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2008 Listing of UK, Ireland and Europe LGBT Events

OCTOBER 2008

Oct 31: UK:  Jack Straw Blocks Cardinal Newman Information to Gay Activist.  The Catholic Church put the government under sustained pressure to grant it a licence to exhume and rebury Cardinal Newman in Birmingham Oratory Church, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) to gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
Oct 31: Australia:  Gay Blood Donor Case in Australia Hears Final “Crucial” Evidence.  Gay activists have described as “crucial” final evidence presented today to the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal in a case initiated by Launceston gay man, Michael Cain, against the Australian gay blood ban.
Oct 31: UK:  World Gay Pride Set for London as Prelude to Olympics.  London has won the right to host World Pride in 2012, it was revealed last night.  The decision was made at the InterPride conference in Vancouver.
Oct 30: USA:  Sharon Gless to Star in Lesbian-Themed Film “Hanna Free”.  Sharon Gless, star of popular vintage television series Cagney & Lacey, is set to star in the new independent feature film, Hannah Free, the story of a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
Oct 30: UK:  Stonewall Launches Britain’s Largest Recruitment Guide for Gay Jobseekers.  Stonewall today launched the fourth and biggest edition of Starting Out, Britain’s national lesbian and gay recruitment guide.
Oct 30: UK:  Mr Gay Derry Takes Northern Ireland Title.  James Smallman, this year’s Mr Gay Derry, has returned home from Dublin to a raucous welcome at his local, Sandino’s bar, bringing with him the coveted Mr Gay Northern Ireland 2009 title.
Oct 24: Poland:  Polish President Thwarts Gay March in Kraków by Planning Visit to City on Same Day.  Gays in Kraków were hoping to stage a “March of Rainbow Tradition” in this historic city next week.  But their plans, initially approved by the city authorities, have been shelved, thanks, it appears, to the Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
Oct 23: USA:  Books: Star Quarterback in High School Comes Out As Gay in New Novel.  When openly gay Bill Konigsberg wrote his first novel, Out of the Pocket, he had, like most authors in a similar situation, a day job – in this case, as a sportswriter at The Associated Press.  Now, as he writes his second book – as yet without a title but scheduled for publication in 2010 – there is no day job.  He quit AP to concentrate on his new-found career. 
Oct 21: Nigeria:  MEPs Ask Nigerian Government to Intervene Against Harassment of Gay Activists.  The European Parliament’s all-party ‘intergroup’ on gay and lesbian rights has told the Nigerian Government that the increased level of homophobia in the country is “unacceptable”.
Oct 14: USA:  Sen. Obama Remembers the Gay Student Violently Murdered in Wyoming Ten Years Ago.  Senator Barack Obama has today described as “unacceptable” the lack of federal legislation in the United States to address the problem of ‘hate crime’.
Oct 13: Bosnia-Herzegovina:  Just How Interested is the European Union in the Violence Towards Gays in Sarajevo?  Commentary.  Bosnia-Herzegovina has its sights membership of the European Union, whose official motto is “united in diversity”.  So where is the outrage from Brussels over the violence in Sarajevo?
Oct 10: UK:  Gay Humanists Condemns Religious Intolerance on International Day Against the Death Penalty.  Gay humanists are marking worldwide International Day Against the Death Penalty today by condemning the execution of gay men and women because their sexuality.
Oct 10: UK:  Sol Campbell Abuse: FA Urged To Get Tough After Anti-Gay Chanting at Portsmouth.  Premiership Tottenham  has been attacked by gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell for not taking effective action to discourage its fans from chanting homophobic – and racist – abuse against Sol Campbell a former Tottenham player now with Portsmouth.
Oct 5: UK:  “Cowboy” Wins the International Iris Prize 2008 for Gay, Lesbian Short Films.  A haunting film about a city dweller and country lad who pay a terrible price for love was named last night as the 2008 winner of the Iris Prize with its £25,000 award.
Oct 2: UK:  Lesbian UK ­– Diva Magazine Reveals All.  Diva breaks new ground with the UK’s first ever lesbian map: a map of Britain which shatters previous assumptions about ‘where the girls are’. [...]  The shock comes with the revelation that Gloucester (6th) and Chelmsford (9th) are among the biggest lesbian ‘hotspots’.
Oct 1: Finland:  Gay Editor Sacked from Editor’s Post at Largest Newspaper in Lapland. The newly-appointed lesbian chief editor of a newspaper has been fired, it emerged today. [...] Ms. Korhonen told reporters from the Finnish media today that the real reason for her sudden dismissal was because “I live in a registered partenership – in other words my spouse is a woman”.