Tag: London
London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard: The telephone number that helped make gay okay
Forty years of counselling callers from all over the world has given London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard a frontline view of changing attitudes to homosexuality. Its volunteers tell Nick Duerden (The Independent) why they’ll carry on listening.
London Lesbian and Gay film festival becomes BFI Flare
British Film Institute renames the event to reflect more diverse understanding of identity.
Russian teen project charged with “gay propaganda”
“The Children-404 project is being prosecuted for “gay propaganda” because it provides sympathetic, supportive advice to isolated, bullied, ostracised, depressed and sometimes suicidal LGBT teenagers.
What about Britain’s gingers? Russia attacks Channel 4 over gay rights film
Russia claims documentary about attacks on gays is timed to disrupt Winter Olympics, and says similar films could be made about abuse of Britain’s redheads
Rainbow Hamlets criticises East London Mosque for defending ‘homophobe’
A gay rights group has criticised the East London Mosque for defending a “homophobe” who declared gay people should be severely punished under Islamic law.
Sochi Olympics: Protest ballet performance of Swan Lake and petition hand-in, Russian Embassy, London
Just over a week before the Winter Olympics start in Sochi, on Wednesday 29 January at 10am ballet dancers and Amnesty International activists will gather outside the Russian Embassy in London to demand President Putin ends his assault on freedom of expression and gay rights in Russia.