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Civil Parnterships Grow as Marriage Declines

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 marriages have increased, with the estimated number of people in these marriages at 167,000 in 2022, up from 26,000 in 2015.  And civil partnerships as a modern replacement for an institution that many LGBTQIA+ people and feminists feel is predicated on the historic enslavement of women, has continued to gr

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Ethical Polyamory is 'Everywhere'

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 flag at the Plymouth Comic and Zine Fair.  They say "It’s a 2 day fair (Sat 2nd-3rd

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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 practical recommendations to remedy them.  The LGBT+ news aggregate site News is Out, sa

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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, reactionary Twitter trolls in the process.  They report " Underwood shared a picture of himself holding up

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14
Jan

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

08
Jan

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

07
Jan

Alice Winn meets up with the Guardian Newspaper to discuss her novel In Memorium, dealing with the illicit love  affair between

24
Dec

The Austrian based online gay and bi men's adult store Gayrado says that it has started stocking an all organic, natural, vegan and perfume free personal lubricant.  The Er

28
Nov

Forestry England which cares for more land and trees than any other organisation in England, speaks to the Metro Newspaper this week with good advice for the many

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