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2008 Listing of UK, Ireland and Europe LGBT Events - updated July 6

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JULY

July 6: Hungary:  Budapest Gay Pride: A Demonstration of Solidarity.  Braving threats of violence from neo-Nazis and other ultra right wing groups, some 1,500 people turned up at the Budapest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride March yesterday to express their will to live in a country where the rights of LGBT people – and other minorities – are respected.
July 5: UK:  Stonewall Staff Visit Prime Minister to Mark Gay Pride in London.  Stonewall staff, accompanied by the charity’s co-founder Sir Ian McKellen, visited British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for half an hour this morning.
July 5: UK:  Amnesty to Stage Mock ‘Eurovision’ at Gay Pride in London.  Members of Amnesty International will join the annual Gay Pride parade in London today and stage a mock ‘Eurovision’ contest – on a huge float featuring a giant scoreboard and music.
July 4: UK:  Gay Nigerian Davis Mac-Iyalla Freed.  The gay Nigerian Christian lay preacher Davis Mac-Iyalla has been freed by the UK Home Office, Peter Tatchell reports.
July 4: UK:  Gay Nigerian Christian Lay Preacher Seeking Refuge in UK Arrested and Incarcerated.  Davis Mac-Iyalla, a leader of Changing Attitude Nigeria, the gay Christian and gay rights movement in Nigeria, has been arrested on the eve of Pride London.
July 4: Europe:  Gay Prides: Budapest Police Face Potential Trouble, While in London It’s Keeping the Traffic Moving.  As police in Budapest brace themselves for threatened disruption of the Hungarian capital’s Gay Pride, politicians in the United Kingdom are lining-up to support Pride London as the Metropolitan Police’s ‘Pride Operation’ centres on how to keep central London’s traffic moving.
July 3: UK:  Reform the Homophobic Refuge System, Gay Activist Tells Trade Unionists.  The British government is being urged to "initiate urgent reforms to the asylum system to end the injustice whereby many genuine gay refugees being sent back to viciously homophobic countries like Iran, Uganda, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Jamaica, Belarus and Saudi Arabia."  The call comes from gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of OutRage!
July 3: UK:  Stonewall Report Gay People Perform Better When They Can Be Themselves.  A pioneering Stonewall report which, for the first time, outlines a compelling business case for good practice around sexual orientation in the workplace, is to be launched by Secretary of State for Business John Hutton later this afternoon in London.
July 3: Hungary:  Another Gay Business Torched in Budapest.  Another gay business in the Hungarian capital has been torched, following a fire in a gay club in the city last week.
July 3: UK:  Gay, Lesbian Equality Education Only Way to Stop Homophobic Bullying, Says TUC Chief.  TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber will today call on the Government to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) equality education in the school curriculum, as the only way to address homophobic bullying in schools.
July 2: European Union:   Gay NGO Welcomes EC’s Single Anti-Discrimination Directive.  The International Lesbian and Gay Association-Europe tonight welcomed the European Commission’s proposal for a single EU-wide anti-discrimination directive announced this morning by Vladimír Špidla, the EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.
July 2: UK:  Gays Condemn New Homophobic Anglican Sect.  “This breakaway Anglican faction is fundamentalist, homophobic and sexist.  It opposes equal rights for women and gay people, and is allied with hard-line church leaders whose bigoted teachings are fuelling anti-gay witch-hunts in many countries.” – Peter Tatchell.
July 2: European Union:   Gays, Lesbians Included in Proposed EC Directive on Discrimination.  The European Commission has today adopted a proposal for a directive which provides for protection from discrimination on a number of grounds, including sexual orientation.
July 1: UK:  Gay Men’s Sex Survey Clarifies Key Targets for HIV Prevention Work.  A report published today clarifies the key groups of gay men who are at highest risk of HIV transmission in the UK.  Multiple Chances reports on the findings from the Gay Men's Sex Survey 2006 which was undertaken by Sigma Research and commissioned by Terrence Higgins Trust.
July 1: European Union:  Gay Euro-Parliament ‘Intergroup’ Welcomes Rights Agency Report on Discrimination.  The call for member states of the European Union to tackle discrimination by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), has been welcomed by the European Parliament’s all-party ‘Intergroup’ for gay and lesbian rights.