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Perth raised actor Daniel Monks has been nominated for two Stage Debut Awards, the British awards celebrate performers who have made their debut in the last year. Monks is nominated for his lead role in the play Teenage Dick that was performed at the Donmar Warehour. The play by author Mike Lew is a darkly comic take on […]
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15 Aug 2020 /
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A British man has been given a life sentence after he was convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on crowded London attractions including the city’s Pride parade. Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 29, was given a life sentence and told he must serve at least 25 years before being released. Chowdhury, who is from Luton north of London, […]
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12 Jul 2020 |
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Ryan Mathew Schulz spent many years on Perth stages as drag performer Fab Panache. She made her mark on the local drag scene hosting queer nights at Leederville’s Honey Lounge and Fremantle’s East End Bar, and even released a single showcasing her singing skills. A few years ago Ryan stopped performing drag and created a […]
Tags: Fab Panache, London, Ryan Mathew Shulz, Vicious Von Vixen
26 Sep 2019 |
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British police have arrested four teenagers over a brutal attack on a same-sex couple that took place on a London bus. Melania Geymonat, 28, from Uruguay, was left with a suspected broken nose while girlfriend Chris, who is from the USA, was also beaten up. The couple, who live in the United Kingdom, were catching […]
Tags: attack, hate crime, Lesbian, London
8 Jun 2019 |
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A brave gay Army veteran has stepped in and stopped a homophobic attack on London’s public transport system. Footage that has just come to light shows an incident back in March where a man attacked a gay passenger on a London bus, luckily another man – who is a decorated soldier stepped in and put […]
Tags: bus, Homophobia, London
21 Jun 2018 |
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The families of four young men killed by ‘Grindr Killer’ Stephen Port are suing London’s Metropolitan Police for failing to notice that their relatives deaths were murders and that a serial killer was behind their deaths. Port met his victims, who were all in their twenties, on a gay social networking sites including Grindr and […]
Tags: Fitlads, Grindr, London, murder, serial killer, Stephen Port
15 May 2017 |
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Protesters gathered at London’s Russian Embassy today to speak out against reports of gay ‘concentration camps’ in Chechnya. The reports from Russian media have revealed allegations of gay men being targeted by Chechen officials, being herded into camps, tortured and killed. It it said that approximately 100 men have been affected by the purge so […]
Tags: chechen, Chechnya, concentration camps, gay purge, lgbt network, London, UK
13 Apr 2017 |
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Recently elected Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced that he plans to make the English capital more safe for trans people by introducing gender neutral toilets around the city. Khan campaigned for the position with a raft of LGBTIQ positive policies including promoting HIV and mental health awareness, more job opportunities, more trans-inclusive decision […]
Tags: bathroom, conservative, England, gender neutral, labour, LGBT Rights, lgbtiq rights, London, marriage equality, sadiq khan, theresa may, trans*, transgender, UK
19 Jul 2016 |
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Ireland’s queen of the avant-garde Róisín Murphy has announced her new album, ‘Take Her Up To Monto’, will be released this July. The former Moloko frontwoman has forged a successful and varied solo career with her soulful, contralto vocals and unique visual style. Since returning to the creative process in 2014 with ‘Mi Senti’ and 2015 […]
Tags: Ireland, London, mastermind, moloko, music, overpowered, Roisin Murphy, ruby blue, take her up to monto
20 Apr 2016 |
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♦ London surprised by mysterious billboard A mysterious billboard has appeared in the Waterloo area of London with an ominous message; “Imagine London Without Gays…” The foreboding message shows the Big Ben, surrounded by empty streets leading to speculation about the meaning of the billboard on social media. Does anyone know what this ad is […]
Tags: Advertising, Berlin, imagine a world without gays, imagine london without gays, London, Madrid, mystery, Pride, Tel Aviv, waterloo
19 Apr 2016 |
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