London BiFete – Have your cake and eat it! Saturday September 28th, 2 – 8pm. All flavours welcome (provided you’re bi-friendly!). BiFete is a friendly, sociable celebration of Bi Visibility Day! A suggested donation of £3 towards venue costs – more if you can afford it, less if you can’t. Venue: The Brixton Community Base, Brixton St Vincent’s Community Centre, Talma Road, London SW2 1AS. The venue has step-free access.
Epic Gallery: 150 Years Of Lesbians And Other Lady-Loving-Ladies – Photographs of women dating back well over 150 years. An old piece (from September 2012) but some fantastic pictures.
Mark O’Connell has made it to the longlist for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize with his debut book Catching Bullets – Memoirs of a Bond Fan. The list was announced 30th July. Mark will be at booQfest on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September so you can go and chat to him about his work and how he felt to be nominated. Paul Burston, Chair judge of the prize, will also be there on the Saturday talking about the prize and his other work. AND, if that wasn’t enough, Polari FBP judge VG Lee (nominated for Stonewall writer of the year 2012) will be there too!
In an article in today’s Observer newspaper, many LGBT people say they expect to face discrimination and feel that social attitudes lag behind parliament. The report is by Jamie Doward.
Pride festivals clash today – August 3rd – with both Liverpool and Brighton holding their parades and parties. What’s more the themes clash, with Liverpool… Read More »North/South Pride Divide
The Pride committee of Pride Uganda is excited to announce that the dates for the second pride in Uganda have been set and will be… Read More »Uganda's LGBT Community To Celebrate Second Pride
In the run up to Pride 2013, Polari editor Christopher Bryant managed to catch up with Tony Fenwick, co-chair of LGBT History Month and Schools… Read More »Polari Interviews Tony Fenwick
COMPETITION TIME!
If you receive the monthly HM Bulletin, you will have seen the beautiful new badges now on sale leading up to HM 2014 (if you don’t get our bulletin – why not? It’s free!) and the tie-in competition with your chance to win £100 (further details in the article). We have another fundraising opportunity, working in association with Child Reach International. So if climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya is on your to do list, read on….
This week has been a hugely busy one for Schools Out and LGBT History Month – and all of it good busy!
‘An audience with Martina Navratilova’ hosted by Claire Balding on 23rd June at St. James Theatre as a start to Pride in London week. All proceeds from the event go to support the parade and LGBT organisations.
Sue Sanders Co-chair of SchoolsOUTuk and LGBT History month asks Claire and Martina for their thoughts on how we support teachers to educate young people about LGBT people. This was their response….
