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Stonewall has new advice to help LGB and religious staff work together

Employers can download a free ten point guide explaining how to encourage people of faith and gay, lesbian and bisexual people to work alongside each other in harmony.
Stonewall produced the guide based on research among the 470 major employers with which it works, and Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Hindu focus groups. Religion and Sexual Orientation – How to manage relations in the workplace was funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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Actor Sir Ian McKellen, singer Dan Gillespie Sells and snowboarder Jo Chastney all spoke at Stonewall’s third annual day for young lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
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It’s time to loosen the stays on your whalebone corset and grab a box of Tena Ladies - the Ministry of Laughs is back for it’s monthly show. Laughs provided by compere Mile Belgrave and comedians Andrew Watts, Lynn Ruth Miller and An Audience with Peter Tenant.

Sunday 10th May Charles Street Bar, 8:45pm, £8/5.

Romany Mark Bruce writes about the highs and lows of creating Brighton’s Aids Memorial

When I first submitted my proposals for the Aids Memorial at the end of August 2007, for a modern landmark sculpture of two intertwined figures soaring upwards, little did I know that there would be so many ups and downs ahead.
After almost six months of trying to find premises large enough to accommodate the structure I was given the use of a converted cowshed deep in the Sussex countryside. An armature was built in steel, I took delivery of half a ton of clay, and in May 2008 commenced work on my biggest ever project.
After three months of hard work, one day I had that weird sense of something happening. I put my hands up to the sculpture above me and to my horror felt pressure, it was moving. Read the rest of this article »