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Pink Rules on International Day of Pink

Posted on 11 May 2024 in Lifestyle

The International Day of Pink fell on Wednesday 10th April. Whilst the pop star Pink is an LGBTQIA+ ally as well as a talented musician, this day was for the colour pink and not the star. Organisers explained on facebook "It started in Canada when a couple of students saw another boy being bullied at their school for wearing a pink shirt. They rallied their friends to all wear pink to support him. It's become a day to call out bullying and discrimination wherever you may see it -especially relating to homophobia and transphobia." Vancouver Pride Society

Community Benefits from SF Workshop

Posted on 21 Apr 2024 in Lifestyle

Connect San Francisco is an exclusive three-day experience tailored for men – gay, queer, bi-sexual, and trans men is happening April 12th-14th. The workshop is crafted to provide you with the unique opportunity to delve deeper into pleasure and self-awareness, all within the embrace of a growin

Ending the Stigma Around Drug Use on Scene

Posted on 19 Apr 2024 in Lifestyle

A story now of relevance to the gay and bi men's chemsex scene, in which private parties cater for men taking drugs to enhance sexual experience. An article in the left wing weekly newspaper Socialist Worker slams the government's policies on drugs. It says "Manufactured in lab

Civil Parnterships Grow as Marriage Declines

Posted on 23 Feb 2024 in Lifestyle

The Guardian newspaper reports that the number of people who are married or in a civil partnership has fallen below fifty per cent of the over sixteens for the first time since the early nineteen seventies. Heterosexual marriage continues its slow decline. But same-sex marriage

Ethical Polyamory is 'Everywhere'

Posted on 23 Feb 2024 in Lifestyle

Olivia Petter writing in the Independent says that polyamoury is "everywhere" at the moment. "From splashy headlines and viral TikTok clips to teen dramas and dating app profiles, ethical non-monogamy, as it’s sometimes termed, is very much the subject du jour.

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Pride Comics to be Showcased at Zine Festival

The organisers of the Pride Comic Arts Festival, which brings together a wide variety of LGBTQIA zine and independent comics producers report that they will be flying the rainbow f

Feb

Looking After Autonomy of LGBTQIA Seniors

A new study for the peer reviewed journal Clinics In Geriatric Medicine in the United States, identifies several issues of concern for LGBTQIA senior citizens in care home settings, and makes pract

Jan

Colton Takes on Phobic 'Twitter Trolls'

Out Magazine says that former "Batchelor" star Colton Underwood is claiming his space as a gay man with a right to show off his body and defying sex-phobic, reacti

Jan

LGBTQIA Yoga Practitioners to Meet in May

Next May, for a week around the Whitsun Bank Holiday, the Yogalani group will be organising a five day queer yoga retreat, for LGBTQIA+ to be held and hold one another in a space o

Jan

Social Media Detrimental to Wellbeing

South Wales hospital radio station Radio Glamorgan and BBC Radio Cymru are both reporting new findings that suggest that Generation Z are more lik