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Crowdfunder launched for UK’s first community-run LGBTQI+ venue Queer campaigners have launched a £100,000 fundraising drive to open the UK’s first community-run LGBTQI+ bar after a property developer stalled on its promise to fund a venue in the wake of the closure of the famous Joiners Arms. The Friends of the Joiners Arms campaign group launched a crowdfunding initiative on Friday, selling shares in the proposed new bar and community venue for as little as £25 in a “fightback” against the number of queer venues lost to property development. The drive comes more than seven years after developer Regal London bought and closed the Joiners Arms, a LGBTQI+ institution in Tower Hamlets, east London. The bar counted a host of famous names among its regulars, including Alexander McQueen, Rufus Wainwright and Sir Ian McKellen. The Guardian, 18 June 2022 |
New poll ! Yay ! Pretty Boy and Ofiussia |
Population: First: There’s a bright dawn ahead for
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7 hours ago: The People's Republic of Hippie Utopia arrived from Reality. Welcome |
Culture: First: In Upper uskok valley, children who can't memorise their multiplication tables are sent to the mines. |
Dame Kelly Holmes Gay rights campaigners have welcomed Dame Kelly Holmes’ decision to come out at the age of 52, in a move that sparked questions about how many older people remain afraid to be open about their sexuality after growing up in more homophobic times. The double Olympic gold medallist lifted a painful 34-year public silence on her sexuality on Sunday, saying that she felt as if she was going to “explode with excitement” by finally coming out after years in which she felt depressed, anxious and even suicidal, keeping her secret from all but close family and friends. The Guardian, 20 June 2022 |
Aromantic/asexual people may be the lucky ones. No place in life to come out from, nothing to prove, nothing to feel approved for, nothing to validate, nothing to advocate. |
So far the poll is a dead heat between the nice librarian and the stuffed animal. |
Influence: First: In |
Isn´t it absolutely nail-biting ?? |
Result of poll: “Who would you put up on a new Mount Rushmore-type monument?” The stuffed animal you hugged in bed as a child is the winner with 6 votes. The runner up is the librarian who let you get away with two million dollars in library fines with 5 votes. There were 24 votes in all. Good poll ! |
Thanks ! The next will be terrible....;) |
Weather: First: Pueros top 0.2%. Second: In |
I´m addicted to polls now...can´t get enough of them...! |
Alligator wrestler, 100%. I'd wrestle them, but I've taken up bears instead. |
Office Girls, Otis-T, and Pretty Boy |
Economic Output: First: In |
I’ve changed my vote to alligator wrestler. |
Honestly, my vote was very impulsive, agony aunt was also quite funny. |
Health: First: Pueros top 0.5%. Second: In |
Letter to the Guardian, 24 June 2022 As an older trans woman who transitioned comparatively late in life, I read Luke Tryl’s article with interest (Forget toxic Twitter debates: the UK isn’t as divided on trans rights as you think, 23 June). He paints a rather rosy picture on social attitudes to transgender issues, but this is not what I have experienced. What Tryl neglects to mention is a key element of this discourse: power. It has been depressing to witness those in a position of privilege and power – thus having the ear of the public – espouse outdated and dangerous notions about gender identity couched as “debate”. I cannot imagine any other marginalised group being treated as a pawn in a media “debate” where they have little or no voice. It is sadly common to have TV discussions about trans people without a trans person being present. I am not averse to discussion about trans issues, but let’s call out transphobia for what it is when it comes from someone with power and influence, just as we would call out racism and misogyny. Dr Eve Jeffrey |
I think there are a few key interests that need to be balanced in this question of gay actors for gay roles (and trans actors for trans roles). Of course allowing one principle to trump the others can still result in great productions. It's a Sin was a triumph. But, I would have preferred a more balanced approach in that case and in all such cases. On blackface: this is no longer acceptable in any context because of the clear history of racism and harm in the contexts it was used. It's not directly comparable to, say, cisgender actors playing trans characters. Alpenburg and Pretty Boy |
I read that article, and while it did point out a disconnect between the government's rhetoric on trans issues and what people think, there were some topics (the medical side of transitioning for example) that people had more conservative views on. |
Coming Out on Top is on sale at Itch.io until 7th July. A great opportunity to pick this game up. One of the key games in the history of gay gaming/visual novels, IMHO. https://obscura.itch.io/coming-out-on-top |
I like alligator wrestler because it’s less expected than some of the others. |
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