UK News

Oasis Reforms to Unpleasant Memories

Posted on 25 Jan 2025 in UK

Rock music journalist Simon Price writing in the Guardian newspaper has little time for the adulation pouring out from some quarters at the news of a money spinning reunion for the 1990's laddish rock band Oasis. Mr Price points out "I’ll never forget being present at the Q Awards in 2000, when Liam Gallagher repeatedly heckled Robbie Williams with “Queer!” and Kylie Minogue with “Lesbian!” as the assembled music business and media tittered nervously, reluctant to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. It’s one of the ugliest scenes I’ve ever witnessed.

West Transwoman Feels Let Down by Police

Posted on 3 Jun 2024 in UK

BBC Points West reports that a transwoman from the West Country has said that she is "disappointed" and "let down" by the Police after reporting that she had been raped. Lee Madan, reporting for the BBC Locally, said that the woman has anonymity for life as a victim of a sexual

LGBT+ Ally O'Neill is Ulster First Minister

Posted on 4 Mar 2024 in UK

Ireland's RTE Radio 1 reports that Michelle O'Neill representing the nationalist and centre left party Sinn Fein has become the first nationalist, Catholic and left of centre First Minister in Northern Ireland. Devolved power sharing resumed at the Stormont Asse

Taunton Haters Will Not Win - Community Vow

Posted on 3 Feb 2024 in UK

BBC Radio Somerset and Taunton based community radio service Apple FM both report that Police are investigating and appealing for information after it a walkway brightly painted with the cheerful colours of the Pride Rainbow was covered with white paint. The min

Tackling Domestic Violence in Plymouth

Posted on 7 Jan 2024 in UK

Radio Exe Devon, a local commercial station based in Exeter and Plymouth, reports that heterosexual violence is a common problem in the latter city, with three quarters of people saying that they feel unsafe in the straight bars and clubs in the city. Cross party support has bee

Jan

Gay Catholic Poet Linden Honoured

Tributes have been paid to the Scottish poet, writer, and political activist Edward Sean Linden, who has passed on to the realm of our LGBTQIA ancestors at the age of 88. From 196

Dec

Radical LGBT Friendly Bookstore Loses Patron

The pacifist journal Peace News says that one of the many people to play a role in the legendary Housman's Bookstore in King's Cross, which was the first home to the London

Dec

Kylie Will Host Radio Special on Boxing Day

Princess of Pop, Kylie Minogue, will be hosting a special programme across the network of BBC Local Radio services across the UK on Boxing Day morning from 9am. The popular singer

Dec

LGBTQIA Friendly Town Hay Ready for Xmas

Hay On Wye, a small village on the English and Welsh border country in amongst beautiful countryside, has long been a popular LGBTQIA travel destination, with its organic cafes, fa

Nov

Dogs Home Tribute to Late Paul O'Grady

The Guardian newspaper reports that a new veterinary hospital opening at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is being named in honour of the charity's ambassador, the gay