Community News

Old Market Gradually Comes to Life Again

Posted on 5 Jul 2020 in Community

Our pub watchers are pleased to report, that as the English Lockdown is gradually lifted, and the gay community emerges blinking somewhat in the summer sunshine, the Old Market Tavern is open from this week. The pub, at 29-31 Old Market Street, has been an essential part of gay culture in the city since the late nineteen nineties.

Zachary Quinto on Mysteries and Stonewall Day

Posted on 30 Jun 2020 in Community

Everyone loves a good mystery, and the genres of UFOs, hauntings, the strange landscape, ancient aliens and the like have been fodder for newspapers, magazines, TV and radio programmes since – well, we reckon since at least the middle nineteenth century, when specialist spiritualist periodicals c

Icon Val Guests on BBC Radio Four's Book Show

Posted on 26 Jun 2020 in Community

Val McDermid is a lesbian icon, no question. She is a top selling crime writer as well and has delighted millions of fans with her books. She was the first state school pupil to be admitted to the prestigious Saint Hilda's College at Oxford University.

Turing Biopic To Air on "Film 4" Thurs PM

Posted on 25 Jun 2020 in Community

The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, gets an airing on the FILM4 channel (available on Freeview 15 and on Sky, BT and Virgin platforms across the UK) on Thursday night.

OutRage! at 30 - Feature on LGBTQ Activism

Posted on 29 May 2020 in Community

On the ShoutOut programme first broadcast on Thursday 28th May, we looked back at the thirtieth anniversary of the LGBTQ Direct action group "OutRage!".

Jan

West Country Based Charity Issues Message

The LGBT campaigning charity, The Intercom Trust, has issued its annual Christmas and New Year greetings for supporters, as it is closed during the holiday season.

Jul

Boyz Magazine on New Disabled Club Night

“Boyz” magazine, the weekly gay lifestyle and scene publication which has been serving gay and trans people in the capital since 1991, reports on a new cabaret and awareness raising night at popula

Jul

Voguing is Revived - BBC Radio 4 Programme

“Voguing” is back in fashion, some thirty years after the heyday of the African-America, latino and most definitely LGBT scene that was first brought to popular attention in the 1987 documentary “P

Jul

Perkins Speaks of Life Post "Bake Off"

Sue Perkins, lesbian television presenter and comic, has spoken to the Metro newspaper about bring a fan of “Game of Thrones”, and her life after the “Great British Bake Off” programme.

May

Lesbians Unite in Support of Trans Sisters

Lesbians support the right of transgender women to self determination.