Recent Posts Tagged With 'soul tribe'

• 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 ...

• The Power of Friendship….

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 07:41 in family, life, love, friends, friendship, General, wonderful, Social Life, soul tribe, heart-line family

  Wikipedia lists friendship as “a co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more people. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection and respect along with a degree of renderin...

• 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 ...

• 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.        ...