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Murder Of Jody Dobrowski
Jody Dobrowski (27 June 1981 – 15 October 2005) was an English 24-year-old assistant bar manager who was murdered on Clapham Common in south London. On 14 October, at around midnight, he was beaten to death with punches and kicks by two men who believed him to be gay, and pronounced dead in the early hours of 15 October. Tests carried out at St. George's Hospital in Tooting, South London revealed Dobrowski had a swollen brain, broken nose and extensive bruising to his neck, spine and groin. His family was unable to identify him due to his face being so badly disfigured and he had to be identified by fingerprints. His two assailants, Thomas Pickford and Scott Walker, pleaded guilty to the murder of Dobrowski at the Old Bailey criminal court on 12 May 2006 and were sentenced to life imprisonment on 16 June 2006 with a minimum of 28 years to be served. Both men had been involved in an attack against a gay man two weeks prior to the murder of Dobrowski. Walker had been out on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Stroud is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021. Sited below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the Five Valleys, the town is noted for its steep streets. The Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty surrounds the town, and the Cotswold Way path passes by it to the west. It lies south of the city of Gloucester, south-southwest of Cheltenham, west-northwest of Cirencester and north-east of the city of Bristol. London is east-southeast of Stroud and the Welsh border at Whitebrook, Monmouthshire, is to the west. Though officially not part of the town itself, the contiguous civil parishes of Rodborough and Cainscross form part of Stroud's urban area and are generally recognised as suburbs. Stroud acts as a commercial centre for surrounding villages and market towns including Amberley, Gloucestershire, Amber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay Men
Gay men are male homosexuals. Some bisexual men, bisexual and homoromantic men may dually identify as ''gay'' and a number of gay men also identify as ''queer''. Historic terminology for gay men has included ''Sexual inversion (sexology), inverts'' and ''Uranian (sexology), uranians''. Gay men continue to face significant Discrimination against gay men, discrimination in LGBT rights by country or territory, large parts of the world, particularly in most of LGBT rights in Asia, Asia and LGBT rights in Africa, Africa. In the LGBT rights in the United States, United States and the western world, many gay men still experience discrimination in their daily lives, though some openly gay men have reached national success and prominence, including Apple Inc., Apple CEO Tim Cook and heads of state or government such as Edgars Rinkēvičs (president of Latvia since 2023). The word ''gay'' is recommended by LGBTQ groups and style guides to describe all people exclusively attracted to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deaths By Person In London
Death is the end of life; the Irreversible process, irreversible cessation of all biological process, biological functions that sustain a living organism. Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms. The remains of a former organism normally begin to Decomposition, decompose shortly after death. Some organisms, such as ''Turritopsis dohrnii'', are Biological immortality, biologically immortal; however, they can still die from means other than Senescence, aging. Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the equivalent for individual components of an organism, such as Cell (biology), cells or Tissue (biology), tissues, is necrosis. Something that is not considered an organism, such as a virus, can be physically destroyed but is not said ''to die'', as a virus is not considered alive in the first place. As of the early 21st century, 56 million people die per year. The most common reason is aging, followed by cardiovascular disease, which is a disease that af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violence Against LGBT People
LGBTQ people frequently experience violence directed toward their human sexuality, sexuality, gender identity, or gender expression. This violence may be enacted by the state, as in laws LGBTQ rights by country or territory, prescribing punishment for homosexual acts, or Gay bashing, by individuals. It may be psychological or physical and motivated by biphobia, gayphobia, homophobia, lesbophobia, aphobia, and transphobia. Influencing factors may be Societal attitudes toward homosexuality, cultural, religion and sexual orientation, religious, or political mores and biases. Currently, homosexual acts are LGBTQ rights by country or territory, legal in almost all Western countries, and in many of these countries violence against LGBTQ people is classified as a hate crime.Stotzer, R.:Comparison of love Crime Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups, Williams Institute, 2007–06. Retrieved on August 9, 2007. Outside the West, many countries are deemed potentially dangerous to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homophobia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, Gay men, gay or bisexual. It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred, or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear and may sometimes be attributed to religious beliefs.* * * * * Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and Violence against LGBTQ people, violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual. Recognized types of homophobia include ''institutionalized'' homophobia, e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia, and ''internalized'' homophobia, experienced by people who have same-sex attractions, regardless of how they identify. According to 2010 Hate Crimes Statistics released by the FBI National Press Office, 19.3 percent of hate crimes across the United States "were motivated by a sexual orientation bias." Moreover, in a Southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Paper
The ''Pink Paper'' was a UK publication covering gay and lesbian issues published by Millivres Prowler Limited. Founded in 1987 as a newspaper, it switched to internet-only publication in June 2009. The decision to go online-only was announced in June 2009 and attributed to economic conditions, and at the time management said a printed version might reappear in the future. A decision to close the website – again citing poor economic conditions – was taken in June 2012, with the site finally being shuttered in September 2012. The brand and assets remain in the ownership of Millivres Prowler. As a tabloid newspaper, it had a circulation of over 40,000 in Britain (2006). It was distributed free in bars, clubs, libraries, community centres, businesses and other places. ''Pink Paper'' had regional correspondents around the country who filed stories from their area. They also covered national news stories. Comment, lifestyle, culture, celebrity interviews and gossip, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
