Hello, Euroboys and Eurogirls! Hal de Vil here with some thoughts on this year’s Eurovision entries. My first thoughts about this year’s crop was that it was largely a bit dreary, but upon closer inspection, I began to realise that there’s some cracking stuff lined up for us. There is also some stuff which is [...]
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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 [...]
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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