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A return to barbarism?
I’ve just read about a campaign by right-wing blogger Guido Fawkes to try to bring back the death penalty in the UK. I want to vomit. I’m not exaggerating. We cleansed ourselves of the hideous, inexcusable concept of state-sponsored murder in 1964 with the last executions in England (although some crimes on the statute books [...]
A GoGo I did GoGo too.
So in my last blog I was lamenting the fact that I don’t like camping and the only thing that would save me was Leisha Hailey. Well, much the disappointment of everyone at GoGo Festival Uh Huh Her had to cancel their performance due to illness. Where did this leave me? I panicked, I cried, [...]
Fundraising @ THT
Fundraising at THT As part of their ongoing strategy to keep the message of safer sex and HIV in the public’s mind, the team at Terrence Higgins Trust have embarked on a range of fun fundraising activities. On the 15th May THT joined the event “Brighton’s Hero’s Run”, organised by the charity “Passing It On”, [...]
London Pride & Brighton Pride: “Where are those who were before us?”
A few days ago a dear friend – who shall be nameless but who inhabits a property very close to Preston Park (where she becomes very popular at Pride time because her front garden can accommodate 4 cars) was telling me about her trip to London Pride. And about the topless bus – upon which [...]
Concerning a free press
The recent News of the World furore got me thinking. One of the things I value about living in the UK is that we have (at least notionally) a free press. Cameron’s swift volte-face regarding the Press Complaints Commission, to me illustrates the need to clarify what “free” means. Journalists, are you listening? Free means [...]
By ‘eck! The queers are comin’!!
Brian Sewell, the vituperative viper over at the Daily Hate, has spewed forth a torrent of venom, prejudice, loathing and fear, in the guise of a reasoned plea for decency.
The whole gamut of sexualities and gender identities summed up as quirks. Or fetishes. It’s blatant homophobia, dehumanising and ghettoising. It shouldn’t be allowed.
LGBTQ Hate Crime Exists in Brighton & Hove: Let Us Not Be Complacent & Invisible
If estimated statistics are correct, the 20,000 LGBT residents of Brighton & Hove that day were predominantly invisible. Apathy was prevailing and our city bubble mentality preventing many from feeling the need to make any noise. Let ‘us’ not be our biggest enemy. 72 crimes and incidents of LGBT hate crime within our ‘Brighton bubble’ in one year is reason enough to for us to not become invisible through complacency, a shrug of our shoulders and a mis-guided belief that ‘it doesn’t effect me’.
Lesbians on TV! Candy Bar Girls and The Night Watch
Think you don’t see enough lesbians on TV? Get set for a new six part reality TV series starting on Thursday, which will follow the lives and loves of a group of young lesbians who are working to get London’s Candy Bar ready for its re-launch following a recent refurbishment. The series ‘Candy Bar Girls’ will [...]
New LGBT Project for Brighton
A new and exciting project has started in Brighton & Hove. Nick Douglas is the LGBT Health Involvement Project (HIP) Coordinator and is responsible for a new initiative working with LGBT organisations in Brighton, (LGBT switchboard, THT South, Mind Out, Allsorts Youth Project, Brighton Both Ways and the Claire Project) to get a better understanding [...]
