Space Youth Project are continuing to deliver vital support services to young people across Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole who identify or are questioning within the LBGT+ community.
Our team leaders and volunteers have worked hard to find ways of connecting with both individuals and groups in order to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
According to Exodus 22:25 and Deuteronomy 23:19-20 all lending with interest is prohibited. Thus, no banking system and no capitalism.
Genesis 1:29 prescribes a plant-based diet for humans.
The Hypocrisy of Old Testament Homophobic Bigotry
In contemporary society, discussions surrounding LGBTQ+ rights, particularly homosexuality, frequently find themselves intersecting with religious beliefs....
Stars Peer Project are launching a brand new monthly social hangout for LGBTU people under 25 in Bournemouth. It launches on Wednesday 31st July 7pm-9pm at Flirt Cafe Bar, The Triangle, Bournemouth. It will then run on the last Wednesday of each month at the same time and place....
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...
In this moving video, two groups that have long struggled to connect finally let their guards down.
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The Rainbow Lives Project, which offers diversity training for care workers, has called for more care homes to offer training after a woman attempted suicide due to homophobic bullying. Homophobia can be a real problem in care homes as older people often have entrenched views and grew up in...
