Category: News
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St Paul’s Cathedral To Host Launch Of 17-24-30 Hate Crime Week
On the 13th October at 6.30pm an Act of Remembrance for all those affected by Hate Crime will take place in St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the first National Hate Crime Awareness Week organised by 17-24-30.
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Tribute To Murdered Gay Man
The 17-24-30 No To Hate Crime Campaign in partnership with the Two Brewers, the Metropolitan Police and other local organisations host a fundraising event to mark the seventh anniversary of the murder of Jody Dobrowski.
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56 Dean Street Campaign Winner Announced
The winner of a competition launched by 56 Dean Street, the Trust’s HIV and sexual health centre in Soho, to offer members of the gay community the chance to design an innovative HIV awareness campaign aimed at gay and bisexual men has been announced.
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New Sexual Health Clinic Opens For Young People
Terrence Higgins Trust and Wiltshire College launch new sexual health clinic for young people.
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SOHO THEATRE: Scott Agnew Tales Of The Sauna
Fresh from Edinburgh’s Fringe 2012 with his five star, critically acclaimed show Tales of the Sauna.
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Elegy At Theatre 503
Devised by the company
Conceived and directed by Douglas Rintoul.
9 Oct – 3 Nov
Tues – Sat 7.45pm
Sun 5pm
£14/£9 concessionsHe had arrived. It was cold, so bitterly cold that he thought he’d never be warm again. They ask him why he left his country. They ask for dates, times, reasons – but it’s buried. They say he’s telling lies but that’s not what he’s doing. He has to think of everything again…
A compassionate and shocking analysis of the homophobic murders that take place in a ‘liberated’ Iraq regularly, Elegy is a poetic love letter to those who lost their lives from the viewpoint of one who got away. His is a moving and extraordinary story of unrequited love, loss and exile: a journey through a no-man’s land of empty train stations, border crossings and bomb-blasted towns.“Does what theatre at its best can do, make great events personal…stunning!” Marie Colvin.
“Truly something that everyone should experience…floats beautifully between storytelling, performance art, expressionism and urgent political drama.” WhatsOnStage ★★★★”
The List ★★★★ Lovefringe ★★★★★ Scotsgay ★★★★★ Broadwaybaby ★★★★ -
Men Now Able To Remove Historic Convictions For Consensual Sex
Stonewall publishes guide to help men clear their names.
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Nominations For Stonewall 2012 Awards
Today Stonewall announces the shortlists for its seventh Awards ceremony to be held on 1 November 2012 at the V&A in London.
The Awards are one of the most glamorous events in Stonewall’s fundraising calendar. They celebrate those who have made a positive impact on the lives of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Britain in the last year.
The full shortlists:
Broadcast of the Year – supported by London Women’s Clinic
A Civil Arrangement (BBC4)
Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1)
Long Lost Family (ITV1)
One Born Every Minute (C4)
All Star Mr & Mrs (ITV1)
Entertainer of the Year
Evan Rachel Wood
Frank Ocean
Marcus Collins
Sue Perkins
Tom Wilkinson (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)
Journalist of the Year
Hugo Rifkind (The Times)
Owen Jones (The Independent)
Paul Burston (Time Out)
Sarah Garrett (g3 Magazine)
Lucy Mangan (The Guardian)
Politician of the Year
Iain Stewart MP
Lynne Featherstone MP & Lord Henley
Cllr Nick Forbes
Nicola Sturgeon MSP
Ruth Davidson MSP
Publication of the Year
Attitude
DC Comics
London Evening Standard
Gay Star News
Tatler
Sports Award of the Year – supported by Barclays
Claire Harvey
Carl Hester
Lee Pearson CBE
Outdoor Lads
Rugby Football League
Writer of the Year – Supported by Coutts
Jackie Kay (Reality, Reality)
Jeanette Winterson (Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?)
Madeline Miller (The Song of Achilles)
Patrick Gale (A Perfectly Good Man)
V G Lee (Always You, Edina)
The seventh annual Stonewall Awards ceremony takes place on Thursday 1 November at the V&A in London. Tickets are £155 plus VAT. To book your ticket visit www.stonewall.org.uk/awards or call 020 7593 1875.
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Stonewall Shortlist For 2012 Awards
Sue Perkins, Britain’s Got Talent, DC Comics and three from Team GB shortlisted for Stonewall 2012 Awards.
Evan Rachel Wood, Marcus Collins and Alison Steadman drama also shortlisted
Today Stonewall announces the shortlists for its seventh Awards ceremony to be held on 1 November 2012 at the V&A in London. The Awards are one of the most glamorous events in Stonewall’s fundraising calendar. They celebrate those who have made a positive impact on the lives of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Britain in the last year.
