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6 June 2011BFI has footage of first known male-to-male television kiss – featuring Sean Connery 33 TV researchers at the British Film Institute (BFI) have revealed they have footage of what is believed to be the first male-to-male kiss on UK television featuring Sean Connery. -
31 May 2011New Canadian exhibition looks at gay maritime life of the post-war years 7 A new exhibition has opened at The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Canada, looking into the gay and lesbian subcultures that flourished at sea on passenger cruise ships, naval vessels and freighters from the 1950s onwards. -
27 May 2011India celebrates second gay film festival 11 India's second annual gay film festival is underway in Mumbai. -
27 April 2011San Francisco’s legendary gay bookshop to close 67 The last of the four shops owned by A Different Light Bookstores - and the last exclusively LGBT bookstore in San Francsico - is set to close by the end of this month. -
27 April 2011Cary Grant’s daughter claims her father ‘enjoyed being called gay’ 17 The daughter of legendary Hollywood star Cary Grant has stated in a new book about her father that he "enjoyed being called gay". -
21 April 2011Theatre review: The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg + Having never seen the 1964 French musical film of the same name, I came to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Gielgud Theatre with fresh eyes. -
18 April 2011Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy composes royal wedding verse 20 The poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has composed a verse for the royal wedding. -
6 April 2011New version of novel ‘From Here to Eternity’ to contain gay references 2 A new version of the novel 'From Here to Eternity' will contain the gay references originally included by author James Jones. -
5 April 2011Woman attacks ‘evil homosexual’ Gauguin painting 116 A woman who attacked a Paul Gauguin painting in Washington DC's National Gallery claimed she did it because it is "very homosexual". -
22 March 2011Review: Teeth, tits and tease at the Hurly Burly Show 2 The Hurly Burly Show brings something, fresh, sexy and glamorous to the West End, with hilarious theatrical moments and jaw-dropping costumes throughout. -
11 March 2011Interview: Genderqueer performer CN Lester 14 “It didn’t matter what your genitals were, what mattered was: do you have a beautiful voice and do you look fabulous?” Genderqueer performer CN Lester, who identifies as neither male nor female, talks to Paris Lees about sexual harassment, operatic androgyny and a mutual fear of going blind. -
8 March 2011Fringe event boosts slashed London gay film festival 1 London's annual Lesbian and Gay Film Festival may have been cut down to just a week but a community effort will see a fringe event following the main festival. -
4 March 2011Lion King animator says only a matter of time before ‘gay families’ appear in Disney films 12 Andreas Deja, a veteran animator for Disney, has suggested the company would be open to featuring both openly gay character and gay families in future projects. -
4 March 2011Dior catwalk show goes ahead without disgraced British Designer Galliano 11 Christian Dior's catwalk show took place at Paris Fashion Week today without its former star designer, John Galliano, who was sacked from the fashion house last week for a drunken, allegedly anti-Semitic tirade. -
4 March 2011National Portrait Gallery talk to celebrate lesbians and gay men in British cinema 7 The National Portrait Gallery in London is to host a talk highlighting key lesbian and gay figures in British cinema. -
3 March 2011End of LGBT History month marked in Warsaw by remembering classic lesbian novel 5 Ric Todd, the British Ambassador to Poland, visited the Polish National Library this week to mark the end of LGBT History Month and view their copy of Radclyffe Hall's groundbreaking 1928 lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness. -
1 March 2011Irish artist depicts Elton John breastfeeding 23 An Irish artist who painted the Pope conducting a gay marriage has depicted Elton John breastfeeding his new baby son. -
26 January 2011Tom Ford on why gay men are ‘better fashion designers’ 16 Tom Ford says gay men make better designers because they can "detach the physical from the spiritual". -
14 January 2011Gay and straight students marry in the name of art 25 A gay man and a straight woman have married for an art project. -
13 January 2011America’s first gay museum opens in San Francisco 7 The first gay museum in America opened yesterday in San Francisco.
