Friday 2 May 2014

SEX - LIFE
New evidence sexuality IS innate: Study finds gay men respond to male pheromones Chinese researchers studied the pheromones naturally given off by men and women to see whether they've had much of an effect on the opposite gender. It turns out that they do, and how they do depends on a person's sexuality motherboard.vice.com 2 May 14 Human steroid and rostadienone conveys masculinity to straight women and gay men Paper by Chinese researchers, Wen Zhou, Xiaoying Yang, Kepu Chen, Peng Cai, Sheng He and Yi Jiang cell.com 2 May 14
GAY SUICIDE Two thirds of gay teens have contemplated suicide, as 80% say they are bullied Published by by anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label, the report found gay school and college students are more likely to be bullied than any other demographic group in UK huffingtonpost.co.uk 2 May 14 UK Havant policemen sacked for sexism and homophobia Det Sgt Mark Hall, Det Con Andy Holt and PC Colin Campbell have been dismissed - Their casual and repeated use of demeaning language demonstrated a complete lack of respect for their colleagues and the force can only be stronger without them portsmouth.co.uk 2 May 14 Jan Gooding appointed as new Stonewall Chair of Trustees
	Jan is currently group brand director at Aviva, and will work closely with Stonewall's Acting Chief Executive Ruth Hunt to continue expanding Stonewall's work here in Britain and around the world stonewall.org.uk 2 May 14
Rhyl man jailed for 8 months after making sexual advances towards taxi driver John Dyson Hutchinson, aged 39, was branded by a bully at Mold Crown Court, as under the influence of alcohol and cocaine he made sexual advances towards a gay taxi driver newsnorthwales.co.uk 2 May 14 GAY PRIDE Oxford Pride line-up for their Unite The Union stage
	Headliners Rhapsody take to the stage at 5:20pm, bringing a full hour of Queen hits to get everyone up and dancing, and they're followed by a special appearance from Jo O'Meara from S Club 7 - Oxpens Field, Sat 7 Jun oxford-pride.org.uk 2 May 14
Hold a Spring Offce Picnic to support the Food Chain
	Between 1 March and 31 May, hundreds of hard working employees in London will do what many often fail to do ... take a lunch break! Join them this spring - take a break from dining 'al desco, enjoy lunchtime with your colleagues and raise funds for The Food Chain! foodchain.org.uk 2 May 14
Liverpool Pride celebrate one year of screening LGBT films
	They are marking the occasion with another entertaining Gala Film Night, with the hilarious new comedy GBF (Gay Best Friend) at The Light, the state-of-the-art digital cinema in New Brighton - Tue 6 May lightcinemas.co.uk 2 May 14
Brighton turns Blue for Pride Get ready to scream, faint and behave like a loved-up teenager because Brighton Pride are pleased to announce that the multi-platinum selling, award winning and completely gorgeous boy band Blue will be performing on the Pride Main Stage at Preston Park - Sat 2 Aug brighton-pride.org 2 May 14 WORLD Situation for LGBT people worsens in Russia, Crimea and Ukraine Following the Russian annexation of Crimea, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals are now subject to the Russian 'anti-propaganda' law. In application of the law, authorities in Sebastopol banned the Pride march, which was due to take place 22-23 April lgbt-ep.eu 2 May 14

