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18 January 2008Teletubbies makers pay compensation to “faggot” actor + Ragdoll Limited, who make the Teletubbies have been ordered by an employment tribunal to pay 2000 pounds to an actor who was called a "faggot" by a fellow cast member.However, Issac Blake, 28, from Cardiff lost the majority of his case after being sacked as an actor for the BBC children's programme In the Night Garden. -
18 January 2008Lust, Caution + Taiwanese director Ang Lee is nothing if not eclectic in his output. -
18 January 2008P.S. I Love You + The sheer unpleasantness of the thought that, one day, we are all bound to die has naturally led to human beings creating various methods to avoid worrying about the inevitable. -
18 January 2008Charlie Wilson’s War + Every now and then, a film comes along that has Oscar written all over it. -
18 January 2008Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead + Veteran director Sidney Lumet, best known for the Al Pacino-starring 1970s classics Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon, has had a rather hit-and-miss time of it in his six decades-long career. -
18 January 2008Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem + A sequel to a dire action/horror movie - especially one based on a computer game - is normally cause to flee for the hills. -
18 January 2008No Country For Old Men + Everyone loves the Coen Brothers, surely? Over the last two decades, the oddball pair have produced some of the weirdest and most wonderful movies ever to have come out of America - quirky yet accessible, and always with a streak of deliciously black humour running throughout.The Coens have given us that modern icon, Jeff Bridges' White Russian-supping bowling layabout The Dude in their biggest hit, The Big Lebowski. -
18 January 2008In the Valley of Elah + Films about the psychological aftermath of war have a long and generally speaking highly distinguished history. -
18 January 2008Sweeney Todd 1 Love him for his quirky visual style or hate him for his apparently deliberate appeal to that subsection of the teenage market that dresses in black all the time, mostly while writing dire poetry about death and unrequited love, Tim Burton is undoubtedly one of the more interesting and individual of mainstream Hollywood directors. -
18 January 2008Kuwaitis arrested for “impersonating opposite sex” 3 A leading human rights charity has drawn attention to the plight of more than a dozen people arrested and jailed under new "dress code" laws in Kuwait.Human Rights Watch has called for them to be released.The law was approved by the National Assembly on December 10th 2007. -
18 January 2008Funding secured for homeless LGBT services 1 An advice service for homeless LGBT people in London will continue until at least 2012 thanks to new funding from the city's borough councils.Stonewall Housing offers expert advice to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who are homeless or experiencing housing crisis.The group estimates that 1,000 LGBT people will contact their helpline or visit one of their drop-in surgeries over the next twelve months. -
18 January 2008Win a shopping trip with Joan Collins + An auction to raise money for sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has a range of unusual celebrity lots on offer.A walk on part in Little Britain USA, a ballroom dancing lesson with Strictly Come Dancing's Camilla Dallerup and a shopping trip with Joan Collins are just some of the experiences on offer at the Lighthouse Gala Auction on March 10th.The auction, supported by Barclays, will place at Christie's. -
18 January 2008Gay drop-in centre proposed for Soho + Westminster City Council is supporting an initiative for a "one-stop-shop" for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender residents in Soho, offering health and social care services, business support and an exhibition space all under one roof.The council estimates that 10% of the 4,000 residents in the area are gay, lesbian or transgender, and if the plan goes ahead the centre will be the largest of its type in the UK.Charity Kairos, which promotes the health and well-being of the LGBT community, is backing the scheme. -
18 January 2008Welsh gay project closes due to lack of support + In a short press statement published online yesterday, the Rainbow Project South Wales announced it had dissolved itself at the end of December.The charity had been in existence for at least ten years and gained charitable status four years ago.It was working towards opening a lesbian, gay and bisexual community centre in Cardiff. -
18 January 2008Huckabee compares gay marriage to bestiality 19 Mike Huckabee, one of the leading contenders for the Republican party nomination for President of the United States, has said he wants to change the country's Constitution to ban abortion and compared gay relationships to "a man and an animal."In an interview with an online religious magazine Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, said: "I think the radical view is to say that we're going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal." -
