THEGAYUK

Day: 22 July 2015

  • There Are Just 20 Openly Gay Athletes In This Year’s Olympics

    According to Outsports.com there are twenty openly gay and lesbian athletes competing at the 2012 Olympics in London this summer.

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  • Channel Island Gay Pride Starts Fundraising

    An organisation called Liberate Jersey has started a fundraising campaign to start a gay pride event in September.

    The crowdfunder is looking to raise £2500 to help launch the very first LGBT+ Pride, because the organisers state, “it’s long overdue”.

    Homosexuality has been legal in Jersey since 1990 and same-sex couple has been able to get civilly partnered since 2012, however same-sex marriage is still illegal.

    TheGayUK reached out to Liberate for comment.

  • MR SHOWBIZ Set To Release Single

    The man who screamed “Showbiz” at anyone who would listen during this year’s Big Brother is set to record and release a single, called… you guessed it Showbiz.

    Simon Gross, who was the first housemate to be booted and then reinstated became known for his “Showbiz” catchphrase which he shouted constantly during his first few hours in the Big Brother house and then in subsequent TV appearances.

    He eventually became the ninth housemate to be evicted back in June

    According to his Twitter feed, he’s started working with “top producers” to record and release his debut single, which will be out in September.

  • Emmerich Stonewall Film Has Oscar Desires

    Film producer and director Roland Emmerich is eyeing up Oscar inclusion with a film dedicated to the Stonewall riots of 1969.

    The film documents the Stonewall riots. The protests, which happened around the Stonewall Inn in New York, were the results of a gay community relentlessly discriminated against and bullied by the police force in New York. The Stonewall riots are often cited as the start of the modern gay rights movement.

    The film, which stars Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ron Perlman will be released in time to be included in 2016 Oscars considerations. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will have a late September release date in US cinemas.

    Speaking about the film Emmerich said:

    “I was always interested and passionate about telling this important story, but I feel it has never been more timely than right now. Less than 50 years ago, in 1969, being gay was considered a mental illness; gay people could not be employed by the government; it was illegal for gay people to congregate, and police brutality against gays went unchecked.”

  • Anti-Drag Pride To Fund Event With Drag Film Fundraiser

    A pride event which has come under immense criticism for banning drag performers at its event is planning a fundraising film night by showing a film about a drag queen.

    UPDATE: Free Pride has now announced it has overturned their ban on drag performers.

    Glasgow based Free Pride, is hoping to run a fundraiser for it’s “anti-capitalist” pride by showing a film called Pay It No Mind: The Life And Times Of Marsha P Johnson, a drag queen who was instrumental in the Stonewall riots in 1969.

    However, the pride event has been condemned after announcing a policy banning “cis” drag performers at its event, in favour of allowing trans or non-binary drag acts to perform, a move which has commenters questioning the legality of the policy as it could breach the Equality Act 2010.

    The pride event has been scheduled on 22nd August in direct competition with Glasgow Pride. Writing in THEGAYUK, Warwickshire Pride founder Daniel Browne called the move “confrontational”.

    Gay right advocate Michelle Visage called the move to ban drag queen performers as “Bullsh*t”

    The fundraiser event, which is being advertised on Facebook is due to take part this Saturday.

    TheGayUK has reached out to Free Pride for comment.

  • Top 17 Essential Gay Films

    Whether you love screamers or creamers, romances or “the call is coming from with in the house types” there are a lot of amazing gay films out there. THEGAYUK’s Aaron Holloway lists his top 17 essential gay and lesbian films

     

    Make the Yuletide Gay

    When Olaf Gunnunderson returns home for the holidays, his college boyfriend decides to come with him. While they`re both out and proud on campus, Olaf must bury himself in his childhood closet in order to survive the trip. This film is a great holiday film, filled with enough adult humour to keep you laughing throughout the holidays. One of the best gay films.

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