Pinksixty News SUNDAY 15 APRIL 2012
Channel: Colin Fallesen
Date: 2012-04-13

The idea that homophobes are secretly gay will receive support from a study published later this month. Scientists found that gays and lesbians remind homophobes of themselves, and that the prejudice develops from anti-gay attitudes during childhood.

A straight attorney in St Petersburg was arrested this week for publically supporting a lesbian friend. In response to the countrys 'gay propaganda' law, campaigners 'All Out' have launched a video in support of LGBT people.

A UK mosque where scholars were accused of preaching gay hate is to open a boys school for pupils aged 11 to 16. Campaigners said, 'educational establishments which don't celebrate diversity are a concern'.

A gay Muslim couple have been married by an imam in France where gay marriage is not yet legal. The couple were previously married in South Africa and may return there saying the laws were more friendly to gay couples.

And finally, An anti gay bus campaign planned in London by a religious group, in response to a Stonewall campaign, has been banned. The mayor Boris Johnson intervened saying, 'It is clearly offensive to suggest that being gay is an illness'.