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Broken Rainbow celebrates 10th birthday with gala dinner

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LGBT domestic violence charity, Broken Rainbow, will hold a gala dinner this month in celebration of its 10th birthday.

The dinner will be held on Sunday 20 July at Café de Paris 6pm-10pm, and proceeds will be used to ensure that the organisation can provide help and support to LGBT victims of domestic violence for years to come.

Hosted by comedian and presenter Chris Fitchew, the night will also feature comedian Clare Summerskill and singer-songwriter James Poole. 

Summerskill said: 

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The lack of black faces in the crowds shows Brazil is no true rainbow nation | Felipe Araujo

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Brazil’s Neymar gestures to the crowd after scoring against Cameroon during their World Cup group game. Photograph: Michael Dalder/Reuters

Remember the Where’s Wally books? They consisted of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting hundreds of people doing a variety of amusing things. Readers were then challenged to find a character named Wally hidden in the crowd.

Covering the World Cup in Brazil as a journalist, I find myself playing a similar game whenever I enter a packed stadium, only this time the question is a bit more serious. Where are all the black folk? I’ve been to five host cities so far and each time the answer was never easy to come by

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Sweden: Hockey team to support LGBT community with rainbow coloured jerseys next season

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A Swedish hockey team has announced its intention to wear rainbow uniforms to stand up for LGBT rights.

Kiruna IF have announced a plan to don new rainbow jerseys in the 2014/15 season in support of the global LGBT community.

A statement posted on Kiruna IF’s official website explains this change as one motivated by the desire to honour, commend and respect individual uniqueness, the promotion of acceptance and equality regardless of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.

The hockey world is known for its progressive approach to LGBT rights, through social media and the airwaves, members of the NHL have voiced their support with the assistance of the You Can Play Project.

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Anti-gay pastor Scott Lively backs cringeworthy ‘Rainbow’ song

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Email 25th June 2014, 4:42 PM Nick Duffy, PinkNews.co.uk 0 reader comments

Anti-gay pastor Scott Lively has backed the release of a new song condemning the use of the rainbow as a pride symbol.

The song contains the lyrics: “The rainbow belongs to God, untouched by evil desire. Who is the one who dares to doubt God’s warning that next time is fire? Fire! Fire!”

Lively wrote on his blog: “You will be blessed by this amazing song ‘The Rainbow Belongs to God’.

“It was written my friend Johny Noer, a Danish pastor living in the Negev Desert of Israel, and performed by the very talented singer/composer Signe Walsoe.

“Johny was an attendee and guest lecturer at my Bible seminar in England last fall and was inspired by my article/strategy ‘The Rainbow Belongs to God’ which I created to encourage the Russians to reclaim the rainbow as a Christian symbol during the Winter Olympics.

“This beautiful music video is a fruit of our ministry partnership and I encourage you to forward it to your pro-family friends around the world.”

Last month, the Westboro Baptist Church released a homophobic cover of Let It Go.

Lively, who is running for governor of Massachusetts, cheered on anti-gay legislation in Russia, branding Putin an

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Rainbow flag flown above Cabinet Office ahead of Pride in London

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A rainbow flag has been flown above the Cabinet office in celebration of Pride.

The flag, often flown at pride events, was flown today, coinciding with World Pride, and ahead of Pride in London, which will take place this weekend.

In a first for central Government, the Cabinet Office flew a rainbow flag to mark World Pride being in 2012 in London.

The iconic flag was flown at the personal request of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Officials said that Mr Clegg thought it “was about time for Whitehall to bring itself up to date” by flying the flag in solidarity with the LGBT community.

The rainbow flag was also flown over Whitehall, in celebration of the first same-sex marriages which will took place in March.

Mr Clegg and Cabinet Minister Francis Maude ordered the rainbow flag to be flown at the top of the Cabinet Office and the Scotland Office on the first weekend the marriages took place.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Communities Minister Baroness Stowell also raised the rainbow flag outside the Department for Communities and Local Government in Westminster to mark the historic arrival of equal marriage in England and Wales.

Designed in San Francisco in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, the original flag had eight stripes instead of today’s six horizontal stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.

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Bletchley gay nightclub unveils rainbow Alan Turing memorial

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A gay nightclub in Buckinghamshire has unveiled what is claimed to be the first monument to Alan Turing which celebrates his sexuality.

The work of gay code-breaker Turing at Bletchley Park was instrumental in the Allied victory in the Second World War, but he was later convicted of gross indecency for having a relationship with another man.

His death in 1954 was deemed a suicide, although there have been recent calls to reopen the inquiry.

The new artwork was unveiled outside Pink Punters in Fenny Stratford on 23 June, to mark what would have been Turing’s 103rd birthday.

The owners of the LGBT venue. near Bletchley Park, said that the art is

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