LONDON PROTEST AGAINST UGANDAN ANTI-GAY BILL

Outrage is supporting a protest this Thursday 10th December against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that’s currently being debated in the Ugandan parliament. The bill proposes the death penalty for agrreavated and serial homosexual acts and extends the existing penalty of life imprisonment for anal...

December 7th, 2009 | International | Read More

COMMENT: HIV – 20 YEARS ON

As I come into the year of the 20th anniversary of my HIV positive diagnosis the gap between two observations before me is so vast I am moved to make what I am seeing public, in the hope of sparking more conversation about a subject that is a huge factor in every gay man’s life. Every gay man has to...

December 1st, 2009 | Health, Highlights | Read More

TATCHELL’S LETTER TO COMMONWEALTH LEADER

Copy of Peter Tatchell’s letter to the Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma Commonwealth Secretary-General Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX 020 7747 6500 secretary-general@commonwealth.int 19 November 2009 Your Excellency, I am writing to inquire what the Commonwealth is...

November 26th, 2009 | International, News | Read More

TERROR CAMPAIGN AGAINST LGBT IN IRAQ CONTINUES

The rise of fundamentalist groups in Iraq since the 2003 U.S. led invasion has proven deadly to LGBT Iraqis, who are now being forced to either hide or face the consequences. Using the internet as a means to track down new victims, militia members are now employing computer analysts to monitor traffic...

November 20th, 2009 | International, News | Read More

BRIT DESIGNER BACKS WORLD AIDS DAY

British Fashion designer Giles Deacon and a host of celebrities are backing Crusaid’s THINK. TALK. ACT.GIVE! campaign this World AIDS Day, December 1st. The campaign calls for the public to consider the issues around HIV and AIDS – such as the link to poverty – with the aim of putting...

November 19th, 2009 | Health, News | Read More

RESCUE PACKAGE PROPOSED FOR BRIGHTON PRIDE

Wilde Ones, Pride in Brighton and Hove’s production company for the last ten years, is proposing a rescue package for Brighton Pride. The proposal aims to keep the same style of event that was produced in 2009, but with additional enhancements, and with all profits going to local voluntary sector...

November 15th, 2009 | News, Pride, What's on | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: SACRIFICE

Before chems became the main course and not the starter, GAY MEN’S HEALTH was all about catching the lurgee, the gay plague bestowed upon us by an unknown force and according to Donna Summer in the ’80’s, it was the Lord himself shouting down from above – no more bum fun for...

November 10th, 2009 | Clubland, Highlights, Rehab | Read More

CHATLINE ROBBER: “GAY MEN WERE EASY TARGETS”

A man who robbed gay men he met on gay chatlines has been jailed for six years. Adil Zahid, 27, fromWalthamstow, pleaded guilty to four counts of robbery and one count of handling a stolen vehicle. He said his motives for attacking the men were strategic rather than homophobic as he believed...

November 5th, 2009 | News | Read More

TATCHELL: “HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IGNORED FOR FEAR OF RACISM”

Image via Wikipedia Below is a short excerpt from a speech Peter Tatchell delivered in defence of universal human rights at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 28 October 2009. Tatchell believes that in large parts of the world, including many western nations, the principle of universal human...

November 5th, 2009 | Comment, International, News | Read More

BRIGHTON PRIDE MAY DITCH DANCE TENTS

Brighton Pride’s £50,000 shortfull in funding for the 2009 event may mean that it’s famous dance-tents may be ditched in favour of a more community friendly event. Although no decisions have been made yet, Pride’s Chief Executive Leslie Burn said: “By changing the format of...

October 30th, 2009 | Clubland, Pride, Theatre | Read More