Today’s Links
- Video: Sir Richard Branson comes @Out4Marriage – ‘The law should treat everyone the same, straight or gay’
The founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, has become the most high profile figure so far to film a video for the Out4Marriage campaign, which calls for global equal marriage for gay couples.
- Woman jailed for train attack on 16-year-old lesbian
A 20-year-old woman has been jailed after she launched a physical attack on a young lesbian who had kissed her partner on a train.
- Rugby Super League champions devote game to gay equality
World Club champions Leeds Rhinos are dedicating their Stobart Super League Round 24 fixture against Widnes Vikings on Friday August 10 to celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.
- Be heard
Over 45,000 people around Europe have had their in the European LGBT survey, so far. Are you one of them?
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- Tonight at Bunny’s Hutch….
… the lapine Ms O’Hare will be joined by Kaydee Langer, Anna Rexia, Candy Warhol, and the religious voive of the nation, Miss Smilin’ Kanker.
My basement, 10pm, no cover charge. - Zayn just gets more adorable, what with thinking avocado is a vegetable and it being his new fave
- Are you sure you’re sure you’re sure?
You may have noticed a lack of referendum blogging round these parts. I admit I can’t be bothered. I don’t even know if I’ll vote. That for me is terrible. But both sides and the issue itself are not energising me anyway. Or they are making me terribly angry at the inaccessibility, scare tactics and [...]
- Britney is such a refined flower
- UAE: Activists hold IDAHO commemoration with appeal for dialogue with LGBT people
Members of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender groupcommemorated the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) with a message of hope and appeal for dialogue and change.
- Michael Fassbinder is working on a script about Cuchulain
That’s one of the things he says in this video shot by GQ while he was bing shot by Mario Testino for the magazine.
- Let’s get fiscal – but do you lean to the left or the right?
Deciding how to vote in the upcoming referendum on the European fiscal treaty is very difficult because every second economist has a diametrically opposing and equally passionate view from the economist before, and if people whose whole raison d’etre is understanding these complex things can’t agree, how are we non-economists supposed to know who’s right?
So if your brain is a little fried from trying to work it out, take a break with this much simpler question: which of the two cutest visitin… - Emilio & Orlando
If you’ve spent any time in Dublin gay clubs over the past year or so you’ll know identical twin Venezuelan dancers Emilio and Orlando – at least to see! They’re hard to miss. Check them out in this sweet clip.
[code] - Poll: 47 percent of Russians believe the media can turn people gay
47 percent of Russians believe the media can turn people gay, a state-owned polling agency says.
- International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia marked globally
Governments, organisations and individuals around the world have been marking this year's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia today.
- Angela Eagle MP: Gay couples will be in limbo until equal marriage laws are announced
Angela Eagle, the first female MP to enter a civil partnership, has called on the government to introduce marriage equality legislation and take gay couples out of 'limbo'.
- Join myself and Pixie Woo tonight for a spot Make & Do Do-ing
Well, you make and do, I'll criticise. Pantibar, 10pm, no cover charge.
- Comment: David Cameron has to press ahead on marriage equality, and so do we
The consequences of abandoning marriage equality plans in the face of opposition by would-be theocrats would be disastrous for the Tories, for LGBT people and for democracy, Adrian Tippetts argues.
- Popular Eurovision website hacked in response to ‘parade of homosexuals’
A group is reportedly targeting websites related to the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan in protest at a 'parade of homosexuals' it believes will take place.
- Petition: New York Times ‘sexualised trans woman’s death’
Hundreds of people have signed a petition to the New York Times saying it 'sexualised' the death of a transgender woman in a report this weekend.
- Politicians Offer Message Of Support To LGBT Youth
Some of the country’s most senior politicians responsible for the education sector have come out in support of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), May 17.
- Dr John Sentamu: Meeting ‘emotional needs’ of gay couples through civil marriage is a ‘misuse of the state’
The Archbishop of York has said that while allowing gay couples to marry in civil ceremonies may meet their 'emotional needs', if they are not experiencing legal discrimination it would be a 'misuse of the state'.
But aren’t Friday’s great!