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US: 691 min • Warner Home Video • DVD

The fast, sexy and thoroughly anti-Twilight series True Blood has breathed life back into the vampire genre.

The story arc, the murders of local fang-bangers, and the tension between the living and the undead, makes for a mesmerising series. The twelve-episode format also means that it is not necessary to dilute the tension.

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Released on September 28, 209

A varied affair that, whilst having its moments, does not quite gel together.

Their potency seems to still lie in the downbeat, trip-hop, ambient arena. The album has divided critics, but there are some real creative fires crackling whenever Mtungwazi guests and she truly lends a vibrancy to her tracks.

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Released on February 17th, 1978

The first Kate Bush album started an unconventional and successful career.

The Kick Inside is a lyrically and musically raw debut and it is powered by talent and innocence.

Our columnist this month is the communications officer for The Trevor Project.

Jacquline Wing talks passionately about how people can work together, regardless of their sexuality, to prevent teen suicide.

According to a 2006 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers.

Polari Facts looks at how to deal with cyberbullies.

Facts turns to the checklist of how to deal with cyberbullies by Louise Burfitt-Dons from Act Against Bullying

Cyberbullying can be one of the most unpleasant experiences you can encounter. It normally has the same menacing effect as being ‘stalked’.

On the effects of the bully on children and adults.

The bully never goes away. The schoolyard bully, the celebrity bully, the political bully: from the street to the television their influence in insidious. Rebel Scum looks at what can be done about it.

The bully is a staple in the life of every school kid. And being bullied is an experience everyone goes through in one form or another – from run-ins with the boy who has status issues in the schoolyard through to the mainstream gay press telling you just what it means to be a ‘proper gay’.

A New York Times special report.

On a new generation of teenagers coming out..

Of course, many parents of middle-schoolers don’t want their child dating yet, no matter their sexual orientation.

Homophobic Murder of British Consul John Terry.

Once again Jamaica and homophobia are linked.

Homophobia is rife on the island and attacks on gay men and lesbians are common.

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Released August 3rd, 2009

Something ’80s, and something new, the Frankmusik album impresses Arthur Pocket.

Although 2009 has already seen a glut of individual electro-pop artists, Frankmusik is surely ranked up there with La Roux for sheer originality, casting aside with talented ease the obvious frippery of Lady Gaga and the overcooked Little Boots.

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Released on June 9th, 2009

A rich, varied, and gratifying debut.

Taller Children is an extremely confident and satisfyingly complex album. It boasts some of the boldest music production I have heard in recent years.