The HDP ran on a platform defending the rights of ethnic minorities, women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The protest echoes the calls for athletes to express sympathy for gay and lesbian Russians during the Sochi Olympics.
It said being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender was illegal in almost 80 countries, and in at least five of these it was punishable by death.
Even the Daily Mail was forced to call this campaigning lesbian "Britain's favourite roving sports reporter".
Here's how the Daily Mail have reported the findings: The overwhelming apathy about gay marriage was revealed in the first online poll of gay, lesbian and bisexual people on the issue.
By the time Shelley was born in 1978, Al had come out as a lesbian - her sexuality, she says, is a determined political stance - and the commune was women-only.
In those parts of the world historically resentful of western domination, resistance to equal marriage – and to gay and lesbian rights – has, if anything, grown in reaction.
In a sense that move alone tells you how much in fact the political mainstream even within unionism has changed when it comes to picking on minorities like Northern Ireland's once invisible and put down gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.
He declined to attend the wedding of his lesbian half-sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones, having referred to gay marriage as "a temporary aberration" and, really, there is no one better placed to sound off on the sanctity of the institution of marriage than Newt Gingrich.
The original synopsis for Pride references the "London-based group of gay and lesbian activists" that supported the miners, but the US packaging mentions only "London-based activists" in its version, according to Pink News.
Pride is the award-winning true-life tale of a group of London-based gay and lesbian activists who stood up for striking Welsh coal miners in 1984 and helped to spark a sea-change in attitudes to gay rights on the British political left.