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Friday 7 March 2014

UK Soccer Rumour:  First openly gay Premier League and England star to come out on Sunday? caughtoffside.com 7 Mar 14 Sexual Orientation Strategy consultation to begin A public consultation on a long-delayed strategy to underpin the rights of gay people in Northern Ireland is set to begin next week bbc.co.uk 7 Mar 14 Lesbian & Gay Foundation awarded £30,000  The LGF was selected from over four hundred charities nationwide as one of this year's winners of a GSK IMPACT Award, for helping to improve the health of LGB&T people by successfully campaigning for NHS England to monitor the sexual orientation of staff and patients lgf.org.uk 7 Mar 14 Two men ordered out of Belfast taxi after gay kiss Mark McLoughlin, who describes himself as bisexual, said the driver objected and swore at them when his male friend kissed him on the cheek and neck bbc.co.uk 7 Mar 14
	'Queer' name row Nigel Martin-Smith, whose company owned Canal Street nightspot Bar Queer, has lost a court claim that a venue set up in Birmingham called Queer Street was an infringement of its trademark manchestereveningnews.co.uk 7 Mar 14
	Pixie Lott Nasty singer rocks rainbow jacket at London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard party at The Waldorf celebrating 40 years of answering calls reveal.co.uk 7 Mar 14
GAY PARENTS Men more sceptical about two-dad families 47% of UK men disagree that a gay male couple can do as good a job bringing up children as a man and a woman, in contrast to 30% of women natcen.ac.uk 7 Mar 14 GAY PRIDE Gay Pride Calendar 2014
	The World's A Disco Pride Brighton & Hove returns with extended opening times from 12 midday until 10pm and the return of the acclaimed main stage - Sat 2 Aug brighton-pride.org 7 Mar 14
	Dyke March London The third Dyke March will start in Shepherd Market, W1J 7QU, where the speakers will kick off the event at 2pm for the march (start at 3pm) down Piccadilly, through central London to Soho Square - Sat 21 Jun dykemarchlondon.org.uk 7 Mar 14 Dyke Marches Worldwide
	Norwich Pride open meeting Help us turn Norwich into a rainbow for the 6th Norwich Pride - at Lollards Pit, 69-71 Riverside, NR1 1SR - Tue 11 Mar 7pm norwichpride.org.uk 7 Mar 14
SHOW BIZ
	Let's All Be Free film festival The Ritzy, Brixton is screening 25 short films from around the world that celebrate and explore what it means to be 'free' in todays' world - 8-10 Apr picturehouses.co.uk 7 Mar 14
	SJ Berwin to host AKT fundraiser Enjoy dinner and sample some wine before taking part in a special auction to raise funds to help the Albert Kennedy Trust continue their work with young LGBT people in need. London - Thu 27 Mar akt.org.uk 7 Mar 14
	My Body My Rights Amnesty International launches global campaign for sexual and reproductive rights, with a series of unique body paintings by Hikaru Cho flickr.com 7 Mar 14
AFRICA Global Day of Action against Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill People around the world, including civil society groups in Europe and the United States, will show their solidarity through protests, petitions and action on social media demanding that Uganda's President Museveni vetoes the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in its entirety amnesty.org | Sign Petition 7 Mar 14 'Not appropriate' to cut Irish aid to Uganda Department of Foreign Affairs secretary general David Cooney said that while Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore had been very clear in condemning recently-passed anti-gay laws, the government believes that cutting aid will only add to the detriment of the Ugandan people thejournal.ie 7 Mar 14 Nigerian gays get 20 lashes for 'homosexual offences' Four Nigerian men have received 20 lashes each after an Islamic court in the northern city of Bauchi convicted them of gay sex, officials say bbc.co.uk 7 Mar 14 O-M-G Dalai Lama supports gay marriage The celibate Dalai Lama has thrown his considerable moral weight behind gay marriage, condemning homophobia and saying sex was fine as long as it was consensual telegraph.co.uk 7 Mar 14
	Doreen Potts (Mrs) How a Kent-based Baptist Evangelist - Bob Hutton, an ardent believer in "praying away the gay" - got duped into publishing spoof comments from a supporter, "Doreen Potts (Mrs)", from Ireland pink_humanist 7 Mar 14

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Wednesday 5 March 2014

UK
Ground-breaking film for primary schools Stonewall's new film FREE teaches primary school children to celebrate difference, to help tackle bullying, 25 years after the introduction of Section 28 stonewall.org.uk 5 Mar 14
	Donna Edmunds UKIP councillor in Lewes believes business owners should be allowed to refuse to serve women and gay people theargus.co.uk 5 Mar 14
	Fury at 'homophobic' TV shame fans Burnley Football Club have condemned fans who were filmed undercover on Channel 4's Dispatches documentary apparently making homophobic chants burnleycitizen.co.uk 5 Mar 14
	Gay cycling star in call to snub Uganda's leaders at Games Graeme Obree has demanded that Glasgow 2014 organisers snub Uganda's political leaders at the Commonwealth Games heraldscotland.com 5 Mar 14
SEX - LIFE Does modern media force people to adopt hyper-sexualised lifestyles?  A University of Huddersfield researcher uses the term "compulsory sexuality" to describe the phenomenon and it will be the focus of the first seminar from a new network sexgennorthernnetwork 5 Mar 14 SHOW BIZ
	Our Gay Wedding: The Musical Stephen Fry is to narrate one of the UK's first same-sex weddings which will be conducted in the form of a musical and broadcast by Channel 4 belfasttelegraph.co.uk 5 Mar 14
	An opportunity for British LGBT film-makers Organisers of the Iris Prize, Cardiff's International gay and lesbian short film prize supported by The Michael Bishop Foundation, have announced plans for a new strand to celebrate the Best of British  - Closing date Fri 4 Jul 2014 irisprize.org

