This year, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of non-heterosexuality, the National Trust launched its ‘Prejudice & Pride’ educational initiative. The ‘Exile’ exhibition, with its sombre but striking ‘In Memoriam’ installation at historic Kingston Lacy, highlighted not only the enforced exile of its owner in the...
If there is a more smug and obnoxious creature then someone who is righteous in their own eyes, I do not know what it is.
Norman Tebbit, in his overweening arrogance, has declared that LGBT+ (sounds like a new exciting Subway sandwich) or transgendered people are the result of air...
Gay teacher Richard Queripel explains in an open letter to the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales how wrong he is to use the teaching of marriage in schools as an argument against allowing same-sex couples to get married. Dear The Most Reverend Vincent Gerard...
She was a popular teacher at a primary school. But on Tuesday, police and an ambulance were called to her home. She was found dead. Her death is not being treated as suspicious. Already various people have said she took her own life. Helen Belcher reports that friends said...
The following are four life stories of being gay and lesbian in the south of England and Wales. They tell the stories of: Sid, Sally, Brian and June. They can be found within the following research study entitled 'Collecting Older Lesbians' and Gay Men's Stories of Rural Life in South West...
The Research It was a project that fully embraced the BU ethos of inspiring and is one of the more distinctive examples of staff/student co-creation on which the university is building an even greater reputation. BU staff and students have been involved in a ground-breaking project looking at positioning,...
In a letter to a constituent in Bournemouth East, Tobias Elwood spells out how he intends to plot and vote against his community. Dear Sir, Could I begin by thanking you for contacting me about the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. As you may appreciate, there has been a...
“While the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill is a welcome advance towards equal marriage, it is not full equality. The legislation has a number of shortcomings that sustain discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples,” said Peter Tatchell, coordinator of the Equal Love campaign, which has spearheaded...
Gay people have fought hard, and suffered greatly for our right to not be discriminated against in this our country, to fight the prejudice and hate that exists towards the LGBT community, in large part because of the history of organised religious intolerance. Gay people do not choose their...
Britain's most famous transsexual autobiographies, Jan Morris's Conundrum and April Ashley's Odyssey, take their readers to Casablanca, Morocco, where the authors have sex reassignment surgery (SRS). Both place and practice are presented as exotic and otherworldly, partly as Morris is a travel writer by profession but also because then...
