Tom Downey was out with James Parkes in Liverpool city centre when they were attacked. Mr Parkes is still very ill. Both of them have been overwhelmed by the huge support and many messages of sympathy they have been receiving. There will be a vigil in Liverpool’s gay village against homophobic violence tomorrow evening.
Former Mr [...]
Archive for October, 2009
PC Parkes; partner overwhelmed by support
Posted in Homophobia, Personal safety, Society, UK, tagged Gay police, homophobic violence, James Parkes, Liverpool on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OK. We like men. Now tell us something we didn’t know
Posted in Gay culture, Gender, People, Research, tagged Bona omis on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, reports Science Daily. Regardless of sexual orientation, men’s brains are wired for attraction to people with facial features that are most synonymous with their gender. Wow.
“Our work showed that gay men found highly masculine [...]
Obama lets people with HIV into the US
Posted in Dignity, Healthcare, Homophobia, Society, USA, tagged People living with HIV, President Obama, US HIV Travel Ban on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Public health and AIDS experts hailed President Obama’s announcement Friday to end a two-decade ban on people with HIV from entering the country, a restriction they described as archaic and discriminatory, reports SF Gate.
The amendments to immigration rules which will end the ban will be published on Monday and the ban is expected to expire [...]
President Obama signs the Matthew Shepard Act into law
Posted in Homophobia, Law, People, USA, tagged Anti gay hate crimes, Matthew Shepard on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Judy Shepard (second left) watches as President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law at the White House.
Gay Activist sends congratulations.
James Rennie: Life Sentence
Posted in People, UK, tagged James Rennie, Scotland on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Former gay rights campaigner James Rennie who abused his position of trust and committed paedophile offences has been jailed for life. The judge said that Rennie abused the child of his best friends, almost from its birth to the age of four years. By distributing images and films of his attacks to his gang of [...]
James Parkes: more arrests
Posted in Homophobia, Society, UK, tagged James Parkes, Liverpool, Liverpool gay village on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Six more youths have been arrested on assault charges following the vicious beating of gay PC James Parkes by a gang of thugs in Liverpool, reports the Liverpool Echo.
Lou Chibarro
Posted in Gay culture, People, USA, gay business, tagged gay journalists on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The American public radio network NPR has broadcast a profile of journalist and gay rights campaigner Lou Chibarro Jnr, who started the Washington Blade gay newspaper four decades ago. Well worth hearing.
NPR Radio
Gay blood ban in UK to be reviewed. AT LAST
Posted in Healthcare, Homophobia, Human rights, Society, UK, tagged Gay blood donations on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Times reports today that there is to be a full review of the National health service’s lifetime ban on gay men giving blood. Furthermore, the government has indicated that it could be overturned in 2010.
Currently, a man is prevented from donating blood if he admits having had sex with another man at any time [...]
Italian politician quits in sex scandal involving transvestite
Posted in Europe, People, Politics, tagged Italy, Marrazzo, Rome, sex scandals involving European politicians on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Italian politician Piero Marrazzo resigned on Saturday just days after four policemen were arrested for trying to blackmail him with a video purportedly showing him with a transsexual in a Rome apartment. After denying the video, and declaring himself the victim of a smear campaign, Marrazzo changed his tune yesterday.
Marrazzo: Photo, Vittorio Zunino Celotto
“It’s a [...]
Trainee policeman injured in hate attack
Posted in Homophobia, Personal safety, UK on October 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Trainee policeman James Parkes is fighting for his life today after being attacked by a gang of 13 young people as he left a gay bar in Liverpool’s Stanley Street. He was left with multiple skull fractures, a fractured eye socket and a fractured cheek bone.
Three youths, two aged 15 and another aged 14, from [...]
