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  • Perez Hilton Fears For His Life After Gaga Fans Wage War

    Online trolls have targeted celebrity blogger and openly-gay father of one, Perez Hilton after a feud with Lady Gaga storms Twitter.

    After an interesting turn of events and various allegations of sorts, Perez Hilton owner and founder of one of the world’s most popular gossip sites, PerezHilton.com has started retweeted threats made against him and his son.

    Angry Lady Gaga fans have taken to Twitter issuing death threats and using anti-gay language to berate the Hollywood blogger.

    Hilton took to twitter in the early hours, tweeting:

    ‘I can’t sleep. I am literally sick to my stomach. Not playing any f**king games here. I am afraid for my f**king safety and that of my son.’

    Lady Gaga took to twitter to accuse celebrity blogger Perez Hilton of stalking her, after a fan claimed that Hilton was at the singer’s apartment building in New York.

    The singer promptly tweeted: “STAY AWAY FROM ME + MY FAMILY YOU ARE SICK TRYING TO RENT AN APARTMENT IN MY BUILDING TO STALK ME. LEAVE ME ALONE!!!”

    The meat-wearing Mother of Monsters, then tweeted: “DO I NEED TO BE SHOT IT IN THE HEAD FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT HIM AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT HARASSES ME HAS GONE TOO FAR? IM A HUMAN BEING.”

    The tweet has since been deleted.

    Hilton responded to Gaga’s accusation by posted ‘A Statement On Lady GaGa’s Lies’ on his blog.

    Read Hilton’s Statement below

    “My heart hurts that my former very good friend Lady GaGa, a person I used to call my ‘wifey’ and traveled [sic] the world with, is making very public and very untrue allegations about me on Twitter. While it is still too painful for me to go into detail about why I chose to no longer make her a part of my life, I will say that I am a critic and not a stalker. Any allegation that I am stalking her is utterly false, defamatory and now appear to be putting me in danger. I will continue to be a critic — in a way that is not mean or involves name-calling, and I will continue to have an opinion and talk about music and songs, like GaGa’s ‘Applause.’ As the suggestion that I pose a danger to GaGa is preposterous, if fans want to send a message of support to her, they should buy her music.”

  • NEWS: Perez Hilton Becomes Target Of Gaga Monsters

    Perez Hilton, the openly gay owner of one of the most successful online gossip sites, perezhilton.com has become a trending topic in the UK after Lady Gaga accused him of stalking her.

    • The Just Dance Singer’s latest single Applause has been released early due to a “leak”

    • Perez Hilton was reportedly in Lady Gaga’s apartment building looking at property.

    • Some of Lady Gaga’s outburst on Twitter has now been deleted.

    All is not right in celeb land after Lady Gaga took to Twitter to accuse celebrity blogger Perez Hilton of stalking her, after a fan claimed that Hilton was at the singer’s apartment building in New York.

    The singer promptly tweeted:

    “STAY AWAY FROM ME + MY FAMILY YOU ARE SICK TRYING TO RENT AN APARTMENT IN MY BUILDING TO STALK ME. LEAVE ME ALONE!!!”

    The meat-wearing Mother of Monsters, then tweeted:

    “DO I NEED TO BE SHOT IT IN THE HEAD FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT HIM AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT HARASSES ME HAS GONE TOO FAR? IM A HUMAN BEING.”

    The tweet has since been deleted.

     

    The celebrity feud appears to have started after Gaga claimed that Hilton had taunted her by sending her a picture showing Madonna pointing a gun at her head, whilst Gaga was confined to the wheelchair. Gaga had recently suffered a hip injury earlier in the year.

    Hilton responded to Gaga’s accusation by posted ‘A Statement On Lady GaGa’s Lies’ on his blog.

    Read Hilton’s Statement below:

     

    “My heart hurts that my former very good friend Lady GaGa, a person I used to call my ‘wifey’ and traveled [sic] the world with, is making very public and very untrue allegations about me on Twitter. While it is still too painful for me to go into detail about why I chose to no longer make her a part of my life, I will say that I am a critic and not a stalker. Any allegation that I am stalking her is utterly false, defamatory and now appear to be putting me in danger. I will continue to be a critic — in a way that is not mean or involves name-calling, and I will continue to have an opinion and talk about music and songs, like GaGa’s ‘Applause.’ As the suggestion that I pose a danger to GaGa is preposterous, if fans want to send a message of support to her, they should buy her music.”

    Some Gaga fans have taken to Twitter to issue death threats.

     

    One user @CsvargasPAUSE Tweeted:

    Your son is a devil.. like you!!! C’mon you both dead now! @Perezhilton

    Lady Gaga’s new single Applause entered the UK’s Official Singles Chart at No. 5.