18 January 2008Jewish leaders back homophobic incitement law 5 A proposed new offence of incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation has been backed by the main body representing British Jews.The Board of Deputies of British Jews said that their community's experience of prejudice was the reason they were supporting the government's proposal.The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill was passed by the House of Commons last week and will now be discussed in the Lords. -
18 January 2008MPs question queerupnorth funding cut 1 A group of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have condemned a decision by the Arts Council in England to stop funding a gay and lesbian arts festival in Manchester.John Leech, Jeremy Corbyn, Stephen Williams, Simon Hughes and Mark Williams have signed an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons highlighting the work that queerupnorth does tackling homophobic bullying in schools.The LGBT arts organisation is facing a bleak future after its funding for next year has been cut. -
18 January 2008NZ commission suggests more rights for trans people + The Human Rights Commission in New Zealand has recommended that citizens should be able to alter their sex on documents such as passports and birth certificates.Following a two-year study the commission has said the country's Human Rights Act should be amended to make gender identity discrimination illegal."Forms of discrimination and harassment ranged from low-level (avoidance and insults) to very severe (violent physical and sexual assaults)," the commission said. -
18 January 2008Bar staff convicted of vicious assault 2 The co-owner of the Fridge Bar in Brixton, south London, has been convicted along with members of staff of violent disorder and attempted grievous bodily harm.Bar cashier Victor Reid, 41, from Brixton, doorman Frederick Mallefroy, 43, from Ilford in Essex and bar co-owner Ralph Daley, 45, of Purley, set upon a man in his twenties as he tried to gain entry to the bar in November 2006.The Fridge Bar and adjoining club have in the past hosted many well-known gay events.
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US: Four relatives receive between eight and thirty years for kidnapping of gay Kentucky man+
Medical study: Trans hormone treatment is safe and effective+
Tanzania: Police accused by Human Rights Watch of sexually assaulting LGBT citizens1
The state of play on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in the House of Lords committee stage31
US: Florida LGBT groups launch effort to repeal state ban on equal marriage1- Humanist weddings amendment withdrawn from equal marriage bill17
Russia: LGBT rights group fined 500,000 rubles under ‘foreign agent’ law9
Amendments urging for civil registrars to opt out of equal marriage ceremonies withdrawn from bill10
Travel: Is Las Vegas a ‘Fabulous’ gay holiday destination?5
Gay fashioner designer Stefano Gabbana sentenced for tax evasion22
- The state of play on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in the House of Lords committee stage31
South Africa: Gay imam spreads message of empowerment when it comes to homosexuality and Islam 15- Humanist weddings amendment withdrawn from equal marriage bill 17
- Travel: Is Las Vegas a 'Fabulous' gay holiday destination?5
- Gay fashioner designer Stefano Gabbana sentenced for tax evasion22
Liberace's ex-lover claims he had six year relationship with Michael Jackson18
Gay dating website for 'homosensible' Catholic priests being run out of the Vatican20- Russia: LGBT rights group fined 500,000 rubles under 'foreign agent' law9
US: Third Republican Senator comes out in favour of equal marriage3- US: Florida LGBT groups launch effort to repeal state ban on equal marriage1
New 'Gay Marriage No Thanks' group launches with 'ten good reasons' to oppose equal marriage88
Lord Tebbit: I wouldn't have been surprised if Jimmy Savile was homosexual85
Archbishop of York: Would the Church of England rather bless 'sheep and trees' than gay couples?85
Barry Cryer brands ITV's Vicious 'homophobic' television85
Lib Dems' Baroness Williams to support anti-equal marriage 'union' amendment72
Mixed martial arts fighter: 'Equal marriage could lead to incest, bestiality and child marriages'69
Maria Miller tables Public Order Act amendment protecting critics of equal marriage67
Labour MSP Elaine Smith: 'I'm against equal marriage but don't call me homophobic'65
Tory Lord Mawhinney tables 'traditional marriage' amendment for equal marriage bill62
Lord Hylton tables new wrecking amendment for the equal marriage bill62
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