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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19 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

Tweets of the Week

Is disability ugly? Abercrombie & Fitch think so http://ow.ly/eydk UNBELIEVABLE RT @MarleeMatlin RT @Ben_Jarelbo please RT @ENABLEScotland: in reply to MarleeMatlin #
Just put out a bunch of new Pink Papers and Fyne Times at Acorn House, CMK details at http://www.qalliance.org.uk/services/publications/ #
new Eating Disorders self help group starting up in Milton Keynes – http://bit.ly/KOS8J #
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15 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

Q:alliance Training Service

The brand new Q:alliance LGBT Training Programme is up and running and we are pleased to announce that the new training brochure is available for download.
If you think your organisation could do with some top-quality training around a variety of LGBT issues do visit our Training Section to see the options we have available.
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15 June 2009 ~ Comments Off

LGBT Film Suggestions Requested

A message from the Electric Picture Palace…

Vagabond Cinema is a new project for Milton Keynes, a mobile community cinema bringing a lively programme of films to a range of surprising local venues. You might have caught us showing Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill Jr” at St George’s Church – and on June 20th we’ll be [...]

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