HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: FAMILY

Many gayers will be going home for Christmas only to discover the reason why they left, no wonder the suicide rate is climbing the walls between turkey and the New Year. It can’t be the telly, though it’s high on the list when it comes to irritation, nor is it the best behaviour one must...

December 15th, 2009 | Rehab | Read More

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

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: VIRUS LIVING

In the current PC climate of rising HIV infections, when health charities place the sensibilties of poz people above prevention, many say we need to go back to basics. When this gay plague started I was there, being tested at The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead in 1981. Doctors had flown from America...

December 1st, 2009 | Highlights, News, Rehab | 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

COMMONWEALTH RAPPED FOR IGNORING HOMO-ABUSE

Image via Wikipedia Gay rights campaigner and Green Party human rights spokesperson Peter Tatchell has accused Commonwealth leaders of a “systematic, persistent failure to condemn homophobic discrimination and violence.” He’s urged Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma...

November 26th, 2009 | International, News | 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

VIDEO: TATCHELL URGES LGBT COMMUNITY TO STAND WITH MUSLIMS RESISTING SHARIA LAW

At Saturday’s protest against Sharia Law, Peter Tatchell urged members of the UK gay community to stand shoulder to shoulder with Muslim people around the world who are resisting Sharia law. Talking to HOMOVISION, he said: “In so many countries, like Uganda, Pakistan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia...

November 23rd, 2009 | Latest videos, News | Read More

TATCHELL: “JUST SAY NO TO SHARIA LAW”

Great article in today’s Comment is Free in the Guardian Online by Peter Tatchell ahead of Saturday’s march against religious laws. In it he urges support for “the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism”. Although...

November 20th, 2009 | News | Read More