Two major events on Gays The Word's calendar are: (i) 'Declining Significance of Homophobia' by Mark McCormack 26/04 (ii)'Goodbye to Soho' by Clayton Littlewood 03/05 (i) The Declining Significance of Homophobia (in British Schools) … [Read more...]
The game of “football” or “soccer” !!!
February 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
The game of “football” or “soccer” as it is understood by all as a name for association football is under the spotlight, may be not to the same extent as racism has been, but it is in the headlights and is being scrutinised. The FA has … [Read more...]
Work, Training or Prison
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
(incarceration - People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime, and different jurisdictions have differing laws governing the function of incarceration within a larger system of justice. Incarceration serves … [Read more...]
Gay Marriage Support
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I welcome Mary Kenny’s wonderful article ‘I’m wedded to the idea gay couples deserve equality’, and it is a wonderful to see phrases like ‘the issue of ‘equality’ has proved persuasive.’ And …why shouldn’t they enjoy the same … [Read more...]
LGBT Heroes – 1
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
February 2012 is LGBT History Month, and ‘upstart’ wishes to start its first entry with a mention for Lance Corporal James Wharton. Lance Corporal James Wharton was one of the first openly gay men in the British Army - since coming out he has … [Read more...]
“RUC”…out!
December 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Out-take from upstart, June 1998 The last upstart did not have space to mention the "Queer Action" in Belfast, in solidarity with the ILGO (Irish Lesbian and Gay Organisation) of New York. ILGO has been refused permission by the … [Read more...]
SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS ON A GRUMPY THEME
December 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Out-take from upstart Vol. 9 No. 4 (1997) Agitato con fuoco The Daily Torygraph sorry, Telegraph (Thurs. 17.04.97) had a 'think-piece' by Norman Lebrecht. It was on the position of women in (what record vendors call) 'classical' … [Read more...]
Until the next one…?
December 14, 2011 By 1 Comment
A 40th anniversary celebration of GLF (the Gay Liberation Front) was held in the Electric Cinema, Notting Hill on the Saturday before London's Gay Pride parade (June 2010). (It is an odd venue, having less than a hundred seats, which though fitted … [Read more...]
IRREPRESSIBLE: GAY LIB IN IRELAND by John Francis Grundy
December 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Outtake from Gay Star No 8 Spring 1981 Privately published and printed pamphlet Despite its title, this pamphlet appears to be directed at repressing Gay Liberation on this island. It is an attack on the Dublin-based … [Read more...]
GENET AND THE ZEN OF SEX an article by ANTHONY WEIR
December 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Reprint: Gay Star, No. 13, Spring '84 It is assumed by many that homosexual men have become 'liberated' since the limited legal tolerations of 1967 and later. But the increasingly predominant bland, bourgeois, American-style, … [Read more...]