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UK LGBT Narrative for London | |||||
 | A survey is to examine the common and specific ongoing needs and challenges faced by LGBT communities, charities and organisations across the 32 London boroughs Take survey 20 Feb 15 | ||||
HIV prevention spending falls from £55 million to £15 million | |||||
 | NAT estimates in 2014/15 that £15 million was spent nationally on HIV prevention compared with £55 million allocated in 2001/02. In this time the number of people living with HIV has trebled whilst the amount spent on prevention has decreased to less than a third of the original budget. The lifetime costs of HIV treatment and care for someone with HIV is £361,000 nat.org.uk 20 Feb 15 | ||||
Suicide in men 'highest since 2001' | |||||
 | Overall there were 6,233 suicides in men and women over the age of 15 in 2013 - 4% higher than the previous year bbc.co.uk 20 Feb 15 | ||||
Keeping a gay identity is not transphobic | |||||
 | There are reasons that a number of lesbians and gay men find the embracing of transsexuals within gay charities troubling, but these are rarely mentioned for the fear of being accused of transphobia theguardian.com 20 Feb 15 | ||||
GAY BASHING Killers of gay men to marry in first gay prison wedding | |||||
 | Psychopath Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, will next month tie the knot with gay-bashing killer Marc Goodwin, 31. The pair, who met inside, have been given permission to wed at Full Sutton Prison, East Yorks mirror.co.uk 20 Feb 15 | ||||
Man 'dragged, beaten and filmed in forced sex act' | |||||
 | Two men - described by police as Mediterranean in appearance and aged between 20 and 22 with dark hair - took the man to a park near East Ham tube where they beat him with a metal pole before making him perform sex acts on them while they filmed standard.co.uk 20 Feb 15 Glasgow thugs admit vile attack on two men which left one with a fractured skull just because they were gay dailyrecord.co.uk 20 Feb 15 | ||||
Gay man grieving over lost husband amid hate attacks | |||||
 | Paul Finlay-Dickson, who has been subjected to a sustained campaign - with 21 incidents recorded over the past 18 months - lost his beloved husband to cancer just four weeks ago belfasttelegraph.co.uk 20 Feb 15 | ||||
GAY BLOOD DONORS Screen all prospective blood donors based on risk, not sexuality | |||||
 | GLAAD and GMHC are launching a US tv and social media campaign to tell the FDA to screen all prospective blood donors based on risk, not sexual orientation or gender identity celibacychallenge.com 20 Feb 15 | ||||
WORLD Cape Town Pride march 'racist' | |||||
 | "The events currently tabled for the upcoming Cape Town Pride are exclusionary and do not represent the black LGBTI community," says the Free Gender campaign group iol.co.za 20 Feb 15 capetownpride.org Pride Calendar 2015 | ||||
Celebrities defend gay rights in Ghana | |||||
 | Ghanaian celebrities have taken to social media to condemn the beating of a suspected gay man, opening a rare window for debate on homosexuality in a country where gay sex is illegal bbc.co.uk 20 Feb 15 | ||||
SHOW BIZ Secret Diaries | |||||
 | Art With Heart are touring our new play Secret Diaries, an award-winning coming of age tale (inspired by a true story) about Hayley, a young lesbian growing up in the 80s and 90s - around the UK, Feb-Apr artwithheart.org.uk 20 Feb 15 | ||||
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