Tim Teeman of the Times reviews the Gay Icons exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Wot, no Dusty?
If you don’t like the icons selected, you could always take the lift up to the top level Cafe with its fantastic skyline views. Its one of the best views in London.
Archive for June, 2009
Rent boy alleges affair with married judge
Posted in Ethics, Society, UK, tagged dangerous affairs, Judiciary, rent boys, standards in public life, Wales on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Judge Gerald Price, QC, 60, is alleged to have had an intimate relationship with 25-year-old Christopher Williams, a £250-a-night rent boy, report a number of papers today with relish.
Mr Williams alleged in a newspaper report yesterday that the senior circuit judge from south Wales set him up with a flat and paid him an allowance. [...]
Hooray for India
Posted in Asia, Human rights, tagged India, law reform, legalisation of homosexuality on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Times reports that the Indian Government have decided to legalise homosexuality, at long last.
Gay Activist congratulates India on their enormous step forward.
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40 years on in Britain – have we lost our sense of community?
Posted in Gay culture, History, Homophobia, Human rights, Society, UK, tagged Gay liberation and history in the UK on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew Paris, writing in The Times, thinks so. He compares pre liberation Britain with all its secrecy and furtiveness and threat to the in -your-face-gaydar-liberated gay scene of today and misses the ‘intimacy and camaraderie that came with prohibition and social danger.’
His memory also plays tricks on him. The 1967 Act was not an Act [...]
Councillor banned for demons remark
Posted in Homophobia, UK, tagged anti-gay religions, Wales on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Pritchard, former town councillor in Barmouth, Gwynedd has been disqualified for 12 months after referring to homosexuality as a “notorious disability” and as “a demon which can be driven out”. Mr Pritchard is an evangelical Methodist.
Canterbury is gay friendly, then. Official, says ombudsman
Posted in Funding, Gay culture, Politics, Society, UK, gay business, tagged Canterbury, Kent, local gay scenes on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Complaints by Canterbury Pride that Canterbury is not gay friendly because it doesn’t have a gay scene have been dismissed by the local government ombudsman, reports the BBC and others today.
The Local Government Ombudsman said an investigation had found no grounds for Canterbury Pride’s claims, adding the organisation had been given funding by the council.
Happy Birthday Stonewall Riot
Posted in Gay Events, Gay culture, History, Society, USA, Uncategorized, tagged 1968.gay history, New York, Stonewall Riots on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AFP have been to New York on the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riot which heralded the start of campaigns for gay equality in the USA and led to the start of Gay Prides.
The uprising ‘rocked the neighborhood for five consecutive nights, as homosexuals fought back against police raids targeting gay-friendly establishments.’
AFP
Observers and participants looking [...]
Civil Partnerships for Ireland
Posted in Civil Partnerships, Human rights, Society, tagged Civil Partnerships, Ireland on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Irish government today published its very long awaited Civil Partnership Bill. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties welcomed the Bill. Activists in Ireland say the Bill does not go far enough and gays and lesbians deserve full Marriage equality.
Attitudes hard in Northern Ireland
Posted in Homophobia, Research, Society, UK, information, tagged Attitudes to gays in Northern Ireland on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A survey by Northern Ireland’s Equality Commission found a high level of intolerance towards gay men and lesbians. But to put the headlines into context, other sections of the community were even more disliked than gay men and lesbians. 51% would not want a member of the Traveller Community next door to them; 20% would [...]