Hip hop star Frank Ocean and comedian and broadcaster Sue Perkins are nominated for ‘Entertainer of the Year’, while Team GB athletes Claire Harvey, Carl Hester and Lee Pearson make the ‘Sports Awards’ shortlist. ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent and Alison Steadman’s BBC Four drama A Civil Arrangement are among the nominees battling it out for ‘Broadcast of the Year’. And the London Evening Standard, gay news website Gay Star News and Attitude magazine are three of those competing for ‘Publication of the Year’.
‘Journalist of the Year’ nominees include Hugo Rifkind from The Times, the Independent columnist Owen Jones, Guardian Weekend’s Lucy Mangan and Time Out’s Paul Burston. Jackie Kay, Jeanette Winterson, and V G Lee are among the ‘Writer of the Year’ nominees for Reality, Reality, Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? and Always You, Edina.
Nominees for ‘Politician of the Year’ include Iain Stewart MP, Lynne Featherstone MP and Nicola Sturgeon MSP.
Winners from these categories will be chosen by a celebrity judging panel comprising broadcaster Alice Arnold, Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain, former England rugby star Ben Cohen, author Val McDermid and UK Black Pride Managing Director Phyll Opoku-Gyimah.
Thousands of Stonewall supporters across Britain are currently voting for three other categories – ‘Stonewall Community Group’, ‘Hero of the Year’ and ‘Bigot of the Year’. ‘Hero of the Year’ nominees include Jessie J for proudly reaffirming time and again that she is bisexual.
Ben Summerskill, Stonewall Chief Executive, said: ‘This year’s Stonewall Award nominees include Olympic and Paralympic heroes, regional, national and industry publications, popular TV shows and popular lesbian, gay, bisexual and straight entertainers. The diversity of those nominated for an award demonstrates how gay equality is firmly embedded in 21st-century British life. That’s a real cause for celebration.’
The seventh annual Stonewall Awards ceremony takes place on Thursday 1 November at the V&A in London. Tickets are £155 plus VAT. To book your ticket visit www.stonewall.org.uk/awards or call 020 7593 1875.
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Lord Maginnis Attack On Gay Publication
The outspoken Lord Maginnis yesterday blasted both Stonewall and The Gay UK over his ‘Bigot Of The Year Award’ nomination.
Stonewall announced the nomination at the end of last week. Stonewall describes a bigot as ‘An individual who has gone out of their way to harm, hurt or snub lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the last year.’
At first the former Ulster Unionist, MP mistakenly thought that The Gay UK was nominating him for the award and blasted the LGBT daily magazine – as a ‘perverse pressure group’, ‘aggressive, perverse and corrupting influence on susceptible and vulnerable young people.’
Editor and co-founder of the UK based online magazine, in an exchange of emails, explained that The Gay UK was in fact an organisation that was reaching out to both nominated bigots and heroes for their comment – not inferring that anyone on the list was or is indeed a bigot.
“We’re absolutely outraged to be called a perversion,
‘The very idea that we are corrupting or influencing susceptible young people is perverse in itself. We are a respected organisation with a clear goal, which is to be the mouthpiece for the gay community in the UK and we take it very personally – as should every member of the LGBT community today, as this is tantamount to calling us perverts and potentially worse.’
In June 2012 the Ulster Unionist Party whip was withdrawn from Lord Maginnis by party leader Mike Nesbit over his anti-gay remarks, where Lord Maginnis likened gay marriage to bestiality on Northern Ireland’s Stephen Nolan Show. Lord Maginnis said that gay marriage was, ‘a rung on the ladder’ to ‘other deviant practices’ and ‘Will the next thing be that we legislate for some sort of bestiality?’
The Gay UK called for a public apology from the Lord last night, after it emerged that Lord Maginnis had forwarded private and legally privileged emails to members of the press.
A representative for The Gay UK said,
‘It’s disgusting that in 2012, somebody in a respected position such as a Lord can make these comments about a portion of the community that we aim to represent.
‘An attack on us, is an attack on the gay community at large. Our website is community led by contributions from lesbian and gay writers and today is a sad day.’
‘Even after we had corrected Lord Maginnis that we were not Stonewall or the organisation that were running the Heroes and Bigot award, he replied, “As I neither know you or Stonewall I don’t think it’s for me to sort out the not-so-subtle differences. If you still want a comment my initial response is adequate from my perspective.”.’
Stonewall was not immediately available for comment on Lord Maginnis’s accusation.