Month: July 2015

Pride in the Face of Adversity

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Photo: Isaac Kasamani/Getty Images Uganda is an Eastern African country that made the headlines in 2011 with a proposed legislation which newspapers named the “Kill the Gays” bill. This new law would introduce the death penalty for serial offenders in same-sex relationships. In 2014, the Anti-gay bill was passed and signed in to law by President Museveni on 14th February. Not the best Valentine’s Day gift, especially if you’re in a same-sex relationship. Later that year, …

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The funniest YouTube videos

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The internet is a fountain of knowledge with the whole of recorded human history at our fingertips… It’s also an ever increasing world of comedy and viral videos. I’m always coming across some video that is either epic or hysterical; so thought I would compile them here. This is the ever-expanding collection of my favourite videos currently on YouTube. My first choice has been circulating social media for the past year and no matter how …

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Up Pompeii Parody

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Do you remember Frankie Howerd’s Up Pompeii?     If you’re under 40 years old – probably not. I’m even too young to remember the series being televised on the BBC, but I did discover the 1971 film when I was a teenager – and loved it. It has the same camp comedy feel as the Carry On movies. (Oh come on, everyone knows those!) Amazon have a DVD of the TV series and you …

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Gay Travel Review: Sitges

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Sitges is a small coastal town just south of Barcelona and has become the gay mecca of the Mediterranean. Imagine a sleepy, Spanish town with white-wash buildings, winding, narrow streets and a vast and beautiful coastline. There are no fast food chains, there are no high street shops and there is very little traffic. Now imagine a huge gay population encapsulating and accommodating every walk of life from twinks to bears, jocks to fetish guys, …

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Gay travel review: Barcelona

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Most of us have a checklist of things we want from a holiday. Sun, sea and sand is usually a must, but what about history, culture, good food, nightlife and an accepting gay scene? Barcelona has it all. It took just one and a half hours to fly from London to Barcelona – and it was raining! Luckily it didn’t last long and the next day was shorts and T-Shirt weather (at least for a Brit abroad anyway). …

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London Pride: A personal view from the parade

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I always attend my local Pride events be it in Yorkshire or now London.  I feel it is important to show your support for campaigners, charities and those coming to terms with their sexuality. I haven’t been in a Pride march for many years, but this year I felt I needed to. We have made such huge progress here in the UK for equal rights, the US has just declared gay marriage in every state …

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