Ahoy Matey! Prepare to way anchor and set sail, Liverpool Pride, the UK’s biggest FREE Pride event outside of London is going nautical for its third annual celebration of all things LGBT, to be held on Sat 4 August. Liverpool Pride 2012 will take place at Liverpool’s iconic pier-head and throughout the Stanley Street Gay [...]
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Northern Pride Release 2012 Line-Up
May 28, 2012
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The team behind this years Northern Pride event presenting Newcastle Pride have released the full-line up of acts to appear on Saturday 21st of July at Leazes’ Park. Headlining this year’s event is Sonia, who shot to fame at the age of sixteen whilst playing the Liverpool club circuit. Sonia’s debut single You’ll Never Stop [...]
Read more Scooch Will Fly Flag in North East Pride Event
May 28, 2012
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Northern Pride have released the acts for this year’s Newcastle Pride event. Top of the line-up is past Eurovision act, Scooch, who are more than ready to fly the flag in the North East for the second year running. In the late 90s the band were signed to EMI Records and released 4 singles (‘When [...]
Read more Manchester Pride Annouce Price Freeze
March 30, 2012
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The Charity that organises Manchester Pride has confirmed that the award-winning LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) festival will light up the streets of Manchester from 17 – 27 August 2012. Now in its 22nd year, the festival consists of four elements, Pride Fringe, The Big Weekend, The Manchester Pride Parade and the George House [...]
Read more Manchester Pride Appoints New Team
February 1, 2012
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Manchester Pride has appointed the former Leader of Aberdeen City Council, John Stewart, as the charity’s new Chief Executive. A regular visitor to Manchester and an experienced community leader, Stewart, 39, will run one of Europe’s most successful celebrations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender life as preparations begin for 2012’s ten-day festival which will [...]
Read more New Year’s Honours to LGBT activists
January 11, 2012
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Three LGBT ‘unsung heroes’ have received gongs in the New Year’s Honours. Jeffrey Dudgeon, Liberal Unionist politician and equal opportunities and human rights campaigner, receives an MBE for services to the LGBT community in Northern Ireland. He brought a six year long case against the UK in his defence of the right to enjoy – [...]
Read more HELENA BLACKMAN – JOURNEY TO THE PAST
January 11, 2012
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BBC ‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?’ finalist and West End star Helena Blackman is set to embark on a seventeen date UK tour with her first ever solo show Journey to the Past, a celebration of music from the wonderful world of classic animated movies. The three month long tour will begin [...]
Read more Alan Cumming ties the knot, again!
January 9, 2012
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Alan Cumming and his partner Grant Shaffer have married again – this time in America. The Scottish actor, 46, who stars in The Good Wife, and his commercial-illustrator partner were married Saturday at New York’s Soho Grand Hotel, five years to the day after celebrating their civil partnership in London. On Twitter, he wrote: “I just got married!!!!! [...]
Read more HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year
January 8, 2012
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A study led by the University of North Carolina into HIV prevention has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science. The study evaluated whether antiretroviral (medicine that weakens the HIV virus) drugs can prevent sexual transmission of HIV among couples in which one partner has HIV and the other does [...]
Read more Attempt to ban civil partnerships fails
January 5, 2012
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A motion was successfully defeated in the House of Lords which would have banned the celebration of civil partnerships in religious premises. The ‘wrecking motion’ was introduced by Conservative peer Baroness O’Cathain. It would have meant that the ‘Alli amendment’ that Stonewall secured to the 2010 Equality Act last spring would have been scrapped. However, [...]
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