A profile of the activist David Watters.

David is currently fighting for marriage equality in the European Courts of Human Rights as a part of the Equal Love Campaign. He also founded the Give ‘Em Hope campaign and is the author of Never Blend In. He has also spoken alongside Peter Tatchell and Stuart Milk at the No to Hate Vigil in Trafalgar Square and is a supporter of the HIV/AIDS charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.

A vote for David on the Independent on Sunday’s Pink List is a vote for all of those that campaign tireless for everyone’s human rights, who do so without the aid of fame or the media coverage that comes with it.

Darren Hayes’ latest video.

Darren Hayes’ new single ‘Black Out The Sun’, from forth coming album Secret Codes and Battleships is released this week.

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Released on September 19, 2011

Amos’ new album, a 21st century song cycle inspired by 400 years of classical music, is surprising and brilliant.

Amos’ adaptability as a musician makes this, her twelfth studio album, as distinctive as anything she has ever done. Original, inventive and brilliant.

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260 pages • Quartet • June 01, 2011 [PB]

Tim Bennett-Goodman takes pleasure in Death in Bordeaux, which charts the working and personal life of a police detective from the fall of France through the establishment and early days of the Vichy Republic.

Massie doesn’t shrink from the casual homophobia of the times. Even the most sympathetic of his characters find homosexuality impossible to comprehend, if not actually repellant.

All the Grindr vain, self-obsessed and obnoxious voices on Grindr.

The website doucebagsofgrindr.com is showing up the bad language and general offensiveness at play on the app Grindr.

There is a real twisted joy to seeing prime examples of this bad behaviour on the website www.douchebagsofgrindr.com. For the most part it is a thoroughly entertaining insight into the world of the vain and self-obsessed.

Clementine exchanges barbs with Miss Hope Springs.

Clementine the Living Fashion Doll interviews the one and only Miss Hope Springs. Miss Springs is HUGE in the states (she’s no lightweight over here!).

This diva has played the Pink Pelican in Vegas … and twenty other venues that have closed.

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287 pages • Headpress • June 23, 2011 [PB]

Tim Bennett-Goodman finds The Hellhound Sample, a family saga that spans the years 1932-2004, to be an energetic and touching read.

The story of young Calvin’s struggle to overcome the handicap of being a closet bi-sexual in an aggressively (indeed, murderously) homophobic rap world is both fascinating and touching.

An Equal Love Case update.

David Watters introduces Matthew and Scott, who have challenged the ban on gay marriage.

Both Matthew and Scott feel that, as gay men, they are more in tune with the broader inequality issues of society and that their participation in the Equal Love campaign was inevitable.

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608 pages • Bloomsbury • April 4, 2011 [HB]

In his Epistle to the Reader, AC Grayling sums up his work as “…a text made from all times for all times, its aspiration and aim the good for humanity and the good of the world.” A modest undertaking, then, says, Tim Bennett-Goodman.

The Good Book is a work which, it seems to me, will reward dipping into from time to time – for consolation, meditation or stimulation – just as one would (or would have) the Bible itself, rather than necessarily being read cover-to-cover.

An Equal Love Case update.

David Watters outlines the progress that has been made in seeking marriage equality.

Having listened to stakeholders it is clear from many that there is a desire to move towards equal civil marriage and partnerships. The Government will consult further on how legislation can develop, working with all those who have an interest in this area.