Cornwall LGBT Gay Tourist holiday accommodation guide

Cornwall LGBT Gay Tourist holiday accommodation guide

LGBT visitors planning to visit Cornwall, UK should really acquaint themselves with the realities of Cornish attitudes towards lgbt gay persons.

Jamaica, Gambia & Cornwall, in UK were three holiday destinations given last year 2008 on an American website to avoid if lgbt gay!

The hostile homophobic attitude of authorities in Jamaica & Gambia, are well known. As are a number of Islamic countries towards gays, but Cornwall in the United Kingdom is part of Britain, in the United Kingdom.

Part of Britain it may be, but Cornwall authorities attitudes towards gay people remains firmly entrenched in the medieval ‘Dark Ages’.

It's not that many years ago I received on Westcountry television, a televised apology from the various English, Westcountry & Cornish tourist boards on behalf of two Spanish gay men for the disgusting homophobic treatment they received from a hotel in Falmouth. That was back in the 1990’s, so what’s the score towards lgbt gays now in 2009?

http://pinkpasty.blogspot.com/2009/03/cornish-hotel-bans-gay-tourists.html


A Gay Holiday in Cornwall,… but why would you want too?

The American Gay Holiday industry is worth Billions of Dollars, as indeed are the European gay destinations worth millions of Euros, but in Cornwall...what should the gay holiday visitor expect?

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/newquay/article-202238-details/article.html


Cornwall is a traditional UK holiday tourist destination & has a great deal to offer. It is beautiful, the coastline is stunning, be it flooded river valleys of the south coast or the rugged cliffs of the North Coast. The world famous Eden project, & National Trust property galore

But, is it a ‘gay’ holiday destination?

Without question, there are reputedly some excellent gay run & gay friendly hotel & guesthouse accommodation available the length & breadth of Cornwall, not to mention self-catering options & even what believed to be the only exclusive LGBT campsite in Britain.

http://www.outintheopen.co.uk/index.html.html


But, is Cornwall a safe ‘gay’ holiday destination?

Ah! Anyone misguidedly coming to Cornwall looking for a relaxed Gran Caneria or Stiges style gay holiday is going to be very disappointed. Not to mention that nude sun bathing even on Cornwall’s most secluded of beaches & traditional nudist spots have been a particular target of the voracious neo-nazi anti-gay police in Cornwall in recent years.
http://www.nudecornwall.co.uk/page8.html

There is NO single greater risk to a gay person in Cornwall than that of the homophobic attitudes & practises hardwired into the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary AGAINST gay people.

European member state visitors to Cornwall could get a nasty shock at the hostility towards beach nudity, often the acceptable norm on many Continental beaches.

However, a lone male sunbather in Cornwall could quite easily end up with a police caution… for being just that, ‘a lone male, sunbathing’. They do not even have to be naked, just at the ‘wrong’ sand dunes! It’s happened!

Then there is the nightlife….Errr, well the only gay nightclub in the whole of the over 100 mile length of Cornwall…has closed. Any gay listing with the Eclipse Nightclub is well out of date! Nearest gay nightclub to Penzance….is in Plymouth, in Devon, a round trip of around 250 miles.

There are a couple of small lgbt bars, one in the city of Truro, another in Newquay (Opps, soz, the Newquay one closed, according to the owner due to local Cornish homophobia) & a Sunday gay night in Penzance.

Now bearing in mind that Cornwall has the least ethnic diversity population of any United Kingdom county, it is not exactly multi-cultural. You can still go into practically any Cornish pub and hear from some locals’ complete condemnation of persons of different ethnic origin, in particular those of an Asian hue. This racism generally coming from people who have never actually spoken with a person of differing colour…in their life!
http://pinkpasty.blogspot.com/2009/01/trust-help-to-expose-police-gay.html


Strangely, gay people are sometimes tolerated in Cornwall…as long as they know their social place and DO NOT expect to be treated equally…. And that’s the Cornwall Criminal Justice service stance, which has yet to grasp the concept that homosexuality was de-criminalised 40yrs ago & that an equal age of consent for both gay men & heterosexuals came into effect 1st Jan 2001…not 1st May 2004 as implied by a Cornwall Crown Court Judge Rucker.

Oh, don’t expect the Cornwall police to take too much notice of the Human Rights Act either. In particular Article 14 which prohibits discrimination based on sex or sexuality if in conjunction with any of the other Human Rights absolute Article Rights… like Article 10, the Freedom of Expression, including through Art, but the Cornwall police have a particular problem with expression of Male nudity through Art…as has happened in Cornwall.

