Tag Archives: UK

Seriously. Sort of. A long time from now, in a galaxy far, far away…the Star Wars money machine will still be cranking. Not content with seven feature films or myriad TV spinoffs ranging from the current Clone Wars cartoon series to the dreaded Star Wars Holiday Special, the Jedi masterminds are readying a stage show. George Lucas has signed off …

Anybody remember the Orgasmatron, the phone-boothy thing that sent people into ecstasy in Woody Allen’s Sleeper? Scientists in the UK are developing an implantable brain chip that works in a similar way. The chip works by sending tiny shocks from implanted electrodes in the brain. The technology has been used in the United States to treat Parkinson’s disease. But in …

To great controversy, yesterday British television aired a film titled Right To Die?, which showed a terminally-ill man committing suicide on camera. The film raises the usual questions about euthanasia and assisted-suicide, although the man did the job on his own, albeit with an audience in the room. The scene is difficult to watch, even for viewers inured to the …

Boy George was found guilty in his false imprisonment trial in the UK and may go to jail. Boy George faces jail next month for falsely imprisoning a rent boy at his flat. The openly gay 80s singer was told in court today that custody was ‘the most likely option’ after a jury convicted him of handcuffing Norwegian male escort …

From Boy George’s false imprisonment trial: On a tape played at his false-imprisonment trial, singer Boy George admits to cops to restraining a male prostitute whom he thought had hacked into his computer. The 47-year-old former Culture Club frontman denies, however, that he whipped the 29-year-old man. “I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs, so he wouldn’t go …

Boy George’s trial for false imprisonment began in the UK yesterday. A Norwegian escort told a court Monday that Boy George manacled him to a bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain after accusing him of hacking into his computer. The former Culture Club singer is on trial for the false imprisonment of 29-year-old Audun Carlsen. The 47-year-old …

The British government is about to roll out its voluntary biometric national IDs and folks that are transitioning between genders are eligible to get two cards. The Identity Cards Act became law in March 2006 and the Home Office are rolling out biometric residence permits for foreign nationals in 2008, with the first ID cards to be issued to British …

According to a survey by the UK’s Gay Times, 22% of British gay men have had plastic surgery and almost all the rest say they’d like to. Gay men in Britain are fuelling a surge in demand for plastic surgery, with a quarter admitting to having gone under the knife already. Despite the current economic crisis, the cosmetic surgery industry …

The British government has announced new rules that will bar those spreading “extremism, hatred, and violence” from entering the UK, including religious leaders and musicians who preach hatred against homosexuals. The new measures include a “name and shame” tactic of sharing the list of those banned with other countries. Under the new system, any foreign citizen whose arrival here is …

A poll reveals that one in five Brits have had sex at the office. But one in four believes that gay sex should be illegal. One in five Brits has had sex at work, according to a survey which brings a whole new meaning to the term “job satisfaction”. The poll of more than 1,000 UK adults went several steps …

From London: A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. Wayne Forrester, 34, told police he was devastated that his wife Emma, also 34, had changed her online profile to “single” days after he had moved out. The Old Bailey heard Forrester drove to …

The guy who won Mr. Gay UK in 1993 has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing, dismembering, and cooking his former lover. A former winner of a gay beauty contest has been sentenced to life in prison for murder. Anthony Morley, who won Mr Gay UK in 1993, will serve at least 30 years in jail. On …

Britain’s MI-5 spy agency is looking for gay men to work as spies. The British intelligence service MI5 is pushing to recruit more LGBT people to the organisation. MI5 is being advised by Stonewall, the UK’s leading gay equality organisation, on how to attract a more diverse range of applicants. The intelligence service also wishes to encourage spies to be …

According to a priest in the Westminster Catholic diocese in the UK, one of the causes for homosexuality is demonic possession. And apparently, once you get a demon in you, you’re contagious. It’s a virus, people! Offering what may be an explanation for the explosion of homosexuality in recent years, Fr. Davies said, “Among the causes of homosexuality is a …

File under: Hard to believe. Three years after civil unions became legal for UK gays, new figures indicate that the ‘divorce’ rate is only 1%. Between December 2005, when gay and lesbian couples gained the legal right to formalise their relationships, and December 2007, there were 24,629 civil partnerships in England and Wales. Couples have to wait at least a …

Catching up on my YouTube subscriptions, I watched this latest post from my favorite anti-theist, Pat Condell. A one-time stand-up comedian, Condell is much more appealing to me than rant kings Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins. Still, I’m almost surprised that his famous 2007 post, The Trouble With Islam, hasn’t gotten him killed.

In Scotland, a lesbian was found not guilty of assisted suicide after a judge ruled that her partner would have committed suicide on her own anyway. A woman prison officer who watched her lesbian lover commit suicide was spared jail Monday after a judge ruled it was ‘an act of love.’ Patricia Mulpeter, 48, comforted her dying friend as she …

In light of last month’s stories about sex arrests on Fire Island, it’s interesting that gay activists in the UK are calling the plans to raze a local cruising area “discriminatory.” Scrub clearance work on Bristol Downs has raised concerns among some gay men who use the area for sex, the city council has said. The authority’s lesbian, gay and …

A British tabloid based in gay-friendly Brighton published a front page photo of two men kissing in a story attacking Heinz for pulling their now world famous mayonnaise ad. “We were disgusted at Heinz for pulling their ‘gay kiss’ ad and for apologising so readily for their own ‘offensive’ imagery,” said Torsten Højer from One80news. “We just couldn’t believe that …

Well, now there’s an online petition to get Heinz to put the New York Deli Mayo ad back on the air in the UK. At least 205 people have so far complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about an advert featuring two men kissing. An ASA spokesperson told PinkNews.co.uk they had also received around 50 emails and calls from people …