23/09/2009
News Sent - 23rd September 2009
In this week's e-mail newsletter: Equality Network News: Changing Hearts, Opening Minds; National LGBT Skills Programme; Development Worker: Scottish Transgender Alliance Transition Support Project; Forums News: 1st-31st October Black History Month 2009; Glasgow: Dani Marti, GOMA, and SH[OUT]; LGBT Youth National Gathering 2009; Religion, Youth and Sexuality: Call for Participants in a Multi-faith Exploration; Talk Scotland Events: Dumfries: Mixed Bag Uniform Nite; Sshh! (Same-sex hand holding) Saturdays; Edinburgh: Art Workshops - Relationships; VAS Conference - Crafting The Arts 09; Glasgow: Faith to Faith - Sarbat.net; Glasgow: Fascist group may plan anti-Muslim demo in November; Glasgow: Women's Support Project 2009/10 Training And Events Calendar; Perth: LGBT free training for practitioners; Glasgow: Hello Sailor! gay life on the ocean wave; UK News: Comments on Gordon Brown's apology to Alan Turing; Yorkshire: Local councillor compares providing condoms to birdseed; Football Clubs Liverpool and Everton take the field against homophobia; International: Jamaican police still claim John Terry's murder "not homophobic"; Serbia: Belgrade Pride cancelled; Lithuania: anti-gay legislation will become law in 2010; US: "Value Voters" speak their minds; LGBT Families, Civil Partnership and Cohabitation: Scotland: Adoption and fostering law to change
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Equality Network News
Changing Hearts, Opening Minds
Booking is now open for the 2009 conference, which will be held on Saturday 14th November 2009, at West Park Conference Centre, Perth Road, Dundee, 10am-4pm. This conference is organised by the Equality Network with the support of
LGBT Youth Scotland and
Stonewall Scotland. The keynote speaker is Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health and Sport.
www.equality-network.org/policy/conferences/conference2009
National LGBT Skills Programme
10am-5pm,
Sat 17th October, Glasgow. A free one day training event aimed at helping LGBT groups and organisations to become more inclusive to disabled and minority ethnic LGBT People.
Development Worker: Scottish Transgender Alliance Transition Support Project
Three year post. Full time (35 hours a week). Starting Salary £22,513 pa. Based in Leith, Edinburgh and Central Glasgow
The Equality Network is a leading Scottish LGBT rights charity, which manages the Scottish Transgender Alliance. We are seeking a development worker to co-ordinate a programme of activities that will reduce the significant levels of social isolation and economic exclusion experienced by transgender people in Scotland. This will involve volunteer development, facilitating groups, and establishing and managing peer mentoring networks. This post is funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.
www.equality-network.org/vacancies
Forums News
1st-31st October Black History Month 2009
Black History Month has been celebrated across the UK every October for over 30 years, and in Glasgow since 2001.
Glasgow Anti-Racist Alliance programme of events available.
Glasgow: Dani Marti, GOMA, and SH[OUT]
Charlotte Higgins
writes in the Guardian: There has been a tremendous kerfuffle at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art. Its current exhibition, sh[OUT] – which focuses on lesbian, gay, transgender and intersex life, and features, among others, work by Nan Goldin and David Hockney – has been the subject of a vitriolic campaign by the Daily Mail.
Community - Get Involved > Campaigns > GOMA and SH[OUT]
LGBT Youth National Gathering 2009
Young people at LGBT Youth Scotland's National Gathering (11-13th September) voted on the organisation's policy priorities for the upcoming year and chose to focus on Equal Marriage and Pro-Democracy and Anti-Fascism work.
www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/news/national-gathering.htm
Religion, Youth and Sexuality: Call for Participants in a Multi-faith Exploration
If you are aged 18-25, living in Britain, and define yourself as Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim or Sikh (or a combination of these) a research project based in Nottingham is interested in your input concerning your sexual identity, values, and choices. The RYS Research Team is composed of: Andrew Yip and Jane Page (Uni of Nottingham) and Michael Keenan (Nottingham Trent Uni). Contact by rys@nottinghm.ac.uk or phone: 0115 8232444. More information at website:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/rys
Talk Scotland Events
Dumfries: Mixed Bag Uniform Nite
8pm 25th Sept to 1am 26th Sept, upstairs at the Queen of the South lounge at Palmerston in Dumfries. "
Mixed Bag: The QUEER party in South West Scotland". £4 / £3 members - enquiries: Tel 01387 739888 Email DandG@lgbtyouth.org.uk (
Facebook)
www.lgbtyouth.org.uk
Sshh! (Same-sex hand holding) Saturdays
Last Saturday of every month, starting:
Saturday 26th September 2009. "Homophobes are drops in the ocean. Every time you hold hands, you become the ocean."
www.adayinhand.com
Edinburgh: Art Workshops - Relationships
1-5pm, Sunday 27th Sept, LGBT Health and Wellbeing Centre, 9 Howe Street. The
first of three monthly Sunday afternoon drop-in art workshops. This facilitated session will support you to create art around the theme of relationships, whatever your artistic abilities. Followed by
Knitting Group, 5-7pm: Casual session for knitters and other stitchers.
www.lgbthealth.org.uk
VAS Conference - Crafting The Arts 09
30th / 31st October, Howden Park Centre in Livingston, West Lothian. Voluntary Arts Scotland Celebrates The Art Of Taking Part. Prices range from £40 - £135 depending on your circumstances, with early bird rates operating until 1st October. Reduced hotel accommodation rates have also been negotiated. For more information and to book a place, 0131 225 7355 or visit website:
www.vascotland.org.uk
Glasgow: Faith to Faith - Sarbat.net
2-4pm, Sunday 4 October 2009, at
St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Castle Street, Glasgow. Sarbat.net is a website for LGBT Sikhs. Jay Singh, the group’s moderator, will speak about what Sarbat offers to help LGBT Sikhs reconcile their faith and sexual orientation.