The Intercom Trust recently banned inclusion of the iconic artwork of Cornwall artist Henry Scott Tuke from inclusion in an LGBT project for Cornwall .
http://current.com/items/89761781/sir_elton_john_collects_child_porn.htm


The Cornwall police have a real problem with homosexuality…this is the bitter experience of a considerable number of gay persons who have taken the trouble to put pen to paper. Others have simply moved out of the county.

So as a gay tourist, what if you encounter public homophobia in Cornwall… well tourists should not think of Cornwall, as visiting another part of the United Kingdom.

Remember, Cornwall has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the UK. The UK has the highest pregnancy rate in Europe. Education in Cornwall, well, taking appropriate sexual protection in Cornwall means using a ‘bus shelter’. We still have a County Council which actively opposes sexual health education, including around issues of HIV, despite St. Ives in Cornwall having been an HIV hotspot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/may/06/health.aids

Think of it more as visiting a primitive third world developing country, where your sexuality may not be locally culturally acceptable to those in authority & power, very much along the lines of Jamaica or Gambia. You most certainly CANNOT rely on Cornwall police in general to take either a homophobic assault seriously in Cornwall, or to act with honesty, integrity, or impartiality towards you as a gay person.

Some gay local people experience of homophobic assault or abuse…is that Cornwall police WILL compound the violation & trauma for the gay victim. It could be said Cornwall, UK is to gays, as Alabama is to black Afro-Americans. Cornwall police are most certainly NOT like police in more gay equality enlightened parts of the British Isles:-

For example:-

# If you have ‘blue hair’ (ie: your appearance is different to that of the locals) you can expect to be detained in a Chapel of worship, partially strip searched, sworn at, your belongings gone through, and then dragged off to local retailers to see if you’ve nicked anything…and when the shop keepers ESTABLISH that you are NOT the person reported for stealing an item. told to ‘F*ck Off’ by the police….well, that’s how local Cornwall police have treated one gay youth!
PC Alexander & colleague of Helston responsible for the abuse

# If you have been bottled over the head, kicked in the head, face, stomach & ribs along with another gay person also assaulted and report it as a ‘Homophobic assault’, as happened in Helston, the reaction you can expect from Cornwall police is…and I quote because I was there…”Shut up, be quiet, you don’t want to be saying that” . The police even threatened the following day to prosecute one of the gay victims if the other victim pursued their complaint of assault. So much for the ‘True Vision’ policy on homophobic hate crime, which Cornwall police are supposed to have signed up too! It’s not worth Jack Schit west of the river Tamar, in particular at all at the two primary rats nests of Cornwall police homophobia, Camborne & Helston police stations.
X3 Helston police officers responsible for the abuse

# If someone spreads a rumour that you as a gay person have HIV/AIDS (even if you can prove you do not with a letter from the GU Clinic…and the same abusive person screams homophobic insults in the street in front of witnesses…that, according to Cornwall police (in writing) is not harassment & is not homophobic!
Inspector Mark Bolt (now of Camborne) responsible for the abuse.

# An act of homophobia in Cornwall presumably has to result in a gay corpse for Cornwall police to begin to take seriously…well that’s happened as well…and the homophobic Cornwall police cocked that up as well.

# If you do happen to be taking part equally in lawful activity along with others, but you are the only ‘out’ gay person…Cornwall police will arrest the only ‘out’ gay person… it’s happened more than once…and they, the police, will, ignore physical material evidence, ignore witnesses, intimidate gay/bisexual witnesses, misinform, lie & generally violate & abuse the life of a gay person…we know because its happened in Cornwall
DC Parker responsible for abuse, along with DC Scott & DC Anning

# If you are unfortunate enough to be subjected to threats or intimidation, it is probably best NOT to let Cornwall police know if any of your witnesses are gay…as Cornwall police will REFUSE to take a statement from them…as happened in an attempted extortion case in Cornwall.
Sergeant Rowe of Helston responsible for the abuse

# Now I know this is about visiting Cornwall, but if you are a gay business person & employer in Cornwall and take the health of your staff seriously, be warned…allowing 16/17 yr old student employees time off to attend a GU Clinic for professional sexual health advice & inoculations against Hepatitis….is considered by Cornwall police, as “Sexual Grooming”… and they will seriously attempt to prosecute you, as has happened in Cornwall!
Abuse by DC Scott again

