A three-storey mosque and Islamic centre, named 'Picdilly Prayer Space,' is set to be tablished wh the Troro, a historic entertament plex London's entertament quarter. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots.
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- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
- TRUSTEESMUSEUMJOSEPH GALLIANO-DOIGDIRECTORCO-FOUNR OF QUEER BRA MMLUKE HACKETTDIRECTORVISUAL MERCHANDISG DIRECTOR THE FIELDS OF RETAIL AND HOSPALYLYCIA LOBOBOARD CHAIRCOMMERCIAL DIRECTOR AT ENGLISH HERAGE. FORMER COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR AT THE ASHMOLEAN MMDANA FERICEANDIRECTORSENR ANALYST, GLOBAL INVTMENT CONTROL, CAPAL GROUPBOARDTRADINGMARTYNA MLYNARSKASOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERBSC MARKETG STUNT, REARCHG TRANS REPRENTATN ADVERTISGBRIAN ROBINSONWELCOME TEAM ASSISTANTBA DRAWG. FORMERLY AT ROYAL MMS GREENWICH, LONDON TRANSPORT MM AND FOL POT GALLERY.JOSEPH GALLIANO-DOIGMUSEUM DIRECTORFORMER EDOR, GAY TIMFORMER DEP. CEO, OUTSTANDGDR MOLLY MERRYMANRESEARCH DIRECTORDIRECTOR, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENR AND SEXUALY, KENT STATE UNIVERSY, OHDOMINIQUE WILLIAMSWELCOME TEAM ASSISTANTTHERAPTIC PSYCHOLOGY STUNT WH A PASSNFOR ARTMUSEUMKATHARINE DICKCOMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONS MANAGERFORMER ONLE EDOR AT OXFORD UNIVERSY PRSANDREA CERRATOVISITOR EXPERIENCE AND EVENTS MANAGERRETAIL/CTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGER AND FREELANCE VISUAL MERCHANDISERLYNNE BRADLEYHEAD OF OPERATIONSEXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND PROJECT COORDATORMAX WOLFFEBUSINESS MANAGERFORMER BS OPERATNS COVID-19 / PUBLIC HEALTH RPONSE TEAMSMARK KINGHEAD OF DESIGN AND SPECIAL PROJECTSFORMER ART DIRECTOR,GT MAGAZEEVIE MARCIA MOOREWELCOME TEAM ASSISTANTSTUDYG AN MA GENR, MEDIA AND CULTUREOPERATIONS TEAM
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
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© 2023 LGBT Job Board for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy. It is ltle over half a century sce homosexualy was partially crimalised England and Wal, and ’s a perd fed by both progrs and trma.
When Lord Arran -sponsored the bill that end the total crimalisatn of same-sex relatns between men – after his gay brother had killed himself – his preamble was bleak. “Let me remd them that no amount of legislatn will prevent homosexuals om beg the subject of dislike and risn, or at bt of py, ”After the Sexual Offenc Act was passed 1967, nvictns of gay men for gross cency actually creased, and gay people were still characterised as would-be sexual predators and threats to children. The 1980s HIV/Aids panmic, ravaged a generatn of gay and bisexual men, attus towards gay people harned and a moral panic culmated the passg of sectn 28, banng the “promotn” of homosexualy schools: the first anti-gay legislatn passed sce 1885.
Neverthels, this perd LGBTQ+ people flourished culturally and artistilly, while om the 90s onwards, hostile public attus cmbled precipoly as anti-gay laws were stck om statute as a remr that progrs is far om lear, Bra is the grip of another moral panic, this time directed at transgenr people. And while today’s LGBTQ+ muni are more uned fiance of ernment policy that any time sce sectn 28 (more than 80 anisatns pulled out of a ernment nference over s refal to ban trans nversn “therapy”), Stonewall, the untry’s ma LGBTQ+ civil rights anisatn, fds self unr siege, while homophobic and transphobic hate crim are surgg. Trailblazg Labour MP Mreen Colquhoun wh the Gay Defence Commtee 1977.
KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
As a former edor of Gay Tim, he tapped to his extensive nnectns wh LGBTQ+ anisatns and queer activists and artists, and when he spoke to potential funrs, Galliano met nstant astonishment that such a mm did not already exist or even been attempted s own right before. Photograph: Jt Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagBra’s often tortured stggle for LGBTQ+ rights is reflected many of the photographs, such as the flamboyantly drsed yet straight Jewish Labour MP Leo Abse, who succsfully phed for the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy om the backbench. Mreen Colquhoun – the first openly lbian MP who died last year – fiantly holds a plard emblazoned wh “THE MPS MUST COME OUT”, while ’s difficult not to feel a pang of sadns at a photo of Jt Fashanu flexg his mcl: he was, of urse, Bra’s first and still only out gay male profsnal footballer who killed himself 1998.
That same police force has been cricised as stutnally homophobic by the fai of the four men murred by Stephen Port over s failure to vtigate the so-lled “Grdr killer”.
It should be hoped, too, that the upg summer exhibn featur more imag of stggle: there are allns, such as a Black woman holdg a “LESBIAN AND GAY PRIDE ’83” balloon, but there are so many joyo moments to celebrate that are danger of beg fotten by younger LGBTQ+ generatns, such as the lbian activists who abseiled to the Hoe of Lords or stormed the Six O’Clock News to prott agast sectn 28. It will make mistak, but wh such mendable reprentatn among s tste and advisers, and a genue mment to listen to LGBTQ+ muni, there are huge grounds for the half-century sce crimalisatn of male homosexualy was partly repealed, Bra’s LGBTQ+ muni have ma dramatic ntributns to Brish culture and society, often while faced wh tremendo adversy.
TRUSTEESMUSEUMJOSEPH GALLIANO-DOIGDIRECTORCO-FOUNR OF QUEER BRA MMLUKE HACKETTDIRECTORVISUAL MERCHANDISG DIRECTOR THE FIELDS OF RETAIL AND HOSPALYLYCIA LOBOBOARD CHAIRCOMMERCIAL DIRECTOR AT ENGLISH HERAGE. FORMER COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR AT THE ASHMOLEAN MMDANA FERICEANDIRECTORSENR ANALYST, GLOBAL INVTMENT CONTROL, CAPAL GROUPBOARDTRADINGMARTYNA MLYNARSKASOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERBSC MARKETG STUNT, REARCHG TRANS REPRENTATN ADVERTISGBRIAN ROBINSONWELCOME TEAM ASSISTANTBA DRAWG. FORMERLY AT ROYAL MMS GREENWICH, LONDON TRANSPORT MM AND FOL POT GALLERY.JOSEPH GALLIANO-DOIGMUSEUM DIRECTORFORMER EDOR, GAY TIMFORMER DEP. CEO, OUTSTANDGDR MOLLY MERRYMANRESEARCH DIRECTORDIRECTOR, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENR AND SEXUALY, KENT STATE UNIVERSY, OHDOMINIQUE WILLIAMSWELCOME TEAM ASSISTANTTHERAPTIC PSYCHOLOGY STUNT WH A PASSNFOR ARTMUSEUMKATHARINE DICKCOMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONS MANAGERFORMER ONLE EDOR AT OXFORD UNIVERSY PRSANDREA CERRATOVISITOR EXPERIENCE AND EVENTS MANAGERRETAIL/CTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGER AND FREELANCE VISUAL MERCHANDISERLYNNE BRADLEYHEAD OF OPERATIONSEXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND PROJECT COORDATORMAX WOLFFEBUSINESS MANAGERFORMER BS OPERATNS COVID-19 / PUBLIC HEALTH RPONSE TEAMSMARK KINGHEAD OF DESIGN AND SPECIAL PROJECTSFORMER ART DIRECTOR,GT MAGAZEEVIE MARCIA MOOREWELCOME TEAM ASSISTANTSTUDYG AN MA GENR, MEDIA AND CULTUREOPERATIONS TEAM
Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.
'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".