For Individuals Peer support & social groups Across Lanshire Manspace We now have a support group for Gay and Bisexual men (cludg trans men and masc intifyg non-bary people) aged 18 upwards. We will be nng approximately every 2 weeks, onle and face to face. You n register to jo the group here Lbian Gay
Contents:
- THE HONOURABLE DAVID FURNISH? GAY PARTNERS OF KNIGHTS AND PEERS MAY BE GIVEN URTY TL LATT EQUALY DRIVE
- STEP FORWARD INTO PAST FOR BRISH GAY COUPL: COATS OF ARMS
THE HONOURABLE DAVID FURNISH? GAY PARTNERS OF KNIGHTS AND PEERS MAY BE GIVEN URTY TL LATT EQUALY DRIVE
The prospect of urty tl for same-sex partners aris om the Coaln's ntroversial proposal to give gay and lbian upl the right to marry. * gay peers uk *
“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. “They said we were extremists, they said that mandg equal rights for gay people would only draw public attentn to and rult further opprsn, ” Peter explaed.
STEP FORWARD INTO PAST FOR BRISH GAY COUPL: COATS OF ARMS
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.
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.