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LGBT+ Bookstore Helps Get Books into Schools

Posted on 17 May 2023 in Community

Reading is freedom and knowledge is power, as they say. Queer Lit, in Manchester, one of the whole new wave of radical, independent and LGBTQ+ bookstores to have opened up in the last couple of years, have a fundraiser to help make LGBT+ texts available for gay, trans and freethinking students in schools. They write

IDAHOBIT Day Marked Globally

Posted on 17 May 2023 in Community

The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia took place on Wednesday 17th May. https://may17.org/

Gay Artist Couple Featured on BBC-4 Doc

Posted on 15 May 2023 in Community

On Sunday evening, there was a chance to revisit a 2007 documentary made by Alan Yentob for BBC-4 on the lives and work of Gilbert and George, a gay male couple who have made contemporary art together since the late sixties. In

Tributes for Fantasy Writer Rachel

Posted on 11 May 2023 in Community

LGBTQIA+ author and activist, and spiritual elder Rachel Pollack has passed on to the realm of our honoured LGBT+ ancestors at the age of seventy seven. Pagan blog the “Wild Hunt” notes that Pollack’s stories in the genres of science fiction and fantasy have been critically acclaimed and won awa

Tributes for Lifelong Lesbian Activist

Posted on 10 May 2023 in Community

Tributes have been paid to the long standing activist Ada Bello, who has passed on at the age of eighty nine. Based for most of her life in Philadelphia, Ada joined the early lesbian group the Daughters of Bilitis, and its successor the Homophile Action League. Her work bridged the moderate lo

May

Lesbian Dating App Resists TERF Men Takeover

The majority of lesbian women continue to support transgender people's right to self determination and liberty. A small number of radical lesbian feminists have adopted a "gender critical" positio

Apr

Plans Come Together for Wolverhampton Pride

West Midlands based LGBT+ digital network Gorgeous Radio reports that plans are coming together for Wolverhampton Pride which takes place on Saturday 10th June. The stars taking part in the celebr

Apr

AI Computer is the First to Pass Turing Test

Alan Lewis of Sigma Tech Analysis writes in the Guardian newspaper of the danger of Artificial Intelligence as the first computer simulacrums pass the legendary Turing Test. Proposed by the brilli

Apr

Turing Prize Remembers Gay Atheist Hero

Engineer Robert Metcalfe, an engineer who helped develop what would become the internet in the nineteen seventies, has been awarded the Association for Computer Machiner’s Turing Prize, which is na

Apr

Lesbian Visibility Week Shows LGBT Solidarity

Hoorah! We are in Lesbian Visibility Week, and lots of people are celebrating this auspicious week of parties, awareness raising and workshops internationally. The Lesbia