Friday 20 February 2015

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
GAY BUSINESS Obama's trade deal rewards a brutally anti-gay dictator  Prominent LGBT members of Congress assailed the Obama administration on Wednesday for including Brunei and Malaysia - two nations deeply hostile to gay communities - in major trade talks huffingtonpost.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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Wednesday 28 January 2015

GAY PRIDE Student Pride 2015 programme announced
	Journalist Owen Jones and actor Bethany Black will be speaking at student pride 2015 in London, in a programme that includes a jobs fair, arts pride, queer cinema, a carnival and parties - 27 Feb - 1 Mar studentpride.co.uk  28 Jan 15
Bristol Pride 2015 will be greenest event yet
	'Green Rainbow' is the theme for Bristol 2015 and are organisers are encouraging people to create placards and recycled outfits for the parade - 4-12 Jul  pridebristol.co.uk  28 Jan 15
HIV AIDS 64 local authorities aim to 'halve it' for HIV infections
	Southwark Council in London is the latest local authority to join the 'Halve It' campaign to reduce by 50% the number of residents diagnosed late with HIV and those living with undiagnosed HIV halveit.org.uk  28 Jan 15 Download Paper
STICKS AND STONES School cancels LGBT workshop last-minute because 'the other side had to be heard'
	Founder of ShoutOut Eoin O'Liathain said volunteers had already arrived at the Dublin school when he received the call. "It was a bit flabbergasting, because there is no political message or component to ShoutOut whatsoever." independent.ie  28 Jan 15
Green party candidate apologises for offending transgender people
	The philosopher Dr Rupert Read sparked a heated debate after posting that the use of the word "cisgender" as the opposite of "transgender" troubled him independent.co.uk  28 Jan 15
Under-fire Newport Ukip candidate faces calls to stand down
	Donald Grewar is being investigated by the party for replying "Well said" in response to a message on the BNP website referring to gay people as "perverts" and "paedophiles" southwalesargus.co.uk  28 Jan 15
GAY RESEARCH LGBT support for same-sex marriage isn't as uniform as one might think
	Among US Republican LGBT adults, support for gay marriage is not as strong as it is among Democrat LGBT adults, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey (78% c/w 98%). And a substantial share say the issue has taken too much attention from other important issues pewresearch.org  28 Jan 15
AFRICA Nigeria arrests 12 planning 'homosexual' wedding
	"These men were arrested as they planned to hold a wedding among themselves," said Sheikh Aminu Daurawa, head of Kano State's Hisbah board police. "They are homosexuals; their acts are against the (sharia) law" dailysabah.com  28 Jan 15
Uganda: 9 gay men threatened by mob, arrested by police
	Without knowing it, the men had put their lives in jeopardy by visiting an STI screening clinic, which attracted the attention of a homophobic mob 76crimes.com  28 Jan 15
ALAN TURING Sicilian street named after gay codebreaker Alan Turing
	Catania's place names committee has decided to name seven streets after two police commissioners killed by the Mafia, a theatre founder, a writer, and Alan Turing 'the discoverer of the codes of the Enigma machine' cataniaoggi.com  28 Jan 15

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Monday 22 December 2014

UK Meet the first transgender RAF pilot
	Flight Lieutenant Ayla Holdom, 34, is the first and currently the only openly transgender military pilot in Britain. She spoke out about returning to work at RAF Chivenor in North Devon as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, having undergone two years' of operations to become a woman independent.co.uk  22 Dec 14
Christian printer who refused gay magazine backs conscience clause Bill
	Northern Irish printer Nick Williamson has refused work from a gay magazine, saying the publication of sexually explicit images went against his faith belfasttelegraph.co.uk  22 Dec 14
NAT welcomes Government commitment to maintain national HIV prevention funding
	Minister for Public Health, Jane Ellison MP, said: "I want to take this opportunity to make absolutely clear that this Government will protect funding for HIV prevention." Over 1400 people wrote to the Minister to voice their concerns nat.org.uk  22 Dec 14
Gay Irish emigrants come home for Christmas
	A 'Yes' result in next year's same-sex marriage referendum would herald a positive shift in attitudes, say visiting LGBT Irish people. 'I've never felt any homophobia' says returned emigrant Tom Lawlor irishtimes.com  22 Dec 14
WORLD LGBT Ugandans launch online magazine
	Kuchu Times is the first collective online media platform for LGBTI Africans, whose objective is to create attitude change within African society kuchutimes.com  22 Dec 14

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Friday 12 December 2014

UK Gay life in Northern Ireland is under threat - time to act
	The first minister, Peter Robinson, is backing a private member's bill seeking to change the law to allow businesses to refuse to serve gay people theguardian.com  12 Dec 14
UKIP is now motivated by prejudices against foreigners, gays, and Muslims
	UKIP's founder Alan Sked says The EU, it turns out, is as intellectually bankrupt as Nigel Farage, in an article in The Commentator. It would like to restore Britain to its position in the 1950s, before the advent of the sexual revolution thecommentator.com  12 Dec 14
Eight organisations named as Stonewall Star Performers
	Star Performers will actively mentor another employer who are working to create a workplace culture that is inclusive of LGBT people, and lead the development of best practice in Britain and around the world stonewall.org.uk  12 Dec 14
Stonewall Housing launches Winter Auction to counter LGBTQ homelessness
	This year's Winter Auction includes prints, films, a zine pack, a Mi Mandela album signed by Idris Elba, a 12 month subscription to Gay Times magazine, a Horns poster signed by Juno Temple, cupcakes and more! You can participate in the Winter Auction until December 20th by bidding here: Stonewall Housing  12 Dec 14
TRANS Becoming Myself: Radio 4 looks at Gender Identity
	A revealing series which goes inside the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic in Hammersmith, London - the largest and oldest in the world - to explore the condition of gender dysphoria bbc.co.uk  12 Dec 14
The Sun asks how blind transgender Labour candidate knew she was 'the wrong sex'
	Emily Brothers has hit back at Rod Liddle for comments he made in a recent column, where he asked how the blind transgender Labour candidate would have known she was "the wrong sex". Liddle has since apologised independent.co.uk  12 Dec 14
Being Trans in the EU - Comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data
	New EU report examines issues of equal treatment and discrimination on sexual orientation, and on gender identity. It analyses data on the experiences of 6,579 trans respondents, the largest body of empirical evidence of its kind to date europa.eu  12 Dec 14
HIV AIDS HIV most often passed on by younger gay men
	Two-thirds of infections originate in men with undiagnosed HIV - and HIV transmissions most frequently involve men under the age of 35 who report relatively high levels of sexual activity aidsmap.com  12 Dec 14
COMING OUT Asian and gay: Doctor was driven to his death
	In the wake of the Dewani trial, a man tells how his fiance took his own life after his family told him to "cure" his sexuality sky.com  12 Dec 14
WORLD Thousands of Gambians march to say 'no to homosexuality'
	President Alhaji Jammeh, expressed total disapproval of attempts to tie aid to The Gambia to so called homosexual and lesbian rights. Placards included "Even cows don't do it!" observer.gm  12 Dec 14
BONKERS 'Harry Styles had a gay affair with President Barack Obama' says US magazine
	According to US supermarket tabloid, National Examiner, the curliest-haired member of the world's biggest boyband, and the actual leader of the USA embarked on a top-secret affair behind the First Lady's back celebrity.yahoo.com  12 Dec 14

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