Stars lined up for Blackpool festival
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Wed, 4/03/09 – 11:34 | No Comment

CROWDS of up to 10,000 people are expected to flock to the resort’s biggest and best Blackpool Pride gay, lesbian and transgender event.
Organisers have announced a star-studded line up for the event, which will take …

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Student Pride is held in Brighton
Tuesday, 10 Mar, 2009 – 12:49 | No Comment
Student Pride is held in Brighton

People from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities are taking part in the fifth national Student Pride in Brighton.
It is the first time the city has hosted the event, which has previously taken place …

Gaydar’s Soho bar Profile to cease trading
Tuesday, 10 Mar, 2009 – 12:45 | No Comment
Gaydar’s Soho bar Profile to cease trading

 
Profile, one of the most popular gay bars in Soho, London, is to cease trading at the end of next month.
A joint venture between QSoft Consulting, which owns the Gaydar brand, and Vince Power Music …

‘Sir, are you queer?’
Tuesday, 10 Mar, 2009 – 12:32 | No Comment
‘Sir, are you queer?’

Fear of upsetting parents and faith groups is deterring teachers from tackling homophobia.
A-level drama students rehearsing the play Bent, watched by gay teacher Ian Elmslie at Welling School in Kent. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian
“I used to …

Matthew Mitcham and Joan Rivers join 300,000 for Sydney Gay Mardi Gras
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 12:33 | No Comment
Matthew Mitcham and Joan Rivers join 300,000 for Sydney Gay Mardi Gras

 
Matthew Mitcham (All pics: GETTY)

On March 7 hundreds of thousands of gays and gay-adjacents took to the streets of Sydney, Australia for the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, a celebration of the country’s LGBT community since …

Man raped in Plymouth
Wednesday, 4 Mar, 2009 – 12:12 | No Comment
Man raped in Plymouth

A 23-year-old man was raped in the city of Plymouth on Friday night. The victim, from Newton Abbot, was visiting his girlfriend at the time of the attack. Police arrested a 60-year-old local man in connection with …

C4 DEATH THEATS OVER GAY MUSLIMS
Tuesday, 3 Mar, 2009 – 14:24 | No Comment
C4 DEATH THEATS OVER GAY MUSLIMS

By Peter Dyke
CHANNEL 4 has come under fire from Islamic leaders over a television documentary showing how gay and lesbian Muslims suffer under their laws.
Its director has already had death threats because homosexuality is strictly forbidden …

Gay couple asked to stop kissing in Chiswick bar
Thursday, 26 Feb, 2009 – 12:50 | No Comment
Gay couple asked to stop kissing in Chiswick bar

   By Joanna Kilvington 
Damien Poole and boyfriend James Manly
 A gay couple have demanded an apology from a Chiswick pub after the manager told them to stop kissing because customers were leaving over their behaviour.
Damien …

Queer as iPhone
Wednesday, 25 Feb, 2009 – 9:16 | No Comment
Queer as iPhone

Thanks to their great design, Apple Mac products have proved universally popular within queer circles. With their use of shiny surfaces, seamless lines and ability to throw the letter ‘i’ before most of their products, …

Pride London director calls for travel agents to give to gay community
Friday, 20 Feb, 2009 – 14:03 | No Comment
Pride London director calls for travel agents to give to gay community

By Rachel Charman
Colm Howard-Lloyd, a director of Pride London, has said that companies must do more to encourage loyalty from gay customers.
Howard-Lloyd said at the European Symposium on Gay and Lesbian Tourism last week that travel …

Homophobic Android App Tests for Sexuality: ‘Sorry, you’re Gay’
Friday, 20 Feb, 2009 – 11:11 | No Comment
Homophobic Android App Tests for Sexuality: ‘Sorry, you’re Gay’

 The app store for Google’s G1 phone on the Android platform is selling an app by Bendroid called “Straight?” in the Android Marketplace, Jason Dabrowski reports.

It’s a program in which the user touches a finger …

Anti-gay preachers banned from UK
Thursday, 19 Feb, 2009 – 11:42 | One Comment
Anti-gay preachers banned from UK

A father and daughter from a US church which has called for homosexuals to be killed, have been banned from entering the UK by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from …

Firefighters win $34,000 over abuse at gay pride parade
Wednesday, 18 Feb, 2009 – 13:33 | No Comment
Firefighters win $34,000 over abuse at gay pride parade

Four San Diego firefighters have been awarded $34,000 (£23,000) compensation after being ordered to take part in a gay pride parade. 
The men – Alex Kane, Chad Allison, John Ghiotto and Jason Hewitt – claimed they …

Gays aren’t ‘normal’ people
Monday, 16 Feb, 2009 – 13:49 | One Comment
Gays aren’t ‘normal’ people

 
Having read the perspectives of Charlie Powell, Miles Dahlby and Dino Wenino and perhaps being somewhat less adequately informed as to the actual semantics of the generational views and philosophy of some of the participants, …

Mardi Gras Fairday 2009 : AXN’s Cover Model
Sunday, 15 Feb, 2009 – 19:18 | No Comment
Mardi Gras Fairday 2009 : AXN’s Cover Model

Fair Day, which also marks the official launch of this year Mardi Gras kicked off the 2009 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival. The rain didn’t stop gay boys and gals coming out to celebrate the …

