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7 Local Links We Need:
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Liverpool 2008 – the official site for the European Capital of Culture
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Gay Youth R Out – Liverpool LGBT youth group for 16 – 25 year olds
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Sahir House – Liverpool charity caring for people with HIV/AIDS
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Armistead – Liverpool safer sex information and advice
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Embrace – Sefton LGBT support group
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Queer Notions – Liverpool LGBT mental health support
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Merseyside Police – Liverpool’s thin blue LGBT line at your service
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7 Links to Local Bars, Clubs and Restaurants:
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The Resident’s Lounge – gay-friendly bar in the Hope Street Hotel
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The Mazzy – Liverpool’s Masquerade bar on Cumberland Street
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60 Hope Street – very classy gay-friendly restaurant on Hope Street
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Puschka – gay-owned restaurant on Rodney Street
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Liverpool Arms – Chester’s one and only fabulous gay pub!
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Bar du Fay – Liverpool’s newest lesbian bar on Stanley Street
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3345 – gay-owned, gay-friendly bar on Parr Street
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7 Links to Local Gay-Friendly Businesses:
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Voudoo – very gay-friendly hairdressing salon
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Parr Street Studios – gay-owned and managed recording studios
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Sparkle Media – award-winning special effects company
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Herbert – famous very gay-friendly hairdressing salon
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Sense of Sound – vocal training and performance
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CCUK – Gary Millar’s award-winning software and PR company
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Hooka – very gay-friendly male grooming studio
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Outsiders Liverpool Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
is a registered charity.
To access the information that the Charity Commission hold about us click here and you should be able to find everything you need.
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7 National Links We Like:
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LGCM – lesbian and gay Christian movement
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Quest – Liverpool LGBT Catholic group convened by Anne Marie
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Black Pride – celebrating Black LGBT identity and pride
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Equal Marriage Rights – the case of Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger
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Silence is Not Golden – campaigning against hate crime
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Rainbow Network – everything you could want from a gay website
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Gay games – faster, longer, harder: it’s the queer Olympics!
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7 Safer Sex Links:
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THT – the famous Terrence Higgins Trust, promoting safer sex
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GMFA – the charity Gay Men Fighting AIDS
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CHAPS – sexually explicit safer sex information
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Sigma – Sigma Research surveys into sexual behaviour
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Centre for Public Heath – Liverpool-based experts on HIV and AIDS
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Armistead – our very own local safer sex centre
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AVERT – the latest figures on HIV and AIDS worldwide
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7 Queer Film Links:
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The L Word – fan site dedicated to the hit US TV show
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LLGFF – the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
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Teddy – the queer films awards at the Berlin Film Festival
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MTV 50 – the 50 best queer films of all time, voted for by MTV viewers
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After Ellen – simply the best lesbian movie wesbite, because visibility matters
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About Gay Movies – encyclopaedic site dedicated to queer movies
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Out in Hollywood – the latest queer gossip from Tinsel Town
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7 Links to Contemporary Authors:
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Neil Bartlett – actor, playwright and author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
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Bret Easton Ellis – gay but straight-acting author of American Psycho
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Armistead Maupin – the daddy: author of the classic Tales of the City
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Annie Proulx – author of Brokeback Mountain
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Sarah Waters – author of Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith
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Jeanette Winterson – author of Oranges are not the Only Fruit and The Passion
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Edmund White – author of A Boys Own Story and The Joy of Gay Sex
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7 Links to Dead (but Good) Authors:
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James Baldwin – black gay author of Another Country and The Fire Next Time
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Jean Genet – playwright, thief, prisoner, author of Our Lady of the Flowers
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Christopher Isherwood – author of Goodbye to Berlin, the basis for Cabaret
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Henry James – author of Portrait of a Lady and Daisy Miller
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Herman Melville – author of Moby Dick (it’s a whale – sorry to dash you hopes)
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Oscar Wilde – playwright, prisoner, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Virginia Woolf – bisexual, a suicide, author of Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando
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7 Links to Newspapers, Magazines and Resources:
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Gay Times – the oldest, the original Gay Times
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The Pink Paper – highly respected free national LGBT newspaper
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Positive Nation – free magazine for people affected by HIV and AIDS
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DIVA – the UK’s leading lesbian magazine
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Lesbian UK – leading lesbian database
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Gay to Z – online directory for the whole of the UK
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Libertas UK – lesbian shopping online
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7 Useful Film Links:
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North West Vision – the regional screen development agency
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Britfilms – everything you need to make films in the UK
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Shooting People – the fastest growing film-making community in the world
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IMDB – the only reliable, comprehensive Internet Movie Database
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UK Film Council – the key funder for feature films in the UK
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FACT – contact FACT to show your films at Liverpool Film Night
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British Film Institute – preserving cinematic history
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