Community News

West Country Based Charity Issues Message

Posted on 2 Jan 2020 in Community

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. It has also put together some resources of telephone and text services that remain on full capacity during the period when a lot of services are closed, just in case there are LGBTQ people in need of an additional bit of advice and support over the holiday season.

https://www.intercomtrust.org.uk/item/202-merry-christmas

Boyz Magazine on New Disabled Club Night

Posted on 24 Jul 2019 in Community

“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 popular London venue The Two Brewers.

Voguing is Revived - BBC Radio 4 Programme

Posted on 16 Jul 2019 in Community

“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 “Paris is Burning” and the subsequent track by gay icon Madonna, which became an unlikely dance music

Perkins Speaks of Life Post "Bake Off"

Posted on 16 Jul 2019 in Community

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. She says “I look back on Bake Off and thinking of all the bakers whose lives were changed”.

Lesbians Unite in Support of Trans Sisters

Posted on 8 May 2019 in Community

Lesbians support the right of transgender women to self determination.

Apr

DIVA Magazine marks a Quarter Century

It's a month of anniversaries for our friends in the gay and lesbian press.

Mar

Great LGBT Coverage in Older People's Paper

Mature Times newspaper, a monthly publication aimed at the over fifties, dedicates its centre page to LGBT History Month in the present issue.

Feb

"Mature Times" Introduces History Month Piece

Mature Times newspaper, a monthly publication aimed at the over fifties, dedicates its centre page to LGBT History Month in the present issue.

Feb

Younger People More Confident in Identities

Sky News reports that new data from the Office of National Statistics shows that younger people between the ages of sixteen and twenty four are around twice as likely to identify as gay, l

Dec

Oxford Street on Pride Day Showcased on CH5

“Oxford Street 247” is fly-on-the-wall documentary about the famous shopping street in Central London, and is broadcast on Thursday evenings on Channel Five Television.