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Bristol Pride Celebrates Lesbian Visibility

Posted on 23 Apr 2024 in Community

We are in the middle of Lesbian Visibility Week! Bristol Pride have some words of support and solidarity with the lesbian community and in recognition of the incredible contribution to politics, culture, the arts and science from gay women over the centuries. From trailblazers like Anne Lister to the Greenham Common Peace Camp Women right through to the staff of progressive bookstores, and the lesbians who brought the knowledge of organising in the feminist health movement through to the AIDS service groups of the eighties. Bristol Pride

Film Festival will Celebrate Lesbian Week

Posted on 23 Apr 2024 in Community

The Garden Cinema in the heart of London's Covent Garden district is the setting for the inaugural DIVA Film Festival, organised by the celebrated lesbian and bi women's magazine of the same name. Taking place from 24th to 28th April, the festiv

Landmark Study of Black Gay Men Out Now

Posted on 23 Apr 2024 in Community

Bristol independent bookstore, Storysmith on Bedminster's North Street, says that it has signed copies of a new book on the black, gay male experience. In this landmark work called Revolutionary Acts, Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and

Immersive Spiritual Retreat for LGBTQIA+ Folk

Posted on 19 Apr 2024 in Community

The Queer Spirit Blog carries an exciting press release from the spiritual retreat centre called the Asha Centre located in the Forest of Dean on the English-Welsh border. They say "Queer Spirit Warriors is an immersive retreat for the LGBTQIA+ community and welcomes all those w

Celebrating 10 Years of Marriage Equality

Posted on 17 Apr 2024 in Community

BBC Radio 1's magazine programme on Emotional and Financial Wellbeing, Life Hacks, has marked the tenth anniversary of Marriage Equality, which was introduced to the UK in March 2014. The programme discussed the reasons why a new consensus acros

Apr

Legendary Lesbian Magazine DIVA Turns 30

It's a very Happy Birthday from all of us at ShoutOut to the lesbian magazine DIVA, which turns thirty years old this month. Ella Gauci writes that "In a very s

Apr

Drumming for Beltane with Albion Faeries

LGBTQIA+ New Age people, folklore enthusiasts, pagans and spiritual practitioners are looking forward to the festival of Beltane or MayDay. Celebrations will be happening all over

Apr

Unfounded Censorship on Instagram

Australian gay men's magazine DNA reports that Liverpool couple Sam and David have had a sweet photo of themselves embracing their newborn baby censored by Instagram. The photo wa

Apr

Marking the 25th Anniversary of Legendary Bar

Belfast's gay venue Kremlin is this month marking twenty five years in business, serving the community in a part of the UK that has been characterised by religious conservatism and

Apr

World War 2 Intimate Buddies Helped Allies

Gayety web portal reports on a major new collection of photographs compiled by Los Angeles photographer Michael Stokes, which is now available from the German arts publisher Tasche