Posts in 'Politics' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
You. Utter. Bastard.
The lies which make up THIS blog breed doubt in any others of similar nature. The next time we read an apparently earnest, heartfelt cry for help from an LGBTQ person in such a regime, we will hesitate and wonder. And apathy will be more likely.
Apathy, the enemy of any advances in these states.
Moscow Pride 2011 Attacked Again
With all the in-fighting and back biting we have seen over the last few years in the name of Brighton Gay Pride, it is all too easy to forget that there are people living in countries that crack down on the very idea that there is a LGBT community out there. Last Saturday Pride Marchers where [...]
It’s called democracy, Geoffrey.
And so it starts. The new Conservative opposition leader, Geoffrey Theobald, has chosen to start his term by having a good old whinge. According to him, the Conservatives have been “frozen out” of key jobs on the council. I’ll save you the brain damage and sum up his reaction thusly: We were given a chance [...]
