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Gay Pride Manchester

This year we thought we plan a visit to the city of Manchester in the centre of Britain and taken in it's Gay Pride weekend on the 22nd - 24th August 2008. We take a closer look into the preparation for such a visit.

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International Gay Youth Site celebrate 12 years of service online

GTR (Gayteens Resources) This month we celebrate another year of achievement of saving lives from self harm, educating in the fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, tackling homophobia in school and the religions who continue to promote hatered in their teachings, supporting and providing help to individuals within schools and colleges, encouraging parents to come to terms but most of all making a world of difference.

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Teenagers face 'sex-for-shelter'

About a quarter of those spoken to for the study were young gay men
Trading sex for a place to stay is one of the most frequent forms of sexual exploitation of vulnerable youngsters, says children's charity Barnardo's.

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Bebo bully victim in suicide bid

The victim was lured into a bogus gay relationship on Bebo
A teenage cyberbully drove his ex-best friend to attempt suicide by tricking him into falling in love with a fake internet boyfriend, a court has heard.

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Gay society changed by the internet

Channel 4 News technology correspondent Benjamin Cohen spoke about what his report into how the gay dating site Gaydar changed the lives of the gay community.

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Gay Apprentice

Last night the new series of The Apprentice started on BBC1.

Sir Alan Sugar's first victim, 23 year old Nick De Lacey, interview about being booted out in the first week, his fear of chavs, and what how homophobia still exists in the workplace.

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Vanity Lair - TV progamme

Interesting channel 4 experiment on the subject of what is beautiful. Nice to see a positive gay and lesbian contestants. Entertaining and worth a view.

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SKINS 2 new series

Channel 4 are currently filming the 2nd series of SKINS at Bristol. We take a closer look at the cast.

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Channel 4 TV Gay Week

Channel 4 launch a season on 40 years of Out - homosexuality and homophobia, with the centre piece being a film charting a day and night in the life of seven gay men who frequent Clapham Common.

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The finger is on the Pulse at Cardiff

Launched 27th April 2007 Churchill Way, Cardiff City Centre. A new club for the gay scene in Cardiff.

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Gay slurs at school 'same as racism'

Children who call classmates "gay" or "queer" should be treated the same as racists, the new children's minister said yesterday.

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High School Homophobia Kills Gay Teen

15 year old Jonathan Reynolds lay down in front of a speeding train because of homophobic bullying at his high school.

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SKINS - Channel 4 NEW TV DRAMA SERIES

The programme, which follows the lives of a group of Bristol teenagers. Watch out for Maxxie the gay character.

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Killing gay men is OK, says British imam

The leading imam in Manchester, England, confirms that he thinks the execution of sexually active gay men is justified, the rights group Outrage reported.

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Rupert Everett Gay film star

He was the posh young actor who rushed headlong into hedonism and heroin — and survived to tell the tale. Now, Rupert Everett comes clean

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UK Gay Group Receive Threats From Muslim Groups

LONDON, UK -- A British LGBT civil rights group received death threats from Muslim fundamentalists and warns that gay clubs could be targets for terrorist bombers.

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Sir Elton John's Gay Wedding

Sir Elton John announces gay wedding date.

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Big Brother 2005

Gays, bisexuals and tranvestites contenders enter and take over Big brother reality tv show.

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BBC gay presenters gets prime time

Julian Clary and Graham Norton come face to face with their prime time viewers of The National Lottery and Strictly Dance Fever. We take a look at these amazing fellows who make us laugh and the general British public.

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Footballer's Wives

This week saw a return of ITV's hit drama series Footballer's Wives. We will be following Noah the out footballer in this series.

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Students lobby parliament for gay equality

The National Union of Students (NUS) protested outside parliament yesterday, in a bid to raise awareness of the continuing discrimination gay people face.

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Location, location, orientation

Well, we are now officially on the map. The very first gay map of England and Wales, based on information from the 2001 census, shows that lesbians and gays are moving out of the ghetto and gravitating towards coastal towns and the countryside, as well as big cities.

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Have you told your mum yet?

How would you react if your 15-year-old son told you that he was gay? In this moving and highly personal account, one mother writes of her pride, shock and anxiety on the day it happened to her

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The Gay Team

Whether it's fashion or filmmaking, politics or the police, gays and lesbians are using their positions of influence to bring about a more liberal society. Dominic Lutyens meets Britain's 20 most outstanding homosexuals and hears their views on pride and prejudice

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Teachers told to promote Gay Pride

Schools are being urged to advertise gay lifestyles to children in a Government drive to 'challenge homophobia'.

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Diet and thyroid pills increase gay babies

WOMEN who take slimming tablets during their pregnancy are more likely to give birth to homosexual children, new research has suggested.

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Gay day for civil partnerships

New law will require a new tack from advisers helping clients sort out wills, tax-planning and pre-nuptual agreements in line with the just passed Civil Partnership Act.

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Chris Parker aka Spencer Moon

More gay rumours hit the tabloids this week.

