Ban Lifted on Gay Boy Scouts of America

Tessier Brothers After many years of wrangling and on a subject that has caused a major rift in the organisation, finally, The Boy Scouts of America national council has voted to lift the ban on openly gay Scouts while retaining the ban on gay adults serving in leadership positions. Many campaigns were instigated to oppose [...]

Eurovision winner – Emmelie de Forest

Photo: Michael Søndergaard.  With an audience that any other TV show would kill for, the Eurovision Song Contest is still, after 58 years, a competition that can be the supreme shop window for an artist. Last year, victory went to Sweden with the brilliant Euphoria, which charted worldwide and it would appear that  this year’s [...]

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 [...]

New Sitcom for IPhone

Fancy a comedy break from the gym or light relief on the Tube? GOING NOWHERE, a new British sitcom from enterprising young gay media executive Robert SJ Lucas, is set to get global audience laughing when it is launched as an app next month.  The series has been created for iphone users and will have [...]

A GORGEOUS GETAWAY AT OAKFOLD HOUSE

Here at Bent we love to get away from it all. There’s nothing like escaping the hectic city life of clubbing, gyms and work to put your feet up for a few days. And what better than to sneak off with a friend or that special person and get lost in new places? This spring [...]

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 [...]

Fashion – Flower Power

What better way to celebrate summer than with items in the new ‘Painter’ limited edition range from Modus Vivendi. This Greek company produces some of the most exciting designs that often leave other male fashion companies racing to catch up. Exclusive for this summer is the neo-retro floral range of Bomber jackets, Bermudas and jog [...]

Travel – Visit Valencia by Gordon Hopps

I had been to Spain on vacation many times but until recently I had never been to Valencia. There can be few cities that have moved with the times so impressively and yet maintained a fierce hold on their historic legacy. Here can be found ancient city walls and gateways nestling alongside some of the [...]

Straight civil partnerships won’t wreck or delay gay marriage

Easy solution: delay implementation until civil partnership details are worked out MPs should still vote for heterosexual civil partnerships “It is deplorable the way the government has resorted to scaremongering tactics to scupper the heterosexual civil partnerships amendment. There is no reason why this amendment should wreck or delay the same-sex marriage bill,” said Peter [...]

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 [...]

Bent Fiction – A Night To Remember by Les Lea

I awoke to see a dull light behind the curtains. My eyes focused on the red display of the digital clock – ten twenty, a moments panic hit me but soon departed as I realised it was Saturday and not a work day. All that happened in a glance, and then my eyes fell upon [...]

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, [...]

Book – THERE’S A BUG GOING AROUND

By Robert Silman and Steven Froelich This novel was written in the 1990s at the height of the AIDS scare when the gay community particularly, faced the paranoia that surrounds a life-threatening incurable and untreatable disease. One of the central ideas of the book was, then, a piece of science-fiction: the novel asks why one [...]

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 [...]

Bent Fiction – Rubber Lovin’ – by Les Lea

Thursday, 9pm on the dot and I was knocking on the door of my regular appointment, Mr. Davies. He’d booked my services for the past three months; every two weeks, same time, same place and I assumed, same sex. He said he liked my long slender legs, and ‘admired greatly’ (his words not mine) my [...]

Film Review – I Can Smell Baby Oil

Review by Chris Amos Fast and Furious 6 (12a) Director: Justin Lin Stars: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Luke Evans, Ludacris Opens 17th May: 3 Stars **** I love these films. I know, I know… really they should be straight to video but the testosterone packed Fast and [...]

VERBENA SPA – luxury pampering

Verbena Spa is located forty minutes from York and Harrogate, and an hour from Leeds in the scenic market town of Helmsley. Verbena Spa is part of the Feversham Arms, a destination popular with shooting enthusiasts, married couples and urban types looking to escape the grime and bustle of the city. The hotel has a [...]

Travel – Alberta: Edmonton & the Canadian Rockies

Home to the Canadian Rockies, it’s even where they shot Brokeback Mountain! Adrian Gillan visits the province of Alberta for soaring peaks in Jasper and big city buzz in capital Edmonton! Born out of Canada’s own Wild West – where outlaws, prospectors and trappers moved amongst native peoples before the British Empire took hold, naming [...]

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 [...]

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