Blog posts by Milly Shaw: 2008
UK government opposes Austrian gay marriage
By Milly Shaw | 10 December 2008, 13:45
The UK government has tried to block other European countries from allowing same-sex marriage and civil partnerships, despite claiming to be in favour of LGB equality. The Guardian newspaper reports that the UK government had made legal submissions to the…
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Homo Promo
By Milly Shaw | 12 November 2008, 12:21
The gay community is often accused by right-wing groups of trying to push their ‘homosexuality agenda’. Rather than fighting the accusation, Gay Times magazine decided to roll with it, and asked some creative agencies to design some homosexuality advertising campaigns….
‘Double-glazed’ glass ceiling for lesbians in the workplace
By Milly Shaw | 4 November 2008, 14:46
Gay and bisexual women think their gender creates a greater barrier to success at work than their sexual orientation, according to research by Stonewall. The report, entitled The Double-Glazed Glass Ceiling, is based on interviews with working lesbian and bisexual…
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Women’s football coaching project launched by England team’s Hope Powell
By Milly Shaw | 23 October 2008, 12:03
England’s women’s football coach Hope Powell and England and Arsenal captain Faye White have launched a new project to increase the number of female football coaches. Just one in four coaches in the UK are women, and of these, just…
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Sarah Palin debate strategy [pic]
By Milly Shaw | 3 October 2008, 16:05
Diagram created by Daily Kos…
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Equal rights for Princesses?
By Milly Shaw | 26 September 2008, 10:50
The 300-year-old law that stops a Catholic from being King/Queen and ranks males higher than females in claims to the throne could be abolished. The law as it currently stands is thought to contravene the Sex Discrimination Act and the…
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“Real dads not lesbo dads” say New Fathers 4 Justice
By Milly Shaw | 22 September 2008, 13:36
Protest group New Fathers 4 Justice last week attacked lesbian parenting in an effort to promote the rights of fathers. A small group of protesters took a banner reading ‘KIDS NEED REAL DADS NOT DAWN’S LESBO DADS” to the Bristol…
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Sexists in the music industry: you will be found, you will be ridiculed
By Milly Shaw | 3 September 2008, 14:25
Today’s reasons to love music website The Lipster: 1. They rightly call Noel Gallagher a ‘tool’ because he’s posted a list of his top 10 bands of all time but decided that it should have “no female artists allowed”. OMG…
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Woman wearing lesbian tshirt thrown out of US Government building
By Milly Shaw | 26 August 2008, 16:26
A woman was forced to leave a government building in California because she was wearing a ‘lesbian.com’ tshirt. Los Angeles Daily News reports that Lapriss Gilbert, 31, was stopped by a security guard when she tried to enter the Social…
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Modelling and crash-dieting: what could possibly go wrong?
By Milly Shaw | 21 August 2008, 17:12
MTV are chasing after the TV modelling bandwagon with a show that ‘dares to go where no modelling show has gone before’. Where might that be then? Empowering women to measure success with something other than beauty? Not quite… Model…
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Angelina Jolie replaces Tom Cruise in spy thriller
By Milly Shaw | 14 August 2008, 16:16
Angelina Jolie has replaced Tom Cruise as the star of new spy film Edwin A Salt. According to BBC Online, Tom Cruise had a long-standing connection to Edwin A Salt. After his departure, several other male actors expressed interest in…
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London Mayor Boris Johnson cuts Soho Pride funding
By Milly Shaw | 12 August 2008, 17:16
London Mayor Boris Johnson has slashed £10,000 from Soho Pride, just over a week before the event is due to take place. Soho Pride is a smaller gay pride event in London that is based around the gay bars in…
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A personal tale of bbqs and gender roles
By Milly Shaw | 10 August 2008, 17:03
My girlfriend’s childhood friend was 30 a few weeks ago. The birthday boy hired a cottage in the middle of the countryside, and we all had a lovely weekend of sunshine and intense gender role reinforcement. The men decided when…
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Like Guitar Hero? Well you’ll just love Vagina Hero! Or not.
By Milly Shaw | 5 August 2008, 10:58
Dude, you know what would be, like, awesome? If there was a Guitar Hero for girls! No, not a more girl-friendly game featuring Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill or Hole, I’m talking about a game where instead of controlling a guitar, you’re…
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Gender-testing for ‘suspicious-looking’ female Olympic athletes in Beijing
By Milly Shaw | 29 July 2008, 22:50
Women athletes who might secretly be men (or, as the Times Online charmingly phrases it, “suspicious-looking” woman athletes) will be forced to take a sex test in the Beijing Olympic Games, Olympic officials have announced.
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