AFTER outdoor hospitality reopened this week, the North West LGBTQ+ Business Awards aim to celebrate the best bars, cafes and restaurants. LGBTQ+ owned and allied venues are being encouraged to enter the first ever North West Business Awards which, taking place this September in Wirral. The awards founder Drew Cockton said: The past 12 months have been extremely difficult for the hospitality industry for obvious reasons. The LGBTQ+ Business Awards will shine a light on the achievements of businesses and people in the community and we are looking forward to receiving nominations for the region’s favourite bars, pubs, restaurants and hotels.
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I was kicked out of the family home during lockdown for being LGBT
The pandemic has led to a sharp rise in the number of young LGBT people left homeless by families who refuse to accept them
Almost a quarter of homeless young people identified as LGBT before the pandemic
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“I wish that I could have told my mum all about my boyfriend and been met with love and excitement,” says Jack, 17. “Instead I was thrown out.”
Jack was outed as gay last summer and word soon got round to his mum. “She absolutely lost it with me,” he recalls.
What Will Become of Diabolical Piers Morgan? March 14 2021 3:33 PM EDT
If you have not heard about all the drama around the LGBTQ+ community’s least-favorite British anchor, Piers Morgan, that is understandable. We shut him off years ago as the hateful xenophobic, homophobic and transphobic broadcasting bigot.
It’s no surprise that last week Morgan went after Meghan Markle, tearing into her accusations of mental health issues and racism. After all, Meghan represents several things that rub provocateur Piers the wrong way she’s a biracial woman, and to him a “crazy” one at that. If she was a lesbian, or trans, or non-binary, then there would likely be no bounds to what the malicious, malevolent Morgan would say about her.