The Flame That Won’t Go Out
There was an hour of gay and lesbian love poetry at Manchester Central Library at lunchtime today. The photo shows Steph, who also performed a couple of her poems at the Get Bent! festival last summer.
LGBT
LGBT History Month
I’m a bit late posting about this. February is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History Month. Details of events in Manchester can be found here and see the leaflet below.
Christian group criticised by ad watchdog
A scaremongering poster from an extremist Christian organisation has been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The Christian Congress for Traditional Values (CCTV) was told it has an outdated view of what constitutes a family in modern Britain.
The ‘Pink Peak’ minority
Increasingly, it seems to me that life may have improved for a narrow segment of the UK lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population, but not for the majority. In some ways, for a large proportion of us things are worse now than they were 15-20 years ago.
Shopping victims
I was looking through my high-definition video footage of the 2007 Manchester Pride parade and found this frame which seems to sums up much of what is wrong with our community today.
Queer Up North festival faces the axe after Arts Council cuts
Queer Up North, Manchester’s gay and lesbian festival, may be forced to close after the Arts Council told organisers that its £98,000 grant is to be scrapped. The festival is one of 194 arts bodies that have been hit with severe or total funding cuts at short notice.
12% of Manchester Pride income went to good causes in 2007
Apparently this info appears on some LGF posters around the village at the moment. A friend has grabbed one for archive use, though I haven’t seen a copy of the poster myself yet. Financial overview:
ads
archive
bbc
britain
british
Buildings
business
canal street
city centre
city council
community
consumer
cost
events
film
flash
free
Fun
Gay
gay village
guardian
History
hiv
LGBT
Manchester
manchester city council
manchester pride
marketing
media
money
online
parade
photo
Photography
police
Politics
pride
public
television
trans
tv
video
war
work
youtube