g3 magazine: For lesbian and bisexual women

Feb event to highlight homophobia in football

An International Day Against Homophobia in Football will be held in February.

30 January announced as international same-sex hand holding day

The organiser of A Day In Hand has announced 30 January as the next international day for same-sex couples to come forward and hold hands in public.

Church to vote on monetary benefits for gay partners of clergy

Next month, the Church of England will vote on whether to give more benefits to the civil partners of gay clergy.

Bishops and senior clergy in the General Synod are considering a proposal to give gay couples the same financial benefits afforded to straight married couples.

Gay clergy may enter a civil partnership as long as they promise to remain celibate.

The benefits relate to pensions paid to surviving spouses of deceased clergy members.

Currently, gay spouses can only receive benefits depending on their partner’s length of service starting from 2004, the date civil partnerships legislation was brought in. Straight surviving spouses, on the other hand, can receive pension benefits based on their partner’s entire length of service.