Archive | June, 2009

29 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

Radio 2 Stonewall Documentary

Interesting sounding documentary on Radio 2 on Tuesday night…
Stonewall: The Riots That Triggered the Gay Revolution
Tuesday, 22:30 on BBC Radio 2

In June 1969 a police raid on a gay bar in Greenwich Village exploded into a night of violent protest. What followed was a week of rioting with pitched battles between the New York gay community [...]

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26 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

Tweets of the Week

Rainbow the bus & Q:alliance youth group have been busy getting ready for London Pride – http://www.pinkpunters.com/rainbow/ @PinkPunters #
Looking for something to do tonight? Join the Secklow 100 LGBT group, upstairs in the Secklow on Midsummer Boulevard in Milton Keynes #
Best 100 LGBT Blogs – http://bit.ly/KTcuX #
TransLondon to march at Pride ‘under protest’ http://bit.ly/oYwmI RT [...]

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24 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

New Social Opportunities in MK?

There are some really good discussions going on at the Gay MK Yahoo! Group about starting up some new social opportunites for LGBT people in Milton Keynes. To join the discussion and get something going you can sign up at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gaymk/.
If you know of any LGBT social groups in Milton Keynes or Buckinghamshire, do let [...]

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23 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

Transgender Domestic Abuse Survey

The LGBT Domestic Abuse Project (www.lgbtdomesticabuse.org.uk) and the Scottish Transgender Alliance (www.scottishtrans.org) are doing a survey to look at transgender people’s experience of domestic abuse.  Please download the following and send it back to Pamela.clocherty {at} lgbtyouth.org(.)uk
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23 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

Bletchley Park Hero’s Birthday

Codebreaker, architect of the algorithm and modern computation, artificial intelligence  contributor and gay man Alan Turing was born today in 1912.
During the Second World War, Turing worked at Bletchley Park, Britain’s codebreaking centre, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the [...]

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