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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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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

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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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.
Download the [...]

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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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