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18/07/2023 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

NIGRANIGRA is the oldest gay rights organisation in Northern Ireland.  Since its conception, it has seeked to ensure ‘GayRights’ means enhancing the rights of anyone oppressed on account of their -actual or imputes – sexuality.

Through our Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/NIGayRight5] , our Twitter account [https://twitter.com/GayUpstart]  (previously we led by producing our information and resources through our various printed magazines and newssheet).  We now publish articles that are of interest both locally, nationally and internationally from a wide range of sources related to the LGBTQI+’s people’s lives – all topics that we think might be useful for our community and its supporters.  To these articles, we also write and publish independent articles written by local people through ACOMSDave [www. https://acomsdave.com/].

Now we are looking for more local input and support and we would like you to write on any topic that you feel needs highlights, e.g.

  • Best gay spit in Northern Ireland (or your holiday resort area)
  • Things that you like to do in Northern Ireland
  • LGBTQTI+ history in Northern Ireland – don’t forget that we now have an online archive -LGBTHISTORYNI (LGBTHISTORYNI.com )

 

Go to LGBTHistoryNI

Visit LGBTHistoryNI and get involved in recording our history

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But you decide, just write it and submit it by emailing to The Editor@ACOMSDave.com or dtw.mcfarlane@gmail.com)

 

 

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NIGRA - on parade

Filed Under: Campaigns, Editor to ACOMSDave Tagged With: Gay Magazines, gay politics, gay publishing, LGBT History NI, NIGRA, Northern Ireland

Sainsbury’s Cover-up

10/07/2015 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

Sainsbury’s criticised for placing ‘modesty cover’ over gay lifestyle magazine but not FHM

Siam Goorwich for Metro.co.ukThursday 9 Jul 2015 12:32 pm
Sainsbury Cover-up
Sainsbury’s have been criticised for placing a copy of gay lifestyle magazine Attitude magazine behind a modesty cover, whilst making no effort to conceal FHM.
This apparent bias was highlighted when twitter user Jon Rowles tweeted a picture of the magazine rack in Sainsbury’s Mid City Place branch in Holborn, London, along with the comment, ‘Why I don’t shop @sainsburys anymore. Naked women OK but @AttitudeMag Pride Hero’s cover indecent.’
Furthermore, whilst the FHM cover in question features a bikini-clad woman, everyone on the cover of August’s Attitude magazine (which happens to be their Pride Heroes edition) is fully clothed.
attitude_mag_cover
 
 
Talking to Pink News, Mr Rowles explained: ‘What struck me was how it made the publication look seedy and somehow shameful, like I had walked into a timewarp and gone back to the early 1990s.’
Metro.co.uk contacted Sainsbury’s for a comment, and a spokesperson told us: ‘We have previously contacted the distributor of Attitude magazine with a view to remove the modesty cover on this title. The distributor agreed that whilst the cover of this magazine is now generally suitable for display, there could be future issues where it may not be. This is something we regularly review along with taking guidance from the Professional Publishers Association.’
They also explained that on this occasion FHM has been placed on a lower shelf by mistake, and that it should be displayed further back where the cover is less visible
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/09/sainsburys-criticised-for-placing-modesty-cover-over-gay-lifestyle-magazine-but-not-fhm-5287613/#ixzz3fTYAweXm

Filed Under: Anti-Bullying & Homophobia Tagged With: Attitude, FHM, Gay Magazines, Modesty Cover, Sainsbury's

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