Author: News Desk
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The 26 Eurovision 2012 Finalists
Here they are in all their glory. 26 nations will compete on Saturday the 26th.
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Gay Movies On iTunes
Although the number of LGBT films available on the UK’s main digital retailer iTunes isn’t large, we have managed to find a few greats. Here’s our list of the best available gay films via iTunes.
1) Milk
Starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch and James Franco, from the writer: Dustin Lance Black. Available for rent or purchase, HD or normal. Read TheGayUK’s review here
2) Latter Days
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Steve Sandvoss
Summary: A young and promiscuous gay man sets his sights on seducing his Mormon missionary neighbor. The resulting affair changes both their lives.3)
3) Were The World Mine
Summary: A gay high school musical fantasy inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
4) Philadelphia
Starring: Tom Hanks, Antonio Banderas, Denzel Washington
Summary: Tom Hanks won his first Oscar playing a gay lawyer who comes down with AIDS and then takes his former law firm to court for firing him.
5 ) My Own Private Idaho
Starring: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves
Summary: Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.
6) The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard O’Brien
Summary: The cult musical about a mad transvestite scientist and his dumb, beefy, gold hot pants wearing monster. Susan Sarandon plays “Janet.”
7) In And Out
Starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack Matt Dillon
Summary: Greenleaf teacher Howard is outed infront of an audience of millions during an Oscar’s telecast.
8) The Craft
Starring Neve Campbell
Summary: Lesbian undertones in this witchcraft fantasy film. 4 girls discover they have “The Craft” and they are going to use it.
9) Another Gay Movie
Starring Graham Norton
Summary: Camp, candy coloured film. Raunchy and un-PC. 4 lads looking to lose their virginity at the end of high school.
10) Adam and Steve
Starring Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan
Summary: Adam and Steve is all about making love work – whatever the odds.
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#KylieTimeBomb explodes on twitter
The singer takes control of Twitter as her hashtag beats all records.
Kylie Minogue has broken all previous records on the social networking site Twitter when her fanbase achieves over 25,000 tweets about her brand new comeback single Timebomb in just 43 minutes.
Kylie promised to unveil the brand new single on her official website if 25,000 tweets with the hashtag #KylieTimeBomb was achieved, a feat completed in just 43 minutes, making her a #1 trending topic worldwide in just 4 minutes.
Minogue told her fans: “You did it!!! I wanna wanna whoop.”
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Betting Odds Eurovision Special
It’s that time of year, where you want to sensibly “invest” money in music. Hurrah for the Eurovision. We’ve checked with one of the UK’s leading betting shops for the top 5 entries for winning Eurovision 2012
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Eurovision Contestant Social Media Battle
With social networking becoming ever increasingly important in the battle of popularity, we investigate and do the number crunching!
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Who Are The MPs Against Equality?
It’s pretty scary reading when you look at the list of supporters for homophobic and discriminatory marriage petition from the Coalition for Marriage (C4M).
Even more shocking when you discover that topping the list is a number of public paid positions such as MPs and those more revered in society like Earls and Lords. Yes, those icons of political society, we as enabled voters have chosen to represent us.
As news surfaces of some rather contentious campaigning policies (as reported by Pinknews and The Guardian & here) which include obtaining the signatures of students as young as 11 to sign this anti-equality petition, questionable “grassroots” beginnings and unaccountable spikes in signature numbers, we’re left asking what right-minded, forward-thinking, representative of people in the UK, in 2012, still want their name attached to the campaign.
World leaders, including Barrack Obama and David Cameron, have had their views ‘evolved’ on the issue of marriage equality. Now is the time for our community to step up and be heard. The coalition for marriage’s stance is:
“I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. I oppose any attempt to redefine it.”
This is a purely legal issue, not a religious debate. Therefore those who are signed up below are actively working against legal equality for the LGBT community in the UK.
Below we’ve listed those MPs who have signed the petition and linked to their personal or parliamentary pages so you can send them an email or phone them with your concerns and ask that they consider removing their name from a rather embarrassing homophobic and discriminatory lobby.
We’re also starting a twitter campaign #MPsAgainstEquality Please forward this articles on Facebook and Twitter, using that Hashtag. Those people who are actively seeking to discriminate against the LGBT community should be named and shamed.
