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  • Safer Sex Message Urged Ahead Of Belfast Pride

    Sexual health experts are supporting Belfast Pride, to make sure that everyone taking part in this year’s festival; ‘plays safe and stays safe’. Gay and bisexual men are at particular risk of sexually transmitted infections; latest available statistics from the department of health reveal that rates of gonorrhoea and syphilis in Northern Ireland’s MSM continue to soar.

    To tackle the problem, Belfast Pride has teamed up with Confidante, who have developed the world’s only home test, to detect 10 common STIs. Stephen Henderson, Manager at Confidante, says partnering with Belfast Pride, is about, encouraging men who have sex with men to take action:

    “One of the reasons that men who have sex with men, have such high STI transmission rates, is because they don’t get tested; perhaps they’ve had a bad experience previously; or perhaps they aren’t showing any symptoms – even though they are infected; many STIs are asymptomatic. We are encouraging MSM and everyone taking part in Belfast Pride to be proud of their sexual health, protect both their partner and themselves and to get tested.”

    Seán Ó Néill, Chair of Belfast Pride Festival, is supporting this focus on Sexual Health:

    “This year’s festival is about celebrating Diversity and calling for Equality – and this equality is needed within healthcare services for all citizens including LGBTQ people. We are pleased Confidante is coming on board as a partner of the festival and offering more choice in Sexual Health testing and we are working with them to get the message across to the MSM community in Northern Ireland, in particular, to play safe and stay safe”.

    The safe sexual health message comes ahead of today’s Belfast Pride Parade, 30 thousand people are expected into the city centre to take part in the event.

  • Justin Bieber Displays Ultimate Bratiness With Orlando Crying Photo

    Wow, it seems some people can’t be the better person, after Justin Bieber posts two photos to upset Orlando after yesterday’s altercation.

    Yesterday Pirates Of The Carribean star Orlando Bloom, 37, and pop singer Justin Bieber, 20, had a disagreement in the early hours, that ended up with Bloom allegedly taking a swipe at Justin. On lookers are suggesting that the reason for the argument was because an insult about Bloom’s ex Miranda Kerr was made.

    Although the reason for the exchange has not been made public, some are speculating that Bieber had gotten very close to Kerr after she separated from her husband.

    Bloom and Kerr split in 2013 after marrying in 2010.

    Shortly after the incident Justin Bieber posted a photo of himself and Miranda Kerr, in what some are saying is deliberate goading – he quickly removed the photo, but today JB took his brattiness to a whole new level by posting a picture of Bloom crying.

    Reports suggest that cheering was heard after Bloom threw a punch at Bieber in the restaurant in Ibiza.

    High dramz in the celeb world indeed.

  • WATCH | Orlando Bloom And Justin In Fisty Cuffs?

    Goodness, rumours are flying around that Orlando Bloom and Justin Bieber have had an altercation.

    Orlando Bloom is known for his calm and Zen like personality, however it seems that Justin Bieber knows the buttons to press after news emerged that the actor allegedly threw a punch at JB in a restaurant in Ibiza.
    The two were spotted at the Cipriani restaurant a poolside eaterie in Ibiza – in the early hours of Wednesday morning, when customers were disturbed by an argument, which meant the pair had to be pulled apart by pals.
    Apparently, reports suggest that JB made a derogatory remark about Bloom’s ex wife Miranda Kerr, but sources tell The Sun, that the remark was made only after Bloom’s swing.
    The New York Post reports that the crowd cheered when Orlando made the swing for Justin.
    Yesterday pictures of Justin Bieber turned up on a posing site popular with gay men.

  • Gay police officers are worried about impact on their career

    Gay and lesbian police officers sometimes fear the consequences of revealing their sexuality as they rise through the ranks, it has been revealed.

    Some senior police officers are worried that coming out may impact on their career prospects and that homophobia still exists within some policing teams.

    At the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales annual conference in September, officers from across the country will discuss encouraging the service to be more accepting of diversity, ensuring gay and lesbian officers who would like to be out can be and the benefits of this to police officers and communities, in a session titled: “Taking the uniform out of the closet.”

    Mike Gallagher, the association’s lead on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) policing, said: ‘It must be emphasised that homophobia is not accepted in policing. The police service has come a long way, as has society, and that has to be acknowledged. But there is more to be done.

    ‘We want colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work. Sadly some police officers and staff are not confident to be out in their police forces, particularly as they rise through the ranks. It is of course a choice – and for some officers it is a conscious decision – but some fear homophobia still exists in areas of policing.

