London: Hate crime memorial to take place at St Paul’s
An act of remembrance for all of those affected by hate crime will take place at St Paul’s Cathedral in London this Saturday. It is to mark the start of the first ever National Hate Crime Awareness...
View ArticleTerrence Higgins Trust to launch new HIV testing campaign
England’s first National HIV Testing Week will take place next month as part of a strategy designed to tackle high rates of HIV infection among gay and bisexual men. The Terrence Higgins Trust (THT),...
View ArticleLondon’s G-A-Y smashes HIV test world record
G-A-Y Bar on London’s Old Compton Street has broken its own Guinness World Record for the highest number of HIV tests to be carried out on World AIDS Day. On Saturday 1 December, staff from 56 Dean...
View ArticleAdmiral Duncan pub nail bomb memorial ‘missing’
The memorial plaque installed to commemorate the victims of a nail bomb at central London pub the Admiral Duncan, has disappeared. The metal memorial was located in St Anne’s Gardens churchyard, nearby...
View ArticleComment: Remembering the Admiral Duncan nail bomb attack
Tuesday 30 April is the fourteenth anniversary of the nail bomb attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, central London. In a PinkNews comment piece, first published last year, Mark Healey reminds us...
View ArticleLondon gay bar invites back man with MS who was denied entry due to his...
The management of a gay bar in London’s Old Compton Street is to apologise to a patron who said he was turned away because he was in a wheelchair, and has admitted the situation was badly handled. It...
View ArticleLondon gay bar denies entry to man with MS because of his wheelchair
A man with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) was denied entry into one of London’s gay bars because he is in a wheelchair last night. PinkNews reader Christopher Stapleton said he approached Compton’s bar on Old...
View ArticleProtests planned for Sunday against reinstatement of Indian gay sex ban
A protest is being organised for Sunday against this week’s shock ruling by the Indian Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on gay sex in the country. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court in India ruled to...
View ArticleRemembering the Admiral Duncan nail bomb attack 15 years on
The 15th anniversary of the worst homophobic attack to ever occur in Britain will be marked this evening. At the heart of the capital’s LGBT community on the evening of 30 April 1999, the Admiral...
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Remembering the Admiral Duncan nail bomb attack 17 years on
The 17th anniversary of the worst homophobic attack to ever occur in Britain will be remembered today. At the heart of the capital’s LGBT community on the evening of 30 April 1999, the Admiral Duncan...
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London’s Old Compton Street to join hands and pay tribute to victims of mass...
The heart of London’s Soho will stop and hold hands tomorrow in a tribute to the victims of the mass shooting in an Orlando gay club. The death toll in the Orlando Pulse club mass shooting has risen to...
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