The list below was found at http://c4m.org.uk/
Baroness O’Cathain OBE, Conservative 020 7219 0662
Fiona Bruce MP, Conservative 020 7219 0742 MP for Congleton
David Burrowes MP, Conservative 020 7219 8144 MP for Enfield Southgate
Jim Dobbin MP, Labour 020 7219 4530 MP for Heywood and Middleton
Joe Benton MP, Labour 020 7219 6973 MP for Bootle
Edward Leigh MP, Conservative 020 7219 6480 MP for Gainsbourgh
Lord Curry of Kirkharle, Crossbench
David Nuttall MP, Conservative 020 7219 7030 MP for Bury North
Stewart Jackson MP, Conservative 020 7219 8286 MP for Peterbourgh
Bob Blackman MP, Conservative 020 219 7082 MP for Harrow East
Nigel Dodds MP, DUP 0207 219 8419 MP for Belfast North
Rt Hon Jeffrey Donaldson MP, DUP 0207 219 3407 MP for Lagan Valley
Sammy Wilson MP MLA, DUP 020 7219 8523 MP for East Antrim
David Simpson MP, DUP 020 7219 8533 MP for Upper Barn
Jim Shannon MP, DUP 020 7219 7160 MP for Strangford
Ian Paisley MP, DUP 020 7219 7716 MP for North Antrim
Sir Roger Gale MP, Conservative 020 7219 4087 MP for North Thanet
Julian Brazier TD MP, Conservative 020 7219 3000 MP for Canterbury
Peter Bone MP and Mrs Jennie Bone, Conservative 020 7219 8496 MP for Wellingborough
Jeremy Lefroy MP, Conservative 020 7219 7154 MP for Stafford
Craig Whittaker MP, Conservative 020 7219 7031 MP for Calder Valley
Richard Drax MP, Conservative 020 7219 7051 MP for South Dorset
Robert Alexander Stewart MP, Conservative
Lord Brennan QC, Labour 020 7219 5353
Lord Stoddart of Swindon, Independent Labour Peer 020 7219 5402
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, UUP 020 7219 8189
Earl of Shrewsbury & Talbot, Conservative
TheGayUK takes no responsibility for the use of external links. If at any point any of the above signatories decides to leave the petition we will amend this list accordingly. -
Amusing Site Of The Day Love Gods Way Gay Bands
Sometimes when trawling through the internet I take a detour into the rather pathetic minds of the bigots out in the world… That’s why I’ve decided to create Amusing Site Of The Day.
Today’s Funny Site Of The Day award goes to:
http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands
This hilarious site, (no actually it’s hilarious) warns parents about the dangers of listening to GAY music from artists such as:
P!NK
COLDPLAY
MICHAEL JACKSON
JASON MRAZ
QUEEN
and BOY GEORGE
They recommend that you burn your kids CDs if they have any of the music on the “gay list” otherwise “the next thing you know you have a homosexual for a child”
Dammit gays! Stop making our children gay through your MUSIC. Which is very strange because most of the list aren’t even gay, lesbian, bi or trans. There is, however, an explanation for this:
“There are multiple levels of Gay Music. Some bands are what we like to call GATEWAY BANDS…”
No, wait it gets better….
“They lure children in with Pop Grooves and Salacious Melodies leaving them wanting more…”
This is actual science. You can’t argue with these kinds of facts… You can’t make this kind of thing up.
Congratulations http://lovegodsway.org/GayBands for create a amusing site.
If you’re afraid that music might be turning you gay – feel free to email them:
lovegodsway.org@gmail.com tell them the TheGayUK sends love and gayness.
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Joe McElderry Suffers Homophobic Abuse
Xfactor Alumni and winner Joe McElderry has become another victim of homophobic abuse on Twitter, the 140 characters, mini social networking site.
A user of the site ‘Bryden Morgan’ of Inverness, Scotland tweeted the star:“ahahaha nice success you’ve had after x-factor you gay c*nt!!”.
Joe who won Popstar to Operastar last year tweeted back: “and judging by your profile pic you’ve clearly had a lot of success”.
Morgan at first seemed remorseful of the comment made to the singer tweeting:
“ok I apologize (sic) for the gay part it was mainly to insult him about x-factor”.
However, he then tweeted that he had “a gang of gay rights activists” attacking him and that Joe’s fans had no right to get their “knickers in a twist” over it.
The abuse continued into the early hours of this morning when Morgan tweeted:
“#TeamBryden RT if you also think joe mcelderry is s**t and is being a little bitch #GetOverIt”
There have been recent cases of arrests in connection to homophobic abuse and sending abusive messages to celebrities.
TheGayUK has also contacted Twitter directly for comment on what Twitter will do to protect minorities and LGBT users on the site. So far Twitter has declined to comment.
A spokesperson for Northumbria Police said: “Police received reports yesterday from a member of the public with concerns of comments made on Twitter.
“Enquiries were carried out and no complaints have been made.”
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Boy George Quits Twitter
It was reported that UK singer and DJ Boy George had quit Twitter after the service reportedly failed to help the star after a string of homophobic attacks on the microblogging site on the 23rd April.
Twitter has yet to respond to the matter, however, we can confirm that THEGAYUK has put in a formal request for comment on homophobic abuse on the site.
In a tweet the Culture Club singer and DJ said:
“I’ve taken my homophobic spam issue to my lawyers and the police now!! Someone is going to get done!! Don’t let it be you!!”
Boy George has over 200,000 followers on the service.