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

STONEWALL HONOUR BOYZONE

Boyzone have been named entertainers of the year at the 2009 Stonewall Awards held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The judges said that Stephen Gately’s coming out at the height of the band’s success contributed to raise awareness. Gately died last month while on holiday in Majorca...

November 5th, 2009 | Music, News, Theatre | Read More

GAY BAR THREAT OF CLOSURE AFTER STR8 TEEN SEX CLAIMS

Pink – one of Liverpool’s most popular gay bars has been threatened with closure following up to 40 reported incidents of disorder within 12 months. Police claim that teenage girls, one just 15, have repeatedly engaged in sex acts with bouncers in exchange for entry. Other allegations include: A...

October 14th, 2009 | News | Read More

JAMAICA HATES YOU

A twenty three year old man has been arrested over the murder of UK diplomat John Terry, whose body was found in his Jamaican home. What the BBC fail to mention in their feature is that Terry’s body was found partly clothed, he’d been beaten around the head and a handwritten note on the...

October 5th, 2009 | News, Travel | Read More

BBC DOCUMENTARY: “GAY LIFE IN IRAQ BETTER UNDER SADDAM”

This Sunday BBC Radio Live Five will be broadcasting a groundbreaking documentary about gay life in Iraq. It includes interviews with the Iraqi Prime Minister, religious leaders and ordinary people on the streets of Baghdad, where homosexuality is still viewed by many as an illness or deserving of death...

July 10th, 2009 | News, What's on | Read More

CHILD RAPE GOOD, HOMOSEXUALITY BAD

That’s the message that came to us from the Catholic Church today. Why? Well because over the last nine years an investigation has been going on into child abuse in institutions run by the Catholic Church in Ireland. The 2,600 page investigation found that Catholic priests and nuns abused thousands...

May 20th, 2009 | Highlights, International, News | Read More

SOUTH AFRICAN LESBIANS VICTIMS OF “CORRECTIVE RAPE”

The Guardian reports this week how a rising tide of violence and rape is helping to surpress South African lesbian women. The newspaper talked to lesbian women in townships in Johannesburg and Cape Town who said they were being deliberately targeted for rape and that the threat of violence had become...

March 13th, 2009 | News | Read More

Death threats for Jihad for Love director

Last night’s More4 documentary Jihad for Love - showing gay muslim men and women discussing the issues of Islam and homosexuality – has stirred up threats of death and violence towards film-maker Parvez Sharma. Channel 4 are also bracing themselves for a backlash from Islamo-fascists. Muslim...

March 4th, 2009 | International | Read More

Mr Gay UK “killed then cooked lovers thigh”

A court was told today (Monday 6 October 2008) how Anthony Morley, former Mr Gay UK Winner, stabbed his former lover to death before cutting a piece of flesh from his thigh, seasoning it with fresh herbs and cooking it in olive oil. Morley, 36, then tried to eat the flesh before walking to a local takeaway,...

October 6th, 2008 | News | Read More