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Yesterday noted British activist Peter Tatchell led a marriage equality protest in the middle of the royal wedding media storm outside of Buckingham Palace. Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell delivered a gigantic wedding card to Buckingham Palace which, according to the website of Chicago Gay Pride, read: “Congratulations William and Kate on your Wedding Day. We wish you a happy …

Poly Styrene, lead singer of the seminal 70’s British punk band X-Ray Specs, has died of breast cancer at the age of 53. The band was best known for their hit single Oh Bondage, Up Yours, but I always liked the below track, which I believe was one of the first import 45s I ever bought. Only two months ago …

In honor of this week’s royal wedding: “Created by the Scotland-based BrewDog Brewery, ‘Royal Virility Performance’ ale is laced with herbal Viagra, chocolate, goat weed and ‘a healthy dose of sarcasm,’ the company’s website says. Drinking three bottles of the potent brew is supposed to be the equivalent of swallowing one Viagra pill.”

As the entire world becomes enveloped in royal wedding fever, tomorrow LGBT activists led by Peter Tatchell will stage a marriage equality protest at Buckingham Palace. Tatchell: We plan to deliver a giant wedding card to William and Kate. As well as wishing the royal couple every happiness, we will highlight the fact that William and Kate can marry, but …

After months of speculation, confirmation arrives today that the cast of Absolutely Fabulous will reunite for three new episodes. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley will reprise their roles as Patsy and Edina in three new episodes of the sitcom expected to begin filming later this year. The BBC said it was “putting the finishing touches to the deal” and is …

London police have made an arrest in connection with the anti-gay “Fear Allah” stickers that appeared around the city earlier this year. The stickers prompted the formation of East London Pride, a group that was later revealed to have been organized by one of the co-founders of the violent far-right English Defence League. An 18-year-old man has been arrested in …

Although London’s John Snow Pub locked their doors rather than allow gay protesters inside, the planned “snog-a-thon” went on in the street outside.

The Soho pub that was to be the location of a “massive snog-a-thon” this afternoon has locked their doors rather than allow gay protesters inside. On Wednesday night two gay men were ejected from the pub after its landlady objected to their kissing. Hundreds of would-be snoggers had responded to a Facebook call for action. From the Guardian’s live-blog of …

The UK’s Guardian reports that two gay men were ejected by the landlady of a Soho pub after she complained that they had kissed. Jonathan Williams, a journalist for a financial trade magazine, and James Bull, a charity volunteer, say they were ejected from the John Snow on Broadwick Street, Soho, by a woman who claimed to be the landlady …

“In the early 80s there was this sense that things were changing, and becoming more open-minded. But we don’t have that sort of gorgeous youth culture any more, the glam rockers, the New Romantics. People aren’t so individual any more. There is this sense of why would you want to stand out and make a show of yourself? You can …

More lovely 60s-inspired pop from Britain’s Anita Blay, AKA CockNBullKid. Some of you enjoyed her last release, Hold On To Your Misery.

As her sophomore release re-hits #1 on the U.S. album chart, Grammy winning gay favorite Adele is poised to dethrone Madonna as Britain’s longest-running female album chart-topper. Adele has matched Madonna’s record with nine weeks at number one in the UK album chart – the longest for a female solo artist. Her second album, 21, has now spent the same …

“In 1989, thousands of gay activists, angry at the Vatican for preaching abstinence instead of safe sex, rallied outside a church in New York, some of them actually going inside and disrupting a worship service. In 2011, faced with far worse provocations by a faith that, unlike Roman Catholicism, poses a mortal threat to gays, gay-rights groups in London not …

A boy band from ten years ago? For Eurovision? Meh.

Raymond Berry, one of the organizers of London’s coming and first-ever East End Pride parade has resigned after being exposed as one of the founders of the English Defence League, a radical anti-Islamic skinhead group renowned for violent street clashes at its protest marches. East End Pride formed last month ostensibly in response to stickers which warned gays to “fear …

Some British gay activists are calling for the cancellation of next month’s Pride parade in London’s East End because it might inflame anti-gay sentiments among the Muslim community. The parade was organized in response to “Fear Allah. Gay-free zone” stickers that began appearing around the East End earlier this year. Critics of the parade accuse its organizers of having ties …

“It seems to me that what we are doing is producing a tyrannous new morality that is every bit as oppressive as the old. The way to [handle this] is not to ban them, not to fine them. It is for them simply to put up what seems to me to be a quite proper notice in a small privately …