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...
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...
Joe Lycett has put his money where his mouth is, shredding £10,000 of his own cash after David Beckham failed to end his controversial multi-million-pound World Cup promotion deal with Qatar.
Wearing a rainbow-coloured ruffled top, and noise cancelling headphones to protect his ears, Lycett tossed in the cash in...
It is gay pride season, a lot of adverts with a gay theme popping up on social media, and it's sad to see the usual nasty comments about "hetero Pride" and now also not having a "hetero button", like the gay pride button we now have. So, for all...
The National Union of Students LGBT is taking the next steps to push for marriage equality, as the government announces plans to bring forward the legislation in early 2013. Maria Miller, Culture Secretary, today announced the government’s plans to bring forward marriage equality, and that the intention was for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
