Exclusive: Iris Robinson’s ‘gay cure’ psychiatrist’s methods exposed
PinkNews.co.uk Exclusive The psychiatrist recommended by homophobic former MP Iris Robinson to ‘cure’ gays was exposed yesterday for his methods of treating patients. Dr Paul Miller, who runs the Abeo...
View ArticleCampaign launched to expose ex-gay therapists
A gay journalist who went undercover to expose the methods of gay conversion therapists is organising a campaign to stamp out the controversial therapy. Patrick Strudwick revealed last week how two...
View ArticleAnti-gay cure group to protest outside Christian convention
Gay campaigners are to protest outside a gay cure conference in Northern Ireland this weekend. Christian group Core Issues is holding a conference with the Rev Mario Bergner, who claims to have been...
View ArticleIris Robinson’s gay cure therapist reported to GMC
A psychiatrist who worked with shamed former MP Iris Robinson has been reported to the General Medical Council for his work in trying to “cure” gay people. Dr Paul Miller, who has a private practice in...
View ArticleTory MP Chris Grayling named Stonewall ‘bigot of the year’
Former shadow home secretary Chris Grayling was named ‘Bigot of the Year’ at Thursday night’s Stonewall awards. Tory MP Mr Grayling, who was secretly recorded in May saying that bed and breakfasts...
View ArticleChristian ‘gay cure’ therapist guilty of malpractice
A Christian therapist who tried to turn a gay undercover journalist straight has been found guilty of professional malpractice. This week, a professional trial at the British Association of Counselling...
View ArticleSydney: Christian doctor banned for prescribing chemical castration ‘gay...
An Australian doctor and member of a conservative Christian sect has been banned from practicing medicine after he prescribed a teenager a chemical castration drug for use as a ‘gay cure’. In 2008, GP...
View ArticleCalifornia bans teenage gay ‘cure’ therapy
Campaigners and medical professionals have welcomed California Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to ban teenagers from accessing discredited treatments that seek to reject an LGBT identity. When the law...
View ArticleUK: BACP warns against gay conversion therapy
Britain’s largest professional body of psychotherapists has warned its members against attempting to “convert” gay people, after discovering practitioners were still offering the “treatment”. The...
View ArticleUK: Journalist welcomes BACP decision to strike off anti-gay therapist
Lesley Pilkington, the Christian psychotherapist who was found to be providing gay conversion therapy, has finally been struck off by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)....
View ArticleAzealia Banks suggests British journalists should kill themselves
Amid her recent homophobic tirade at US celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, rapper Azealia Banks also took the trouble to suggest that two British journalists should kill themselves. Earlier this month,...
View ArticleChannel 4 News complaint made by gay ‘cure’ Christian therapist Lesley...
Ofcom has rejected a complaint made by a Christian therapist who was revealed to be offering gay conversion therapy in a Channel 4 investigation. Lesley Pilkington had complained to the media regulator...
View ArticleAnti-equal marriage former Tory candidate Maria Hutchings in Twitter spat...
Anti-equal marriage former Tory candidate Maria Hutchings, who stood for the Conservative Party in the recent Eastleigh by-election and came third, took to Twitter today in a heated argument around...
View ArticleStephen Colbert mocks Jeremy Irons for equal marriage incest comments
Political satirist Stephen Colbert mocked Oscar winning actor Jeremy Irons for comments made earlier this week suggesting that fathers might marry their sons in order to avoid inheritance tax, if equal...
View ArticleActor Alan Cumming blasts Jeremy Irons for his ‘ignorant’ anti-gay marriage...
Scottish actor Alan Cumming has criticised Jeremy Irons after he suggested equal marriage in Britain could lead to fathers marrying their sons in a bid to avoid inheritance tax. Irons, 64, made the...
View ArticleLabour MP Diana Johnson: It’s now time for Parliament to tackle the issue of...
Labour MP Diana Johnson and Tom Stephens both write for PinkNews.co.uk on why ending gay-to-straight conversion therapy should be Parliament’s next priority. On Tuesday 21 May, 366 MPs voted in favour...
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Rapper Azealia Banks attacks GLAAD: ‘You don’t stand for anything and have no...
US rapper Azealia Banks, has attacked GLAAD, the LGBT media advocacy organisation, on Twitter, accusing it of “picking and choosing when to be offended”, since she was criticised earlier this year for...
View ArticleWorld’s most senior psychiatrist comes out and says profession should...
The new head of the World Psychiatric Association, Professor Dinesh Bhugra, has come out as gay in an interview and says his profession should apologise for the way it has treated gay people and women....
View ArticleSouth African activists demand action against ‘corrective rape’ epidemic
Campaigners have warned that sexual attacks by men against lesbians in South Africa are continuing to increase. Corrective rape is a hate crime in which men rape lesbians in what they see as an attempt...
View ArticleLabour MP Geraint Davies: Only regulation can stop gay conversion therapy
Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Labour MP Geraint Davies says Health Minister Norman Lamb is completely wrong to rule out the statutory regulation of psychotherapists in order to guard against...
View ArticleGay journalist: There is misogyny among gay men, hence why they call women...
Patrick Strudwick says parts of the gay scene can be a harbourer of misogyny. The journalist has written a column for The Guardian’s Comment is Free on recent remarks by Rose McGowan. The American...
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More than a quarter of users of chemsex drug GHB have been sexually...
More than a quarter of people who use chemsex drug GHB have been sexually assaulted, according to new research. The findings come from a major survey of gay male GHB users, conducted by Channel 4...
View ArticleVictoria Derbyshire says she ‘won’t give up’ telling stories as BBC axes show...
British daytime programme Victoria Derbyshire – revered for its consistent reporting of LGBT+ issues over the years – has been axed as part of BBC cost cutting measures. From reporting of the lives of...
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Gender Wars: Journalist explains how Channel 4’s controversial doc misses the...
Journalist Patrick Strudwick has examined how Channel 4’s upcoming documentary film Gender Wars “fails women, fails trans people and fails at journalism”. In a one-hour tour of the so-called trans...
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