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  • Nearly Half Of Grindr Guys Have Found A Long Term Relationship

    When you think of Grindr, a long -term relationship might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but a recent survey by the tech company reveals that nearly 50% of guys have found love online.

    Nearly 50% of Grindr users have said that they have or had found long-term relationships on the social app that revolutionised the gay dating scene.

    47% of 2500 men surveyed said that they had found loving, long-term relationships on the app. A statement from the app’s blog said,

    “A whopping 47% of survey respondents said that they had found long-term friendships on Grindr – which goes to show that there are plenty of guys out there who aren’t just looking for Mr. “Right Now.”

    In a recent review of gay dating apps by THEGAYUK’s dating guru Scott Sammons said,

    “Love it or hate it the fact is that most (emphasis on most, but not all) gay men have been on it at some point over the last six or seven years. I gave it up for two years when I was with my boyfriend and didn’t miss it but now that I’m single again it does become a little habit,

    “On the ‘looking for love’ scale, if you go onto it with low expectations when it does happen (and I know that it has) then it’s a pleasant surprise.”

     

  • ANGELA MERKEL: Marriage Between A Man A Woman

    The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel does not believe that gay couples should have the right to marry.

    ◉ Said that marriage is between a man and woman living together

    ◉ Chancellor is out of touch with the German people on the issue of same-sex marriage

    Angela Merkel revealed her thoughts on same-sex marriage yesterday in an interview posted on YouTube and while she supports LGBT equality, it stops at civil partnerships.

    Speaking to YouTuber Florian Mundt, who has over 2.6 million subscribers, Huffington Post reports she said,

    “We have come a long way; when I remember, 25 years ago, many people didn’t dare to say that they are gay or lesbian.

    “Luckily we overcame this; you can enter a partnership, a civil partnership.

    The Chancellor reiterated that she wanted to end discrimination and she wanted equality and was questioned about how she could end discrimination whilst differentiated between straight and gay couple’s rights to marriage.

    Merkel replied, “No discrimination,”

    “Marriage as a man and a woman living together.”

    “For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together. That is my concept, but I support civil partnerships.”

     

    OUT OF TOUCH?

    Statistics show that Merkel is out of touch with the German people on the issue. A survey undertaken in 2013 by RTL Television and Stern magazine revealed that nearly three-quarters of Germans are in favour of same-sex marriage.

     

  • US Bakery Which Was Fined $135000 For Discrimination Makes 3 Times In Donations

    The Sweet Cakes bakery, at the centre of a legal battle which saw it fined $135,000 has raised over $348,000 in donations.

    A gay couple were awarded $135,000 in damages after the Sweet Cakes bakery refused to bake a wedding cake for them in 2013 on the grounds that it was against their religious beliefs.

    The owners of Sweet Cakes, Aaron and Melissa Klein, started a GoFundMe page asking supporters to help them with their legal costs.

    GoFundMe closed the campaign saying that it violated the site’s terms and conditions, but not before the fundraiser had racked up $109,000 in donations. The decision to pull the crowdfunder from GoFundMe came down to the fact that laws had been violated. GoFundMe allowed Sweet Cakes to take the funds already collected minus its fees and taxes.

    Another site, Continue To Give has allowed the campaign to go on and the Kleins have received over 232% of the $150,000 they’re asking for. The page encourages users to “help the Kleins through this hard time as they fight for religous [sic] freedom”.

    The page’s mission statement reads: “Every American should be free to live and work according to their faith without the government punishing them for doing so.”

    Continuetogive.com take 3.9% + $0.60 per donation. According to the site, the Sweet Cakes fundraiser has had 7611 donations. Meaning that it will have grossed around $25540.60

    In April owners of a Pizza parlour in Indiana said that they would refuse to serve a gay wedding, saying it would never deliver pizza to a gay wedding. A crowd funded was started and raised over $800,000.

  • Nearly Half Of Grindr Guys Have Found A Long Term Relationship

    When you think of Grindr, a long -term relationship might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but a recent survey by the tech company reveals that nearly 50% of guys have found love online.

    Nearly 50% of Grindr users have said that they have or had found long-term relationships on the social app that revolutionised the gay dating scene.

    47% of 2500 men surveyed said that they had found loving, long-term relationships on the app. A statement from the app’s blog said,

    “A whopping 47% of survey respondents said that they had found long-term friendships on Grindr – which goes to show that there are plenty of guys out there who aren’t just looking for Mr. “Right Now.”

