Here's what happened at the sixth annual GAY TIMES Honours ceremony

Contents:

• GAY TIMES MAY 2022
• GAY TIMES HONOURS
• HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL GAY TIMES HONOURS CEREMONY
• ROLL ON THE GAY TIM US ORCHTRAS
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
• MUNROE BERGDORF DECKS OUT CTOM LIQUID LATEX DRS FOR GAY TIM HONOURS 2022
• GAY TIMES

GAY TIMES MAY 2022

Domic Arnall, Chief Executive Officer at the LGBTQ+ chary, tells GAY TIMES that Jt Like Us exists to let all young people know that, although growg up queer is still unacceptably tough, their inti need to be “celebrated”. Magaze London is the sister venue to Prtworks, so you n expect the party to really kick off when our very special DJ tak to the cks for our GAY TIMES Honours 2022 celebratns. GAY TIMES is mted to protectg and celebratg queer people, trans/non-bary people, people of lour, unrprivileged members of our muny, and body diverse people first.

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However, a Freedom of Informatn requt submted by GAY TIMES to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office revealed that only 70 LGBTQ+ dividuals and their pendants had been safely reloted to the Uned Kgdom by 23 May 2022, wh “more expected to arrive the g months. You n donate to Rabow Railroad’s work to help LGBTQ+ Afghans via s webse: Roshaniya is also acceptg donatns via s GoFundMe page: You n read the Augt 2022 issue of GAY TIMES Magaze om 15 July via the GAY TIMES app, Apple News+, Readly, and Flipster. Redrsg a 2016-iated brilliantly subversive but also highly divisive mpaign where fully lored s famo rabow-lored packagg to honor the ‘most important rabow’ (ntroversial bee some perceived the all-whe sign as promotg the racist whe pri movement) for 2021 partnered wh GAY TIMES and LGBTQ+ helple Swchboard to lorize black-and-whe archive photos om Pri celebratns of the ‘70s and ‘80s.

HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL GAY TIMES HONOURS CEREMONY

Documentary shorts, stills and quot featured across Gay Tim’ portfol, on Reebok and (footwear retailer) Schuh’s social media platforms, and activatns Schuh flagships. “Sport is a fascatg place bee statistilly LGBTQ+ people tend to be more unf – fuelled by the way profsnal sports is a very heteronormative terra; nsir the environment that exists that means there are currently no openly Gay profsnal footballers the UK, and what that means to LGBTQ+ nsumers. Bankg too, is ripe for an update (as an dtry wh servic predomantly ground heterosexual fay-centered liftyl) and mental health, another space where LGBTQ+ behavrs tend to differ; GAY TIMES is also early discsns about a project wh Anglo-Amerin mdfulns app, Headspace.

For 2021 was reterpreted aga as #ProudInMyCalvs featurg artists cludg rerd producers Ar and Honey Dijon celebratg fg moments the queer and trans journey, followed by GAY TIMES own story-sharg via s newly formed GT133 group of TikTok-based ntent creators (a micro llective who rpond to topil stori at speed). ” Warner reveals that GAY TIMES is currently discsg a partnership regardg this foc wh a datg app (tails to be revealed later this) anchored fdg love rather than hook-ups.

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A very different creature to the pre-Warner era where the dience was domated by whe, gay, fortysomethg men ( now boasts an equal genr spl and a broad trans-generatnal mix, om tweens to those their 60s and 70s) Warner reveals GAY TIMES is planng to build on s transn om pure publisher-to-brand builr by beg a full “cultural platform verg rmatn, products and servic.

Meanwhile Philalphia: ‘Yannick Nézet-Ségu and The Philalphia Orchtra Prent First-Ever Pri Concert Featurg Vlist Blake Poult, the Philalphia Gay Men’s Chos, and Martha Graham Cracker June 2, 2022. Gettg outed seemed like an existential threat to belonged to maybe the last generatn of New York policians for whom beg openly gay was polilly had a mpaign nsultant who ma homophobic remarks and mand to know if the mors were te.

