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NEWS FLASHES
UK NEWS
HYDE PARK ATTACK
Police are appealing for witnesses following an attack on
a man in his 50s in the Rose Gardens area of London’s Hyde
Park at around 10pm on Sunday 21 September. The victim
received injuries to his face and neck, and the suspect – a
Mediterranean-looking white man aged about 28, wearing
dark trackie bottoms, a dark T-shirt, baseball cap and trainers
– made off with £1,700 in jewellery. Anyone with info should
contact the Metropolitan Police Royal Parks Command on 020
7706 7272; or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
MAN FOUND IN MANCHESTER CANAL
46-year-old Alexander Lynch was found, drowned, in a canal
near a well-known cruising area in central Manchester in the
early hours of Friday 3 October. Anyone with information should
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call the Major Incident Room at Wythenshawe on 0161-856
4721; or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111. SJEPSON.
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the V&A in London, hosted
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accept cheques from dragster Timberlina. The cheques
covered the money raised the gay pub’s recent Vauxhall
(best know for his role Sports Day on the August Bank Holiday, when several teams
as Victor Meldrew) and
preceded by a champagne FUNDRAISER
competed in the Springs Gardens areas behind the pub in
competitions such as the ‘50 metre mince’ and ‘drag relay’.
reception. Simon Amstell from Never Mind the Buzzcocks is
among those shortlisted for Entertainer of the Year. Politicians
nominated include Labour peer Lord Alli. Out In The City has
been nominated in the Publication of the Year category.
PADDICK WOWS CROYDON
Tickets start at £125 and are available from michaela.greene@ GAY COMMUNITY
stonewall.org.uk / 020 7593 1874. Every pound from ticket sales - Former top cop and Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London,
will go towards Stonewall’s key campaigns. Brian Paddick (pictured right), spoke to a packed meeting on
7 October, at the first in a series of high-profile talks under the
MOB MAULS GAY MEN IN NORTHERN IRELAND banner “The Brief Encounter”, promoted by Croydon Area Gay
Up to a dozen men and women carried out a sustained verbal Society (CAGS) at The Brief in George Street, Croydon. Paddick said
and physical assault on two men near the village of Maghera in that the country needed more positive gay role models, adding
County Londonderry in mid-September in an incident described that he would be marrying his partner, Petter Belsvik, in Oslo on 9
by local police as homophobic. The gang even subsequently January 2009, under Norwegian same-sex marriage laws.
went to the home of one of the victims to attack his mother. More at www.cags.org.uk.
FIRST GAY APPEAL COURT JUDGE
Sir Terence Etherton has become the first openly gay judge LONDON ZOO HOSTS ANNUAL GAY SUNDAY
ever sworn in as a Lord Justice of Appeal. The 58-year-old London Zoo hosted its 4th annual Gay Sunday in mid September – offering a “day out with a
Olympic Gold medallist fencer-cum-lawman takes up his new difference”: a chance to get up close and personal with the animals, whilst sipping a cocktail on
role after a stint as chair of the Law Commission. One of just 38 the famous Mappin Terrace or savouring a picnic on the lawn. Visitors also enjoyed a bar, plus face
such Appeal Court judges, Sir Terence – who took part in a civil painting, live music and cabaret – all followed by after-parties at G-A-Y Bar and G-A-Y Late. For
partnership in 2006, the first High Court judge to so do – said: more information about London Zoo, check the website at: www.zsl.org
“My appointment shows that diversity in sexuality is not a bar
to preferment up to the highest levels of the judiciary.” The
only other openly gay High Court judge is Sir Adrian Fulford, GEORGE MICHAEL ARRESTED
appointed in 2002.
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GAYS MORE PRONE TO DEPRESSION George Michael (pictured right) has expressed regret for,
LGB people are 50% more likely than heterosexuals to have in his own words, “screwing up again” after being arrested for
suffered depression or anxiety disorders – according to research possession of drugs on Hampstead Heath’s cruising grounds,
published in the journal, BMC Psychiatry, based on an analysis not far from the mansion he shares with Texan partner Kenny
of over two dozen past studies into links between sexuality and Goss. The 45-year old crooner was cautioned for possessing
mental health. Lesbians and gays are also more susceptible class C and class A drugs, including crack cocaine.
to substance abuse and attempted suicide, authors claim “I apologise to my fans and promise them I’ll sort myself out,”
– suggesting that stress from social and familial stigma may be George said in a statement. “Sorry to everybody else, just for
a major cause. boring them.”
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