Category: News
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Essex Is The Randiest Place In The UK
According to statistics gathered by TheGayUK, Essex tops the list for randiest County in the United Kingdom.
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NoHomophobes.com Launches Hard Hitting Television Ad
Brand new Public Service Announcement for NoHomophobes.com aims to get viewers to question whether anti-gay slurs are still acceptable.
The University of Alberta in Canada, the institute behind the website NoHomophobes.com, has released its first public service announcement to draw attention to the language we use in day to day life.
Words like faggot, dyke, and homo are just a few slandering words still casually used in everyday speech. In response, a new television commercial has just hit the airwaves asking why we continue to tolerate homophobic language. The commercial is the next phase of a “No Homophobes” campaign developed by the University of Albertaʼs Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS).
In a statement Dr. Kristopher Wells from NoHomophobes.com said,
“We no longer tolerate racist language, weʼre getting better at dealing with sexist language, but sadly we still see and hear homophobic and transphobic language in our society,” says Dr. Kristopher Wells, the Instituteʼs Associate Director. “While this language might not always be meant to be hurtful, we must not forget that words like “faggot” contribute greatly to the continued alienation and isolation of sexual and gender (LGBTQ) people, especially our youth.”
The commercial also directs viewers to www.nohomophobes.com, the iSMSS site that tracks homophobic words on Twitter. The site, which shows actual live tweets, has tracked over 6 million tweets containing “faggot” since July 2012. Nohomophobes.com itself has had remarkable worldwide attention since launching in September 2012, with media coverage coming from Western Canada to the UK and Italy to Cambodia.
The commercial was produced with generous support from Global Television.
“We are proud to be part of this campaign,” says Tim Spelliscy, Senior Regional Director Global News Edmonton and Prairie Region. “This is a pressing social issue that has been swept under the surface for far too long.”
Nohomophobes.com was honoured in this year’s New Year’s Recognition list by TheGayUK for its services to LGBT activism, awareness and politics.
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Essex Is The Randiest Place In The UK
According to statistics gathered by TheGayUK, Essex tops the list for randiest County in the United Kingdom. (more…)
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GaydarRadio To Cease The Airwaves
QSoft Consulting can confirm that its GaydarRadio DAB licences will officially be handed over to Gaydio, a not for profit FM radio station for LGBT people, on the 7th January 2013.
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New Year’s Recognition
TheGayUK announces its first ever New Year’s Recognition list, to acknowledge the massive support and campaigning efforts that companies, organisations and individuals have made to the LGBT community.
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GROOMING TOP 10: Aftershaves
The holidays often bring new fragrances into our lives as our Christmas stockings are filled with last minute present ideas in the form of aftershaves and EDTs, tasked with finding my favourites I’ve scoured the scene for good smelling men. Here are my findings. (more…)
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Tory MP calls Dr. Jessen TV programmes “Chav”
Conservative MP for Peterborough Stewart Jackson, who recently described plans to legalise gay marriage as an ‘outrage’ and a ‘disgrace’ slammed television programmes by Doctor Christian Jessen as ‘chav’ earlier today via the mini social networking site Twitter.
The remark was made after Doctor Christian Jessen Tweeted a link to the Guardian newspaper’s website where David Davies, MP for Monmouth, had been interviewed by Decca Aitkenhead about gay marriage issues, including whether legalising same sex marriages would lead to a change in sex education in schools.
Doctor Jessen tweeted:
“Have a read of this interview and then consider that this man is an MP who makes decisions affecting yr life. Worrying”
Mr Jackson, who has just under 4,700 follwers on Twitter replied:
“Yes maybe he shouldn’t be representing his constituents as he sees fit but making crap chav TV like you”
Doctor Jessen is a presenter and sexual health advocate for popular programmes such as Embarrassing Bodies, Supersize Vs. Super-Skinny and Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer programme which aimed to bring awareness of sensitive health issues to a television audience.
In an interview with this magazine Doctor Jessen said:
“The show’s been on so long that a lot of people are very firm believers in it and want to be part of that whole raising awareness of their condition and experience. Others just haven’t got a great GP and they’re just a bit fed up so if coming on TV means they can get their chronic problem, which they’ve had for many years, sorted, then that’s fine by them.”
Twitter users responded angrily to the outburst from MP. User Jamie Smy ›@dotsmy tweeted:
“Ooh I love it when a Tory drops the c-bomb. Reminds everyone what you REALLY think of the working class”
And Fran Crinnion @Franomaly added:
“I forgot only chavs get testicular/breast cancer & so are the only ones who need to learn how to check for it.”
Dr. Jessen then replied with
“So Tory MP @SJacksonMP calls my TV viewers chavs and so shows how beautifully in touch with the public he is. Surprised? Not a lot…”