    ‘We need to improve the confidence of some LGBT communities in policing and having role models – senior gay and lesbian police officers being confident and open about their sexuality – would help this.’

    He added: ‘We need a police service that reflects the public we serve – this will help gain trust and confidence in communities but also in fighting crime. And this will also bring a diversity of thinking to the many policing challenges the service currently faces.’

    TWO FIFTHS OF GAY SUPERINTENDENTS EXPERIENCE DISCRIMINATION
    A survey of senior police officers – carried out by the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales – has revealed four out of 10 lesbian or gay superintendents and chief superintendents say they have “experienced discrimination in the policing workplace” during their careers.

    One respondent to the survey said: ‘Discrimination by some senior officers exists, but it is at a subtle underlying level.’
    Another added: ‘As a senior leader I would love to be openly gay.’

    A total of 27 of the association’s 1,300 members – who include senior operational commanders and leaders delivering local policing, specialist investigations and operations and support services within police forces – took part in the survey.
    Responding to the survey’s findings, Mr Gallagher, a Met officer, added: ‘The fact that 40 per cent of our gay and lesbian members have experienced discrimination in their careers is frustrating and unacceptable.
    ‘It is very disappointing that we are still talking about this as an issue in 2014. We need to do better. And we can.’

    Ruth Hunt, chief executive of Stonewall, said: ‘Here at Stonewall we know that people perform better when they can be themselves, so it’s fantastic to hear the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales proactively encouraging LGBT employees to be themselves at work while emphasising the fact that homophobia will not be accepted in policing.’

  • First Gay Romance In Big Brother Heats Up After Bedtime Kisses

    Christopher admits to Ashleigh that he and Mark had a kiss last night, before he sent him back to his own bed.

    Mark then joins the conversation and tells Christopher, who is wearing his top, that he can keep it, as it suits him and he doesn’t have as many clothes in the House.

    Christopher talks to Big Brother about his “friendship/relationship” with Mark and admits that while he loves his “melodramatic” character, he doesn’t like it when he creates a scene in front of the other Housemates, admitting “If you’re trying to embarrass me or make a mockery out of me publically, please don’t do that because I won’t hang around Mark” When questioned about what he wants from the relationship, Christopher admits that he doesn’t know where it’s going as there are some trust issues, saying “if you’re not prepared to show a bit of faith in me, I don’t think it’s going to work”

  • Justin Bieber Turns Up On Posing Site Popular With The Gay Community

    Now, it has to be said we like to hang out on some sites more than others, GuysWithiPhones.com is one of those websites.

    So it comes as a little bit of a surprise to find none other than bad boy of pop himself Justin Bieber, showing off his bod, on a website that is a popular posting site for the gay community.GuysWithiPhones has long had a history of celebrities turning up and showing their bits n’ pieces, but we think that JB is probably the most famous.

    In the past Perez Hilton, Ben Patrick Johnson, Michael Stripe and Mika have all turned up on the site.

    We can’t confirm whether the pictures are verified and uploaded by the singer himself, but we’re enjoying them regardless!

  • Christopher and Mark lover tiff

    All is not happy in the world of Big Brother’s Christopher And Mark

    Reality TV’s newest, nearly couple Mark Byron and Christopher Hall have a little tiff tonight. The trouble starts in the morning when Christopher, chatting with Chris talks about Mark’s lack of domesticity. Christopher muses over what Mark would be like to live with and says, ‘I don’t think Mark would ever clean or do anything.’ Chris agrees: ‘He wouldn’t even make his own bed.’

    Later on in the evening Mark is trying out his psychic powers on Christopher, but fails in all but two attempts to guess what Christopher is thinking, because Mark says Christopher is ‘Mentally Closed’.

    Helen tells Mark that Christopher let him win the guessing game to assess his psychic powers. Mark is furious and throws sweet potato at Christopher and tells him that he feels ‘covered in deceit.’

    Christopher is amazed by Marks over the top reaction and says that if he was joking then fine but if he was serious he couldn’t date someone like that, but they later clear the air in the kitchen but Christopher does say jokingly: ‘I’m going to kill you.’

    Oooo er Missus….

    Big Brother continues tonight on Channel 5

  • Belarus on the brink of replicating Russian anti-gay laws

    Europe’s last dictatorship to replicate Russia’s “anti-homosexual propaganda” law, claim anti-discrimination activists in Belarus.

    Concerns that Belarus plans to enact an “anti-homosexual propaganda” law, of the type enacted in Russia in 2013, were raised at a meeting convened by the London-based Equal Rights Trust (ERT) in collaboration with the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) last week. A draft of the law has not been released, but work on a bill on protecting children from propaganda of homosexuality has been included in a presidential decree concerning the legislative agenda of parliament.