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Thursday 30 August 2012

GAY SPORTS I am What I am - London Gay Men's Chorus join Bereverly Knight at Paralympics opening ceremony twitter.com | lgmc.org.uk 30 Aug 12 Clare Balding: 'Trust me, these Paralympic Games will amaze and delight you' dailymail.co.uk 30 Aug 12
	Sir Ian McKellen carries equality banner at Paralympics opening ceremony channel4.com 30 Aug 12
SEX - LIFE
	Twin Nation Nicholas and Michael Rotgans are identical twins, yet Nicholas is gay and Michael isn't - Radio 4 asks what this can tell us about how sexual identity is determined BBC iPLayer 30 Aug 12
	Zach Wahls his book My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family, argues that his life is not much different from most Americans bbc.co.uk 30 Aug 12
	How to Be Gay review of David M Halperin's book - Philip Hensher challenges an unconvincing study of homosexual tastes guardian.co.uk | Buy Book 30 Aug 12
GAY PRIDE Hampshire police officers to march in uniform at Brighton Pride - Sat 1 Sep portsmouth.co.uk 30 Aug 12 Boy George and full band will appear at Summer Rites in Hoxton - Sun 2 Sep summer-rites.com 30 Aug 12 Gay dog show, as three-day extravaganza returns for Pride Torbay - 7-9 Sep thisissouthdevon.co.uk 30 Aug 12 Prides next weekend in Brighton, Cardiff, Leicester, Grimsby, Scarborough and Barnsley gaytoz Gay Pride Calendar O-M-G New faith school on Cornwall will not teach gay 'nonsense' thisiscornwall.co.uk 30 Aug 12 GAY MARRIAGE New Zealand passes 1st stage of gay marriage law google.com 30 Aug 12 GAY TRAVEL Changes to IGLTA gay travel association's bylaws upsets members - lose rights to vote for the Board gaymarketnews.com | iglta.org 30 Aug 12 'Rather repressive to homosexuals', Fromers Travel Guide calls Bermuda royalgazette.com 30 Aug 12 Top 10 gay wedding destinations from around the world sosogay.co.uk 30 Aug 12 USA Gay artist who vandalized Chick-fil-A won't be charged latimes.com 30 Aug 12 Republican Party will change on LGBT rights over time because "it's clearly a generational issue" washingtonblade.com 30 Aug 12 Detroit man pleads guilty to anti-gay hate-crime assault freep.com 30 Aug 12 CANADA Lebanese pop star Mohamed Eskandar stopped from singing his notoriously anti-gay song at Montreal concert montrealgazette.com 30 Aug 12
	Anna Reid, MD the first openly gay person to head the Canadian Medical Association, says her sexual orientation has never stood in her way cglcc.ca 30 Aug 12
WORLD Play about homosexuality cancelled in Uganda after regulators step in guardian.co.uk 30 Aug 12 Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected calls to give tax breaks to gay couples equal thelocal.de 30 Aug 12 SHOW BIZ Ann Romney invited to officiated gay wedding by creator of Modern Family - 'as soon as it's legal' google.com 30 Aug 12
	John Travolta Former gay lover spills all the secrets of their six-year affair in the National Enquirer radaronline.com 30 Aug 12

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Sunday 5 August 2012

GAY SPORTS Pride House begins series of sports events for all Londoners and visitors to docklands facebook.com 5 Aug 12 GAY PRIDE Merseyside Police flying flag for Liverpool's gay Pride festival liverpoolecho.co.uk 5 Aug 12 Hate crime victims remembered at Michael Causer vigil in Liverpool bbc.co.uk | michaelcauserfoundation.org.uk 5 Aug 12 Thousands attend Belfast annual Pride parade - now in its 22nd year bbc.co.uk 5 Aug 12 Hundreds march in Swindon and Wiltshire Pride parade bbc.co.uk 5 Aug 12
	Dutch homosexuals of Turkish ancestry had their first float in Amsterdam Pride. One massive muscle-bound man on the boat swung a big black sign reading "Turkish, Dutch, Netherlander and Proud" AP google.com 5 Aug 12
	Vietnam holds first gay pride parade with dozens of cyclists decorated with balloons and rainbow flags streamed through Hanoi AFP google.com 5 Aug 12
UK Inequalities For Gays In Britain explored at new seminar in London - Wed 19 Sep lgineqs.co.uk 5 Aug 12 USA Tennessee Democrats reject 'gay-bashing' Senate primary winner chicagotribune.com 5 Aug 12
	Manny Castro Gay Hollywood artist takes credit for vandalizing Torrance Chick-fil-A examiner.com 5 Aug 12
SEX - LIFE Pupil Dilation is an effective way to assess sexual orientation, according to a new study myhealthnewsdaily.com 5 Aug 12 5 Myths about gay people debunked livescience.com 5 Aug 12 WORLD Liberia: UN speaks out against draft law that would criminalize homosexual behaviour allafrica.com 5 Aug 12 SHOW BIZ John Travolta denies sexually assaulting cruise ship worker tmz.com 5 Aug 12 Mika tells Instinct, "Yeah, I'm gay." instinctmagazine.com 5 Aug 12

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