Don’t Stand for Homophobic Bullying.

On the Irish anti homophobic bullying advertisement, created as part of BeLonG To Youth Services annual Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Weeks.

Signs Ten, a poetry collection from performer extraordinaire Marcus Reeves.

Introduction to the collection of poetry by Marcus Reeves, Sighs Ten, written by Polari editor Christopher Bryant.

Sighs Ten is a new collection of poetry and prose by writer and performer Marcus Reeves. Taken from the first decade of his career, the ten poignant, pointed and playful pieces reflect on themes of love, lust, loss and loneliness.

Queer Resistance gives voice to LGBTQ community.

About resisting needless government cuts, pushing for the alternatives and fighting for your community.

On 26th March, the group will join the ‘March for the Alternative’ in central London alongside various other LGBTQ groups to voice its concerns about the funding cuts and to highlight the alternatives to the cuts, which are fair, safe and sustainable including: a Robin Hood tax on the banks; closing tax loopholes; and policies for jobs and green growth.

Apple hosts “gay cure” app for an unacceptable 6 weeks.

The fascism of the Christian Right was voiced through Apple’s App Store, and the company had an abysmally slow response when called to remove it.

The ex-gay proselytizers view it a bad consumer choice, and instead promote a good consumer choice, their own Cosmic Cash Machine, the Lord.

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UK: 83 min • Renegade Pictures • DVD and iTunes, March 2011

Polari‘s editor is impressed and deeply moved by My Kidnapper, a documentary by Mark Henderson about being kidnapped with 8 other people in Colombia in 2003, and then returning to meet two of the kidnappers years later.

My Kidnapper is an unexpected and surprising retelling of a hostage story. It is also a remarkably balanced look at a situation in which the emotions of all those involved ran hot.

River Cultures’ ‘Walking Proud in East London’ LGBT Oral History Project

An exhibition of oral histories of 51 remarkable lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans East Enders is being unveiled throughout February for LGBT History Month 2011.

Celebrating LGBT history means honouring the institutions the LGBT community has built and needed at different times and places, through football clubs, politics, dance classes and youth groups to bars, bath houses, book clubs or churches.

The historic filing of a legal application to the European Court of Human Rights.

The UK Equal Love Campaign, coordinated by human rights activist Peter Tatchell, filed a legal application to the European Court of Human Rights.

We are yet to see the full impact of this initiative. This is just the start of what promises to be a ground breaking move towards redefining the nature and purpose of marriage.

19yr old defends his same sex union parentage.

19yr old student Zach Wahls defends his same-sex union parentage and warns against discrimination.

Wahls told the packed public hearings on Monday night that he has two mothers and that he’s no worse off for it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins the fight for equality.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recorded a video in which he labels discrimination faced by same-sex couples as bigotry.

“Same-sex discrimination is the last vestige of institutionalised bigotry that’s left in this country.”