More4
More4 is a British free-to-air television channel, owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. The channel launched on 10 October 2005. Its programming mainly focuses on lifestyle and documentaries, as well as foreign dramas. Content The idea of a sister channel aimed at an older demographic than the youth oriented E4 with the More4 branding was first planned by Channel 4 back in 2003, although it in fact had grown out of an earlier idea which had been known as G4. Channel 4 had previously been planning a free-to-air youth channel before deciding on the More4 concept, as E4 was still a subscription channel at the time. More4 eventually launched on 10 October 2005. Its initial lineup included '' More4 News'', repeats of Channel 4 programmes such as ''Grand Designs'', ''Countdown'' and '' Deal or No Deal'' and American drama series such as '' ER'', ''The West Wing'' and ''The Sopranos'', which had previously been seen on E4, alongside Channel 4. More4 also broadcast the Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violence Against LGBT People
LGBTQ people frequently experience violence directed toward their human sexuality, sexuality, gender identity, or gender expression. This violence may be enacted by the state, as in laws LGBTQ rights by country or territory, prescribing punishment for homosexual acts, or Gay bashing, by individuals. It may be psychological or physical and motivated by biphobia, gayphobia, homophobia, lesbophobia, aphobia, and transphobia. Influencing factors may be Societal attitudes toward homosexuality, cultural, religion and sexual orientation, religious, or political mores and biases. Currently, homosexual acts are LGBTQ rights by country or territory, legal in almost all Western countries, and in many of these countries violence against LGBTQ people is classified as a hate crime.Stotzer, R.:Comparison of love Crime Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups, Williams Institute, 2007–06. Retrieved on August 9, 2007. Outside the West, many countries are deemed potentially dangerous to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Offences Act 1967
The Sexual Offences Act 1967 (c. 60) is an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It legalised homosexual acts in England and Wales, on the condition that they were consensual, in private and between two men who had attained the age of 21. The law was extended to Scotland by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 and to Northern Ireland by the Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982. Background Homosexual activity between men had been a criminal offence in England and Wales since the Middle Ages. Before the Reformation it was punished by ecclesiastical courts; the Buggery Act 1533 transferred the jurisdiction to the royal courts, with the penalties including death. With many revisions, this legislation remained in force until the enactment of the Offences Against the Person Act 1828, or " Lord Lansdowne's Act", which retained capital punishment as a possible sentence for the crime. The Victorian era saw the punishments shift to being more lenient but also more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leon
David Jeremy Leon (born 24 July 1980) is an English actor, director, writer and producer. As an actor, he is known for appearing in Rankin and Chris Cottam's 2002 feature film, ''Lives of the Saints'' (as the character Othello), and director Guy Ritchie's 2008 feature, ''RocknRolla'', as Malcolm. From 2011 to 2014, Leon co-starred with Brenda Blethyn in the ITV detective series ''Vera.'' He returned to the series in 2024. Leon's directorial debut, the 2010 short, ''Man and Boy'', co-directed with Marcus McSweeney, won the award for best narrative short at the Tribeca Film Festival. His next short film, the 2012 ''Orthodox'', an entry in the 58th BFI's London Film Festival, led to his first feature-length film of the same name, which was released in 2015. Early life and education Leon was born on 24 July 1980 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, where his mother, Ann J. Brown, was a secretary and his father, Anthony N. Leon, worked in a power station. He is Jewish on his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Shergold
Adrian Shergold (born 24 March 1948 in Croydon, Surrey) is a British film and television director. Selected filmography *'' Pierrepoint'' (2005) *'' Funny Cow'' (2017) *'' Cordelia'' (2019) *Denmark (2019) Selected television *'' Christabel'' (1988) *''Devil's Advocate'' (1995) *'' Holding On'' (1997) *'' Eureka Street'' (1999) *'' The Second Coming'' (2003) *'' Danielle Cable: Eyewitness'' (2003) *'' Dirty Filthy Love'' (2004) *''Ahead of the Class'' (2005) *''Persuasion'' (2007) *'' Clapham Junction'' (2007) *'' He Kills Coppers'' (2008) *'' Mad Dogs'' (2011) *''Vera'' (2011) *''Lucan'' (2013) *''My Mother and Other Strangers'' (2016) Selected theatre *''Chorus Girls ''Chorus Girls'' was a 1981 musical written by The Kinks lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies, who collaborated with ''The Long Good Friday'' screenwriter Barrie Keeffe.Kitts, Thomas M.. Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else'. N.p., Taylor & ...'' (1981) References British film directors Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Elyot
Kevin Elyot (18 July 1951 – 7 June 2014) was a British playwright, screenwriter and actor. His most notable works include the play '' My Night with Reg'' (1994) and the film '' Clapham Junction'' (2007). His stage work has been performed by leading theatre companies including the Royal Court, National Theatre, Bush Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse and in the West End. He finished his final play, ''Twilight Song'', not long before he died in 2014, which received a posthumous premiere at London's Park Theatre in 2017. Early life Kevin Elyot was born in the Birmingham suburb of Handsworth, West Midlands, England, on 18 July 1951. As a child he was a member of the Anglo-Catholic church of St Peter's choir, and studied the piano. He studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he acted the part of Desdemona, and sang in the third performance of Britten's " War Requiem". He also sang in the Birmingham Cathedral choir as a treble. As children he and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
