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How would most women feel if their husband or boyfriend admitted to being a secret cross dresser?
A play about two vagrants who befriend each other and get intimate on the streets of London is making its North of England premiere during this week's 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester.
A Gay Canadian Comedian is visiting Manchester as part of 24 7 Theatre Festival.
One of the most dramatic works in this year's Queer Up North festival came from theatre company ' Ridiculusmous '.
Modern day Boltonian followers of the American ' gay ' poet Walt Whitman lead a commemorative walk on the anniversary of his birth at the end of May.
In the late 1890s an extraordinary group of lower middle class men in Bolton became followers of the American poet Walt Whitman.
The issue of gay ' marriage ' and ' blessings ' is set to be big on the agenda of the Lambeth Conference with the church facing yet another split.
An academic in America who has studied the sex and love lives of 100 women for the past 12 years has been blowing away some myths about bisexuality.
The promoter of the very popular Ladyboys of Bangkok cabaret show has been telling the BBC's only regular LGBT programme exactly what it means to BE a Ladyboy.
A new study in the United States has found that gay women are almost twice as likely to be overweight than heterosexual women.
The man behind the biggest collection of research materials, tapes and transcripts about the early days of HIV and AIDS in America has been giving an exclusive UK interview to the only regular LGBT programme on the BBC. John-Manuel Andriote, who is HIV positive himself, is author of ' Victory Deferred: How AIDS changed Gay Life in America. '
Popular gay comic Craig Hill has been espousing the the vrtues of a man in a kilt to the only regular LGBT programme on the BBC.
More work needs to be done by the NHS to encourage gay women to go for cervical smear tests. That was just one of the findings of a study carried out by Stonewall into the treatment of gay women by the health service in the UK.
More details have emerged about a forthcoming Manchester based exhibition about gay life in the military.
Lesbian coming out stories from across the Atlantic are forming part of a new exhibition at Manchester's Cornerhouse. Joanie 4 Jackie is a video chain letter project for distributing women's video work.
Manchester HIV charity Body Positive has been outlining to BBC Radio Manchester's Gay Hour programme exactly what checks they have in place for their 1 minute HIV testing service.
The writer of a controversial play about the conversations gay men have after those brief encounters in saunas, steam rooms and cruising areas, has premiered his play Fucking Men in Britain rather than America.
It's one of the big taboos in the lesbian community but no more! The Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester has launched a major campaign aimed at improving awareness of sexual health for women who have sex with women.
Canal side safety's becoming a major issue in Manchester's gay village after the death of a man trying to resue a relative who fell off the wall along Canal Street. Local businesses and community leaders are now deciding how to prevent a further tragedy.
Latest figures suggest more gay men and women smoke than their straight counterparts. Statistics have been released to coincide with National No Smoking Day. So why do so many gay people seem to need the nicotine buzz?
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