Lifestyle News

Making Marriage Shows More Equitable

Posted on 22 Nov 2024 in Lifestyle

The new edition of the citywide newspaper B247 has been published. In the new issue is a feature on an inclusive wedding company. Same sex-marriage was legalised in the UK a decade ago, with the first marriages happening in March 2014. Rebel Love Collective aims to create an inclusive, empowering space in the wedding industry that celebrates and serves the LGBTQ+ community.

Boyband Evening Airs on BBC-2 Television

Posted on 16 Nov 2024 in Lifestyle

On Saturday evening, 16th November, BBC-2 Television in the UK will be meeting members of Boybands from the classic era of acts such as Take That, A1, Five and East Seventeen. Many a young gay guy would purchase the music papers

Marking Intergalactic Friendship Day

Posted on 1 Nov 2024 in Lifestyle

The BBC reports that Two of the universe’s biggest franchises collide, when Doctor Who and Star Trek come together to celebrate the Inaugural Intergalactic Friendship Day on July 30th. Russell T Davies and Alex Kurtzman will kick off the celebration with an exclusive conversatio

Lesbian Mums Needed for Queer Research

Posted on 9 Oct 2024 in Lifestyle

The top selling magazine for LGBT+ women and non-binary people is DIVA. This month, the magazine reports that Mobilise Arts is developing a new arts and research project, The Queer Motherhood Project, which will collect the stories of queer mothers to create an immersive theatre

LGBTQIA+s Rebuilding Britain's Housing Stock

Posted on 28 Sep 2024 in Lifestyle

In a superb article for lesbian and queer women's magazine DIVA, Ray Cooper discusses the contributions made by LGBTQIA+ people to solving Britain's dreadful housing problems, characterised by homelessness in cities, unaffordable rents and sky high mortgages. Ray writes "One of

Aug

Top Ten LGBTQIA+ Reads this Autumn

On our special two hour broadcast on August 29th, ShoutOut teamed up with News from Nowhere, the radical and progressive bookstore in Liverpool, to look at the top

Aug

Traveller Pride Marks GRT History Month

It's Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month in June, as well as Pride Month. Claire Rice writing at the online magazine Travellers Times, says "As th

Jun

Safety Tips for Hook Ups and Dates

Gay and bi men's underwear and fashion brand Andrew Christian has a welcome blog post this week on how to take precautions before hooking up with someone for a quick bit of nookie.

May

Honest Analysis of Poppers as a Club Drug

The gay travel portal and community lifestyle website Queer in the World always contains useful essays and features, and this week publishes a history of the gay and bi men's disco

May

Pink Rules on International Day of Pink

The International Day of Pink fell on Wednesday 10th April. Whilst the pop star Pink is an LGBTQIA+ ally as well as a talented musician, this day was for the colour pink and not t