At the risk of sounding like a dreadlocked gap year twat, I have spent the last week travelling Spain, attending, whilst in Madrid, the 2009 Gay Pride parade and celebrations. As one might expect in a Western European country subject to a stifling degree of cultural, social and sexual repression until comparatively very recently, it [...]
“Being gay is a choice”. This line of argument continues to be a hobby horse for conservatives, and for people opposed to queer liberation. For conservatives, such an viewpoint is greatly appealing. It seems to offer a way of disaggragating the stuggle for gay equality from earlier struggles for civil rights, and offers a rationale [...]
The Pink Paper reports that it has been blocked on the Virgin Gym internet terminals so as to ‘protect minors.’ When users seek to view Pink Paper news stories they see an error message which tells them that the gym has ‘a moral obligation to parents and guardians to ensure unsuitable content is not available [...]
