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After my thoughts about a LGBT international 'Underground Railroad' I'm pleased to see this new organisation The Kaleidoscope International Diversity Trust is to be launched today in UK with the likes of Elton John and George Michael providing the celebrity endorsement.  I was bemused to see David Cameron as a poster boy offering his support when UKBA is definitely part of the problem. His letter to the organisation crows about the developments UK has made etc. I hope Kaleidoscope has the balls to take UK government to task over its treatment of LGBT asylum seekers in particular AS WELL AS putting pressure on governments dependant on UK aid to include LGBT rights and protections as a prerequisite of receiving that aid, (but I very much doubt it will happen). Each of the UK party leaders have issued letters of support, it means little without their commitments to ACT.

look at gay adoption More articles by Claire Connor » Written by: Claire Connor Tags: Adoption , gay adoption , Gay families Share It has become almost impossible to get from cover to cover in an LGBT magazine without being confronted by advertisements that claim to assist the community in creating a family. Countless services declare their ability to make the process not only seamless, but also, in their glossy spreads, glamorous. Photographs of cute, giggling babies veil the serious side to starting a family. There are a great many children in care who need to be adopted And what are these advertisements offering? Rarely adoption. These agencies want to make money. Purchase a womb in the form of a surrogate, purchase some sperm, purchase a turkey baster (or rather, ‘insemination kit’); purchase pretty much anything one needs to create a baby. What gets forgotten, however, is the option of starting a family with a child that already exists. Th...

I read an post from the excellent blog LGBT Asylum News , by Joe Mirabella that got me thinking... When that idiot David Ssempa in Uganda first presented his proposed bill to (amongst other things) make homosexuality punishable by death, my thoughts were immediately about how to reach out to and if possible protect my LGBT brothers and sisters. I sit here in comparative luxury where my sexuality isn't something I need to hide and I have laws that can protect me should (some) things go wrong. I remember when none of that was true, but even then it wasn't as bad as the fear so many in Africa feel from day to day. -I thought about how escaped slaves were smuggled into Europe in the 19th century, how Jews were smuggled out of Germany in the 20th.  But how could this be done?- Part of the the problem is the UK Border Agency who seem keen to send LGBT people back to places where they are in danger of being murdered by their own states in the name of "protecting" UK'...

I've had a month or so off to sort out big changes in my domestic life: my 13year old Godson is now living with me after coming here with his father and me being 'vetted' by our local social services. It is ironic that this has occured: a couple of years ago I decided that whatever my relationship status, I would begin the process of registering as a foster parent. I have felt for a long time that I had parental- or at least mentoring qualities and that I'd enjoy the responsibilities of caring for a young person. I'd always felt it would be a job for two and added it to the list of prerequisites of any potential partner- lol a definite contributing factor to my prolonged singledom! I did foster a 16 year old for a year with a partner in Hampstead about 20 years ago, through a project called The Albert Kennedy Trust after spending an entire year thinking about it and whenever we left the house there'd be a mental check: "If we were fostering a teenager, w...