Why Pride matters to me
This week I found myself being asked by Pride Brighton and Hove why Pride Matters. So I wrote. All personal like. Like I do. Read it here www.brighton-pride.org/pridematters Continue reading Why Pride matters to me
Tag: Gay rights
For Russia LGBT with Brighton Love : Show your support this Brighton Pride
I’m one lucky bugger. This Brighton & Hove Pride I will be dancing with my queer mates, parading proud through the city I love, kissing my missus in the park and shaking my queer thing as I DJ at the many, many fabulous Pride parties. Basically I’ll be being myself. Being queer. Being me. And not being afraid. But then I don’t live in Russia. … Continue reading For Russia LGBT with Brighton Love : Show your support this Brighton Pride
Alan Turing: Time for a hero without conviction
There are few figures from history we can say really did do right by the world. Alan Turing, the Second World War Enigma code breaker, is one of those few. And the UK has done him wrong. Having served his country with such genius, Turing was convicted in 1952 for ‘gross indecency’ and sentenced to chemical castration – the forced injection of female hormones. For … Continue reading Alan Turing: Time for a hero without conviction
It’s time to GetUp! and fight for equal rights
Not since Christian the Lion (cheers Wayne) has a video got to me like this one. Often I end up ‘discussing’ the need for Pride, for equality, for acceptance with my father. Pray for the sinner and all that. And he just doesn’t get it. And I guess he never will. Hence his absence at my favourite day when that fine sweet queen of mine … Continue reading It’s time to GetUp! and fight for equal rights
URGENT Defend the voices of Russia’s LGBT citizens now!
On Wednesday, political leaders in St. Petersburg are voting on a new law that will make it illegal to speak in public about being gay, lesbian or transgender. Think about the implications of that for a moment. Thinking about how you would feel if your sexuality meant you lost your right to a voice. A broad coalition in Russia are doing everything they can to … Continue reading URGENT Defend the voices of Russia’s LGBT citizens now!
This weekend we’re all GAY, GAY, GAY!
I’m expecting gays. Thousands of them. Loved ones and random ones. Dancing ones and drinking ones. Happy ones and very happy ones. Gays, gays, gays. Cos guess what its Brighton GAY Pride. It’s Brighton LESBIAN Pride. It’s Brighton BISEXUAL Pride. It’s Brighton TRANSGENDER Pride. Just so you know. The signs in my city announcing the fact the gays are coming to town have been lacking … Continue reading This weekend we’re all GAY, GAY, GAY!
Wildblood and Queenie 