Monday 9 March 2015

UK One in five gay teenagers claim they have suffered homophobic bullying from teachers and other adults in school
	National Aids Trust research also strongly suggested that poor sex education lessons are driving a rise in the number of young gay men contracting HIV independent.co.uk  9 Mar 15 No cross-party consensus on LGBTI inclusive Sex and Relationships Education nat.org.uk  9 Mar 15
Man dies hours after collapsing at gay sauna Pleasuredrome in Waterloo
	The 37-year-old man was rushed to hospital after he was taken ill at the Pleasuredrome gay sauna in Cornwall Road yesterday. Doctors at St Thomas' Hospital called police when he died at 3.40pm. His death is being treated as unexplained standard.co.uk  9 Mar 15
TRANS Finding a public bathroom just got much easier for Trans People
	Refuge Restrooms is an app that tells "transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals" which bathrooms are safe to use all over the world buzzfeed.com 9 Mar 15
JAMAICA Gay youth stoned to death in Jamaica
	An angry mob stoned a young, allegedly gay man to death in Jamaica and filmed themselves hurling rocks at his head gaystarnews.com  9 Mar 15
SHOW BIZ 'Star Wars' introduces first LGBT character
	Moff Mors is an Imperial who has made some very serious mistakes but she is an incredibly capable leader and spends much of the book working hard to prevent absolute failure. She also happens to be a lesbian bigshinyrobot.com 9 Mar 15

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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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16-17 February 2015

UK New National LGBT Hate Crime Partnership
	The LGBT Consortium, in partnership with 31 LGBT organisations from across England and Wales, and funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, aims to increase the reporting of LGBT hate crimes and incidents and improve the support available to those targeted lgbtconsortium.org.uk  17 Feb 15
Sex education should be mandatory in all schools, MPs demand
	Ministers scolded for not addressing inadequate teaching of the subject despite huge demand from teachers, parents and students. In a hard-hitting report published on Tuesday, the Commons education select committee comes down firmly on the side of campaigners who have long fought for sex and relationships education (SRE) to be made mandatory theguardian.com  17 Feb 15
Sexual identity issues in claiming UK asylum
	Latest Home Office instructions explains how UK Visas and Immigration conducts asylum interviews in claims made on the basis of sexual identity gov.uk  17 Feb 15
'Uber drivers give me a low passenger rating because I'm gay'
	Svend Littauer, chief operating officer for a services company, said he believed he was the victim of homophobia after getting inexplicably low passenger ratings from drivers standard.co.uk  17 Feb 15
Ireland's Workplace Equality Index launched
	"The Workplace Equality Index will push top-performing employers in Ireland to new heights," said Davin Roche, director of workplace diversity at Ireland's GLEN Gay and Lesbian Equality Network glen.ie  17 Feb 15
WORLD New Zealand education and gay rights activist Robin Duff dies
	Mr Duff was the first openly gay man in New Zealand to stand for Parliament. He was also involved in the beginnings of the National Gay Rights Coalition nzherald.co.nz  17 Feb 15
GAY PRIDE Pride Scotia rebranded Pride Edinburgh
	Following its 10 years of existence, the festival of events, which includes the Pride Scotia parade, will now be known as Pride Edinburgh, and has a new visual identity - Sat 20 Jun kaleidoscot.com 17 Feb 15 prideedinburgh.org.uk Pride Calendar 2015

Monday
TRANS Stonewall to campaign for trans equality
	Historic move follows extensive consultation with over 700 trans people. Stonewall will make current campaigns trans-inclusive and develop new work on trans-specific issues stonewall.org.uk/trans  16 Feb 15

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Monday 2 February 2015

GAY HISTORY Petition launched for gay sex pardons
	Ask the UK Government to pardon all of the estimated 49,000 men who, like Alan Turing, were convicted of consenting same-sex relations under the British "gross indecency" law (only repealed in 2003), and also all the other men convicted under other UK anti-gay laws petertatchellfoundation Sign Petition  2 Feb 15
Stonewall celebrates defining moments and voices this LGBT History Month
	Working with schools, local authorities, celebrities and workplaces, Stonewall will share stories from its guide celebrating older LGBT people LGBT Voices and look back on its journey on the Stonewall25 website stonewall25.org.uk  2 Feb 15
O-M-G Conscience bill sparks protests across Northern Ireland
	1,300 attended a trio of rallies against the DUP's planned "conscience clause" bill at the weekend. The bill aims to protect businesses like Ashers Bakery, if they decline to accept custom on religious grounds newsletter.co.uk 2 Feb 15
Gay marriage cake: Christian Institute seeks donations for Ashers Bakery legal battle
	The public is being asked to donate money to help Ashers Bakery in its 'David and Goliath' legal fight against the Equality Commission. The Christian-run business in Belfast is being taken to court after refusing to include a slogan 'Support gay marriage' on a cake belfasttelegraph.co.uk  2 Feb 15
"We don't want to see men and women getting married"
	Michael O'Leary from Cork makes his contribution to The People's Debate on Ireland's same-sex referendum. youtube.com  2 Feb 15
UK Ex-soldier jailed for vicious homophobic attack outside Exeter gay bar
	Iraq veteran David Tomkinson was caught on CCTV repeatedly punching and kicking his helpless victim as he was curled up on the ground trying to protect himself. His defence said it was not a homophobic attack and Tomkinson was reacting to being accused of stealing the victim's wallet exeterexpressandecho  2 Feb 15
GAY SPORTS Football v Homophobia launched in Manchester
	A host of clubs from across the football pyramid - from Premier League pacesetters Chelsea and Manchester City to Dulwich Hamlet and Tonbridge Angels - have pledged their support, as the 2015 Football v Homophobia campaign kicks off at the National Football Museum in Manchester thefa.com  2 Feb 15
GAY ADVERTISING Gay lovers featured in moving Super Bowl commercials
	The commercial is part of Australian jeweler Michael Hill's "We're for love" campaign, in which a diverse pool of more than 1,200 New Yorkers were interviewed about love. The Super Bowl commercial features 40 of those respondents businessinsider.com.au  2 Feb 15
COMING OUT Richard Wilson: 'I didn't mind being outed, but I thought I should warn my sister'
	Actor Richard Wilson talks about directing Sarah Kane's Blasted, the ghost of Victor Meldrew, and keeping his sexuality a secret from his parents theguardian.com  2 Feb 15
Influential Church of England evangelical comes out as gay
	Jayne Ozanne, 46, is the new director of Accepting Evangelicals, and was formerly from the Orthodox wing of the Church, holding strictly conservative views on sexuality. Ms Ozanne disclosed her sexuality in confidence a few years ago in a moving letter to a select group of church leaders. Not one of the few who knew has leaked details of her journey christiantoday.com  2 Feb 15

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