Pinksixty News WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2011
Channel: Colin Fallesen
Date: 12/10/2011

Frank Kameny, the US gay rights campaigner, was found dead yesterday, aged 86. The activist, who was sacked from his government job as an astronomer in 1957 for being gay, was one of the leading lights of the US gay rights movement. 
 
British TV star Mary Portas has slammed the women in David Cameron's Cabinet as "an ugly bunch". The presenter of Channel 4's 'Mary, Queen of Frocks' -- who lives with her wife and children -- said in a magazine interview that she could not bear to look at the female ministers.
 
A page on Facebook is encouraging the persecution of gay people in Jamaica. Entitled 'Bun Batty Man' --  currently has only forty-four 'likes' by users, but its content is explicitly homophobic and is regularly updated. If reported for using hate speech, the page can be deleted by Facebook.

The openly gay reverend of an Episcopal church in Scotland has hit back at anti-gay Catholic leaders. The Very Reverend Kelvin Holdsworth, said he was "embarrassed" by the remarks of faith leaders on gay marriage.

And finally, a Nicole Kidman film about a transgender painter has been shelved after another star pulled out. Kidman hopes to play artist Lili Elbe, before and after transition, in the film  'The Danish Girl'. Her production company Blossom Films is backing the project.