Many of you guys have probably followed the PM debates closely or been interested in the current election campaigns so heres your chance to air your views. Pink News is conducting a poll on political views within the LGBT community and I thought it was quite interesting so check it out at http://www.pinkunlimited.co.uk/pinkask/survey.php?sid=2874EE Enjoy!!!
Who would you vote to keep your human rights?
J.C.
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Please visit our new forum in our new Member’s Forum, for discussion of our fundraising ideas, our Pride ideas, and more! Create your own topics, suggest your thoughts, give it a look!
It uses your blog username and password, so if you haven’t yet signed up for the blog, you can do so on the forum itself or using the button at the top of the column on the right.
Visit the FORUM now!
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Message from Northern Ireland Youth Forum (NIYF):
As part of the aware defeat depression awareness week, we have arranged an under 18′s disco / rave. Event is in The Venue, Bruce Street, Belfast.
Cost £3.00
DJs are: DJ Workie C and Feile FM’s DJ Seamy MC
Tickets at the door tho spaces are limited to 250 young people. Tickets can also be reserved by ringing NIYF on 90331990. They will only be held to 7.30pm on the night of the event.
Give it your support guys if it’s your kinda thing!
Peace, out!
-Matt
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GLYNI are pleased to announce the first of its new groups outside Belfast. The first meeting of GLYNI Craigavon, supported by the Community Network Craigavon, will be on Monday 26th April at the CNC building (see link for the address http://www.cnconline.uk.com/contactUs.asp ).
For further information on how to join the group, see the poster below.
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Background
On Thursday, April 22 – 23, 2010, Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International will be the guest speaker in Northern Ireland on Thursday, April 22nd at the Leaving Homosexuality Celebration service hosted by Core-issues.
http://www.core-issues.org/index.php?page=training.
Core is a destribed as a ministry supporting local churches in their efforts to provide appropriate pastoral support for those with unwanted same sex attraction. The service recognizes God’s grace for many individuals making the journey out of homosexuality. Changing Attitude Ireland (www.changingattitudeireland.org ) has decided that the message given by Exodus International needs to be countered.
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Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week is brought to you by BeLonG To Youth Services the national youth service for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Young People. Read the remainder of this entry »
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Hi everyone
Below is the email we received from Youthnet asking us to compile a response. It is going to out to all members, and this will inevitably have impacts across all youth organisations currently in receipt of funding from the Department or other Govt branches.
GLYNI’s regional youth officer is funded by DENI through Youthnet, along with several other projects. This budget is constrained enough without further cuts being made to it. GLYNI also is in recepit of Youth Council of Northern Ireland monies which are paid to Cara-Friend to cover running costs for the rooms we use, as well as rent etc.
If we lose these, or have them reduced, GLYNI’s services to LGBT young people across NI, including supporting our new groups, will be severely affected, and disrupted. Please support us by telling us your views on how you believe GLYNI has helped you or someone you know, and how it is a vital service that needs to be kept at it’s current funding level, or indeed increased. PLEASE!! Thank you, Liamx
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Hi guys,
As those who attended monday’s workshop, previously, you will remember that, we where treated to a stonewall production , named FIT. For those who did not attend, I hope you will forgive me for giving a rather brief description.
The film dealt mainly with how students at school,percieve and stereotype, what “being gay” actually is, and therefore deals with the negative attiutdes, that still exsist in many schools across the United Kingdom today, despite the many changes which have taken place for LGBT rights.
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PostSecret was born out of an art project by a man interested in giving the world a way to express their deepest secrets that they have never let anyone know about before. Since the day it began this has become a huge, worldwide project with over 250,000 people sending their secrets to Frank Warren in Germantown, Maryland, USA. The project gives people the chance to liberate themselves from a secret but spreading it but without having to tell the world who they are. The website which posts a variety of these secrets every week can be found simply at www.postsecret.com
I find this project personally quite inspirational. It gives so many people hope that others are like them and gives so many people the chance to set themselves free or to tell the world of their aspirations and dreams. Check it out!
Check out the video: you might like it and get hooked like already have!
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Some 8,000 people were killed at Srebrenica in 1995
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(From BBC News)
Dutch officials have rejected a retired US general’s claim that its forces failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over openly gay soldiers.
A defence ministry spokesman dismissed as “complete nonsense” the remarks by John Sheehan, a former Nato commander.
Gen Sheehan had been speaking at a US Senate hearing on allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military.
He said Dutch leaders had told him that the presence of gay soldiers had contributed to the Bosnian massacre.
Srebrenica was a UN safe haven under the protection of Dutch peacekeepers when, in 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran the town, killing some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Gen Sheehan said the former chief of staff of the Dutch army had told him that the presence of openly gay soldiers in the Dutch peacekeeping force were seen as “part of the problem” which contributed to the fall of Srebrenica.
He argued that since the end of the Cold War, European militaries had changed and he concluded “there was no longer a need for an active combat capability”.
‘Totally off-target’
This “socialisation” process, Gen Sheehan said, “included open homosexuality” and led to “a focus on peacekeeping operations because they did not believe the Germans were going to attack again or the Soviets were coming back”.
Gen Sheehan is a former Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic
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“It is astonishing that a man of his stature can utter such complete nonsense,” Dutch defence ministry spokesman Roger van de Wetering said in response.
“The Srebrenica massacre and the involvement of UN soldiers was extensively investigated by the Netherlands, international organisations and the United Nations.
“Never was there in any way concluded that the sexual orientation of soldiers played a role.”
The Dutch ambassador to the US, Renee Jones-Bos, added in a statement on the embassy’s website that she “couldn’t disagree more” with the claims by the former general, who retired from the military in 1997.
In the US Senate itself, Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, told Gen Sheehan he was “totally off-target”.
Several countries – including Britain, Canada, Australia and Israel – allow openly gay people to serve in the armed services.
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