Big Bash League 2015-16: Chris Gayle sorry for live TV chat up 'joke'
West Indies star Chris Gayle apologised Tuesday after his “joke” flirt with a female television presenter was branded “disrespectful” and “inappropriate” by authorities who left a threat of sanctions dangling. Ten Network reporter Mel McLaughlin found …

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Controversial Attack Ad Portrays Irish Pols as Gay Couple
Ireland’s Labour Party is feeling heat because of a draft newspaper advertisement that depicts two leaders of rival political parties as a happily married same-sex couple. The Photoshopped ad, as reported by the Irish Mirror, imagines Sinn Féin …

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Utah judge retires after criticism in gay foster parent case
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge who had ordered a baby girl taken away from her lesbian foster parents and placed with a heterosexual couple has retired. Court officials announced Monday that juvenile court Judge Scott Johansen retired on Jan. 1 …

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7th Annual Desperado LGBT Film Festival to take place at PVCC January 29 – 31
Film selections will present LGBT themes and stories from across the globe including submissions from France, Argentina, Denmark and Canada. The Saturday Mixed … when he discovers his best friend Niels is gay. Homosexuality isn’t tolerated among …

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Brisbane Powerhouse presents the MELT Portrait Prize
The winner will be announced during the second week of the festival and will be chosen by Jason Smith, Curatorial Manager of Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery and Alexandra Winters, Curator and Exhibition Coordinator at Brisbane Powerhouse.

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Big Bash League 2015: Gayle's live TV chat up line backfires in Australia
West Indies star Chris Gayle’s attempt to chat up a female presenter live on Australian television has been branded “disrespectful” and “inappropriate”. Ten Network reporter Mel McLaughlin found herself being asked out for a drink during an interview with …

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How Iggy Azalea mastered her ‘blaccent’
For instance, in “1 800 Bone,” she deploys it to describe a situation that happens regularly: — Warning: video contains explicit lyrics — That [person’s] in my chat room, my chat room be popping, Turn that chat room to a freak show and that …

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Mummers Parade denounced for 'hate and bigotry': Paraders mocked Caitlyn, gays
The annual parade, one of the oldest folk festivals in the United States, was marred by homophobic … lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.” John Holtz, who is gay, was marching in the Mummers Parade when he says he was verbally accosted …

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An Impossible Dream — Reflections on My Campaign for President
Over Christmas in 2009, I went to my brother’s home in Hawaii to discuss my idea to run for President of the United States with my family … I knew politics inside out, but I was gay and had not come out publicly until California’s Proposition 8 in …

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24 Hr Poll: Should Same Sex Marriage Be Legal?
New Zealand, Britain, Luxembourg, Ireland and the USA. Bermuda presently prohibits same sex marriage, however that appears set to be tested in the Courts, with lawyer Mark Pettingill preparing to take a case aiming to allow two gay people to marry in …

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