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Monthly Archives: February 2012
TransAction 2 “Educate for Health” • Waterford 2012
TransAction 2 “Educate for Health” • Waterford 2012 • Saturday, 25 February 2012 • Time: 10:30 until 17:00 • Where: Edmond Rice Conference Centre, Barrack Street, Waterford City Description: A conference focusing on education as a tool to raise awareness … Continue reading
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Tagged 25 February 2012, Barrack Street, challenges facing the Transgender community, Edmond Rice Conference Centre, Educators, Friends, Health Professionals, Parents, Primary Care Physicians, Time: 10:30 until 17:00, TransAction2, Waterford 2012, Waterford city, “Educate for Health”
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PHASE it was just a Phase
The year was 1994, March 1994.
In the space of few months a number of gay magazines arrived on the market in Britain. The magazine industry has discovered a new consumer group to target. Three new-style gay magazines–**Diva, *Attitude and Phase— were different to publications such as Gay Times. These glossy lifestyle magazines targeted lesbians & Gays as a new consumer group.
Phase Issue One • get out of that lazy bed.
Independently owned Phase was Britain’s first gay style magazine, competing directly with the leaders in that market, including Arena, GQ and Esquire. The first issue, was glossy and stylish enough to have prompted W H Smith to circulate a memo to its stores telling them to display it with the other style magazines and not with the other gay and sex publications on the top shelf.
Phase Issue two • Featuring RuPaul on the Cover
Peter Cummings, then 32, having previously set up the biggest gay publishing house in Britain, Prowler Press. Blase, the new firm he has started to publish Phase, was funded by a group of colleagues including Wanda Goldwag, director of international foreign exchange for Thomas Cook, and Ivan Massow, a financial adviser who presents the financial news on Scottish TV. According to Mr Cummings: ‘The pink pound has never been more fiercely chased. The spending power and brand loyalty of gay consumers are not to be ignored lightly.’
The Phase ethos: The important point is that all other gay magazines have a message of being oppressed and having problems and being arrested. Our message is that it’s great to be gay, we’re having a really good time, come and join the party.’
Even the film director Derek Jarman, who was dying of Aids, was upbeat and hedonistic in the first issue. He writes: ‘I’ll have a state funeral, send all the boys to saunas, get them suntanned so they can march on the streets of London quite naked, bronzed and good-looking. Turn the House of Commons into a back-room for the under-21s for a night. I hope boys will carry on falling in love with boys and girls with girls, and they’ll find no way to change that.’
There were 5 issues in total. The final issue coincided with the archivists end of College term. So what happened to Phase? Phase had paved the way when Attitude and Diva took to the field running, they didn’t look back. With bigger backers they took no prisoners and can be found on a shelf near you at every good book shop.
Phase Issue Three • Featuring Madonna on the Cover
Phase Issue Four
*Attitude British lifestyle magazine owned by Attitude Media Ltd. The first issue appeared in May 1994.
** Diva is a leading lesbian periodical in the UK. It was launched March 1994 by Millivres Prowler Group Ltd., who also produce the Gay Times.
& for your next trick! Can anyone find a copy of PHASE 5??
Posted in That's Life
Tagged 1994, Attitude, Attitude Media Ltd, Derek Jarman, film director, Gay Times, Millivres Prowler Group, Phase Five, Phase Four, Phase One, Phase Three, Phase Two
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Lgbt South Tipperary • HUGH meeting • Wednesday, 22/2/2012 @ 6:30-9:30pm
Lgbt South Tipperary Currently looking for people in all the big towns in South Tipperary – Chair, Cashel, Carrick-on-Suir, Newcastle, Dundrum etc. that have spare time on their hands. LGBT South Tipperary would like to establish a base or focus … Continue reading
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Bigotry running at Cheltenham Festival discourteously of Paddy Power +€200? • Feb’12
There are so many other ways they could have gotten the point across in a fun entertaining way, without deliberately being nasty. EG: I know many Drag Queens who’d love the publicity & provide additional positive entertainment to boot. This attempt to create a viral campaign is really! really! bad, on so many levels, it’s mega sad!.
The add below is poor taste against not only towards transgender & then they try to capitalize on the poor taste by making a point that, some find it funny, some don’t. Transphobia isn’t a joke.
Suggesting another persons circumstances are found humorous by a few and that those who don’t see the humor have the problem, implies the attacker has a serious & dangerous mental state. They have difficulties with perception, ignorance (in both guises), common decency and can’t tell ‘wrong from right’. You can do something, about this transgression. follow the conversation below, make up your mind, then do something!
FB: * @Vanessa Lacey and ** @Louise Hannon shared a link & a request.
• Cheltenham Festival Paddy Power Ladies Day TV Ad & £200 free bet!
• www.cheltenhamfestival.net
Screenshot taken from the Cheltenham Festival website see the link below. or use a search engine to locate: Cheltenham Festival Paddy Power Ladies Day TV Ad & £200 free bet!
Dear Paddy Power,
Please remove this offensive advertisement. Transgender people are not horses to bet on. If you agree contact Paddy Power headquarters here and tell them so Paddy Power, Belfield Office Park, Beaver Row, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4 Tel: 01 4045900
Please make your complaints to the Advertisment Standards Authority of Ireland. Please share this disgrace.
Thank you for you help in this matter
FB: @FrJoseph… shared the following contact details
Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland, Ferry House
• 48 Lower Mount Street
• Dublin 2
• phone is : +353 1 613 70 40
• fax is +353 1 613 70 43
FB: @Emma… you can also submit online- done
http://www.asai.ie/
FB: @FrJoseph… added: Complaints submitted online also – advise when doing so to include the link to the video so as to ensure the ASAI are in no doubt as to what tawdry advertising this is by Paddy Power!!
http://www.cheltenhamfestival.net/category/Latest-Betting/Cheltenham-Festival-Paddy-Power-Ladies-Day-TV-Ad–200-free-bet-201202170035/
You Tube link: http://youtu.be/1XZ5MOB3nww
Paddy Power You Tube profile : Cheltenham Festival Ladies Day 2012 TV Advert
View the video here