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The Arun Gay Society donates £400 to charity for elderly people

Guild Care, a Worthing-based charity which helps and supports the elderly, some with dementia, received a £400 garden-centre voucher from TAGS on Wednesday, October 1.

GUILD CARE is building a new home in Worthing, costing £7 million, which should be open in the new year. As part of the development they are creating a specialist dementia garden and the money raised by TAGS will help pay for that.

Pictured, Anna Durkowska, the senior fundraising officer at Guild Care, receives the garden voucher from TAGS secretary, Maureen Carter and TAGS social secretary Peter Saggs.

The new building in Worthing due to open early 2015
The new building in Worthing, due to open early 2015

 

 

 

Kemptown MP presses Government to promote LGBT rights in the Commonwealth

Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, has been encouraging both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID) to do more to help promote LGBT rights throughout the Commonwealth.

Simon Kirby

DURING THE recent Commonwealth Games, the lack of LGBT rights in a number of Commonwealth countries was drawn to wider public attention.  Kemptown MP Simon Kirby has been making representations to Government Departments to press for changes.

Simon, a longstanding advocate of LGBT rights in the UK and abroad, has questioned the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as to what is being done to promote LGBT rights in Commonwealth countries that have weak, or no, rights for LGBT people. He has also questioned the Department for International Development about providing international aid to countries with the poorest records, such as Uganda and Malawi.

He said: “As the MP for Brighton Kemptown, I have worked hard to promote LGBT rights throughout the country, and it is so important for the UK to continue to press other countries to make important changes in this area.

“I am pleased that the FCO have assured me that they will continue to work alongside the Commonwealth Secretary-General to promote LGBT rights across all Commonwealth Countries. I am also very happy to have seen that DFID has suspended aid to both Uganda and Malawi, and I hope that any return of aid will be contingent on improved LGBT rights.”

“I am proud to represent Brighton Kemptown, and I intend to continue to work hard to stand up for the rights and concerns of LGBT people both in Brighton and across the world.”

‘Lesbian Lives’ conference returns to Brighton University in 2015

Tickets are on sale for the 2015 Lesbian Lives conference, the world’s only annual academic conference in lesbian studies, which will take place at the University of Brighton on February 20-21, 2015.

Lesbian Lives Conference, Brighton

THE ORGANISERS of the event, which attracts a global audience of academics, scholars, students, activists, documentary film-makers, writers and artists are inviting proposals for papers, workshops, break-out sessions, round-table discussions and visual presentations and performances.

Confirmed speakers for the 22nd Lesbian Lives conference include:

• Jane Czyzselska, editor of Diva magazine
• CampbellX, the award-winning filmmaker behind BlackmanVision
• Professor Sara Ahmed, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmith University
• Professor Sasha Roseneil, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
• Professor Angelia R. Wilson, author of the book Why Europe is lesbian and gay friendly (and why America never will be)

The two-day international and interdisciplinary event is hosted by the University of Brighton’s LGBT and Queer Life Research Hub in conjunction with the Women’s Studies Centre of University College Dublin and will focus on the theme: Lesbian Feminisms Now!

The Lesbian Lives events held in Brighton sell out fast. If you want to guarantee your place at next year’s event you can buy your tickets online at the 2015 Lesbian Lives conference web page.

To purchase tickets, CLICK HERE: 

The closing date for presenters to submit proposals for the conference is Friday, October 24.

For further information about the event, where to buy tickets and how to submit a proposal, CLICK HERE:

 

Lesbian Lives Conference 2015

Organisers are keen to emphasise that it is not necessary to submit a formal paper to participate, everybody is invited to join the debates and discussions, network and meet new people.

You can follow the event on twitter @LesbianLives

To get involved in discussions ahead of the conference on the Lesbian Lives facebook page, CLICK HERE:

 

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