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April 15, 2011
One point that has particularly shocked commentators about the recent ejection by the John Snow pub of two men for kissing is that it occurred in Soho. That such a thing should happen in the symbolic and actual heartland of the London LGBT community has astounded tweeters and journalists alike. But what’s perhaps most troubling about this […]
March 23, 2011
It was one of those endless, sunny afternoons that disappear when you get older. I was nine years old and on the cusp, not of adolescence, but of being able to play in the ‘Big End’ at primary school. I’d always envied the older children this part of the playground. While us younger kids had […]
August 21, 2010
America actress Portia de Rossi couldn’t have chosen a more culturally sensitive time and place (a Los Angeles court) to file a petition to take the surname of her partner, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. The news broke five days after US district court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that Proposition 8, which has prohibited same […]
July 30, 2010
The recent Supreme Court ruling that LGBT foreign nationals have a right to asylum in the UK is welcome, and long overdue. It also sheds a harsh light on the state of Home Office policy in this area. In the days preceding the judgement, the UK had come under intense fire for the so-called ‘discretion […]
There’s a TARDIS in my garden
April 23, 2011
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An ethereal sound fills my room. The sound of the universe, you could say. Next to a pile of bank statements, my desktop TARDIS toy has sprung to life, warning me of an incoming call on my mobile. Doctor Who has been in my life for a very long time. My first TARDIS (Time and Relative […]