# Likewise, please do leave your entirely legal ‘porn’??? collection at home…
This means do not bring into Cornwall copies of “Too Wong Fu “, “Priscilla Queen of the Dessert”, Tootsie’ or “the Birdcage”…we say this as when the film “The Birdcage”, starring Gene Hackman & Robin Williams, a 15 certificate comedy, was shown to 16/17yr old students on a rainy day…it was deemed as “Sexual Grooming” by Cornwall police!
Abuse by DC Scott again

Ok, there is a lot, lot, more examples we could give of homophobic attitudes of the Cornwall police, like the disbanding of the Cornwall LGBT Gay PRIDE Beach Day steering group, who organised a FAB Gay Beach Day in 2007, but due to Cornwall police pressure & intimidation, the steering group disbanded out of fears of yet further police reprisals & intimidation against its LGBT members.
This abuse down to DC Parker & lies told by a Devon & Cornwall Constabulary diversity officer

Unfortunately, the gay population is so scattered & isolated. An organisation in Devon which boasts of having received over £370,000 in funding to assist lgbt persons, …has repeatedly turned its back on gay people abused & subjected to institutional homophobia in Cornwall. The Intercom Trust is NO FRIEND of LGBT persons in Cornwall. Intercom Trust is the same organisation which has attacked the art of Cornwall artist Henry Scott Tuke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se7uBHikzWI


It is important that gay visitors to Cornwall are aware that Cornwall is a primitive backwater, where change takes far longer to filter through and equality for gay people is still very much a foreign perception to many working within the institutions of Cornwall

In particular Cornwall has a deeply homophobic local police force under the blinkered command of Chief Constable Steven Ottter (who refuses to respond to emails on issues regarding homophobia within his police force).
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/complaints_and_investigations_of#comment-1851


So Gay Tourist beware! It would be irresponsible NOT to warn lgbt gay tourists coming from more equality enlightened parts of the UK or further, as to the serious risk of potential abuse of them as a gay persons by the entrenched homophobic attitudes within & throughout the authorities in Cornwall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEgZED9fYMA


So we have illustrated Cornwall is no San Francisco centre of gay culture & lifestyle. The institutions of Cornwall are…to say the very least …a little backward even in keeping up with laws they are supposed to have embraced…like protection & care of homeless children under the age of 16yrs old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr7eGX-Rux0


Ah! But a homeless 15yrs old gay youth in Cornwall, who was living rough on the streets of Helston Cornwall for two months with the FULL KNOWLEDGE of police, social services, education & youth services…and Cornish authorities did NOTHING! “Duty of Care”, “Neglect & Abandonment” means very, very little in Cornwall. In particular to the local Cornish authorities at County Hall Truro, when it comes to misconduct by police & social services through their prejudicial & homophobic treatment of gay youth.

So why would a gay person choose to come on holiday to Cornwall?

That is a very good question, unless of course you like living on the edge, visiting areas of the world where gay sexuality is still actively discriminated against by local authorities and officials…in particular by Cornwall police! Apart from that, it is an excellent holiday location.

That is if you ignore the high level of gay male suicides in Cornwall. At least Four gay male suicides in Cornwall 2008 last year, with witness testimony at one coroner inquest in Cornwall that ‘homophobia’ was the root cause…and another had direct police involvement prior to the gay man taking his own life….then after his funeral, Cornwall police even tried (in writing) to prosecute the dead mans corpse…nice people the Cornwall police! NOT!

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8772.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90e1MuGsx7A


Although as one gay person born and brought up in Cornwall, now living MORE SAFELY in Brighton, put it…’Cornwall, I want to go back there to die’, which just about sums Cornwall in 2009 up under the current Chief Constable & Cornwall County Council

…if your ‘gay’, Cornwall is a good & likely place to die.

However, A Gay Holiday in Cornwall, UK ….Why would you want too???

NOT SO...Healthy Gay Cornwall

The NOT SO..Healthy Gay Cornwall logo

Last year there were at least FOUR known gay male suicides in Cornwall and a number of other unrelated attempted suicides by other gay men living in Cornwall. Several of these with KNOWN direct links to Cornwall police conduct towards gay men. I myself attended the funeral of one 49yr old gay male friend in December who had committed suicide following police involvement in his life.

