News you might have missed: June 2016

Ignoring the Brexit referendum and its fallout, there was a tiny bit of other news...

Here's the news you might have missed in June...

LGBT

Thousands attend Ukraine’s first major LGBT Pride event despite far-right threats of ‘rivers of blood’
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/06/12/thousands-attend-ukraines-first-major-lgbt-pride-event-despite-far-right-threats-of-rivers-of-blood/

There was some positive international LGBT news yesterday...

Honoured!

http://jenyockney.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/honoured.html

Thoroughly deserved recognition for Jen Yockney’s voluntary work for the bisexual community

Harry Potter fans recreate Dumbledore’s funeral in moving tribute to friend killed in Orlando

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/harry-potter-fans-recreate-dumbledores-funeral-moving-tribute-friend-killed-orlando/#gs.6y3PKMI

Moving

Kenya court rules that anal probe ‘gay tests’ are legal

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/06/16/kenya-court-rules-that-anal-probe-gay-tests-are-legal/

Without any scientific evidence

Education

Tuition fees blindness

http://stephentall.org/2016/06/02/tuition-fees-blindness/

I agree…

“So let’s ditch the sterile debate about tuition fees – it’s clear the present arrangement is working okay for 18 year-olds, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds – and instead focus on getting post-16 education right for the 53 per cent of 16 year-olds who don’t even start A-levels.”

Mock TEF results revealed: a new hierarchy emerges

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/mock-teaching-excellence-framework-tef-results-revealed-a-new-hierarchy-emerges

Go Coventry University – 6th!

Science & Technology

London Councils: NHS ‘stalling’ HIV prevention decision until drug patent expiry

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/06/01/london-councils-nhs-stalling-hiv-prevention-decision-until-drug-patent-expiry/

Sigh

And finally….

Honest Trailers - X-Men: The Animated Series - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8BobmZglOk&feature=share

Relive the 90s...

Brian Justin Crum sings Queen's Somebody to Love | Week 5 | America's Got Talent 2016 Full Auditions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2FMc8XdjQ

He’s definitely talented