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Lulu will be making a special-guest appearance at Manchester Pride this year. The iconic Scottish singer-songwriter and television personality will perform at the Gay Village Party on the Thomas Cook Airlines stage, and will join the Danny Beard and Friends extravaganza on Saturday evening. Mark Fletcher, chief executive for Manchester Pride, said in a statement: “I can’t wait to see Lulu performing on the Thomas Cook Airlines Stage at the Gay Village Party. She’s a legend and we know the audience...

Alan Turing, a crack World War II code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era anti-gay laws, will be the face of Britain’s new £50 note. “Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today,” said Bank of England governor Mark Carney. “As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as a war hero, Alan Turing’s contributions were far-ranging and path-breaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders...

Alan Turing, the late British computer scientist famous for cracking the Nazi regime's Enigma code during World War II, is to feature on the new £50 note, the Bank of England announced on Monday. The polymer note, which will enter in circulation in 2021, will bear a picture of the mathematician taken in 1951 as well as technical drawings for the machine built by Turing to crack the Nazi code, known as the British Bombe. Turing's signature and one of his...

The world's Top 50 LGBTI cities have been revealed, find out which is #1 Pride Month is here and HomeToGo, one of the world’s largest search engines for holiday rentals, has revealed the 50 best Pride destination around the globe. The search engine did so by examining search volume and occupancy rates during Pride festivals on a year-on-year basis, identifying the destinations which have recorded the biggest annual growth. LGBTI travelers can connect to locals thanks to Pride ‘Pride celebrations contribute to greater...

Manchester’s first openly gay lord mayor has been blocked from re-standing for election. Carl Austin-Behan, who served as lord mayor from 2016 to 2017, lost a critical vote by party members in his Manchester council ward. The loss means the trailblazer will no longer be a councillor as of May’s local elections in 2018. Cllr Austin-Behan and his husband, Simon Austin-Behan, made history as the first same-sex couple to hold the city’s ancient ceremonial posts of lord mayor and consort. Speaking after the...

Education = Equality The streets of Manchester were flooded with a sea of rainbow-clad people celebrating unity over the weekend for the city’s 2017 Pride parade. This year’s event was themed “Class of 2017,” with the graduation-inspired party designed to place emphasis on the fact that education is the best way to create lasting acceptance, unity and change. https://www.instagram.com/p/BYTahC6F7fb/ After the terrorist attack at Ariana Grande’s Manchester Arena concert earlier this year, the city felt it was more important than ever to join...

Friday's ceremony in Stockport is expected to be attended by hundreds. Manchester bombing victim Martyn Hett will “exit like a diva” in “fabulous” funeral on Friday (June 30) which is expected to be attended by hundreds. The PR manager and social media personality, 29, was one of 22 people who died when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on 22 May. Martyn’s funeral is set to take place at Stockport Town Hall at 12:30...

“A party in the park just for him, he’d be so impressed." On Sunday, May 28, hundreds of mourners gathered in Stockport to remember Martyn Hett, one of the 22 victims of last week’s bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. Hett was a 29-year-old PR Manager from Stockport, a town outside of Manchester, who had appeared on U.K. shows such as Come Dine With Me. Aside from loving Grande, he was also a huge fan of Mariah Carey,...

Manchester Police have confirmed that 29-year-old Martyn Hett is the 10th named victim of the Manchester bombing. Hett, a gay journalist and PR manager, went missing Monday night (21 May) after a suicide bomber targeted concertgoers who were leaving the Manchester Arena moments after the Ariana Grande concert had concluded. The blast killed 22 people, including an eight-year-old girl, and injured 59. His heartbroken boyfriend, Russell Hayward, tweeted the news this morning: “We got the news last night that our wonderful,...

The singer has also suspended her tour in the wake of the attack. Ariana Grande has reportedly reached out to the victims of Monday night’s bombing outside of her concert in Manchester and offered to pay for their funerals, according to the Daily Record. It was also confirmed by TMZ that the star, who tweeted she was “broken” after the attacks, has suspended the European leg of her Dangerous Woman World Tour for at least two weeks. Grande’s shows in...

Superstar Mariah Carey has paid a moving tribute to a victim of the Manchester bombing attack. Martyn Hett, from Stockport, by Manchester, was confirmed dead by his ex boyfriend in an emotional post posted yesterday. The 29-year-old had been due to embark on the trip of a lifetime, holidaying in America for two months. He was due to meet-up with other Mariah Carey superfans on the visit, having been a longtime fan of the diva. Now Mariah herself has paid tribute to the...

Tributes are being paid to a gay man killed in the Ariana Grande concert bombing. Martyn Hett, 29, has been confirmed dead by loved ones following a terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena. Posts from family, friends and worried strangers had been shared tens of thousands of times in a bid to track him down after the attack. Just an hour before the attack he wrote on Twitter: “When you sneak out for a toilet break on the Macy Gray song and...

Former RuPaul's Drag Race judge is being slammed by followers RuPaul’s Drag Race star Lucian Piane has gone on another one of his reckless, scorched Earth social media rampages and his timing could not be worse. In a series of Instagram videos posted today, Piane slams singer Ariana Grande over the bombing that took place after her concert in Manchester, England. So far 22 people have been confirmed dead including an 8 year old girl. In the first video titled ‘Fuck @arianagrande’ Piane...

As word spread online of the terrorist attack Monday night at the Manchester, UK concert where Ariana Grande had just performed, Twitter lit up with emotional tweets from around the world, including dozens of celebrities, from Cher to Ellen to Katy Perry and many, many more. https://twitter.com/cher/status/866794101835841536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/866826292217303041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/ddlovato/status/866792822078406656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/866824457050099712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/Pink/status/866810680627691520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/johnlegend/status/866822681064341505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/866788728651513857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/BoyGeorge/status/866811335123681280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/lorde/status/866822912673628162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/866819201888944133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/ShawnMendes/status/866823030248538112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/kylieminogue/status/866818571245977604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/halsey/status/866797453651136513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/866809443543076865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/JohnStamos/status/866810695614181376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/BrunoMars/status/866810216259751937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F https://twitter.com/questlove/status/866797195638575105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Finternet-bursts-tears-support-manchester-victims%2F Source