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DOUBLE the FUN R EE Ruth Basshunter Angie QB Lorenzo Brown F DOUBLE THE FUN R EE Ruth Basshunter Angie QB Lorenzo Brown Nottinghamshire’s Queer Bulletin August/Sept 2012 Number 67 In this edition On page 3 there is a boring Saturday July 28th but important article about the AND City Council’s Equality and Fairness Commission which, Sunday July 29th amongst other things, may provide a route for 2-way communication between our As Pride gets bigger, it becomes harder to finance it solely from sponsors Community and the City Council. and pre-Pride fundraisers. Predictably, a few people have criticised the £1 entrance fee that will be charged at this year’s Pride. If one compares the £1 with what one spends on a night out on the town, it helps to put Not as exciting as when, in previ- things into perspective. It’s also important to note that the £1 covers both ous editions of QB, this slot was the Saturday and Sunday events. filled with This year on Pride’s 3 stages, you have (amongst others) the acts shown Death by tea cosies above and below, as well as 6 tents, each with different themes. Fart your own atomic bomb Peter Martine Exploding giraffes What not to do with a red hot poker Waitrose’s quince jelly Lola Lasagne Shamus O’Blivion CABARET BURLESQUE HEALING TENT COMEDY TENT TENT TENT Rainbow Bridge Julie Jepson If you have any information, news, Drag with no Homage Mystic Moon Rosie Wilby gossip or libel or wish to comment name to Dita on anything in QB, please contact DIRTY FILTHY DANCE TENT Lola Lasagne SEXY TENT QB The Wonderful D Sharon O’Love Peggy Wessex Lesbian and Gay Switchboard Alternative music 7 Mansfield Road Nottingham NG1 3FB There will, of course, be the usual array of market stalls, local LGBT or e-mail groups and organisations, bars, food stalls + cinema, workshops and theatre happenings over the two days. It’s all at the Forest Recreation [email protected] Ground off Gregory Boulevard from 12-8 pm on Saturday, 12-6 pm on The deadline for the next edition Sunday …. and though there may be thunderstorms, hail and tornados will be August 28th 2012 elsewhere, the weather for Nottinghamshire Pride is always excellent. For a full picture, go to the Nottinghamshire Pride website at SwitchboardSwitchboard is registered is registered charity charityno. number 1114273 1114273 www.nottinghamshirepride.co.uk QB’S BITS IDAHO DAY IN NOTTS IDAHO DAY, the International Day Against Homo- Queen of Clubs is Nottingham’s newest gay phobia, is on May 17th. This year rainbow flags venue. It’s on Heathcoat Street and there’s proliferated. The Council House, the Castle, every loads of stuff on their website at fire station + Fire and Rescue HQ were all be- www.queenofclubsnottingham.com decked. Rogues Cabaret, a variety cabaret night with diverse acts to include Drag ,Burlesque, Dance, & singers. At the Maze - Saturday July 14th. 8.15 ‘til late. Tickets £10 from www.eventelephant.com/ roguescabaretcollective In QB no. 65 we gave details of the LGBT Recovery group (relating to drug and alco- hol problems), We gave the correct postal and e-mail address, but muddled the phone number - it should be 0115 9111661 - Mon- Fri 9am to 1pm. An LGBT Writers’ Group has just started. Read more on page 6. A document detailing research recently com- pleted by Sheffield Hallam University can now be downloaded from the Nottingham- shire’s Rainbow Heritage website. It’s called “Tackling homophobia & transphobia in settings supporting young people”. The website is on the back page: go to NRH’s Resources, then “Nationally produced docu- ments”, then “Education”. The poster seen below was displayed on the side of the Methodist Mission building on The City Council LGBT Employees group organ- George Street. ised a set of stalls in the atrium of Loxley house. HGN, Switchboard, the GMB, Pride, Notts Rainbow Heritage, Stop Hate UK + Notts Police and the City Council were all represented. 100 METRES FOOT IN MOUTH Each Olympic games provides eagerly seized oppor- tunities for sports commentators to make fools of themselves. Who can forget (certainly not us) the BBC commentator expatiating about a Cuban athlete “Juantorena opens his legs and pulls out the big one”, but our favourite remains the one shown below. MUSHROOM BOOKSHOP In February Nottinghamshire’s Rainbow Heritage In the 1976 Olympics, a awarded a certificate to Mushroom Bookshop to newspaper typo stated recognise the service and support they provided to that Nadia Comaneci local LGBT people from when they opened in the won a gold medal on the 1970s to their closure in 2000. asymmetric bras Ross Bradshaw, who worked at Mushroom for many years, has written a detailed article describ- ing Mushroom and its interaction with the LGBT community. The article