2007 Gay Pride Schedule
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Firefighters disciplined over march
Nine firefighters who refused to hand out safety leaflets at a gay pride march have been disciplined by their bosses. The group have faced a series of disciplinary hearings since disobeying orders at the Pride Scotia parade in June. After several days of deliberation, fire chiefs at Strathclyde Fire and Rescue (SFR) announced the nine officers would be made to undergo an intensive course of "diversity training" as a result of the incident. .
Hear Me Out: Personal Truce: In the Aftermath of Middle East War ...
It seems to take a Middle East war for me to be able to call a ceasefire with my father. That is because there has been a personal, more private war going on between Sabir, my Palestinian father, and me, his gay son, for nearly two decades.Our war, of course, does not involve bombs or bullets. But in it, there have been plenty of explosions, lives have gotten ripped apart, and in its wake there has been more than enough suffering.The battle between my father and me began more than 20 years ago, when my parents accidentally found out their only son was gay.My mother, an American raised in the South, progressed from thinking I was mentally ill, to eventually volunteering for AIDS organizations and helping drag queens get dressed for their shows and marching in Gay Pride parades. But the leap was too big for my father.As the years went by, a Cold War of sorts set in between us about my sexual orientation.
Comment: Is newspaper backlash aid to homophobia?
PinkNews.co.uks Dave McElhill ponders press reporting regarding EU enlargement and asks if the tones are helping the international gay community.
The recent headlines have been full of commentary regarding the likely influx of new immigrants when Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.
The right wing press though is aiming to keep levels of legal immigration down from countries which are openly anti-gay, as shown by the response to pride marches throughout former Soviet states, in particular Latvia.
Questions remain, though, as to whether or not the two new EU candidate countries are as openly homophobic.
If so this presents grounds for possible immigration to avoid discrimination.
Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, has not held a gay pride march in over 4 years.
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