Recent Posts Tagged With 'lgbt'

• Bringing It Home To Me

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 06:30 in life, pride, activism, lgbt, homosexuality, acceptance, gay life, oscar wilde, soul tribe, being queer, reading pride, ballad of reading gaol

  I ventured out to our local gay pride event last weekend.  I have actively avoided going to Reading Pride because it always felt a little close to home, on so many levels.  I’ve been to a couple of other prides this year and really enjoyed my...

• Far-right group to protest at local pride event

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 14:37 in life, news, pride, sexuality, activism, lgbt, protest, gay life, homophobia, gay pride, fascists, gay parade

  Far-right group the National Front are to be allowed to ‘peacefully’ protest at this year’s Reading Pride parade and festival. Their demonstration has been given the go ahead by local police in a move which has angered and divided t...

• Smoking is killing LGBT’s in large numbers….

  Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 09:38 in life, health, friends, lifestyle, smoking, death, lgbt, tobacco, gay men, lesbians, Social Life, gay community

  A study soon to come out in the United States shows that the percentage of smokers among gay men and lesbians is far higher than that of their heterosexual counterparts.  37% of lesbians in the United States light up as compared to 18% of straight w...

• I went to a gay bar…

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 04:53 in life, pride, sexuality, General, lgbt, fear, Social Life, coming out, self-acceptance, being myself, gay bar, coming to terms

  Last night, I plucked up the courage and went on my own into a gay pub and I cannot tell you how scared I was, well maybe you know.  I had been circling the establishment for days, walking down to it then past it then round again and past it and if ...

• Pride…

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 16:32 in life, business, pride, sexuality, lgbt, helen, teresa, gay pride, mazz, pretty pink pearl, oxford pride, mazzimage

  Today, I ventured out to my first Pride event.  Oxford Pride. It was a wet and dreary day and I think this reflected on the amount of people who turned up.  Still, it was well worth going if only to see a man wearing make-up and wearing white rugby...

• The Times of Harvey Milk (documentary)

  Posted on Friday May 22nd, 2009 at 06:18 in life, gay, documentary, sexuality, activism, san francisco, films, lgbt, coming out, harvey fierstein, being gay, harvey milk

  “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.” Harvey Milk In preparation for the dvd release of Milk starring Sean Penn, I sat down and watched the Oscar-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, narr...

• Kelly McGillis comes out as lesbian…

  Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 10:00 in lesbian, life, TV, actress, sexuality, films, lgbt, personal life, coming out, the l word, top gun, kelly mcgillis

  Kelly McGillis has ended speculation about her sexuality by coming out as a lesbian. The Top Gun actress told website shewire that she was single and definitely looking for a woman. Speaking to shewire’s Girl Rock video blog, Kelly said: ̶...

• Pretty Pink Pearl…

  Posted on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 at 08:55 in internet, videos, photos, Free, blogging, blogs, websites, chat, social networking, forums, lgbt, messaging

  Pretty Pink Pearl is a Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Social Network - you can upload Videos and Photos. You can Chat and Message one another. There are Forums and Blogs available for each member and best of it, it’s absolutely FREE.  It’s ne...

• Realisations….

  Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 16:26 in family, music, life, internet, news, home, love, work, shopping, blogging, world, friends

  It’s been a strange old day if the truth be known.  I got angry because I was bored.  I didn’t want to walk into town because I wanted to save the bus fare for ciggies then acted out because it seemed like such a long trek so I threw a ...

• Gavin Alker walks free from court

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 13:50 in life, news, Liverpool, teenager, alcohol, drinking, truth, party, lgbt, torture, justice, trial

  Gavin Alker, one of the chief protagonists in the murder trial of openly gay Liverpool teenager Michael Causer, walked free from court today cleared of both murder or manslaughter charges. I, like many, felt that his involvement in this terrible crim...

• One lump or two?

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 14:52 in life, gay, shopping, white, humour, friends, coffee, sexuality, nonsense, lgbt, bizarre, Social Life

  Quite a few people now either know I’m a poofter or heavily suspect it.  When going to buy coffee the other day I bumped into someone I knew (who knows about me) who was also looking to get themselves a cup so we headed over to the nearest Cos...

• Words don’t come easy…

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 07:58 in life, gay, game, Online, friends, websites, sexuality, hollywood, writing, bisexual, blogosphere, lgbt

  Words.  Letters added together to form clumps of meaning.  When I was questioning whether I might be bisexual I found not hostility exactly but noticeable resistance from some people who identified as gay.  Some people since then have quite simply...

• Happy Birthday Peter

  Posted on Sunday January 25th, 2009 at 06:20 in life, news, website, websites, activism, human rights, lgbt, gay rights, campaigner, green party, Robert Mugabe, Happy Birthday

  You may be wondering, Peter who? I’m talking of none other than Peter Tatchell, tireless gay and human rights campaigner extraordinaire. It’s his birthday today, I shalln’t say how old though if you’re interested you could alw...

• Symbols…

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 15:57 in cool, activism, symbols, gratitude, lgbt, gay pride, gilbert baker, being gay, rainbow flag, lgbt community, pride symbol, soul tribe

  I was thinking today about the Rainbow Flag which symbolises the LGBT community.  As symbols go, it’s pretty cool.  We could do a lot worse couldn’t we?  Thanks Mr Baker.        ...

• My brain hurts

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 03:13 in gay, sex, women, thinking, Sexy, queer, sexuality, advice, beautiful, lgbt, gay men, lesbians

  I’ve been doing some thinking, yeah my brain hurts now and everything.  I was wondering if I could be a bit bi because I do find women beautiful and can see that certain women are sexy.  I even find myself physically attractive to some women ...

• It’s only natural…

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 06:27 in lesbian, life, science, society, sexuality, lifestyle, Nature, General, understanding, lgbt, studies, diversity

  I was looking at the graphic on Mr Fabulous‘ blog which says ‘Gay by Nature - Absolutely Fabulous By Choice‘ and also thinking on an article I saw at Queerlife.co.za today which you can read here. I really don’t like hearing a...

• It’s a shame

  Posted on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 12:59 in life, gay, christianity, love, sex, sexuality, Islam, beautiful, lgbt, pope, homosexuality, Belief

  I’ve been watching the evolving arguments relating to the Pope speaking out against homosexuality. Why aren’t people able to comprehend that Catholicism (and Christianity to a larger extent) will always be against homosexuality, well homo...