This then followed…

LGBT mental health conference in Cornwall
Date: 12 Mar 2009
‘Improving the mental health and well-being of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans communities in Cornwall’

This was the title of a conference held at Truro County Hall, Cornwall on 24th February 2009. Sara Roberts (Associate Director of Public Health, NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly) is writing the Suicide Reduction Strategy for the county in partnership with local agencies. The day’s events aimed to inform the strategy and alert associated partners to the issues facing the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans population that they are delivering services to.
Around 90 people attended the one-day event that had workshops and presentations. The attendees were drawn form a hugely diverse set of agencies, organisations and individuals to spread the message and provoke as much debate as possible. Diversity Officer Steve Cannon said ‘Services need to become more aware of the needs of the LGBT communities and the extra stresses and strains the communities face. Events such as this, LGBT history month activities and Pride events in the South West are increasing LGBT visibility and enable the communities to have a greater say in service delivery.

What a pile of lies & crock of bullsh*t the above conference was when those gay men with experience of having been driven to attempted suicide by the direct consequence of homophobic attitudes & practises of Cornwall police officers (We can provide a list of the Cornwall police officers responsible for abuse & intimidation), Cornwall Health Authority & other discriminatory institutions in Cornwall were excluded from the conference.

Then this week Lynda Quee of Cornwall Health Promotion, in charge of Healthy Gay Cornwall POINT BLANK refused a gay man (who is in receipt of ‘Incapacity Benefit’, house bound due to AGROPHOBIA & following two suicide attempts as a DIRECT RESULT of homophobic Cornwall police conduct) was refused access to the services of the Healthy Gay Cornwall project.

The Face to Face project is seemingly only open to those gay men in Cornwall who have not experienced homophobia, in particular the now well known Cornish brand of Institutional homophobia meeted out by Cornwall police force & some within the Health Authority & other institutions in Cornwall

A formal complaint has been made to the Health Care Commission regarding the above, but this is typical of the still entrenched homophobic attitudes & failure to understand the impact & affect of discriminatary authorities in Cornwall.

Cornish Christian's Ban Gay Tourists from Hotel

The Hotel at Marizion which has banned a gay couple who are in a civil partnership

Cornish christians ban gay couple from hotel (see article)
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11707.html

Being gay & living in Cornwall, I do need advice from the Bull’s,who own a guesthouse at Marizion in Cornwall and recently banned a gay couple who are in a civil partnership from staying at their hotel, despite accepting the booking. pErhaps the Bull's could give advice regarding biblical laws and how best to follow them, them being such good Cornish christians in opposition to equality for gay people.

1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odour for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is Kerrier Environmental Health Department. They may claim the odour is not pleasing & an environmental health hazard. I could be fined. How should I deal with this?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in the Bible (Exod. 21:7). In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her and where would I find my nearest Bible recommended slave market in Cornwall?
Is it now at the Truro cattle market?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell?
I have tried asking, but most Cornish women seem to take offence.
4. The Bible also states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us (Lev. 25:44). A friend of mine claims that being in Cornwall this applies to our near neighbours the Spanish but not the English. Can you clarify the Bible stance?
5. I have a neighbour who insists on working on the Sabbath. The Bible clearly states he should be put to death (Exod. 35:2). Am I morally obligated to kill him myself and can I use a twelve bore?
6. My friend practices the Wiccan Pagan religion. Since the Bible states that he must be put to death (Exodus 22:18 ), am I morally obligated to kill him as well?
7. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree and Cornish Oyster fishermen in the Falmouth Estuary might have something to say on this. Can you settle this?
8. The Bible states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight (Lev. 21:21-23). I have to admit that I wear prescription glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here if I go to Specsave and get new glasses or contact lenses?
9. I’m thinking of booking a holiday on the island of Crete, but the Bible states that people from the island of Crete are liars and lazy (Titus 1:12). Should I reconsider a holiday there?
10. I read Amnesty International is in Thailand protesting the selling of under-aged girls into slavery and prostitution. Should I write my Cornish Member of Parliament and request that we encourage these young girls to obey their masters as it states in the Bible (Eph. 6:5)?
11. Should I have the foreskin of my penis cut off?
The Bible commands that all men must do this (Exod. 12:48 ). I would have my doctor do it but I think I can save some money by doing it myself. Any ideas on how best to do it?
12. At my local church, some women lead a Bible study. What is the best way to tell them to shut up?
We must not have women speaking in church when the Bible forbids them to (1 Timothy 2:12).
13. I notice many women in church wear jewellery. Since women are forbidden to wear jewellery (1 Peter 3:3) what is the best way to tell them God is going to torture them in hell for eternity for doing so?
14. I want to obey the Bible and greet all the women at the local church with a kiss (2 Thess. 1:26). Why do I get strange looks from them when I do - especially from their husbands?
What about French kissing?
15. Recently, I have considered asking several women at my church to marry me since it is permissible for a man to have many wives (1 Kings 11:3). Why am I continually rejected?
16. I suppose I will not get married since the Bible states that men should not marry (1 Cor. 7:1). What do you suggest?
17. There are many unbelievers where I work and because we are forbidden to associate with them (1 Cor. 4:11). I am wondering how best to tell them to keep away from me, difficult since one is my boss.
18. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden (Lev 19:27.) How should they die?
19. I know (Lev 11:6-8) that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play Cornish rugby if I wear gloves?
20. My uncle has a farm. He violates God’s word (Lev 19:19) by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town of Helston together to stone them? (Lev 24:10-16) Couldn’t we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