     

    In February, Perez Hilton became a father.

  • Kiwi Same-Sex Couple Become First To Get Married At 30,000 Ft.

    Kiwi Same-Sex Couple Become First To Get Married At 30,000 Ft.

    Air New Zealand becomes first airline to host gay wedding at 30,000 Feet.

    New Zealand gay marriage

    • Couple Lynley Bendall and Ally Wankikau were first New Zealand same-sex couple to wed at 30,000 Feet

    • Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and partner Justin Mikita attended the wedding.

    • New Zealand was the 13th Nation to allow same-sex marriages.

    • Monday 19th August was the first day on which same-sex couple could marry in New Zealand.

    An Auckland-based couple has this morning made history celebrating the legalisation of same sex marriage in New Zealand by saying, ‘I do’ in the skies.

    Lynley Bendall and Ally Wanikau, who have been together almost 14 years, wed onboard a special Air New Zealand flight from Queenstown to Auckland.

    The leading ladies made their vows in front of friends and family, including their children Javarn (9), Maycee (7) and Mikaere (6), and Ally’s son Damon.

    The pair exchanged pounamu (New Zealand greenstone) in place of traditional wedding bands before being pronounced as officially wed in front of actor and marriage equality campaigner Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who recently married his long-term partner Justin Mikita.

    “It’s been an absolute pleasure to be able to celebrate this historic and joyous moment with Lynley and Ally. Marriage equality is something very dear to both Justin and me.”

    Following the in-flight ceremony a pop-up choir surprised the couple and their guests, performing the Maori love song Pokarekare Ana which was sung in the New Zealand Parliament following the legalisation of same sex marriage in April.

    Lynley says the couple has waited a long time to make their 13-year union official and she’s ecstatic to be able to call herself a newlywed.

    “To be married at 30,000 feet beneath strings of fairy lights with our children, friends and family as witnesses makes an already memorable day that much more special. It was surreal to have Jesse play a part in the ceremony too – we’re big fans of Modern Family!”

    Jesse and Justin gifted the couples’ children bow ties from their charity Tie The Knot which raises funds for the promotion of marriage equality.

    Air New Zealand Chief People Officer Lorraine Murphy says the onboard ceremony was an unforgettable way to mark the law change. “The atmosphere onboard was incredibly festive and the applause following the couple’s vows was heartfelt. It was a great celebration of New Zealand’s diversity.”

    The couple departs New Zealand tonight on an Air New Zealand service to Los Angeles for their honeymoon at a Palm Springs resort.

  • Rules Surrounding HIV To Be Modernised To Better Protect Public

    ‘Outdated’ Rules surrounding healthcare workers with HIV will be modernised by the government and it will overturn the ban of the sale of at-home HIV testing kits.

    • Chief Medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies announces changes that will affect legality of ‘at home self testing kits’

    • Healthcare professionals will have rules relaxed in certain medical procedures.

    • Outdated rules date back to the 1980s.

    Around 100,000 people in the UK have HIV but according to statistics around a quarter are living with it undiagnosed. Professor Davies has announced today new strategies to help more people get tested and receive the healthcare they need sooner.

    The Department of Health (DoH) will also lift the ban on healthcare workers with HIV undertaking some medical procedures such as dental and surgical work.

    The DoH has also announced that it will remove the ban on the sale of at-home testing kits, which was introduced in 1992, making it easier for people to get tested earlier and embark on the best treatments available.

    Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies said:

    ‘Many of the UK’s HIV policies were designed to combat the perceived threat at the height of HIV concerns in the 1980s and have now been left behind by scientific advances and effective treatments. It is time we changed these outdated rules which are sometimes counter-productive and limit people’s choices on how to get tested or treated early for HIV.

    “What we need is a simpler system that continues to protect the public through encouraging people to get tested for HIV as early as possible and that does not hold back some of our best healthcare workers because of a risk that is more remote than being killed by lightning.’
    If a test indicates a positive result people will need to get a follow-up confirmatory test at an NHS clinic. Clear information about how to interpret the result and what to do afterwards will be included with the kit.

    Sir Nick Partridge, Chief Executive at Terrence Higgins Trust, said: ‘Advances in medication have transformed what it means to live with HIV, and it’s great to see regulations starting to catch up. People diagnosed in good time can have full, healthy lives, and effective treatment dramatically reduces the risk of the virus being passed on. So long as the right safeguards are in place, there is now no reason why a dentist or a midwife with HIV should be barred from treating patients, or why people who would prefer to test at home should be denied that chance.