is now on the Rainbow Heritage website at http://nottsrh.webeden.co.uk/#/map- mushroom/4549271322 SEX AND THE CITY – WITH A GAY TWIST, THE EFC AND ITS ADVOCATES IN THIS NEW GAY COMEDY AVAILABLE NOW ON KINDLE! The City Council has set up the Nottingham Plan 2020. It sets out a vision of what Nottingham should Steven does not have much luck with men. be in the future. You can download it from the Com- After catching his boyfriend sampling some munity page of Switchboard’s website. ‘Turkish delight’ whilst on holiday in Mo- rocco, he decides to end the relationship The One Nottingham Partnership is to provide a sin- gle coordinating framework that: and start re-building his life. As someone who values a relationship above everything Agrees the long term strategic direction for the else, he believes that the best course of ac- City of Nottingham in the Nottingham Plan tion is to get back into the world of dating – Is responsible for the implementation and review only to find it’s a minefield. of the overall direction of the Plan. Each guy has their own hidden agenda, forcing Steven to strip back the layers of The Equalities and Fairness Commission (the EFC) has the following aims: what he really wants – can there be a happy ending? With the help of his one-eyed cat, Take a strategic approach on equality and diver- this ‘Tales of the City’ meets ‘Sex and the sity issues that impact on the lives of Notting- City’ comedy will have you laughing out loud ham citizens as Steven works his way through some not Influence decision making of One Nottingham very eligible bachelors! and its partner organisations to improve the lives of citizens who experience discrimination, disad- vantage or deprivation Sample the Provide constructive feedback to partners on first few chap- their policies and practices that leads to positive ters for free on outcomes for people with protected characteris- tics. www.amazon. co.uk and its objectives include To provide constructive feedback to the work of or download One Nottingham and its theme partnerships in for only relation to equality, diversity and cohesion £1.02!!! Ensure that the key priorities within the Notting- ham Plan are being delivered in a way which takes full account of the needs of those living and working in Nottingham, particularly in re- spect of protected characteristics and geo- THE ONLINE DIRECTORY graphic disadvantage. On QB’s back page there is a list of Nottingham- Membership of the Equality and Fairness Commission shire’s LGBT social/support groups. will consist of, but not exclusively: If you go to Switchboard’s website at www.nottslgs. Advocates for the protected characteristics as org uk and then to the local facilities page, you can defined by the Equality Act 2010 (disability, gen- download a directory which gives the full details of der, sexual orientation, race, etc.) each of the groups along with information about sev- eral organisations and services. We will also draw An academic your attention to Switchboard’s new logo. Is A business representative “fantabulosa” appropriate? A One Nottingham Board Member The lead Portfolio Holder at the City Council for Equality and Diversity The Head of Equality and Community Relations (non voting) The Director of One Nottingham (non voting) Overview & Scrutiny (non voting) The Advocates for sexual orientation have been pro- posed by the City Council LBGT Forum and are David Edgley and Natasher Beecher, both of whom can be contacted via Lesbian & Gay Switchboard. WITH THE FLINTSTONES, WE’LL HAVE A GAY OLD TIME The writers of the Flintstones probably had other things in mind when they wrote their show’s theme tune - unless they knew something about Fred and Barney that we didn’t. Now that the Green Lantern, from DC Comics, has been revealed as a gay character, we would like to point out that he’s far from the first gay in Toon Town. But, echoing Malvolio, some cartoons are born gay and some have gayness thrust upon them - the latter including Sponge- bob Squarepants and Tinky Winky, both of which have been targeted by the luna- tic fringe of American Christianity. If you wear purple SpongeBob and occasionally Squarepant’s sexual carry a handbag, you orientation is made must be gay, says crystal clear because Reverend Jerry Fal- he hold hands with well, a former his sidekick Patrick. spokesman for America's Moral Ma- At least, this is what jority. James Dobson of “Focus on the Fam- The Rev fails to com- ily” says, accusing ment on that other the makers of the well known gay give- video of promoting away, wearing an ae- homosexuality. rial on your head. Patty Bouvier (from the Simpsons), Northstar, Stewie (from Family Guy) and Maggie Sawyer (from Super- man) have all been outed by their creators.
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