Community News

Gok Draws the Crowds and Wows with DJ Skills

Posted on 14 Sep 2023 in Community

Gay superstar Gok Wan is on the decks on Saturday 26th August at the concluding party for the Bolton Food and Drink Festival at Albert Hall Theatre, Bolton. The evening kicks off at five PM and runs until midnight. Bolton FM Community Report notes that At The Afterparty, Gok is being supported by some of the biggest names on the circuit including Phats & Small, Sweet Female Attitude and Rio Fredrika. Supporting him on the bill in the Albert Halls Theatre are also well-loved Black Hawks of Panama, Adam Guy, Jamie A

Exposing Nursing Home Homophobia

Posted on 12 Sep 2023 in Community

A report on LGBTQ Nation, citing the Guardian newspaper reports that a man whose partner suffered apparent homophobic abuse in a care home for elderly people, has been calling out the dreadful situation at the institution. Ted Brown and Noel Glynn were registere

New Book on Feminist Health Care in the 70s

Posted on 10 Sep 2023 in Community

AK Press, the Anglo-American libertarian socialist publishing house, is taking pre-orders for a new book by Angela Hume. The new title, called "Deep Care", explores the radical feminist health movement of the seventies and eighties. From the self-help movement

Virgin Group Pride Network on "Only Gays"

Posted on 9 Sep 2023 in Community

Media website RCS Radio Today says that our colleagues over at Virgin Radio Pride, the LGBT+ service from that commercial radio operation, have broadcast and rendered to podcast a programme meeting LGBT+ people who were, to coin a phrase "The Only Gay in My Villa

Emotional Resilience & Fightback After Attack

Posted on 7 Sep 2023 in Community

Shock, but also resilience and incredible pride in the solidarity of our community. Those are the feelings that have come forward to summarise the LGBTQIA community's response to the stabbings of two customers at the popular gay venue the The Two Brewers in London's Clapham dist

Sep

Wigan Pride Sees Hundreds in Northern Town

ITV News reports that several hundred people marched through the town centre of the northern borough of Wigan for the annual Pride festivities. The weather was no

Aug

Goth Anti-Hate Group Sells New Designs

There has always been solidarity between LGBTQIA people and countercultural movements, whether they be New Age Travellers and Greenham Common Peace Women in the eighties.

Aug

Groups Will Work to Improve Pride Access

Brighton and Hove News, an independently owned community news website, and other LGBTQIA friendly media such as the community broadcasters Gaydio South, Radio Reverb

Aug

Voluntary Broadcasters Unite at Llanelli

The Hospital Broadcasting Association, which represents our colleagues in the hospital and health care radio sector, says that Llanelli's hospital radio service, Radio BGM

Aug

LGBTQIA Migrant Group Challenges Supporters

Rainbow Migration, the LGBTQIA network for asylum seekers and migrants, has released an invite and a challenge to its many supporters ahead of its birthday this autumn. The group