    ‘Legislation plays a vital role in shaping attitudes. We hope these changes continue to improve public understanding of HIV and support for those living with the virus.’

    It is hoped by changing the ‘outdated’ rules that the stigma attached to HIV, will mean that people who are reluctant of using existing testing services will be able to take tests earlier.

    Deborah Jack, Chief Executive of NAT (National AIDS Trust) said:

    ‘We welcome these changes to the guidance on HIV positive healthcare workers undertaking exposure-prone procedures and the removal of the ban on self-testing as we believe it is vitally important that policies are based on up-to-date scientific evidence and not on fear, stigma or outdated information.

    ‘Allowing healthcare workers living with HIV to undertake exposure-prone procedures corrects the current guidance which offers no more protection for the general public but keeps qualified and skilled people from working in the career they had spent many years training for. We know people are already buying poor quality self-testing kits online which is why NAT have campaigned for a change in the law. Legalisation is an important step to ensure they are regulated, accurate and safe.’

  • Embled 3 take on Bieber’s Naked LOOK

    Just days after pictures of a naked, allegedly, Justin Bieber emerged from TMZ, X Factor USA’s boyband Emblem3 decided to strip off as well.

    In a picture uploaded to Twitter, Emblem3 showed off their abs and their instruments, including a dangerously small keyboard.

    The tweet read, “Hey @justinbieber,” the band wrote. “we’re in Canada ready for the jam sesh! #Emblem3”

    Emblem3 are Drew Chadwick, Wesley Stromberg and Keaton Stromberg, they appeared in the foruth season of The X Factor USA. Their debut album reached number 7 in the Billboard charts

  • JUSTIN BIEBER: Gets Naked For Gran

    It’s like the superstar knew it was #NakedAugust here at TheGayUK

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  • WordPress remove interview from “straight pride UK” over copyright

    Anti-Gay Group Straight-Pride Have Interview Removed On WordPress.

    • Straight Pride UK have around 806 followers on Twitter and 50 likes on Facebook

    • The group’s Twitter URL has changed from StraightPrideUK to PrideOfStraight

    • Its website states: ‘there is nothing right with being homosexual, there is nothing right with being bisexual’

    • The group used an American copyright law to have interview removed.

    The Anti-Gay protest group Straight Pride UK have had an interview removed from the blogging giant WordPress after it used American copyright laws to have it removed.

    The Guardian is reporting that student Oliver Hotham published an interview after the group stated they ‘admire President Vladimir Putin of Russia for his stance and support of his country’s traditional values”.

    Hotham insists that Straight Pride UK volunteered the information provided through an email exchange.

    A press officer for the group, Nick Steiner, in a document headed a ‘press release ‘said: “Straight Pride support what Russia and Africa is doing, these country have morals and are listening to their majorities.”

    Writing on his blog, OliverHotham.wordpress.com Hotham described when Straight Pride UK threaten legal action:

    ‘It has been brought to my attention that you have published the email that I sent you to, you did not state this in your email request, nor you did have consent to do this.

    I therefore request that you take down the article that you have placed on your blog.

    You have 7 days in which to do this, failing this I shall submit a DMCA to WordPress to have it remove’ threatened the emails from Straight Pride UK.

    The Digital Millenium Copyright Act is a United States copyright law.

    It criminalises production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalises the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself. – Source Wikipedia
    Mr Hotham said that there was no indication that the press release was copyrighted material.

    Within a few days, according to Mr Hotham WordPress removed the post without notice and without questions – telling Mr Hotham if he tried to publish the article again he would be suspended.

    Since the article has been removed Mr Hotham has had numerous contacts from the group’s press officer Mr Steiner, who insists that all mentions of Straight Pride UK be removed, threatening to involved WordPress again.

  • Police Appeal For Witnesses After Anti-Gay Attack On Piccadilly Line

    British Transport Police (BTP) are looking for witnesses after a man assaults two passengers and makes homophobic remarks.

    * Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a man and woman were assaulted on the Tube.

    * The incident happened around 3pm on Monday, 8 July onboard an eastbound Piccadilly line train travelling between Hounslow East and Northfields London Underground (LU) stations.

    * News comes same day as BTP release data showing that homophobic attacks on the UK’s transport system have risen from 2011/12 to 2012/13

     

    PC Paul Franklin, the investigating officer, said: “Three men and a woman were standing on the platform at Hounslow East LU station when a man made homophobic remarks towards them.

    “The argument continued on the train and the woman was assaulted by the man.

    “A member of the public then intervened and he too was assaulted by the man. The altercation spilled out on to the platform at Northfields LU station and the victim left the station before police arrived.”

