Degrees of HOMOPHOBIA in the UK vs. Malawi
Did you catch the 5PM news on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 29th May 2010? If you didn’t there were two news items that caught my attention. Ban Ki-Moon the UN secretary General was in Malawi to meet the President who promptly pardoned the two men jailed the previous week for being gay. The President [...]
New government – what is the impact on equality?
Theresa May is the new Minister for Women and Equality, a role which will run alongside her role as Home Secretary. She may be one of the very few women to have a role in the new cabinet, but is she the right person for this particular job? To be fair, it must have been [...]
Straight Talking About Homophobia.
A couple of things have happened recently which remind me of how deep-rooted homophobia still is in our society. The first was a conference held in Belfast on 19 February called “Setting Love in Order”, staged by an evangelical Christian group called Core Issues. This organisation claims to have “saved” gay people and converted them, [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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