Homophobia

Did police homophobia fail serial killer's gay victims?

Over 15 months, Stephen Port, a 41-year-old chef from a working class east London borough drugged, raped, and killed four gay men he met on dating apps.

He then dragged their bodies a few hundred meters from his flat, planting drugs and even suicide notes penned in his own handwriting to make it appear as if they had overdosed.

Being gay when it was still a crime

Now 93 and married to a man, he's "the luckiest, happiest, old gay man alive".

But for many years, he led a double life - married to a woman but secretly knowing he identified as homosexual.

As the government announces gay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offences in England and Wales will be offered pardons, George tells Newsbeat what it was like to be gay, when it was still a crime.

George believes he should never have been convicted of a crime and says the only thing he was guilty of is "being in the wrong place at the wrong time".

'Big gay kiss-in' staged at London Sainsbury's after homophobia row

Thomas Rees and Joshua Bradwell were in the shop when a security guard escorted them out, explaining a woman had complained about their behaviour.

Mr Rees told the BBC they had been holding hands and that he may have put an arm around his partner's waist.

The story caught wind online after Mr Rees expressed his disappointment at the UK supermarket giant on Twitter.

He told the BBC the incident "knocked me for six", but since the incident they had received messages of support from around the world.