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DO you want to trek the Great Rift Valley in Africa? From June 11 until June 21, 2010, a group of budding explorers will be jetting to Africa to trek 100km through the Great Rift Valley, all in aid of The Blue Cross - Britain's pet charity.
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POPULAR '80s gay venue No. 1 Club is making a return to the city at the former site of One Central Street, bringing with it a raft of changes. Daniel Nolan looks at the finer points of the switcharound.
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ANDREW Gilliver talks to Craig Kelly and Antony Cotton about their time together on Queer As Folk, and now Coronation Street.
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THE Big Parade has been at the heart of Manchester Pride. This year's parade winds its flamboyant way through the city centre. Wayne Clews talks to photographer Ed Swinden about his new book, documenting the spectacle.
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A FAMILIAR figure on the news, Tatchell has attempted to arrest Robert Mugabe and, perhaps most famously, interrupted the Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter sermon in a bid to highlight what he saw as Dr Carey's discriminatory views towards gay people.
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Wayne Clews meets Chief Executive, Tim Sigsworth to discuss the charity's role in this year's Pride Festival and the new exhibition at Central Library featuring work by young people helped by AKT.
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Grahame Robertson talks to Adam Zane about the positive effect Queer As Folk has had on his life...
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GRAHAME Robertson talks to Manchester-based TV entrepreneur Nicola Shindler. Shindler’s production company Red was responsible for producing Queer As Folk. He asks her about the impact and influence of the show.
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MANCHESTER Pride will bring thousands to the city for 10 amazing days at the end of August. Managing the incredible mix of will be a young woman for whom a teenage visit to Manchester’s Gay Village was life-changing. Simon Donohue meets Jackie Crozier.
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VILLAGE FC's Jason McAuley tells CityLife about the club's summer signing spree and his drive to get gay players involved.
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AS the daughter of an avid rugby fan, I’ve been exposed to my fair share of matches, and let me tell you; it’s pretty brutal looking.
Anyone willing to risk injury for their love of the sport, though, should consider joining the Manchester Village Spartans, Manchester’s only gay rugby team.
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BENDY-LIMBED indie lot Friendly Fires pop in for a DJ set at HomoElectric on Friday. Promoter Bekki Lamb tells CityLife it's more than just a gay night.
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AS one of the country’s leading lesbian bars Vanilla heads towards its 10th year in business, proprietor Steph Kay is in a buoyant mood pleased to this day that her intimate bar space still can hold its own amongst many of the village’s bigger operators.
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THIS weekend is set to be a very exciting moment for those who appreciate the DIY aesthetic as the team behind Ladyfest Manchester put all their organisational skills to the test in a weekend of music, art, cinema and politics taking place at Hulme's Zion Centre.
And at a time when so much art an...
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WITH the gay village feeling the pinch, like everywhere else in the country, you would think that now wasn't the best time to invest in refurbishing a nightclub, would you? After all AXM's boarded up front looks pretty ominous. Pop and nightclub guru Nigel Martin Smith however feels differently ...
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Karen McDonald wrote: 3 months 2 weeks ago
Wonderful idea - pedestrians can enjoy all the delights of manchester's gay village without smelly vehicles polluting the area.
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