bexhill Observer Next month, February, is the UK&#8217;s Gay History Month and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of Rother and Hastings&#8217; Rainbow Alliance is planning to celebrate by holding a life story day at Stade Hall in Hastings on Saturday February 18. Called Out Of The Closet, this is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8058&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 January</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday January 30, 2012 Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu. Wikipedia Normally Gay Activist does not cover religious stories unless they are of interest or importance. Today, there is little else. Archbishop John Sentamu has told Parliament they have no right to overrule the Bible and tradition by allowing same-sex marriage. The Government&#8217;s consultation on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8053&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 29</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday 29 January 2012 Ban Ki-moon. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto, AFP UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today told African leaders they must respect gay rights. &#8220;One form of discrimination ignored or even sanctioned by many states for too long has been discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity,&#8221; Ban told the African Union summit. &#8220;It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8051&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>28 January</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday 28 January, 2012 Gay bar Blu Bar and Basement in Middlesbrough has been given a later licence. It can now open until 4am from Friday to Sunday and until 3am from Monday to Thursday with last entry allowed at 2.30pm. Normally your activist would not bother with this story, but the comments by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8048&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 27</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, 27th January 2012 Getty Gay Activist congratulates Jim Ready (l) and Barney Frank (r) on their forthcoming wedding. Meanwhile, back in the real world: &#8220;I should have been flying from Jamaica my country of birth and, until very recently, my home. After the ceremony I should be returning there to celebrate with fellow activists. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8046&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>26 January: Remembering David Kato killed a year ago today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday January 26, 2012 Suffolk Police The dissected body of Bernard Oliver, 17, from Muswell Hill, north London, was found dumped in two suitcases on farmland in Tattingstone, near Ipswich, on 16 January 1967. No one was ever charged over the inquiry. Two doctors, both now dead, were prime suspects. Now Police have been contacted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8044&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25 January</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday 25 January 2012 Steven, not Lily. Thame Today Aylesbury Vale District Council faces allegations of homophobia after police were called to investigate claims that Lib Dem boss Steven Lambert had been verbally abused. Four Conservative councillors have been reported to police for calling him Lily at May’s election count in the Waterside Theatre, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8042&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>24 January</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday 24 January, 2012 Michael Ball. Chris Barry/Telegraph Leicester City player Michael Ball has been fined £6,000 by the FA for anti-gay comments he made on Twitter. Ball admitted the charge of bringing the game into disrepute with his expletive-peppered tweet. The left-back, who has played for England once in a friendly against Spain, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8037&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>23 January</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday 23 January 2012 Metro Weekly Oh no not another. 14 year old Phillip Parker took his own life on Friday after bullying at Gordonsville High School in Tennessee. His parents Gena and Phillip Parker said that their son had been treated badly because he was gay. His mother told cameras at a vigil on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8032&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 22</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday January 22 STV Gay groups and others in Scotland urged Edinburgh&#8217;s Lord Provost to use the city&#8217;s &#8216;twinning arrangement&#8217; with St Petersburg to urge Russian authorities to abandon a bill that would fuel discrimination against the gay community. Amnesty International Scotland, Equality Network, Scottish Youth Parliament and NUS Scotland LGBT warned that the proposed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3071370&amp;post=8028&amp;subd=gactupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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