The One in the Office: Exciting Gay Stories

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Leaving your beauty routine out in the cold? Three beauty experts on the skin, hair and nail tips they're giving their celebrity clients this winter We have shared many rooms together over the years, but this time our housing arrangement required us to share a bed, which did not give me a moment of pause. Like many gay men, our platonic friendship began with a roll in the hay. That first time was something of a quirk for both of us, fueled by too much drinking and ecstasy. We are not each other's types at all. I should also mention that I have boyfriend and my friend is married, but neither of our partners came with us on this trip. All of my wild sex escapades were in the midst of my disease and not with my wife. For me, it all centred around being pursued and pursuing others, it was never about the sex itself.

In the UK, major successes have been had for queer storytelling on stage thanks to shows such as Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and Rob Madges’ My Sons A Queer (But What Can You Do?) and more recently the transfer of Pulitzer Prize-winning A Strange Loop, which transferred to the Barbican from Broadway this year.

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The Great British Bake Off final review: Nude baking, Noel? It's a surprise it's not been on Channel 4 already, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS His behavior also gave me new insight into the falling-out he had with a mutual friend several years ago, while we vacationed in the same resort town. They had been sharing a bed, and I noted that our other friend had begun to sleep on the sofa, too. They had an angry fight one night on that trip and they've never spoken to each other again. Thanks to huge support from numerous LGBTQ+ support groups, hundreds of photos of Sam at Pride events across the country, and a change.org petition that gathered nearly 5,000 signatures, Sam was granted leave to remain in the UK for five years – something Sam is thankful for. It saddens me that the timing of these events means that our friendship has been irrevocably torn and I have begun to second-guess my response. I don't think of myself as the kind of person who would disappear when a close friend is experiencing enormous pain. My boyfriend says I did the right thing, that the timing of events is irrelevant and that my response was appropriate. But I would dearly love another opinion. Well, I’ll pay a lot of tax, which I do willingly as my father instructed me to,’ she says, ‘and I’ll save the rest for carers, which I’ll need.’ Margolyes has spinal stenosis, has had a knee replaced and a heart valve transplant.

SARAH VINE: Where DO Harry and Meghan stand in relation to their puppet? If they don't denounce Omid's book, we can only assume they endorse it She has always been keen on the idea but sensibly wary about damaging a relationship. In the beginning it was “this is just a fantasy, we shouldn’t risk it”. She and Sutherland, who avoids publicity, met in the late 60s and have been together ever since, bar one separation caused by an infidelity of which Margolyes is ashamed. In old age they may finally live together though not, as they’d hoped, in Italy. ‘Two lesbians together for 54 years is not to be sniffed at,’ she says. ‘I found the perfect person. She is better than I am in every way – as a human being, as a lesbian, as a writer, as a thinker.’ There were a lot of things to consider but I was getting injured, I wasn't eating properly, I wasn't sleeping. It just made everything so much worse. I just knew that I had to come out." He said that after coming out, he received a private message of support on his social media account from Henderson, which he has kept.Talk about the world's best job! A DOUGHNUT SCIENTIST reveals how she is creating a healthier future for bakery... Gale is taking similar imaginative leaps with his next novel, which is about the British poet Charles Causley. "He was quite clearly queer – to judge from his private letters and diaries – and yet not remotely ready to be comfortable with admitting that, even to himself," he explains. "We know he was in the Navy and that he wrote poems which suggest his war experiences carried a powerful emotional charge; we know that he kept until his dying day a letter from a fellow officer with whom he seems to have had some kind of relationship. So what fiction can do, which a straightforward biography cannot, is to solve those mysteries in an emotional nourishing way. It doesn’t matter if it wasn’t true because it would have been true for other men in a similar situation." Albert Kennedy Trust has been supporting young LGBTQ+ people into safe homes and employment, education or training for over 30 years. As a foster carer, AKT founder, Cath Hall, was acutely aware of the rejection young LGBTQ+ people face from their family home and the homophobia at large within school and society. As a result, Hall along with six queer volunteers formed AKT in Manchester in 1989, naming the Trust after Albert Kennedy, a young man who committed suicide after experiencing homophobic abuse. And so the world’s first ever service for homeless LGBTQ+ youth was born. Since it’s inception, AKT has opened the UK’s first emergency safe house for LGBTQ+ young people, helped thousands of queer youth facing or experiencing homelessness or a hostile living environment, and supported the development and launch of STREHA, eastern Europe’s first charity offering emergency accommodation to LGBTQ+ youth. Michael Cashman (Baron Cashman CBE) Peter Tatchell remains one of the most prominent human rights campaigners in the UK. After moving to the UK in 1971, he joined the Gay Liberation Front a year later. This resulted in him protesting at the very first Pride march held in the UK in London on 1 July 1972. Since then Peter has dedicated his life to the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. He’s been at the forefront of the community’s greatest battles so far; from protesting against Margaret Thatcher’s discriminatory Section 28, through the equalisiation of the age of consent, to 2014’s legailsation of same-sex marriage. Throughout his 55 years of campaign work, Peter has been to 3,000 protests, has been arrested 100 times and has suffered 300 violent assaults, but he continues the fight. Most recently he’s been a vocal supporter of trans rights and a reformation of the Gender Recognition Act to allow for self ID, while also calling for the Tory Government’s long-awaited ban on so-called ‘conversion therapy’. Switchboard But Daniels said when he came out, first sending a message to his mum and sister in a group chat, the sense of relief had him "dancing around the room".

Sam’s Christian beliefs, poor health and meagre finances also make it difficult for him to date, he says. Love film and TV? Join BBC Culture Film and TV Club on Facebook, a community for cinephiles all over the world.Henderson, 33, was criticised by some LGBTQ+ campaigners over his transfer to Saudi, where same-sex sexual activity is illegal, after he had previously publicly shown support for the LGBTQ+ community. A nigerian LGBTQ+ activist and HIV/AIDS advocate, Bisi Alimi is most known as the first Nigerian to come out on national television. Long before doing so in 2004, Bisi began his advocacy career in the late 1990s in Nigeria when a number of his friends died from HIV/AIDS. From community mobilization work, including condom distribution and safe-sex education, to joining Alliance Rights Nigeria in 2002 as a Programme Director, Bisi’s activism contributed to the safeguarding of an entire community in a country that had rejected them. Bisi felt the public pain of this upon coming out on national TV. Receiving a mixture of praise and death threats in the years later, Bisi was forced to flee Nigeria following threats to his life in 2007. He has been a resident of the UK ever since being granted asylum in 2008 and in 2014 he was conferred with British citizenship. Since being in the UK, Bisi has continued to fight for LGBTQ+ liberation, founding the Bisi Alimi Foundation and co-founding The Kaleidoscope Trust, a nonprofit organisation that campaigns for the human rights of LGBTQ+ people in countries where they are discriminated against. Gareth Thomas Your second interview can occur six to 12 months after you first claim asylum, due to delays in the process,’ he explains. ‘This interview runs for hundreds of questions and forms the core of what is that person’s asylum claim. I’m not proud of these experiences, some were good and fun, some I put myself into danger, and all in all I carry a lot of shame. It has been crazy since coming out," Daniels said. "I didn't think it would blow up as much as it did. The reception I've had, the people I've met, it's been a crazy experience.