Son of Homophobic Megachurch Pastor Arrested in Gay Sex Sting
Saturday, 14 Feb, 2009 – 11:00 | No Comment
Son of Homophobic Megachurch Pastor Arrested in Gay Sex Sting

Dallas megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes has said that he would never hire a sexually active gay person, has spoken out against same-sex marriage, and has called homosexuality a “brokenness.” Now his son has been …

Internet Tryst Leads to Murder of Gay Pennsylvania Army Veteran
Saturday, 14 Feb, 2009 – 9:26 | No Comment
Internet Tryst Leads to Murder of Gay Pennsylvania Army Veteran

The body of Michael Goucher, a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man and Army veteran who had been missing since February 3 was found in a wooded area in rural PA southeast of Scranton on Wednesday: “Shawn Freemore, …

Most Gayest Countries
Thursday, 12 Feb, 2009 – 13:39 | No Comment
Most Gayest Countries

February’s LGBT History Month celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community and is committed to the celebration of the diversity of society as a whole. To celebrate this important event, we’ve decided to take a …

Replacement Date For Snow Cancelled Course
Thursday, 12 Feb, 2009 – 12:32 | No Comment
Replacement Date For Snow Cancelled Course

Bristol’s gay guys were left stranded at home and unable to make GMFA’s Confident Cruising course last Saturday after icy conditions made roads hazardous.
In order to allow men in the South West to benefit from …

Irish security guard wins Mr. Gay World title
Thursday, 12 Feb, 2009 – 12:27 | No Comment
Irish security guard wins Mr. Gay World title

Mr. Gay Ireland, Max Krzyzanowski has become Mr. Gay World 2009 in front of a sold-out audience at a ski resort in Whistler, Canada.
After four days of challenges that included surviving in the wilderness, preparing dinner, photoshoots …

Prop 8 Supporter Meg Whitman Wants Same-Sex Marriages Recognized
Wednesday, 11 Feb, 2009 – 15:48 | No Comment
Prop 8 Supporter Meg Whitman Wants Same-Sex Marriages Recognized

Former eBay CEO and prospective candidate for California governor Meg Whitman wants it both ways on same-sex marriage:
“Explaining her support for Proposition 8, the November measure that banned same-sex marriage, she called it a ‘matter …

Nude Lee Friedlander Work Sets Record for Madonna Auction Photo
Wednesday, 11 Feb, 2009 – 15:47 | No Comment
Nude Lee Friedlander Work Sets Record for Madonna Auction Photo

An explicit Lee Friedlander photo of Madonna shot in 1979 sold for $37,500 at auction in New York yesterday, beating the previous record for a photo of the pop icon, a Herb Ritts photo used …

Students Plan Mass Kiss-in at UC Boulder
Wednesday, 11 Feb, 2009 – 15:47 | No Comment
Students Plan Mass Kiss-in at UC Boulder

Students at the University of Colorado Boulder are planning a pre-Valentine’s mass make-out session at a fountain on the school’s campus tomorrow:
“Student organizers say the demonstration, entitled ‘Make Out Stake Out,’ will give gay, lesbian, …

Retrial of SD Firefighter Gay Pride Harassment Case Nears End
Wednesday, 11 Feb, 2009 – 12:17 | No Comment
Retrial of SD Firefighter Gay Pride Harassment Case Nears End

You may remember the San Diego fire-fighters who took the city to court claiming sexual harassment they say they suffered after being forced to participate in the city’s Gay Pride parade. The first trial ended …

Guess Which New Kid on the Block is Gay?
Friday, 6 Feb, 2009 – 13:29 | No Comment
Guess Which New Kid on the Block is Gay?

Here is a tip; if you’re a female over 300lbs, live in a place that is decorated with Disney characters and the last time you had sex was on the Internet, your favorite male musician …

50 Cent to Offer Butch Line of Cosmetics for Men
Friday, 6 Feb, 2009 – 11:14 | No Comment
50 Cent to Offer Butch Line of Cosmetics for Men

Rapper 50 Cent “is putting the finishing touches to a male cosmetics line, including moisturisers, night creams, and health supplements” according to the UK’s Daily Mirror: “50 prides himself on having a ripped body… he’s …

Gay-porn filming at ‘Cocodorm’ can stay at Miami home.
Wednesday, 4 Feb, 2009 – 18:15 | No Comment
Gay-porn filming at ‘Cocodorm’ can stay at Miami home.

BY MICHAEL VASQUEZ

The boys of Cocodorm — Snow Bunni, J Fizzo, et al — are staying put, after a federal judge ruled that the gay porn website has a right to film out of its …

Teenager ‘killed for being gay’
Wednesday, 4 Feb, 2009 – 18:09 | No Comment
Teenager ‘killed for being gay’

A gay teenager was battered to death in a homophobic attack by a man armed with a hardback history book, a court heard.
Gavin Alker shouted homophobic abuse at Michael Causer, 18, as he punched and …

Pride London Asks: “What has Gay Pride Ever Done for You?”
Wednesday, 4 Feb, 2009 – 18:01 | No Comment
Pride London Asks: “What has Gay Pride Ever Done for You?”

Pride London has launched a search to find those people who’s lives have been changed by Pride events to act as ‘ambassadors’ for Pride London 2009.

“We are looking to talk to anyone who has a …