In a YouTube video praising IDAHO, Minister for Equalities Lynne Featherstone promoted the LGBT Sports Charter; the hate crime reporting site True Vision; and re-emphasised… Read More »Equalities Minister IDAHO Statement
Birmingham LGBT Community is ‘proud’ to announce that the Big Lottery Fund, through their Reaching Communities Strand, has awarded a grant of £479,263 over a… Read More »Big Lottery Fund awards £1/2 m for Birmingham LGBT Health & Wellbeing Centre
The first national survey of attitudes and perceptions of Jamaicans towards homosexuality has found that negative views of homosexuality tended to be greatest among males,… Read More »Survey links Men, Religion, Reggae, Class and Education (lack of) with Jamaica Homophobia
Today is IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia). It’s a world wide celebration of our queer identity to mark the day (May 17th) that… Read More »Happy IDAHO
Gays the Word hosts a Queer Poetry Evening on May 23rd which will include the launch of The Frost Fairs by John McCullough and The… Read More »Queer Poetry Evening at Gays the Word
Uganda has dropped – or shelved it’s proposed anti-gay bill. Parliament closed yesterday after failing to implement it. Although Parliament has been extended to run… Read More »Uganda Drops Anti-Gay Bill
The new play opening at the Market Theatre this week, Loving Lulu, shows the theatre’s commitment to new writers. Written by Noxolo Tshabangu and Bruce… Read More »New writer takes to stage in lesbian title role
Singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading and her partner, artist Maggie Butler, are to have a civil partnership in May 2011. Armatrading began her music career in the… Read More »Joan Armatrading to marry girlfriend
Joanna Russ (born 1937), lesbian science fiction writer and critic, and author of The Female Man (1975), has died peacefully, following a stroke in February… Read More »Joanna Russ dies
South African Muhsin Hendricks is an Islamic cleric and a gay man. He runs a foundation called The Inner Circle, which helps Muslims, who are… Read More »Islamic cleric: 'It's OK to be gay'
