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Darren Hayes: Perfect Just The Way You Are
“My creativity was my outlet, and I never censored myself there” A love letter to Darren Hayes from Louise Oliver It seemed a little incongruous for a teenager who was an avid reader of Anne Rice...
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I’m Gonna Take You To The Gay Bar Gay Bar!
“I assume it goes without saying that you’ll stand out like a sore thumb if you’re not covered in glitter riding a unicorn crying into a £3 cosmopolitan”. Barry Church-Woods If you’re a mischievous and...
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Footsteps and Witnesses: Ripples in a Pool of Visibility
“These characters are too ‘tidy’ in other ways… there are no transvestites, paedophiles, bisexuals. It is not surprising that a ‘sense of pride emerges”. Me modelling Madonna’s moves and Celine Dion’s...
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The Same Sky, Different Attitudes: Bullied Singer Horse Heads Back Home To...
“It got so bad that one day I was walking and a police patrol car was sitting across the street. The policeman shouted, ‘There’s that lezzie’. I thought, ‘I’m in trouble now. If something happens, who...
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#LGBTearth
The response so far to #LGBTearth has been amazing. Loads of you have shared the information about how to take part and we’ve been hearing from hundreds of strangers, all getting ready to join in. A...
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An Open Letter to 105 Members of Scottish Parliament
Dear MSPs Yesterday was a momentous occasion. Not just for me, but for everyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong. Just as the working day came to a close, it was announced that one hundred and...
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Adrian Howells: Death of an Icon
“I know it’s no coincidence that I’m doing work about intimacy because I so crave it myself. I feel deprived of it. I know how nourishing physical contact can be. I’m creating work about it because I...
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The cult of in-ing
Dating is hard enough. But try making it work with an emotionally crippled closeted artist. Barry Church-Woods tackles his demons Have you ever been ined? In-ing is a strange phenomenon where people...
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Darren Hayes: Perfect Just The Way You Are
“My creativity was my outlet, and I never censored myself there” A love letter to Darren Hayes from Louise Oliver It seemed a little incongruous for a teenager who was an avid reader of Anne Rice...
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The LGBTicons Guide to Edinburgh: Bars
“I assume it goes without saying that you’ll stand out like a sore thumb if you’re not covered in glitter riding a unicorn crying into a £3 cosmopolitan”. Barry Church-Woods If you’re a mischievous and...
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Footsteps and Witnesses: Ripples in a Pool of Visibility
“These characters are too ‘tidy’ in other ways… there are no transvestites, paedophiles, bisexuals. It is not surprising that a ‘sense of pride emerges”. Me modelling Madonna’s moves and Celine Dion’s...
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BCW calls for a revolution on gay standards.
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about gay standards. In particular I’ve been thinking about gay double standards. In my blog Bear With Me, I touched on finally finding that feeling of belonging. The...
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Darren Hayes: Perfect Just The Way You Are
“My creativity was my outlet, and I never censored myself there” A love letter to Darren Hayes from Louise Oliver It seemed a little incongruous for a teenager who was an avid reader of Anne Rice...
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LGBTicons Rewind: BCW’s Open Letter to 105 Members of Scottish Parliament
Dear MSPs Yesterday was a momentous occasion. Not just for me, but for everyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong. Just as the working day came to a close, it was announced that one hundred and...
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Why LGBT Scotland Needs to Say FUCK YEAH!
Barry Church-Woods explores the Rainbow Paper and makes a decision on independence. I have to admit, for a long time I was an undecided voter. I didn’t see how in a modern world, putting up more...
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Scotland: A triumph of democracy either way
Something wonderful is happening in Scotland tomorrow. As referendum fever kicks in, a nation will decide its future. Whether the electorate opt to leave the United Kingdom or to stay, one thing is for...
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On the day Equal Marriage comes into law in Scotland; an open letter to 105...
As Equal Marriage comes into law in Scotland today, we revisit BCW’s response to that momentous day when the vote passed. Dear MSPs Yesterday was a momentous occasion. Not just for me, but for...
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School’s Out For Bummers
“I was part of the 90210 generation. The original one with Tori Spelling, Jason Priestly and Shannon Docherty before she was universally acknowledged to be a massive cock. It wasn’t just a zip code,...
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The question we forgot to ask.
BCW reflects on last week’s general election and pledges to make a difference. It’s been a bleak few days in the UK for most of us. By ‘us’ I mean normal people who like other people and were raised...
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The cult of in-ing
Dating is hard enough. But try making it work with an emotionally crippled closeted artist. Barry Church-Woods tackles his demons Have you ever been ined? In-ing is a strange phenomenon where people...
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