    PC Franklin added: “Enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident and, at this stage, I am appealing for anyone who was at the station to come forward with information about what they saw.”

    A 27-year-old man from Hounslow has been arrested in connection with the incident and bailed pending further enquiries.

     

    9 Fold Increase in Homophobic Attacks

    BTP also revealed statistics that show recorded offences of homophobic crimes reported on the London Underground have risen 9 fold in the period 1st Oct 2011 – 31st January 2012 to 1st Oct 2012 – 31st January 2013.

    Anyone with information should contact British Transport Police on Freefone 0800 40 50 40, or text 61016, quoting reference B3/LUA of 12/08/13 or call the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

  • Gay wedding “bombed” on the Island of Haiti

    A British man and his partner have had their wedding attacked by an anti-gay mob in Haiti.

    The French news agency AFP is reporting that several people have been injured after a homophobic group hurled rocks and home-made bombs at the ceremony in Haiti’s capital Port-Au-Prince.
    The British man, who is identified as a Red Cross worker, is said to be unhurt.
    Speaking to TheGayUK a spokesperson for the BritishRedCross said they did have ‘comprehensive security rules’ to protect those people working and volunteering for the organisations.
    Two cars were set alight and numerous windows smashed at the residence were the ceremonies was said to have taken place.
    A local inspector, Patrick Rosarion told the AFP that intervention by the police prevented someone being killed by the mob.
    “This is a criminal act and homophobic,” said Charlot Jeudy, an official from Kouraj (Courage), a group that defends the rights of homosexuals in Haiti.
    “There is no justification for this kind of attack on people in a private residence. Hopefully the justice authorities will react to the perpetrators of this act.”
    Same-sex sexual activity between consenting adults in private has been legal since 1986. The age of consent is eighteen.

  • Sale of “at home” HIV testing kits to be made legal

    HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has welcomed the Department of Health’s announcement that the sale of HIV self-testing kits is to be made legal in the UK.

    Policy Director Lisa Power said: “We warmly welcome this decision, which Terrence Higgins Trust has long campaigned for. People deserve to have a choice about how and where they test for HIV and proper regulation will make self-testing a safe and supported option for many more people across the country. The public response to our highly successful home sampling scheme shows that many people who have never tested before, or who have been putting off a visit to a clinic, are willing to test at home.

    “Currently, most HIV transmission in the UK is driven by the 25,000 people who have HIV but have not yet been diagnosed. Anything that encourages these people to test, take control of their health and get treatment is a welcome advance.”

    Since 1992, the sale of self-testing kits for HIV has been illegal in the UK. Kits can currently be purchased over the internet, but they are unregulated, often of very poor quality and lack important information on HIV transmission and where to get support.

    In 2010, Terrence Higgins Trust surveyed 657 people via newsletters, social media, and other online media. Of the 490 respondents that had not tested HIV-positive, 63% said they would consider using HIV self-testing kits if they were legalised and 51% thought legalisation would make them test more often. Among gay men, one of the groups most at risk of HIV in the UK, 60% thought legalisation would make them test more often.

    In January 2013, Terrence Higgins Trust and Public Health England co-launched their first HIV home sampling scheme, where people in groups at an increased risk of infection could request a free HIV test by post. Since launch, the scheme has provided almost 9,000 home sampling kits to gay men and Africans in England, receiving over 1,400 requests in the first month alone.

    For more information on HIV testing options, including Terrence Higgins Trust’s community testing clinics and home sampling service, please visit www.tht.org.uk.

  • Stephen Fry: “Athletes Should Find A Symbol” For LGBT Russians

    Broadcaster Stephen Fry has called on athletes in the Russian Sochi Winter Olympics to find a symbol to show ‘solidarity’ with gay Russians.

    Openly gay writer, presenter and broadcaster Stephen Fry calls upon athletes who take part in the Sochi Winter Olympics to find a symbol to show solidarity with Russian LGBTs.

    During an interview with the BBC Fry said that at the end of competitors’ games, they should stand up and adopt a cross armed pose to show their support and that they ‘are thinking about the gay people of Russian who are being tormented and brutalised everyday.’

    In June, President Putin signed into law a bill that could see both nationals and international visitors promoting “non-traditional relationships” to anyone under 18 face hefty fines and prison.

    Lord Coe and the Prime Minister David Cameron have reacted to an open letter from broadcaster Stephen Fry calling for the boycott of the Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014. In the letter Fry compare the situation in Russia to the decision to host the 1936 Olympic games in Nazi Germany and that President Putin: ‘is making scapegoats of gay people’, adding that: ‘an absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 on Sochi is simply essential’.