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Please send us your favourite quotations about the positive aspects of being LGBT

Remember:-

"You are fabulous creatures, each and every one."

Angels in America by Tony Kushner.

Wise Words

Don't accept the world as it is. Dream about what the world could be – then help make it happen.
In whatever field of endeavour you work, be a change-maker for the upliftment of humanity.
To quote my fellow sodomite and socialist Oscar Wilde:
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell on being an honorary doctorate for his human rights work by Sussex University recently.

For full details of his acceptance speech click on:

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/07/26/be-sceptical-and-daring-peter-tatchells-honorary-doctorate-acceptance-speech/

1.8.10.

On Pride

by Matthew Todd in Attitude Magazine

For some, there's an age-old problem about whether it's weird to bang on about being "proud" of your sexuality and whether drag queens and leather chaps send out the wrong message to the straights (blub, poor them), but Pride will always be an essential rite of passage experience. Pride can be intense and can remind you of what you can't do for the other 364 days of the year....

In a time where being gay can still get you killed in Trafalgar Square, there is nothing quite like walking down the street hand-in-hand with a friend or honey, surrounded by people who all feel the same way you do. So relax and, in the words of the remarkable musical "Hair", let the sunshine in.

Liberated?

At a time when women are questioning where the Women's Liberation Movement should be going, perhaps Lesbians and Gay Men should be similarly reviewing the situation. The battles we fought were hard, but what have we done with the victories? Are we liberated?

The article below, by Cosmo Landesman, which appeared in "The Sunday Times", poses one of the problems and we agree with him. The LGBT community has special and positive things to offer.

30.3.10 40 years on

"What happened to the gay revolution sparked by the Stonewall Riots of 1969? Over the last 40 years, the trailblazing idealism of the gay liberation pioneers has all but vanished. Such a shame. We queers seemed to have abandoned rebellion for uber-respectability; assimilating and conforming like Stepford Wives. Oh dear."

Peter Tatchell in August's "Fyne Times", where you can read the full thought-provoking, significant article "After Stonewall."