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14 January 2008Citizen’s Advice to sponsor History Month + The organisers of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History Month have spoken of their delight that the Citizen's Advice will be this year's sponsors.LGBT History Month was started by LGBT campaigning organisation Schools Out. -
14 January 2008Bourne Free dates revealed + Bournemouth's celebration of equality and diversity will be held over three day in July, organisers have said.Originally set up in 2004, Bourne Free has been extended across an entire weekend for the first time this year.The seaside resort will be celebrating from Friday 11th until Sunday 13th of July. -
14 January 2008Pride celebrated out in the sticks + Herefordshire will be hosting a month-long LGBT festival in February. -
11 January 2008Conference discusses Fidel’s attitude to gay Cubans + Yesterday in Madrid a two-day discussion on homosexuality in Cuba and the repression that sexual minorities had undergone because of the island's communist regime began.Sexual diversity was seen by Fidel Castro as a corrupt consequence of capitalism.Posters for the conference bore Che Guevara's well-known picture along with the rainbow colours of the gay Pride flag. -
10 January 2008Diana witness: Queen disapproved of AIDS work 3 A former Royal police protection officer has claimed that Diana, Princess of Wales confided in him that the Queen did not approve of her support for HIV and AIDS charities.Giving evidence to the inquest into the death of the former Princess, Ken Wharfe told the jury that after a meeting with the Queen, Diana returned to the car distressed.He claims she then told him that the Queen "doesn't like me getting involved in AIDS" and would prefer she involved herself in "something more pleasant." -
10 January 2008The gay poem that broke blasphemy laws 13 The announcement that the government may support moves to strike down blasphemy laws comes 30 years after Denis Lemon was found guilty of committing libel against Christianity, the last prosecution for blasphemy.He was the editor of the now defunct but iconic UK newspaper Gay News.Mary Whitehouse, founder of the National Viewers and Listeners Association, (NVLA) announced her intention to sue in December 1976. -
10 January 2008US group reveals gay-friendly employers list + Human Rights Campaign, America's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organisation, today released its annual list of the "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality."A total of 195 US companies can now use the 2008 "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality" seal to distinguish their company as a fair-minded employer.The seal is given to companies who score a perfect 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index -
10 January 2008Portsmouth unveils LGBT History Month events + A gay ghost hunt, Judy Garland, Mr Humphries and gay life on the ocean waves are due to be the highlights of LGBT History Month in Portsmouth next month.Organisers hope that the civil offices will fly the rainbow flag to mark the event. -
9 January 2008Newcastle councillors approve branch of Clone Zone + Efforts by fundamentalist Christians to block a shop that sells sex toys and gay DVDs opening in Newcastle have failed.Earlier this week members of the city council regulatory committee approved a licence for a branch of Clone Zone to open in the Scottswood Road.The location, described by the Newcastle Chronicle as in the "gay village," is close to St Mary's Cathedral and another shop that sells R18 DVDs, aimed at the straight community. -
9 January 2008Stonewall reveals best employers for LGB people 1 Stonewall has published its 2008 Workplace Equality Index, showcasing Britain's top 100 employers for gay people.Top employer for 2008 is Nacro, the national crime reduction charity. -
8 January 2008Christian pastor plans Microsoft takeover 3 An evangelical Christian pastor plans to launch a high-profile campaign on Tuesday urging religious followers to load up on Microsoft Corporation stock, in an attempt to halt the organisation's gay rights efforts.The Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former Dallas Cowboys American football player and outspoken opponent of gay rights, is the self-proclaimed head of the Antioch Bible Church, based in Redmond, the home of Microsoft's headquarters. -
8 January 2008Gay holiday companies merge to form largest in Europe 1 Respect Holidays and Sensations Holidays, the UK's largest tour operators specialising in gay and lesbian travel, have merged.Now Europe's largest specialist tour operator, Respect will continue to trade as Respect Holidays, and Sensations will trade as Sensations Holidays.The parent company that both holiday brands will trade under, Lidana Limited, is the current umbrella company of Respect Holidays. -
8 January 2008Gay Nobel Peace Prize nominee gets married + South African HIV/AIDS activist Zackie Achmat has married his partner Dalli Weyers.The couple, who met in 2005, wed in front of 300 guests at the Imperial Yacht Club in Lakeside, Cape Town in a lavish ceremony performed by a judge.Mr Achmat was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 in recognition of his activist work. -
4 January 2008Why women and gay men could drive you round the bend 4 Gay men and women are most likely to get lost driving on unknown roads, according to a new study.Psychologists at Queen Mary, University of London, announced their findings after computer-based tests on 140 volunteers showed gay men and women performed worse than heterosexual men in tasks involving navigation and spatial awareness.Dr Qazi Rahman, who led the team of researchers, believed it showed women relied on local landmarks to navigate, and are slower to take in spatial information. -
3 January 2008Brighton hosts its 1,000th civil partnership 4 Almost two years to the day that they became a legal reality, a lesbian couple became the 1,000th couple to enter into a civil partnership in Brighton.Company director Sue McCall and Emma Grose-McCall, a lawyer, have been together for six years. -
3 January 2008Coming out raises plight of gays in Korean military + A South Korean riot policeman has declared his homosexuality on a police community website, raising questions about the treatment of gay people in the country's Armed Forces.All young men in the country are obliged to serve in the military or in the riot police for up to two years and have to take a test at the time of enlistment which includes various questions about their sexual orientation.Private Kim Hyun-jong (not his real name) vowed to fight social prejudice against sexual minorities. -
3 January 2008Postmortem reveals DJ died of heart attack 2 One of the first out gay DJs on BBC Radio 1 died after taking large quantities of ecstasy, cocaine and GHB.Postmortem results on Kevin Greening, 44, indicate he suffered a heart attack.An un-named man in his 50s was arrested at the Wandsworth address where Greening's body was found on Saturday evening and questioned by detectives on suspicion of murder and possession with intent to supply Class A drugs. -
2 January 2008Stonewall welcomes honours for gay rights activists 1 The former director of Stonewall has been recognised in the Queen's New Year's Honours List.Angela Mason, who headed the gay equality organisation from 1993 to 2003, becomes a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). -
21 December 2007Review: St Trinians impresses and amuses 1 With an all-star cast, the latest St Trinian's film brings the unruly schoolgirls kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century.Facing closure from the bank, and under pressure from the government for her unorthodox teaching methods, headmistress Camilla Fritton (played with great relish by Rupert Everett), rallies her girls round.Pitting their wits against former-flame, Education Minister Geoffrey Thwaites (Colin Firth), she joins her pupils in a plot to steal famous painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring. -
21 December 2007Holiday homecoming for gay US soldier + The Christmas holidays will be a whole lot brighter for the Manzella family, who are looking forward to welcoming a very special guest home.Sergeant Darren Manzella featured on last Sunday's US current affairs show 60 Minutes about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."He arrived back in the United States yesterday with his unit, returning from a long tour in Kuwait.
