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Event review: Transpose, Literary Edition
Last Saturday, around fifty queers and allies from around the south-east crowded into a small London bookshop-cafe to listen to trans and trans-friendly artists read poetry, sing songs and tell stories, and to take part in an auction to [...]
Is it time to role up the red carpet?
Does the LGBT community have a role model? The likes of Heather Peace, Jill Jackson and Jessie J seem to have recently become emblems to the LB community but do we actually need someone we can relate to, someone that [...]
Conversion therapy ban?
It seems there could be a breakthrough in the stigma against homosexuality, as the state of California may be the first to ban the therapy which aims to “convert” non heterosexual teens. The therapy, which is sometimes known as reparative, or reorientation [...]
Lip Service review: season 2, episode 4
One week we’re watching Casualty, the next we’re in a sitcom. At least that’s what last night’s episode of Lip Service felt like, with Sadie’s comedy cheese theft, Tess’s bad date and Sam’s tearful discovery that Cat had been sleeping [...]
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Topp Twins documentary trailer
A film about New Zealand’s finest lesbian country and western singers.
May 9, 2012
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“There is still a need for this kind of festival” – Exclusive interview with Jackie Crozier, LadyRock founder
Have you been wondering exactly why LadyRock and GoGo were cancelled this year? Do you want find out the reasons behind such drastic decisions made? We do too! We recently caught up with Jackie Crozier, LadyRock’s very own festival director to [...]
May 11, 2012
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François Hollande President: What is going to change for LGBT people in France
François Hollande was elected new President of the French Republic last Sunday, the 6th of May 2012, with 51.67% of the votes, defeating Nicolas Sarkozy. Hollande is the second socialist elected President of the 5th Republic, 31 years after François [...]
May 7, 2012
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Contention as consensual gay convictions cleaned
A new law passed this week means thousands of British gay men will have historic homophobic convictions removed from their records. Passed on Monday, The Protection of Freedoms Act allows an estimated 16,000 gay and bisexual men, convicted of ‘loitering [...]
May 6, 2012
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If you’ve got it, don’t flaunt it: Another asylum seeker told to go home and be discreet
Another day, another headline about a failed asylum bid. This time, it’s Angeline Pirara Mwafulirwa and her three children who are currently in a family detention centre in Scotland and will be forcibly removed from the UK this weekend. Angeline [...]
May 6, 2012
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Lip Service review: season 2, episode 4
Attention lesbians: bisexuals are as much part of the LGBT community as you