“They were ashamed of their sexualy and genr inty so our unter to gay shame was Gay Pri, ” Peter Tatchell – one of the people who anised that 1972 Pri march – recently told GAY TIMES. “Back then the overwhelmg amount of LGBTQ+ people were closeted, shameful and didn’t believe they were entled to equal rights, ” Peter told , addg that gay patrons outsi of queer pubs would throw s and beer bottl at them.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022

In the UK we’ve fought for and won many rights – om same-sex marriage, equal age of nsent, the Genr Regnn Act, and the right to adopt, through to repealg the homophobic Sectn 28 that probed the teachg of LGBTQ+ experienc schools the 90s.

The former prs officer for the Brish Iron and Steel Feratn started volunteerg for the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) 1958, which mpaigned to change laws that crimalised gay men. Followg his ath 2010, fellow activist Andrew Lumsn creded Antony wh pavg the way for the Gay Liberatn Front, Outrage!, Stonewall and the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly.

MUNROE BERGDORF DECKS OUT CTOM LIQUID LATEX DRS FOR GAY TIM HONOURS 2022

The former chief executive of Stonewall, Ben Summerskill, hailed Antony as a “real hero for gay equaly” and said the Brish LGBTQ+ muny “owe him a huge bt of gratu”. Her life trajectory changed 1969 when embolned by the UK’s crimalisatn of homosexualy two years prevly, she formally me out at Speaker’s Corner Hy Park, tellg the assembled crowd: “You are lookg at a roarg dyke.

” From there on her lbian activism went on to fe much of the gay rights movement; she joed the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly, found the Gay Liberatn Front 1970, took part the UK’s first Pri march 1972 and found leadg lbian magaze, Sappho year later. He also found Black Lbians and Gays Agast Media Homophobia; an anisatn that challenged and lled out media tl who, at the time, regularly ran anti-LGBTQ+ and racist news reports the UK overflowg wh disrmatn and discrimatn. In s first two s, the helple was an valuable source of support for those g out after the 1967 partial crimalisatn of male homosexualy, as well as one of rmatn durg the HIV/AIDS epimic the 80s.

A former member of Lbians and Gays Support the Mers, Jonathan Blake was one of the first people diagnosed wh HIV the UK and is one of the untry’s olst livg survivors wh the illns. Jonathan was also the face of Terrence Higgs Tst’s first safer sex poster aimed at gay men and has volunteered at var HIV drop- centr cludg THT, The Landmark Brixton/Tulse Hill, Lighthoe South London and The Food Cha. All three members of the band, Jimmy Somerville, Steve Bronski and Larry Stebachek, who rerd the majory of the band’s hs were openly gay, and ed their mic to highlight LGBTQ+ jtic society.

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Wrten to mpaign for the lowerg of the age of nsent for homosexual acts to 16 le wh the heterosexual age of nsent the UK, the ner sleeve listed the varyg ag of nsent for nsensual gay sex different natns around the world. It was around this time that Bronski Beat also headled the Ps and Perverts ncert at the Electric Ballroom London to raise funds for the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers mpaign – an event featured the 2014 film Pri. Bronski Beat wrote unapologetilly queer lyrics which addrsed homophobia, lonels and fay misunrstandg, the only band of s time to stand so unapologetilly on a public stage for LGBTQ+ rights.

A stnch gay rights mapger the early 1980s, he’s most well known for formg the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers group who would raise money for the Natnal Unn of Meworkers durg the year-long strike of 1984–1985. His words ma him Bra’s first male Member of Parliament to e out as gay publicly and, as time went on, he ed his platform to speak about issu affectg LGBTQ+ people the UK.

Smh was the only openly gay MP at the time of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative ernment banng the “promotn of homosexualy” wh Sectn 28 1988, somethg he joed the public prottg agast several tim. After beg diagnosed wh HIV November 1986, Marc Thompson has ntuoly fought for LGBTQ+ rights and for Black gay men to be clud the nversatn – a nversatn that notorly exclud his muny when the HIV/AIDS first ravaged the LGBTQ+ muny the 80s. He also led Posively UK’s peer mentor programme until June 2018, -found Blackout UK, a movement dited to buildg safe spac for Black gay men, and up until 2019 served as the Strategic Programme Lead for Health Improvement at the Terrence Higgs Tst.