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Marcin Bilaszewski, 19, is the eleventh teenager to die violently in London this year.The Polish national died protecting his girlfriend from a "drug-crazed stranger" on Saturday night.
His death follows that of 16-year-old Nick Pearton on Wednesday.
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a news compendium
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election special
||| "David Cameron is an idiot. A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddling idiot with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls. I don't like him. And I've got a terrible feeling he'll be prime minister one day. Brrr." Charlie Brooker, back in 2007.||| Who is bankrolling the Tories? The big secret: powerful Christian businessmen.
||| Cameron's Tories have given up on the gay vote.
||| So the Conservatives have changed, have they? Explain this, Mr Cameron: Rising Tory star Philippa Stroud ran prayer sessions to "cure" gay people. She founded a church that tried to drive out homosexuals' demons.
||| Turns out she can rebuke demons in French, too!
||| The mainstream media completely ignores the story. @TheoAdams on Twitter puts it best: "Gordon Brown calls ONE voter a bigot. Press goes MENTAL. #PhilippaStroudcalls MILLIONS of voters demons. Silence. Why?"
||| And why has David Cameron not taken a hardline and axed her from his supposedly new, improved Tories? Answer: see "Cameron's Tories have given up on the gay vote."
||| In fact, Cameron actually says, "She believes in gay equality." What? WHAT?!
||| Post-election, Stroud loses her Tory seat to Liberal Democrat rival. Aww... ain't that a shame.
||| Sadly, two homophobic Conservative MPs, retained their seats.
||| Major parties scramble for "pink vote" in radio debate.
||| HIV is not a gay disease: Tory MP Julian Lewis's comments are out of date – new diagnoses in the past decade have mostly been among heterosexuals.
||| Conservative MP: Gay age of consent should not have been lowered. David Cameron's Tories maintain their position on fighting gay equality.
||| Conservative MP: "Homosexuality is not 'normal behaviour'."
|||Shameful Tory spin sought to hide the truth about the Conservative's alliance with the homophobic, right-wing Polish Law and Justice party.
||| Gays, Tories and the Polish Law and Justice party: An inconvenient truth that won't go away as election day approaches.
||| The Tories and radical populism: "The Tories are seeking to appease anti-foreigner feeling with language on immigrants that they would not tolerate if applied to British citizens living and working abroad."
||| Tory homophobia cannot be put to bed: Chris Grayling was a disgraceful reminder of what many leading Tories really believe.
||| Tory gay support plummets.
||| PinkPaper interviews Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks about tackling homophobic bullying in schools and challenging the Pope on gay issues. Video.
||| Labour has left an indelible mark on British culture, writes Gary Younge in The Guardian. "Especially on gay rights and race, Labour has helped transform Britain into a much less parochial country than 13 years ago."
||| What we'll lose if we reject Labour.
||| Cameron's Tories have given up on the gay vote.
||| So the Conservatives have changed, have they? Explain this, Mr Cameron: Rising Tory star Philippa Stroud ran prayer sessions to "cure" gay people. She founded a church that tried to drive out homosexuals' demons.
||| Turns out she can rebuke demons in French, too!
||| The mainstream media completely ignores the story. @TheoAdams on Twitter puts it best: "Gordon Brown calls ONE voter a bigot. Press goes MENTAL. #PhilippaStroudcalls MILLIONS of voters demons. Silence. Why?"
||| And why has David Cameron not taken a hardline and axed her from his supposedly new, improved Tories? Answer: see "Cameron's Tories have given up on the gay vote."||| In fact, Cameron actually says, "She believes in gay equality." What? WHAT?!
||| Post-election, Stroud loses her Tory seat to Liberal Democrat rival. Aww... ain't that a shame.
||| Sadly, two homophobic Conservative MPs, retained their seats.
||| Major parties scramble for "pink vote" in radio debate.
||| HIV is not a gay disease: Tory MP Julian Lewis's comments are out of date – new diagnoses in the past decade have mostly been among heterosexuals.
||| Conservative MP: Gay age of consent should not have been lowered. David Cameron's Tories maintain their position on fighting gay equality.||| Conservative MP: "Homosexuality is not 'normal behaviour'."
|||Shameful Tory spin sought to hide the truth about the Conservative's alliance with the homophobic, right-wing Polish Law and Justice party.
||| Gays, Tories and the Polish Law and Justice party: An inconvenient truth that won't go away as election day approaches.
||| The Tories and radical populism: "The Tories are seeking to appease anti-foreigner feeling with language on immigrants that they would not tolerate if applied to British citizens living and working abroad."
||| Tory homophobia cannot be put to bed: Chris Grayling was a disgraceful reminder of what many leading Tories really believe.
||| Tory gay support plummets.
||| PinkPaper interviews Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks about tackling homophobic bullying in schools and challenging the Pope on gay issues. Video.
||| Labour has left an indelible mark on British culture, writes Gary Younge in The Guardian. "Especially on gay rights and race, Labour has helped transform Britain into a much less parochial country than 13 years ago."
||| What we'll lose if we reject Labour.
||| READ THE PREVIOUS ELECTION EDITION
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"You know, we might just as well not have bothered to come.
The whole thing's been ridiculous."
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16-year-old Nick Pearton has become the latest teenage victim of violence in London.
He was stabbed after being lured to a park in Sydenham, South London, in retaliation for an earlier gang attack.
Police deny the stabbing was racially motivated; London's street gangs are multiracial and organised around schools, housing estates and postcodes, rather than ethnicity.
He was stabbed after being lured to a park in Sydenham, South London, in retaliation for an earlier gang attack.
Police deny the stabbing was racially motivated; London's street gangs are multiracial and organised around schools, housing estates and postcodes, rather than ethnicity.
Queer Kids
"It's hard to believe that when I began this project in 2006 the issue of gay youth was just beginning to gain national attention, most notably with a cover story in Time Magazine titled 'The Battle Over Gay Teens' (Oct. 2005). The article stated 'Kids are disclosing their homosexuality with unprecedented regularity - and they are doing so much younger. The average gay person now comes out just before or after graduating high school. In 1997 there were approximately 100 gay-straight alliances (GSAs) - clubs for gay and gay-friendly kids - on U.S. high school campuses. Today there are at least 3,000 GSAs - nearly 1 in 10 high schools has one. In the 2004-05 academic year, GSAs were established at U.S. schools at the rate of three per day.'
Since then, in just four years, the issue has become a kind of fait accompli. Americans may continue to argue about teenage sexual expression, school sanctioned GSAs and gay marriage, but clearly all are here to stay.
The idea for this project arose from my own desire as a gay teenager to be given a voice. I desperately wanted to be made valid in the eyes of my peers. Coming out (and of age) in the 80's proved to be quite difficult for me and many others. I'll never forget being beat-up by a high-school classmate as I'm sure all the other kids who suffered because of their sexuality will not forget. It was precisely this kind of willful, painful defiance that I wanted to capture in these portraits. But what you may also see is the delight that is the domain of a new generation... the sheer joy of being able to stand up and be seen without shame."
M. Sharkey, Brooklyn, April 2010
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