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Valentine’s wish: Equal love rights for gay and straight

“Our Valentine’s Day wish is for ‘Equal Love’. We seek love equality. All couples who love each other should be treated equally and without discrimination. This means an end to the twin legal bans on same-sex civil marriages and opposite-sex civil partnerships,” said Peter Tatchell, coordinator of the Equal Love campaign and Director of the [...]

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Local churches should defy Anglican leaders over gay ban

Total ban on civil partnerships is “autocratic and homophobic” Some Anglicans want to host civil partnerships, the church says no “I urge individual priests and their congregations to defy this harsh, intolerant ruling. They should go ahead with same-sex civil partnerships, if they want to. This autocratic decision should be defied. It doesn’t deserve respect [...]

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Documentary celebrates ace codebraker

A documentary on war time codebreaker Alan Turing airs on Monday 21st November on Channel 4. Staring Ed Stoppard (Upstairs, Downstairs) as Turing and Henry Goodman (The Damned United) as his good friend Dr Franz, the drama documentary profiles the work f Turing as well as his arrest in 1952 and maltreatment for homosexuality. The [...]

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Graham Norton invites the nation to Party for Parkinson’s for The Queen’s Jubilee

Popular BBC TV Presenter and arguably the nation’s favourite party host, Graham Norton, has issued a rallying cry – urging [...]

Proud Rhinos to celebrate sporting equality

World Club champions Leeds Rhinos are dedicating their Stobart Super League Round 24 fixture against Widnes Vikings on Friday August [...]

Threats and attacks on activists with just 24 hours left to IDAHO

With just 24 hours until the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), threats of reprisals in Malaysia and attacks [...]

Gloucester City Homes – working to beat hate crime

Gloucester City Homes (GCH) considers all incidents of hate crime to be very serious anti-social behaviour and is committed to [...]

IDAHO Events

LONDON:   LONDON – GALHA & SCHOOL’S OUT Friday 18th May 2012 7.30pm Brockway Room, Conway Hall   Members of [...]

Police operation to target homophobic abuse in Portsmouth

Police in Portsmouth are carrying out an operation to target homophobic abuse.  It follows several reports of verbal abuse directed [...]