Thank you again Mr & Mrs Bull for reminding us what the Bible says about homosexuality, your opposition to legal protection of gay people on religious grounds.

Hugz x

Pink Pasty

Cornish Hotel BANS gay tourists!

Cornish Hotel BANS gay tourists!

Like this blatant homophobia in Cornwall should come as any surprise given the continuing homophobic & backward stance of so many Cornish businesses & authorities in Cornwall against gay people?

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11707.html

From Pink News 23rd March

A gay couple are suing after a Christian-run hotel in Cornwall barred them from staying in a room together.

Martin Hall and Steven Paddy, who are civil partners, have launched a county court claim seeking up to £5,000 in damages alleging "direct discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation".

They booked the room in November but were told on arrival that the hotel could not honour the booking.

Hotel owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull have defended the ban, saying that they have always barred unmarried couples, whether gay or straight, from sharing a bed at the Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion near Penzance.

They state on the hotel's website: "We have few rules but please note that out of a deep regard for marriage we prefer to let double accommodation to heterosexual married couples only."

In August, the Bulls received a letter from Stonewall citing a complaint and warning them their marriage policy was breaking the law.

Mrs Bull said: "In 26 years we have never really had a problem with it. I have found people to be very good and understanding. They realise that they are pursuing one lifestyle while we are pursuing another.

"I suppose we knew there would be problems with the new law, but I can't change my beliefs and faith because of that."
The Bulls' solicitor, Tom Ellis, said he will argue that the Equality Act infringes their human rights as Christians.

He said: "Under the European Convention on Human Rights, people are able to hold a religious belief and manifest it in the way they act."

Homophobic Cornish Charity & reporting to Cornwall Police

(Example of just a tiny fraction of contents worked on, on behalf of a Cornwall based Charitable Trust subsequently involved in two reported incidents of Homophobia to police)



Last week (18th March) I had cause to give a witness statement to Cornwall police of a ‘Homophobic Incident’ & possible criminal fraud.

The complaint was the second homophobic incident complaint (to my knowledge) made against the same Cornwall based Charitable Trust. The complaint was also made to the Charities Commission (who don’t want to know about homophobic conduct of registered charities) & the Equalities & Human Rights Commission (who though expressed there were grounds for legal action against the Charitable Trust , EHRC do not assist people who are homophobically abused).

Basically, despite what many may naively think, gay people in the UK continue to be just as vulnerable to homophobic institutional abuse & intimidation as we have always been.

There is no protection.

There seems little doubt I have overwhelming evidence (some provided by a firm of solicitors involved) of discrimination, but as a gay person to expect to receive justice, as a gay person through the civil judiciary in Cornwall would be extremely stupid & naive. Cornwall, this is the institutional primitive & backward region of the UK.

As Alabama is to Afro-American justice, Cornwall is to Gay Justice.

Cornwall remains a backwater of judicial homophobic discrimination as was clearly demonstrated by Crown Court Judge Rucker when he incorrectly indicated that public assistance given to a homeless gay youth was ‘grossly irresponsible’, and the Judge was ignorant of the law of age of consent which was equalised in Jan 2001 & not May 2004 as indicated by the ignorant Judge. The judge also condemned twenty years of campaigning for gay equality & HIV/AIDS care, treatment & prevention as “ Evangelical Proselytising”.

