The self proclaimed 'Britain's Biggest Boy Band' performing at the annual Chesil Rocks on Saturday evening (24th June). Held at Langton Herring nr Weymouth the one day arts and music festival raises money for the Samaritans of Dorset. Thanks to Catherine Steel for video clip.
President Donald Trump’s order to suspend refugee resettlement – as well as his directive to refuse entry into the U.S. from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — has prompted international outcry and domestic protests, the likes of which haven’t been seen in decades. Obviously, the anti-Muslim orders...
Malta has taken a giant step to uphold LGBT rights this month. The small nation has become the first country in Europe to make it illegal for doctors and therapists to attempt so-called LGBT “cure therapy.” This decision follows a unanimous vote by Malta’s parliament last week to create the Affirmation of Sexual...
We are opening b-side festival this year with the world premiere of SHAME CHORUS and we'd love for you to come along - so much so - that we are offering free travel! Shame Chorus is a work by Jordan McKenzie, sung by members of the London Gay Men’s Chorus...
A police car, specially decorated for Bourne Free, Bournemouth’s Gay Pride Event, will take to the streets of the town on Saturday. Arranged by the Office of the Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner, it is hoped the fully branded Pride vehicle will encourage communities to report hate crime, as...
About 7 or 8 years ago a small group of us discovered that nothing was happening in Weymouth for gay and bi guys. So we made it happen! Just meeting informally once a week in a corner of a pub... and we still do today, but now TWICE a...
Bournemouth University is pleased to announce that the research-based, award-winning short film, RUFUS STONE, goes live and can be viewed for FREE on the Internet from today. The University has championed the film as ‘an outstanding example of public engagement at BU’ and as ‘inspirational’ in the University’s Annual...
Starting off at the top end of South Street and ending in Maumbury Rings both sides of the battle for the future of the empire united as they marched through Dorchester town centre. This annual love parade of people of different sexualities and genders again proved very popular as...
Ban imposed only 33 years ago. Now repealed. Marriage Act 1949 doesn’t prohibit same-sex marriage. First same-sex marriages take place at midnight on Friday. “I rejoice that the ban on same-sex marriage in England and Wales is finally being lifted after a campaign for its repeal that...
A student from the Netherlands, Coco Sips, has spent time recently in Bournemouth and Dorset learning about LGBT teens and particularly those isolated in rural settings. Her study had resonance with the film, Rufus Stone, and so Coco sought the advice Executive Producer and Lead of the Gay and...
