Tag: UK
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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.
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Tara McDonald To Sing At The Riverside Tavern
‘My My My’ superstar Tara McDonald is set to appear at The Riverside Tavern in Kent on the 29th September.
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Stonewall Announces Hero And Bigot Nominees For 2012
Stonewall announces hero and bigot nominees for 2012. Ben & Jerry’s founders and Jessie J among gay heroes. Bigots of the Year include Cardinal Keith O’Brien
Updated: 24/09/12 4.00PM
Stonewall today announces nominees for its annual Hero and Bigot of the Year Awards. The charity’s 7th Stonewall Awards take place at the V&A on 1 November, and celebrate people who have made a positive impact on the lives of Britain’s 3.7 million lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
Seven of the awards are selected by an independent judging panel, but three – Hero, Community Group and Bigot of the Year – are voted on by Stonewall’s supporters.
WE COULD BE HEROES..
This year’s five Hero nominees include The Voice judge Jessie J, nominated as a role model for bisexual people. Ben & Jerry’s founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield earn a nomination for their company’s staunch support for gay equality. Former Manchester Pride Director Jackie Crozier is nominated for years of charitable work.
Speaking to a spokesperson for Ben & Jerry’s they said:
‘We are udderly delighted we have been nominated for the Stonewall Hero of the Year Award for supporting a cause that’s at the core of our values’ said Ilaria Ida, Ben & Jerry’s European Social Mission Manager from the Barn in Datchet.
‘Since the company’s very beginning 34 years ago, Ben & Jerry’s has been an advocate for equal rights regardless of sexual orientation simply because it’s the right thing to do,
‘We will continue to campaign to raise awareness of the importance of marriage equality, and to encourage the UK government to follow through on its promise to legalise same-sex marriage’
John Stewart – Chief Executive at Manchester Pride said:
‘Jackie worked hard over many years to establish Manchester Pride as the UK’s leading pride event and we are very proud that Jackie has been nominated, we wish her every success in the category.’
Tim Franks – former CEO of Pace, who retired this September, said that he was ‘absolutely delighted’ and it was ‘lovely and great to be recognised’ however remained ‘realistic’ about going ‘up against Ice Cream.’
Mr Franks had been working in the LGB&T sector for over 20 years said that this was his first time nominated for the Stonewall award.
Bigot Nominations
The five nominees for Bigot of the Year include Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who has led a vitriolic campaign against equality in Scotland. Uganda’s Ethics and Integrity Minister, Simon Lokodo, is also nominated for his role in the repression of his country’s 2.1 million gay people.
Stonewall Deputy Chief Executive Laura Doughty said:
‘The Stonewall Awards are an opportunity to celebrate the often courageous individuals who have made a huge difference to millions of gay people at home, at school and at work. As ever, it’s humbling to see the selflessness with which so many people work for equality.’
One of the nominees Alan Craig spoke exclusively to TheGayUK saying:
‘The Bigot of the Year Award is a vicious name-calling Stonewall annual event that reflects more on the donor than the recipient. By attempting to bully, intimidate, humiliate and generate hatred of individuals through the Award, Stonewall fully justifies the Gaystapo tag which I gave the organisation and for which I have been nominated.
‘Nonetheless if I win the Award over the other candidates and if Stonewall are big enough to invite me and allow me without harassment to make a proper acceptance speech, I plan to attend the glittering Awards dinner at the V&A on 1st November.’
Tickets for the Stonewall Awards cost £155 plus VAT and are available online from www.stonewall.org.uk/awards.
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Channel 4 Opens Hotel GB
Gordon Ramsay would run the restaurant and Mary Portas would take charge of the rooms.
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THEATRE: Rent Coming To Greenwich
Rent The Musical comes to Greenwich Theatre from the 5th to 16th September 2012.
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Taboo Comes To Brixton
The ground-breaking, genre twisting musical returns to London for a September at the Brixton Club House.
The musical based on a nightclub called Taboo and London club legend Leigh Bowery makes a return to London. A new production of the musical written by Boy George will be playing for a three month run at the Brixton Club House. The first run of the show was held by audience and critics alike as sensational and not to be missed.
It will star The Voice finalist Samuel Buttery as Leigh Bowery.