Faith to Faith gives you the chance to listen, debate and discuss issues relating to faith and religion. Free event, booking essential: phone 0141 276 1625.
Glasgow: Fascist group may plan anti-Muslim demo in November
An anti-Muslim group calling itself the ‘English Defence League‘ are planning to demonstrate in Glasgow on the afternoon of Saturday 14th November 2009. The group recently demonstrated outside mosques in London and Birmingham, chanting “Muslim bombers off our streets”. On Friday 11 September, over 2,000 people turned out to defend the Harrow Mosque.
Positive Action in Housing sent an action alert.
Glasgow: Women's Support Project 2009/10 Training And Events Calendar
Women's Support Project offers interagency training workshops,in-house training, seminars and events on violence against women. (
Glasgow Women's Network)
Perth: LGBT free training for practitioners
7th October 2009, 12.30-4pm, Blackfriars Development Centre, North Port, Perth PH1 5LU. LGBT Youth Scotland are offering a unique opportunity for local practitioners to learn more about LGBT issues through two half day training sessions. *Please note that the event on the 30th September is now fully booked*
Event listing
Glasgow: Hello Sailor! gay life on the ocean wave
5th Sept-29 Nov 2009, 10am- 5pm (November 4pm),
The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour, 100 Stobcross Rd, Glasgow G3 8QQ. £3 (Concs £2) or £5.95 including entry to The Tall Ship). This touring exhibition from National Museums Liverpool reveals a hidden side of the Merchant Navy, from the 1950’s – 80’s where excited young men dressed as Hollywood stars by night and operated as efficient crew members by day.
UK News
Comments on Gordon Brown's apology to Alan Turing
Nicolas Chinardet: Brown's apology to Alan Turing is not good enough (
Pink News)
Inagh Payne, Alan Turing's niece, said that she was "very grateful" for the apology. (
Telegraph)
Janet Street-Porter: After Turing, the shameful abuse of gays goes on (
Independent)
Poem by Matt Harvey: "here’s a toast to Alan Turing, born in harsher, darker times" (
BBC Radio 4, Saturday Live)
Yorkshire: Local councillor compares providing condoms to birdseed
The
Brunswick Centre, the Kirklees and Calderdale sexual health charity, provides bags of condoms in a local cruising area. They have been attacked for doing so by a local paper and by Kirklees Conservative Leader Cllr Jim Dodds, who said: "If you put seed on the ground for birds they will flock to it. By doing this they are only attracting more people down." (
Examiner)
Football Clubs Liverpool and Everton take the field against homophobia
In the same week that the Football Association promised to step up their campaign against homophobia, Merseyside’s Premier League clubs vow to rid the game of prejudice. Liverpool and Everton FC joined with unions in Liverpool on Wednesday 16th September to step up the fight against homophobia in sport. (
Pink Paper,
UK Gay News)
A report from Stonewall has called for more decisive action on homophobic abuse in football. (
KickItOut)
International
Jamaican police still claim John Terry's murder "not homophobic"
Honorary Consul John Terry was murdered last week, with a note left beside the body to say he would not be the last gay man to die. Local CID say the note may have been a blind.
J-FLAG, whose founder was stabbed to death five years ago, say this is a sop to local sensitivities. (
Daily Mail)
Serbia: Belgrade Pride cancelled
The Pride march through Belgrade city centre planned for 20th September was cancelled the day before, after the city authorities said they were not prepared to offer protection to the marchers in the city centre, against the nationalist groups, skinheads and religious organisations who had vowed to disrupt the gay parade, some of them inciting violence. The organisers were offered an alternate location in the suburbs. (
NRC.nl,
UK Gay News,
One World See,
BBC)
The Swedish embassy in Belgrade hosted a "mini Pride" reception where flags and banners that were due to have been displayed at Pride were unfurled and photographed and Belgrade Pride 2009 t-shirts were given out. (
UK Gay News)
Lithuania: anti-gay legislation will become law in 2010
MEPs have voted 349-218 to condemn the recently-passed Lithuanian Law on the Protection of Minors from the Detrimental Effects of Public Information. The law prohibits any positive mention of LGBT people or issues if under-18s may have access, and is due to come into effect in March next year. (
UK Gay News)
Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan claims that for the EU to oppose the Lithuanian Parliament's criminalization of homosexuality by requiring Lithuania to uphold the Charter of Fundamental Rights, would be an attack on democracy: that discrimination by majority vote against an oppressed minority must be allowed within the EU as a matter of respect for a country's right to govern itself: European support for human rights for gay people would be to extend Brussels jurisdiction to "sensitive moral issues". (
Telegraph)
Charter of Fundamental Rights, Chapter 3, Article 21: "Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited."
US: "Value Voters" speak their minds
Michael Schwartz, chief of staff for Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, says that young boys should be taught that looking at porn will make them gay. He made this statement at the Value Voters Summit, where the previous day former Miss California Carrie Prejean said that God had told her to say "Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. You know what, in my country, in my family, I think I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman." (
Pink News,
Salon.com)
LGBT Families, Civil Partnership and Cohabitation
Scotland: Adoption and fostering law to change
On 28th September, the fostering regulations and the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 will become law. Children adopted by same-sex couples can now have two legal parents. Councils seeking foster carers will not be restricted to married couples and single carers living alone. Same-sex couples who want to be assessed with a view to adopting will have the same legal right as mixed-sex couples to apply to any adoption agency. Full details will be e-mailed to our network on Friday. (
Herald)
The Equality Network’s website for information on all aspects of LGBT family law – including civil partnership, cohabitation, having children, breaking up – is
www.lgbtfamilies.org
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