Just how much more HOMOPHOBIC could the Cornwall judiciary get?

Still knowing I may have to take legal action to recover the thousands of pounds owed by the Charitable Trust concerned. I went through the motions of reporting the incident to the police.

As a gay person do I trust the police in Cornwall?
NO!
As a gay person do I believe the Cornwall police to be honest & impartial?
NO!
As a gay person do I believe Cornwall police to be sincere, act with integrity & transparency of conduct?
Good God, NO!…but I went through the motions anyway.

DC Exelby & DC Harvey came out and took away my written statement.

Given my prior experience of their colleagues in the Cornwall police homophobically motivated dishonesty & prejudice, I had arranged for another adult witness to be present. I really DO NOT TRUST police in Cornwall.

Part of my written statement provided to the police read as follows:-

“My name is Malcolm ******** Lidbury.
I reside at the above address & I self identify as being a gay man.
Since 2004 I have been subjected to a prolonged campaign of violating & abusive homophobic practises & attitudes carried out by various named and/or identifiable Devon & Cornwall police officers.
(IPCC 2004 & IPCC 2006, plus further unresolved un-investigated complaints against homophobic practises & abusive affects carried out by Cornwall police officers)
This homophobically motivated police misconduct has had a severe detrimental & abusive impact & trauma upon my life, my family & that of others of my acquaintance. This Cornwall police homophobic abuse led directly to the collapse of both of my prior businesses in 2007 and my attempted suicide.”

“I now receive incapacity benefit for “Anxiety & Depression” specifically because of continued (& un-investigated) Cornwall police homophobic violations, dishonesty, corruption & abuses carried out by previously named and/or identifiable Cornwall police officer instigated abuses against me as a gay person since 2004.”

Further, on in the written statement given to these two police officers I state…

“This work was in effect my trying to renter employment following years of systematic homophobic Cornwall police abuse & intimidation that lead directly to the collapse in 2007 of my prior successful business interests & my subsequent homophobic police instigated attempted suicide. There remain in my personal experience serious & sinister homophobic practises & abusive homophobic attitudes embedded & protected within & throughout Devon & Cornwall Constabulary as an organisation.”

Now, despite having given to these two police officers this statement, in which I clearly indicate, allegation of homophobic conduct by their police colleagues…Do I expect anything to be done?

No!

Do I expect this statement, along with previous statements of Cornwall police abuses & homophobic conduct to be buried?

Yes!

Due to the continuance of the homophobic Cornwall police vendetta I live in perpetual fear of further Cornwall police abuse in common with that I have already experienced. Perpetual fear, yes, but I continue to speak out the truth of the homophobic abuse culture operated & protected within & by the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary.

This homophobic abuse hard wired into Devon & Cornwall constabulary homophobic attitudes & practises against gay people. This abuse protected throughout by senior rank & abusive homophobic conduct ignored right up to the Chief Constable Steven Otter.

I no longer drive & do not leave my home alone without a witness, such has been my experience of repeated Cornwall police dishonesty, corruption & homophobically motivated abuse of myself as a gay person and others carried out in combination & contribution by the following dishonest Cornwall police officers:-

DC Woods (retired)
DC Scott
DC Anning
DC Parker
DC Crowe
DS Beckerlegge
Insp, Bolt
Insp. Eastern
PC Treloar
PC Fuller
PC Alexander & colleague
PC Tar & colleague
X3 Police officers on duty Flora Day, Helston, 2006
Diversity Officer
Sgt. Rowe
Various custody officers at Camborne police station

The above list is not by any means a complete or exhaustive list due to the refusal by Cornwall police to release the names & rank of other Cornwall police officers directly involved in the catalogue of police homophobic motivated abuses, and their abusive impact & affect upon gay persons.

Dear reader, please remember that despite having my home raided twice, my being arrested twice, numerous other incidents of police intimidation, abuse & harassment, un-logged visits & vehicle stops over the past five years, which specifically & directly drove me by police conduct to two attempted suicides.

Human Rights Act:- A law must be clearly defined so that a person can regulate their behaviour to stay within the law.

THE FACT that I had regulated my behaviour & had stayed within the law as a gay person, just did not sit well with the homophobes within the Cornwall police rank & file, who dislike laws of equality, dislike gay human rights & will go to any lengths to in my experience to abuse gay people. At least in combination the above list of police officers will.

