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Boy George actor to star in film about gay author

f86962c24bd49a0cc7a85a0bf28bfd2d Keep your eyes out for filming in Belfast!!!

Douglas Booth, the actor who starred in a BBC biopic of Boy George, has been lined up to appear in a film about A Single Man author Christopher Isherwood.

Booth, a 17-year-old Burberry model, played the Culture Club singer in Worried About The Boy and will play the role of a street cleaner who Isherwood has a brief relationship with.

Doctor Who actor Matt Smith, 27, is to play Isherwood in the film, titled Christopher And His Kind.

It began shooting in Belfast this week and tells the story of the authot as a young man who escapes his suffocating mother to move to Berlin in the 1930s.

The film is based on Isherwood’s memoirs of the same name.

Smith became the 11th Doctor Who last year, succeeding David Tennant.

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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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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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GLYNI’s Funding!!!!

By Youth.Worker | Filed in GLYNI Announcements

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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Mynt loses its late license

By chocobo_crossing | Filed in LGBT Announcements, LGBT News

Belfast City Council has chosen not to renew Mynt’s late alcohol license when it was up for renewal during last week. The council made its decision after police objected to Mynt’s application, based on allegations of customer drug use, assaults occurring and alcohol served out of hours.

Whilst it is certainly true that for a while Mynt got a bad rep due to many police raids searching for drugs. It is unclear whether these raids turned up anything to note more than I imagine you would find in any Belfast club.

A council statement given to the BBC said the licensing committee “took the view that in light of the available evidence, the applicant was unfit to hold a licence”.

A spokeswoman for Mynt said that whilst they are extremely disappointed with the decision, they will be appealing the decision and that since an appeal is pending, the club can continue to trade with its current license in the meantime.

Peace, out!
- Matt

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What’s Happening in GLYNI?

By Youth.Worker | Filed in GLYNI Announcements

See our calendar for events in GLYNI over the next few months.

We have everything, from the special screening of Stonewall’s new FIT film, to creating an effective Anti-Homophobic Bullying Campaign for NI, from meeting with the NIABF Coordinator to meetings with Family Ties and Brook Clinic, as well as inviting the Children’s Commissioner to meet the members on May 17th, to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Over the next couple months, GLYNI will also be planning our participation in Belfast Pride, as well as continuing to update our website and create a fabulous newsletter.

Our drop-in continues to run on Friday nights, with our Peer Educators in training on Friday nights.

It’s all a buzz at GLYNI. So if you’re young (aged 14-25) and L G B or T, or somewhere in between but not quite ‘straight’, feel free to come along. You can join GLYNI through our website!!

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New website!

By chocobo_crossing | Filed in GLYNI Announcements

Welcome!

Hey and welcome everyone to our newly designed website! We hope you like it, there are still a few things to be tweaked here and there but it’s about time it was unveiled!

You can still get access to all the information from before using the links across the top of the page. This information will soon be undergoing a major refresh and update – so keep coming back! You can also still get the most up-to-date GLYNI event schedule, it is now over on the right of your screen, and PinkNews is still shown on the right too.
New features are aplenty – now, anyone can register for our blog, we want everyone to be able to submit their content and have it displayed proudly on our website. We will have members only discussion pages on various issues, with commenting enabled across all the posts you can leave your feedback on any of our articles as well as submit your own in a simple to use web interface – it’s just as easy as Facebook!

We hope these new features will make up for the temporary suspension of new registrations on our GLYNI Message Board / Forum. Unfortunately, it has been deluged by Russian spambots since this time last year… :( so I have taken the step of preventing new sign-ups. Current users can still access, and all the posts are intact – I removed all the spam (I think!). I will keep it this way until we make a decision on where to go from here with the forums. In the meantime, you have plenty of ways to make your voice heard!

Contribute!

“So Matt, how do I contribute?” I hear you ask? Couldn’t be easier! Firstly, comments are enabled on all pages and posts, meaning you can leave your feedback either anonymously or, if you want people to know who you are ;), you can register for a GLYNI account by using the link *on the right*!

What does registering get you? Well it means that no-one can pose as you in discussions of course :P! If you also have a Gravatar account associated with your email address, your avatar will be shown on comments you make and, in the future, posts you make.
Speaking of posts, did I mention that registered members can submit their own articles, reviews, posts, thoughts, announcements and much more, AND have it displayed right on our homepage? Not only that, but as the website grows, members will gain access to the members only discussion pages, where we could discuss anything and everything?

It really is an exciting new chapter for our website, one which we hope that you will help us create – so sign up now!

Peace out!
-Matt

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Hey everyone, happy new year and welcome to 2010! The successful first Friday night at “The Hive” at GLYNI sees the start of GLYNI again for 2010 – with many events and activities planned as usual!

What did GLYNI get up to in 2009, you might ask? Well congratulations guys, because once again GLYNI had an even more successful year in 2009!
A big move to a new building marked a start of a big boom in numbers – we now have more GLYNI members than ever before, and long may it continue! We had the Young Women in GLYNI designing a fantastic banner, now decorating our great new room, we had another successful Pride parade, and a fantastic residential weekend recently with Corrymeela.
Behind the scenes, we have a supplementary “OUTstanding Youth Work” resource available, and we are dedicated to helping The VOICE in Enniskillen with their work – could it be the start of something big?

Wow. So what DO we have planned for 2010? Well, who knows exactly what the new year will bring, but knowing GLYNI, its bound to be good! So make sure you don’t miss it! We are committed this year to making sure as many people as possible find out about us. The first thing you should do is take note of the calendar at the top of the page, it shows all our events and WILL be kept up-to-date! Next, grab your Facebook login and search for “GLYNI” to join the GLYNI group on Facebook, where you can keep in touch with all the members and get the most up to the minute info there is!

Peace, out!

GLYNI Facebook group, click here!

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Happy Birthday GLYNI!

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happy birthday Happy Birthday GLYNI!

Friday 13th November marks the tenth anniversary of Cara-Friend’s Gay & Lesbian Youth Northern Ireland – a peer-led group supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender young people in Northern Ireland. Read the remainder of this entry »

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You can now find the GLYNI schedule for the upcoming weeks in a new GLYNI calendar on the top of each page. It replaces the old calendar overview. Those of you that have your own google calendar can copy the agenda across to it and keep yourselves up-to-date!

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