Posts in 'Politics' Category
“BORN IN FLAMES” (15) dir: Lizzie Borden USA 1983
There might be some connection – a coincidence of a cinematic kind perhaps – when a rare category, exempli gratia films made by women about women, follow each other to the box office. I am thinking of “The Iron Lady” re Margaret Thatcher (dir: Phyllida Lloyd) and “W.E.” re Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII (dir: [...]
Happy 60th Birthday Peter Tatchell
Happy 60th Birthday Peter Tatchell. To some, Peter Tatchell is the People’s Protester, to other’s he is an annoyance, for this author he is a hero. Citing his constant campaigns for human rights, highlighting environmental issues with his role as the Green Party’s Parliamentary candidate for Oxford East, and for being the one man brave [...]
Homophobic Tweet
The way we can now all communicate via social networks, like Facebook, Twitter etc has opened the world to some great debates as well as some really banal tweets. I’m still puzzled why Stephen Fry’s tweet that he was stuck in a lift a few years back made the Six O Clock news, I guess [...]
Brighton LGBT Blogs
It can seem an overwhelming task to find what you’re looking for and Googling ‘lesbian or gay blog’ could lead you to hours of time spent down Alice’s Rabbit Hole in search for what you want. There are heaps of American blogs, so I thought I’d take a trip down the rabbit hole myself and unearth just who is LGBT and blogging in Brighton & Hove.
The Pink List 2011
The Pink List was finally revealed yesterday. Compiled by readers of the Independent on Sunday; it was whittled down by big names in the LGBT community such as Gareth Thomas (rugby player and Stonewall 2010 Hero of the Year), Stephen K Amos (stand-up comic known for his documentary Batty Man which highlighted homophobia in black British and [...]
Stand up to LGBT Bullying
When I wrote about Jamie Rodemeyer taking his own life after years of being bullied at school for being bisexual, in the back of my head I really believed that the children who had targeted him would wake up to their words of hate and realise that they had been the cause of a 14 [...]
Brighton Pride Podcasts
On Brighton Pride Day we chatted to some of the groups at Preston Park who had a stall. Find out more about who they are in this podcast and what information they were handing out: This podcast includes: Brighton & Hove Carers Centre – Reaching Out (LGBT Carers Group) http://www.thecarerscentre.org/ Brighton LGBT Green Party http://www.lgbtgreens.org.uk/brighton/ [...]
30 Year Ban on Gay Men Giving Blood to be Lifted.
After thirty years, the lifelong ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood is set to be lifted late this year…with certain conditions attached. The main one being that a gay/bisexual man will only be allowed to donate blood as long as he has abstained from any sexual intercourse with another man for twelve months. [...]
Brighton Pride Parade 2011
I cannot believe that Pride has been and gone already for another year! But do not despair because Zhoosh had a go at podcasting for the first time and here is the first upload from the Brighton Pride Parade. A big thanks goes to: Sam Swann, Tatti McNally, Mel Berry and Lucy Jefferys for spending [...]
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 [...]
