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Drumming for Beltane with Albion Faeries

Posted on 13 Apr 2024 in Community

LGBTQIA+ New Age people, folklore enthusiasts, pagans and spiritual practitioners are looking forward to the festival of Beltane or MayDay. Celebrations will be happening all over the world, but particularly here in the spiritual West of England.

Albion Faeries, the radical New Age group that emerged from the gay counterculture of the seventies, is holding a drumming circle in London. Here's what they have to say:

Unfounded Censorship on Instagram

Posted on 13 Apr 2024 in Community

Australian gay men's magazine DNA reports that Liverpool couple Sam and David have had a sweet photo of themselves embracing their newborn baby censored by Instagram. The photo was used to promote the forthcoming conference by the group Men Having Babies, which

Marking the 25th Anniversary of Legendary Bar

Posted on 12 Apr 2024 in Community

Belfast's gay venue Kremlin is this month marking twenty five years in business, serving the community in a part of the UK that has been characterised by religious conservatism and the fall out from years of low level civil war between various rival sectarian terrorist groups and

World War 2 Intimate Buddies Helped Allies

Posted on 11 Apr 2024 in Community

Gayety web portal reports on a major new collection of photographs compiled by Los Angeles photographer Michael Stokes, which is now available from the German arts publisher Taschen. During the emotionally charged 1940s — a few years before the Kinsey Report revealed that many m

Humanists Celebrate 45 Years of LGBT+ Network

Posted on 11 Apr 2024 in Community

LGBT Humanists, originally the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, is this year forty five years old. The Humanist UK website explores the rich history of the group, reporting on its origins and continuing work. They say "LGBT Humanists’ story begins in 1976.

Apr

LGBT+ Radio to Come to More Towns and Cities

There are more LGBTQIA streaming and internet radio stations than ever before and we should all welcome the diversity of services representing the diversity of our movement. Even

Apr

Tributes Paid to Much Loved Gay TV Hero

Pink News reports that tributes from across the media sector has been paid to Nick Sheridan, an author and presenter on various networks including BBC Scot

Apr

Co-op Aims to Be A Sanctuary from Hate

A report on the High Street Co-op's in-store radio station Co-op Radio says that the chain aims to serve as a place of sanctuary for anyone experiencing street harassment, stalking

Mar

Grr! Gay Bears Meet in Gran Canaria

Queer Guru webportal reports that the 2024 Bear Carnival will be taking place in Gran Canaria this and subsequent weeks, from March 6th right thro

Mar

Trailblazer's Poetry Book is to be Auctioned

A rare book of poetry by the lesbian playwright and poet Mercedes de Acosta has come to light and according to the Guardian newspaper, is to be auctioned with a price tag of just u