MANCHESTER PRIDE’S BIG WEEKEND BILL

Manchester Pride has underlined its commitment to supporting regional talent and is excited to welcome back critically-acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wolf to the Main Arena roster, who will be performing along with platinum-selling artist Kate Nash, and top ten X Factor semi-finalist Misha B. Kate Nash released her debut album Made of Bricks in 2007, which [...]

Confession – Steam heat

www.gaytouristoffice.co.uk I’m confessing this… but I might also be bragging a little. I fulfilled one of my ambitions yesterday by getting my cock sucked to completion at my local gym. I’ve been going there for about a year and although I have chatted to many guys in the steam-room after a hectic work out, I’d [...]

Landslide support for Same Sex Marriage Bill

Bill passes Third Reading by 366 votes to 161 Despite a revolt in the Tory party, and despite attempts to railroad the bill, MPs have again voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. Ahead of the vote Culture Secretary and Minister for Equalities, Maria Miller told MPs: “I accept that for [...]

DERREN BROWN: INFAMOUS

Live at The Alhambra Theatre, Bradford from 27th May – 1st June The multi-award winning acknowledged master of psychological illusion returns to the stage with his new one-man show DERREN BROWN: INFAMOUS. This brand-new show promises to demonstrate once again why Derren is one of the world’s most renowned live performers; a dark manipulator of [...]

GLASGAY! 2013

Scotland’s annual celebration of LGBT culture.  Festival runs:  9 Oct – 9 Nov 2013 Founded in 1993, with appearances by Sir Ian McKellen and Rhona Cameron, Glasgay! celebrates its TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY in 2013.  The central theme to the programme will be “LEGACY”.  We will celebrate the particular legacy that gay, lesbian and transgendered artists have [...]

LIVERPOOL PRIDE NEEDS A HERO!

Photos:  Jeb Smith When Tina Turner said that we don’t need another hero, she was wrong. Liverpool Pride is expecting thousands of them to join this year’s March, which will fly through the city’s streets on Saturday 3rd August. The marvel of caped crusaders will take flight at St Georges Plateau at 12pm, with participants [...]

International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia

Each year, since 2004,  17th May marks the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (“IDAHO”) around the world. In over 100 countries on all continents, activists and their allies are mobilizing. 1.5 billion people still live under regimes that deny the simple right to love. 45 million people, the size of the population of Spain, [...]

Miranda Hart is the UK’s favourite celebrity to share a meal with.

Photo courtesy: BBC  Miranda topped a consumer league table beating Barack Obama, The Queen and David Beckham. UK consumers currently benefit from GBP 4.6 billion of savings and earnings from the Sharing Economy. Miranda Hart is the UK’s favourite celebrity to share a meal with according to a consumer survey commissioned by The People who [...]

Some Klingons Are Gay. Get Over It!

 Stonewall’s iconic campaign goes intergalactic Stonewall’s iconic ‘Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!’ campaign is now in its sixth year and is set to reach a new milestone. The charity’s famous posters have appeared across Britain on buses and billboards, and have been seen in countries worldwide as part of the charity’s international campaign [...]

Countdown to Pride

The flowers are in bloom, the trees have all turned green and the sun is more out than in… yes summer is here and with it the countdown to all the Pride events around the country… and abroad. It doesn’t seem that long ago that, here in the UK, such events were restricted to a [...]

AKT and Outpost merge

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) youth homeless charities the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) and Outpost Housing are to merge to help meet rising demand and sustain vital services for young people. Outpost will continue to operate in the north east and offer support and accommodation to LGBT young people at risk of homelessness. They [...]

Community fundraiser makes £65,000 to tackle anti-gay bullying

  Photo: Lynda Bowyer Over 800 Stonewall supporters recently took to the streets of Brighton for the charity’s tenth annual Equality Walk. The annual fundraiser – supported by American Express and Square Peg Media – made over £65,000. Stonewall will use the funds to support its new DVD film for primary schools, FREE, which will [...]

Travel – Go Gay In Gothenburg

The charmingly different Swedish city of Gothenburg offers a welcoming world of options for lesbian and gay city-breakers. Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city, is located on the west coast of the country and is home to ‘West Pride’ LGBT festival from 20th May to 2nd June 2013. The city also plays host to popular music [...]

Brighton Pride Line-up of Artists

This year Brighton  Pride are thrilled to bring back the main stage as a focus of the Preston Park site and are currently planning one of the best live line ups ever. Already confirmed for a completely unique DJ appearance on the main stage is Paloma Faith! Prides programming director Dulcie Danger said “I’m delighted [...]

Birmingham LGBT opens sports and fitness studio

Birmingham LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans) has added a new sports and fitness studio to its thriving Health and Wellbeing Centre in Birmingham’s Southside district. The sports and fitness studio, named The Vault, opened to the public on recently and is located in the basement of the centre on Holloway Circus in Southside. It [...]

NBA star comes out

            “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”    With that seemingly simple statement Jason Collins became the most high-profile openly gay sports star in the USA. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, the NBA star, who has most recently played for Washington Wizards and Boston Celtics,  reveals that, after the recent Boston [...]

Readers’ Awards

Coronation Street star Charlie Condou and actress Sophie Ward announced the winners of the annual Out In The City and g3 magazine Readers’ Awards in a glittering ceremony recently. The winners, who were chosen by the readers of both magazines, were commended for having a positive impace on the LGBT community within the past year. [...]

QUEER PALM

The Queer Palm awards a feature and short film among all of the Cannes Film Festival selections with a dedicated jury honouring films for their treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. Kaboom from Gregg Araki (USA) was the first Awarded film in 2010, followed by Beauty (Oliver Hermanus – South Africa) in 2011, and Laurence [...]

I’m Too Sexy for… Saudi Arabia.

Perhaps Right Said Fred were correct when their song “I’m Too Sexy” was hit around the world back in the early 90s… you can be just too damned sexy for some people. It would appear that the powers that be in Saudi Arabia have removed three men from the Jenadrivah Heritage & Culture Festival in [...]

Claws For Thought by Gordon Hopps.

Back in 1981, when I received the CATS cast album as a present, I was quite excited. I’d loved the other musicals that Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice had written and was looking forward to listening to their latest epic. Alas, Tim was not involved in this production and the lyrics, based on T.S [...]

MANCHESTER PRIDE – THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR SUMMER

Fundraising charity, Manchester Pride’s Big Weekend will be boosted by appearances from reality stars Rylan Clark and Lucy Spraggan.  Lucy has always been a Manchester Pride favourite even before taking on the X Factor, while X Factor finalist and Celebrity Big Brother winner, Rylan, was the show’s most talked about contestant. They will be joined [...]

GARETH GATES TO HEADLINE BLACKPOOL PRIDE FESTIVAL

The team at Blackpool Pride Festival are delighted to announce that pop superstar and million selling artist, Gareth Gates            is to headline this year’s event.  Gareth, who shot to fame and won the hearts of the nation during Pop Idol way back in 2002, headlines the event which takes place in Blackpool’s world famous Winter [...]

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