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Little Britain - New series

There's Vicky Pollard, the teen who swapped her baby for a Westlife CD, Emily Howard, the rubbish transvestite, and Daffyd, the only gay in the village: welcome to Little Britain, brainchild of Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Gareth McLean hears how they hit it big with a cult comedy show that badly wants to offend - but can't

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UK Phone Company supports GTR

For those looking for a new mobile phone or considering upgrading. Consider one of our advertising sponsors services.

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Coronation v Emmerdale Latest Gay Characters

Currently both British Soaps have two new gay characters and with neighbours new gay character, its getting rather common to see gay characters on prime TV.
We look at the latest gay soap queens.

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Body of deceit

It's not just athletes who use steroids to build up their bodies. The muscle culture among gay men is leading many to quietly exploit the drugs while ignoring the potential side-effects.

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Mobo drops homophobic artists

Elephant Man has been accused of promoting homophobia
Reggae stars Elephant Man and Vybz Kartel have had their Music of Black Origin (Mobo) nominations withdrawn in a row about homophobic lyrics.

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International gay golf tourney starts in Kent

The second International Lesbian and Gay International Golf Tournament is set to take place in England this weekend, after last year's debut saw success.

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Nadia she wins Big Brother

The first Transsexual to win UK television Big Brother 2004 series.

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Picnic site toilets used by gay men may be rebuilt

ROADSIDE public toilets at a Wales picnic site were demolished after complaints they were a popular meeting place for gay men.

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GTR web site record month

For the second month in a row web traffic to the site reaches an all time high.

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Big Gay Out - London 3rd July 2004

It looks like there is another Pride in the park festival but under a different name. Finsbury Park hosts another party.

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Gay Big Brother 2004

Transgender, Bisexual and three gays makes this years Big Brother the largest group of LGBT people to enter the house.

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Sir Elton John

The background to Sir Elton John

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Google sponsors Gayteens.org

This month GTR reaches its eighth year of service to the global gay youth community. We are pleased to announce that Google the top internet search engine wants to help us.

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New penalties for web perverts

Peadophiles who groom children over the internet will face up to ten years jail under radical new sex offence laws.

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U.K. overhauls its sex offense laws

Britain has overhauled its sex crime laws to heighten protection of children and to decriminalize homosexuality, the BBC reported Saturday.

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A new sex crime - teenage kissing

Furtive fumbling behind the bike sheds is illegal under laws coming into force this weekend, even though the chances of schoolchildren ending up in court for it are remote. Why?

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Safra Project Conference 5 June 2004

The Safra Project is holding a conference for lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning women who identify as Muslim religiously and/or culturally in central London on 5th June 2004.

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Gay Coronation Street

Coronation Street has finally grasped the gay teen issue in its story line.

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The Queen Speaks

My Government will maintain its commitment to increased equality and social justice by bringing
forward legislation on the registration of civil partnerships between same sex couples

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G-A-Y Boob for Alex Parks

Alex won this years fame accademy in the UK, openly gay at the age of 19 performed her first gig on Saturday 22 November at the G-A-Y Club in London.

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Gay youth group take on Kent council

A gay youth group has started a campaign to persuade Kent County Council to repeal local byelaws aimed at replacing Section 28.

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London Pride in the Park - Another Financial Disaster

The Royal Parks are not getting paid for hosting London Pride. With 50,000 attending the event with a capacity of 65,000 organisers have failed again to even cover their expenditures.

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Primary pupils to get lesbian doll lessons

CONTROVERSIAL dolls are set to be used to teach Capital primary school children about same-sex relationships.

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Second Contestant Comes Out on Fame Academy 2

Peter Brame claimed he had a boyfriend to one of the contestants. Even with his latest girlfriend he is unpopular after a frosted telephone call.

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Corrie to screen gay kiss

Coronation Street is set to screen the soap's first gay kiss in its 43-year history.

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Alex comes out in UK Fame Academy

Spiky-topped songstress Alex has confided in Lorna about her sexuality and her desire for the public to see past it.

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Gay festival hailed a success

THE Out and About Festival in Huddersfield, staged to coincide with a massive Gay Pride march in London, was a huge success, according to organisers.

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London Pride in the Park

On the 26th July London received over 55,000 supporters for Gay Pride in the park. We take a look at the event and consider it's future.

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Brian's Gay Pride

How time flies. One minute Brian Dowling is just a sweet Irish innocent on Big Brother, fretting about the fact he's just told his parents he's gay and shoving ketchup on his korma, the next he's sobbing his heart out as he presents his last SM:tv with Tess Daly.

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Gay Demo Halts Church General Synod

GAY rights campaigner Peter Tatchell hijacked the general assembly of the Church of England.
The archbishops of Canterbury and York left the meeting after Mr Tatchell spent 30 minutes haranguing the gathering over the case of gay canon Dr Jeffrey John.

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COUPLE BATTERED IN GAY HATE ATTACK

A Lesbian couple say they are desperate to flee a Stoke-on-Trent estate after a 12-month campaign of homophobic abuse. Jacqui and Kirsty Lauro say youths in Bentilee have subjected them to a torrent of verbal taunts and physical violence to try to hound them out of their Dividy Road home.

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Gay bar had ban on straights

The manager of a gay bar was ordered to discriminate against heterosexuals and even told to ban a straight couple for kissing, an industrial tribunal heard.