Tag: UK

D’oh! What a facepalm-able fudge-up. As reported by Pink News, UK dating show Blind Date has been getting a lot of flack for pairing up two dudes and rewarding them with a trip to Saint Lucia. Homosexuality is a crime in Saint Lucia, you see. Per the nation’s penal code, men face up to ten years in prison for having gay sex. Blind Date is hosted by gay TV personality Paul O’Grady. Airing May 5, this was the show’s first episode to...

It's closing due to the owner's mental health Hull’s biggest gay bathhouse will close right before Christmas, according to its owner. Brian Overton built and opened Club 69 on Wright Street in Hull’s city centre three years ago. But due to personal mental health issues, Overton sold it to someone who plans to turn it into a block of flats. ‘I’m closing it due to personal reasons,’ he told Hull Live. ‘I’ve gone through it in my head a few times and I’ve tried...

The two boyfriends of 11 years are finally together: 'This was my Christmas present' A man who was denied a visa to join his boyfriend of 11 years in the UK because their utility bills were in different names has arrived in the country. The Home Office u-turned the decision of denying a visa to Adam Armstrong, 34, from Adelaide in Australia. Armstrong wanted to join his partner Duke Westwood in Swansea, Wales. Armstrong also sent a raft of evidence, but the...

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...

Gay escort Sleazy Michael is 59 and having the time of his life. The gay escort, who features on Channel 5’s The Sex Business on Tuesday night, has been working in the trade for 13 years, ever since he came out to his wife and two children. He had to leave his “very nice middle-class lifestyle” in Cambridge after being thrown out by his wife who, he says, chased him around the kitchen with a knife. That was after he was forced...

Tony Drewitt-Barlow and husband Barrie made history in the late 90s when they became the first gay men in the UK to father children through surrogacy One of Britain's first gay fathers has been diagnosed with throat cancer and has just 18 months to live, his heartbroken 'ultimate daddies' girl' daughter has revealed. Tony Drewitt-Barlow and husband Barrie made history in the late 90s when they became the first gay men in the UK to father children through surrogacy. Their twins, Saffron...

"I've had enough. I don't want to live in a gay world." A British man planned to attack a Pride event in Northwest England with a machete and air rifle, jurors heard this week. On Tuesday, prosecutors claimed 20-year-old Ethan Stables “was enraged” when he learned that the New Empire pub in Cumbria was hosting an LGBT event on June 23, 2017. Stables began his reconnaissance of the bar that same day, taking notes and snapping photos, with the aim of launching...

The US president says he is not a 'big fan' of the new $1bn embassy building The US President Donald Trump has canceled his plans to visit the UK in February where he was due to open the new US Embassy in London. In a tweet this morning the US president says he is not a ‘big fan’ of the new $1bn (£738m, €827) embassy. Naming the ‘bad deal’ as the reason he wouldn’t attend. However, with large protests planned including by...

You might wanna tag a Welshman... It’s the eternal question: does matter? Whatever your answer, you may still be interested to learn the results of this study. The UK average penis size is 6.36 inches, according to new research. Men in Wales measure the biggest, with an average size of 6.56 inches. London is in second place with 6.51 inches, followed by East Anglia with 6.47 inches. Furthermore, the smallest average penis size in the UK is the East Midlands with 6.11 inches. This was followed...

The teens have all been given a six-month prison sentence for attack on a gay couple Three UK teenagers were jailed today after pleading guilty to attacking two train passengers because of their sexuality. Two of the male teens were aged 16 and the other aged 17. They attacked Phil Poole and Zbynek Zatloukal while they were heading home from a night out in Reading. One of the 16-year olds walked through the carriage after the three boarded the train and spotted Poole...

'Being gay doesn’t matter in the context of refereeing a football match' Ryan Atkin has come out as the first openly gay professional football referee in the UK. The 32-year-old has made the move to take on homophobia in the sport. The match official will be undertaking fourth official duties in the EFL and National Leagues in 2017 – 18. ‘Being gay doesn’t matter in the context of refereeing a football match,’ Atkin told Sky Sports. ‘But if I’m speaking about equality and diversity,...

The Scottish Episcopal Church has become the first mainstream branch of Christianity in the UK to allow same-sex weddings. In a vote this afternoon at its General Synod, all three houses of the meeting – the bishops, clergy and laity – came out in favour. The decision was overwhelming, with at least two-thirds of all groups voting for same-sex weddings. In all, 74 percent of the General Synod voted for the motion, which will remove the definition that marriage is between a...

The first major UK Pride festival parade of 2017 has taken place amid heightened security fears The first major Pride festival of the UK season, Birmingham Pride, is taking place today and tomorrow in England’s second city. It does so amid heightened security concerns following the bombing of an Arianna Grande concert at Manchester Arena on Monday night. Following that attack, in which 22 people died, authorities have placed the UK’s security threat at ‘critical’. Additional security is in place at big...

  An explosion that police said was linked to terrorism killed at least 19 people and wounded at least 50 concertgoers at an arena performance by LGBTQ ally Ariana Grande in Manchester, England Monday night. Police said the explosion is being judged a terrorist attack unless new information proves otherwise. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/866817838354268164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Fdozen-dead-terrorists-attack-ariana-grande-concert-uk%2F “We saw young girls with blood on them, everyone was screaming and people were running,” she said. Video posted to Twitter showed panicked concertgoers running from the arena. https://twitter.com/stephan_pierre_/status/866819855927971840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F05%2Fdozen-dead-terrorists-attack-ariana-grande-concert-uk%2F ”Ariana is O.K.,” said her...