A self-taught graphic designer and fine artist, Lemi Ghariokwu has designed over two hundred album covers in his thirty-five year career and has worked with some of the world’s most famous musicians.Read more: Controversial Album Sleeve Exhibition to launch Bass Festival 2009
US gay rights activists have launched a campaign encouraging the boycotting of Jamaican products and services as a protest against the island's treatment of gays and lesbians.Read more: Gay rights activists clash over tackling Jamaican homophobia
25 years ago today, on 23rd April 1984, the US Health Secretary, Margaret Heckler, announced the ground breaking discovery that HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Ms Heckler also announced on that same day that a blood test had been developed that would prevent infected individuals unwittingly passing on the virus through blood transfusions.Read more: THT marks 25th anniversary of blood test with HIV warning
Fear of having to reveal their sexual orientation deters some women who are abused in lesbian relationships from seeking help, new research shows.Read more: Women in Abusive Lesbian Relationships Deterred from Seeking Help, Research Finds
The third annual Outburst UK Pride Festival takes place on Saturday, 27 June 2009 on the banks of the Thames River in east London close to London city airport and with breathtaking views of London. Billed as “Party By the River – Come Out….And Play", the day promises to be an exciting and informative one.
With reference to the ongoing saga of some dancehall artists (Stop Murder Music campaign) being extremely homophobic, Jamaican LGBT activists explain why a U.S.-led boycott of two Jamaican products would harm their struggle for equality.
The black LGBT community unite and inspire at groundbreaking event. "On 28th March 2009 in Manchester, a group of black lesbian, gay and bisexual people came together to make a difference. "That’s how Dennis L Carney (Black Gay Men’s Advisory Group, Black Connections) described this first ever event to highlight some of the issues faced by black LGBT people across the North West, hosted at the Lesbian & Gay Foundation in partnership with Ajamu X of rukus! Federation.
Boris Johnson today announced that London's anti-racist festival Rise, which brought 100,000 Londoners together each year to celebrate music from around the world, is to be scrapped. He cited a lack of union sponsorship for the event.
You don’t want to mess with these women on any given day. All these women are actresses whose roles involves law enforcement. 
The partially clothed body of Eudy Simelane, former star of South Africa's acclaimed Banyana Banyana national female football squad, was found in a creek in a park in Kwa Thema, on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Simelane had been gang-raped and brutally beaten before being stabbed 25 times in the face, chest and legs.
Read more: Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks
Nigerian gay rights activists have told the country's lawmakers that a new bill to outlaw same sex marriage would lead to widespread human rights abuses. The new law would mean prison sentences for gay people who live together, and anyone who "aids and abets" them.
A new DVD resource is being distributed to families throughout the country, designed to help teenagers who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender – or think they might be.Read more: New DVD Resource For Young LGBT People and Their Families
The European Commission has affirmed that persecution on grounds of sexual orientation is a legitimate justification for an asylum claim. The question was prompted by an initial rejection in Cyprus of a claim by a gay Iranian asylum seeker, a rejection which was later overturned and the claim granted.Read more: Gays who face persecution should be given asylum says EU
Identity Drama School is the United Kingdom’s first Black Drama School. Founded in 2003 by established actor Femi Oguns, the drama school was formed in response to the need for an establishment that reflected and catered for actors coming from a multi-cultural society.
Queer bashers are overwhelmingly white, British and male, new official figures have revealed. But the good news is that the number of convictions is up, with almost eight out of ten being found guilty.
A LOT OF PEOPLE will criticise me but the truth is Barbados is full of homosexuals. Many, including some of my work-mates, pretend to be "macho men" to hide the truth about their double lives, myself included.
When Dr Justin Varney started out in his medical career he was advised to become a GP, not because his skills were better suited to this particular branch of medicine, but because he was gay.
Gay rights activists and lawyers who have worked on LGBT human rights cases met in South Africa last week. The four-day workshop on legal strategies for promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in Africa was attended by 45 participants from 11 countries— Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.Read more: Lawyers from across Africa gather to discuss LGBT rights
Walter Daniel Tull was a pioneering black British footballer and the first black officer in the British army, who died heroically fighting in the First World War and yet is virtually unheard of today.
PAUL MILLER (name changed to protect identity) is finally at peace with himself. After years of self-denial and "living a lie," Miller has been able to come to grips with the fact that he is attracted to men.
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