    The meeting, held in Minsk on 22 July brought together leading civil society groups from around the country to discuss equality law reform and agree on guiding principles for a model equality law that would bring Belarus in line with international standards.

    Dimitrina Petrova, Executive Director of Equal Rights Trust, said: ‘While in Minsk I saw signs that Belarus may be starting to distance itself from Moscow in the wake of the annexation of Crimea. Yet, at the same time, we learn that the country plans to replicate Russia’s homophobic law, relying on populist calls to defend children from “propaganda of homosexuality”.

    ‘Belarus, despite its pariah status, has a good record on promoting equality for women, disabled persons and others. We urge the government to resist the wave of homophobia issuing from Russia and uphold its track record on issues of equality.’

    Of particular concern to participants was an alarming rise in homophobic hate speech in Belarusian media. In the past 12 months alone, more than 200 publications have used homophobic language or terminology, inciting violence and discrimination and even equating homosexuality with paedophilia, zoophilia and crime. Some media reports went so far as to call for the LGBT community to be quarantined, while others said that it threatened the territorial integrity of Belarus.

    The Equal Rights Trust has been supporting civil society in Belarus to promote equality law reform since 2011. In November 2013, ERT published “Half an Hour to Spring: Addressing Discrimination and Inequality in Belarus”, the first comprehensive report on the enjoyment of the rights to equality and non-discrimination in the country, which recommended, among other things, the adoption of a comprehensive equality law.

    To read a summary of ERT’s report in English click here
    To support Equal Rights Trust and its work in Belarus visit www.equalrightstrust.org

  • Ruth Hunt announced as CEO of Stonewall

    Ruth Hunt has been announced as the new CEO of Britain’s biggest Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual charity, Stonewall.

    Ruth Hunt has been acting CEO of the charity since February this year and before that, was Deputy Chief Executive. She joined the charity in 2005 as a Senior Policy Officer, having begun her career at the Equality Challenge Unit. Her appointment concludes a comprehensive and transparent search, throwing up a strong set of candidates from which Ruth emerged as the clear winner.

    In May Hunt controversially refused to back a boycott of the Dorchester Collection, after it emerged that the owner of the group the Sultan Of Brunei said that he would adopt the Sharia criminal code for his country, the law carries harsh penalties for adultery and sodomy – which includes death by stoning.

    Hunt commented, ‘The recent boycott of The Dorchester Collection has undoubtedly raised awareness in the West of the issues in Brunei but the crucial questions for Stonewall are whether there is a mandate for the boycott and would such a boycott work? We believe the answer is no, on both counts. I do not believe the somewhat beleaguered Christopher Cowdray, Chief Executive of the Collection, can somehow influence the implementation of Sharia criminal code in Brunei.’

    Her statement led to a public outcry, which led to Stonewall changing its stance 3 days later.

    On the announcement of her appointment, Ruth Hunt said, ‘I’m delighted to have been given the opportunity to lead Stonewall, a highly-respected organisation that is synonymous with achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. It is full of committed, intelligent and creative people and I am very pleased to be heading up such a talented team.

    ‘There are so many opportunities ahead, as well – of course – as challenges. I look forward to working with Stonewall’s many partners to develop what the team and my predecessors have already achieved, to advance equality and challenge discrimination both throughout the UK and abroad. These goals we share with the lesbian, gay and bisexual community and it’s fundamental that we work together to achieve them.’

  • Bachmann: Gays Working Towards Multiple Marriages And Child Molestation

    During a radio interview, US Republican representative, Michelle Bachmann said that gay people were pushing for multiple marriages and to repeal age of consent laws.

    In the interview, Michele Bachmann, who is infamous for her anti-gay views said that gay people not only wanted to be celebrated but to ultimately change laws to allow for multiple marriage and the repeal of age of consent laws, so that adults could have sex with children.

    https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/bachmann-child-rape-result-of-gay-rights

    She argues that the gay community’s ultimate goal was too ‘not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don’t wanna be celebrated, they want to force everyone, to not only to agree with them but to also to have to finance their agenda.’

    Continuing she said that the gay community was working to, ‘abolish age of consent laws, which means we will do away with statutory rape laws so that adults will be able to freely prey on little children sexually. That’s the deviance that we’re seeing embraced in our culture today.’

    Earlier this week Bachmann said there was a ‘chance’ that she would run for Presidency again in 2016 after a failed attempt in 2012.

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