    In a recent review of gay dating apps by THEGAYUK’s dating guru Scott Sammons said,

    “Love it or hate it the fact is that most (emphasis on most, but not all) gay men have been on it at some point over the last six or seven years. I gave it up for two years when I was with my boyfriend and didn’t miss it but now that I’m single again it does become a little habit,

    “On the ‘looking for love’ scale, if you go onto it with low expectations when it does happen (and I know that it has) then it’s a pleasant surprise.”

  • Another Gay Bar Closes In London, Barcode Closes Without Warning

    London’s once-thriving gay scene is diminishing after another venue has announced its closure last month.

    Barcode in Vauxhall has announced without warning that it is to close on Saturday after 9 years in existence.

    Barcode is just one of a number of other gay spaces that have closed in London this year. Black Cap and The Joiner’s Arms were both shuttered in 2015.

  • Surrey Gay Film Festival Line Up Announced

    The second annual LGBT film festival will take place again in Redhill, Surrey in August.

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  • TV Star Matt Dallas Marries Long Term Boyfriend Blue Hamilton

    Former KYLE XY star Matt Dallas has married his long-term musician boyfriend.

    TV Star Matt Dallas has married his long-term boyfriend and musician Blue Hamilton after announcing their engagement in January 2013.

    The tweet in which Matt announced his engagement was also the announcement that the actor was in fact gay. He became the first in a long list of celebrities who came out as gay or bisexual in 2013.

    Posing for a photo outside a court centre the smiling pair held up their marriage certificate, with the caption, “Introducing Mr. & Mr. Dallas. The post on Instagram has had over 6.2K likes.

    Since the 26th June, gay couples have been allowed to get married in the US when the United States’ Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage nationwide.

  • NICK GRIMSHAW Leads The Way For X FACTOR Auditions

    It all starts here as Cheryl, Rita, Simon and Nick Grimshaw open the auditions in Manchester.

    Nick Grimshaw, the openly gay Radio 1 presenter looked refreshed and happy at the launch event for X FACTOR 2016.

    Greeted by a throng of fans, the 50% new judging panel, which includes Rita Ora, Cheryl, Nick and Simon beamed as they took selfies and signed autographs.

    Louis Walsh was dumped / or left, depending on which paper you read, earlier in the year, as the long-standing judge was swapped out for Nick Grimshaw.

  • Eurovision 2016 To Be Hosted In Stockholm

    Eurovision 2016 will be hosted in Stockholm it has been decided – and the TV producers have come up with a unique concept…

    Swedish host broadcaster SVT and European Broad Casting Union (EBU) have decided that Eurovision 2016, the 61st in the show’s history, will be hosted in Stockholm. Together with SVT, the City of Stockholm will create a new innovative arena concept, including all four venues – Tele 2 Arena, Ericsson Globe, Hovet and Annexet – in the Stockholm Globe District.

    The 60th competition, held in Vienna, saw Sweden’s Mans Zelmerlow win beating Russia and Italy. The UK’s Electro Velvet managed to scrape 5 points coming 24th out of 27.

    The main events will take place at all four venues in the Stockholm Globe District. The finale will take place in Ericsson Globe on May 10-14th 2016.

    “The solution with multiple arenas enables us to produce the Eurovision Song Contest in the Globe, have the press centre at the Hovet and the delegations area at the Annex. The Jewel in the Crown is to take Eurovision Song Contest to the next level by incorporating Tele2 Arena during the evening of the finale” ,says Martin Österdahl, executive producer of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016.

  • WATCH | The Fight Against Gay Cures In China

    A documentary by AJ+, the Al Jazeera digital video channel has uncovered China’s widespread practice of conversion therapy, or “gay cure”.

    The 8-minute documentary follows a gay man, Yanzi Peng, who launches a lawsuit against a clinic after he experienced their conversion therapy.

    The clinic claimed that they could make gay people heterosexual with the use of hypnosis and electric shock treatment.

    Homosexuality has been legal since 1991 in Hong Kong, and 1996 iin Macau. It was legalised nationwide in 1997. The Chinese Society of Psychiatry declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 2001.

    China has no discrimination protections for its LGBT community.

  • Here it is… Justin Bieber Shows Off His Ass

    Justin Bieber shows off his ass and gets 1.6 million likes…

    Move over Kim Kardashian… Mr Bieber has gotten naked again to show off his perky ass..et. He uploaded this cheeky picture on his Instagram account and it’s gotten a whopping 1.6 million likes and half a million comments.

    We once put a picture of ours on Instagram and we actually managed to get negative likes and 2 comments (one from our mum telling us to remove it and the other was a spam telling us we’d won $1.6 million in the Spanish lottery… we hadn’t lying barstools…)

    Just in case you need to see it… here it is…