(NB: There were at least FOUR known gay male suicides & several separate unconnected attempted gay male suicides in Cornwall in 2008, some with direct prior to death, Cornwall police involvement)

…I have NOT been criminally charged, criminally prosecuted or criminally convicted of any offence relating to the false, malicious & homophobically motivated allegations made against me in the past five years, which initiated this Cornwall police homophobic witch-hunt against me since 2004. This is a FACT, contrary to the misinformation & sometimes-blatant lies put out by some police officers & some misinformed & malicious gay people in Cornwall

The purpose of the prolonged vendetta & homophobic attitudes & practises carried out by Cornwall police officers is and has been to discredit me as a OPEN campaigner on gay equality & HIV/AIDS issues, and a public critic of the catalogue of protected homophobic practises & abuses of gay persons by Devon & Cornwall Constabulary over the past twenty years.

As long as ANY of the above are serving Cornwall police officers, I know gay people will continue to be at genuine severe risk of further abuse & violation of their lives homophobically by their police motivated abusive practises & attitudes against gay persons still protected within the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary by senior rank..

Outcome…the Cornwall Charitable Trust will probably & inevitably get away with the discrimination against myself and two other gay persons. However, in the process of my gathering evidence I did discover several other organisations, businesses & individuals also encountering problems with the same Cornwall based Charitable Trust….like the charity commission gives a toss!!!

Outcome…the probability of Cornwall police once again burying notification of homophobic practises of their protected homophobic police officers. Inevitable with this CORRUPT Devon & Cornwall Police force.

Reporting a homophobic incident to Cornwall police MAY be the right thing to do…but as I know through previous experience of police officer Sgt. Rowe of Helston, reporting a crime carried out against you as a gay person in Cornwall is generally not worth the backlash of homophobically motivated & targeted police abuse against you by police officers like Rowe following reporting an incident.

As to the thousands of pounds the Cornwall based Charitable Trust owes me

….at the time of writing… I’m still waiting!

Survey reveals DEEPLY ALARMING homophobia in schools

A survey of UK teachers has found a "deeply alarming" amount of homophobia in schools.

The report, released today by Stonewall, is the largest ever survey of both primary and secondary school teachers on the issue of homophobic bullying.

According to the research, titled The Teachers' Report, more than 150,000 pupils are affected by anti-gay bullying, with boys who work hard, girls who play sport, young people with gay parents, and young people who are thought to be gay all suffering from name-calling and abuse.

Nine in ten secondary school teachers and two in five primary school teachers said pupils experience homophobic bullying, even if they are not gay.

Teachers reported that homophobic bullying was the most prevalent form of bullying after bullying because of weight, coming above racism.

Pupils suspected to be gay and boys perceived to act or dress in a feminine way were most likely to suffer abuse, followed by pupils who are openly gay.

Only two in five secondary school teachers and less than half of primary school teachers said their headteacher demonstrates a clear leadership role when it comes to tackling homophobic bullying.

Two-thirds of secondary school staff and three in four primary school staff blamed homophobic language on television for the frequency of homophobic language and homophobic bullying in schools.

Nine in ten teachers say they have never received training about homophobic bullying.

However, the survey did have some positive findings.

Three in five secondary school teachers and a quarter of primary school teachers said they had addressed sexual orientation in the classroom and ninety-five per cent say they would do so again.

Many teachers reported hearing the word 'gay' being used in a derogatory way in classrooms and using this to begin a debate about the use of the word, comparing it to racism.

One teacher said: "If pupils express misunderstanding about what it means to be gay, or show an anti-gay attitude, I confront the issue directly with the whole class so that it removes any mystery or secrecy."

Those teaching subjects such as English, drama or film studies also reported being able to address the issue in a positive way through texts studied.

Ben Summerskill, Stonewall chief executive, said: "This survey reveals how much remains to be done by our schools to demonstrate to all pupils that homophobic bullying is unacceptable.

"In July last year, 18-year-old Michael Causer from Liverpool was kicked to death by a young man shouting homophobic abuse.

"That young man had not been educated in the 1970s, or the 1980s, or the 1990s. He attended a British secondary school during the last five years. Teachers need support to ensure this tragedy does not happen again."

A survey of UK teachers has found a "deeply alarming" amount of homophobia in schools.

The report, released today by Stonewall, is the largest ever survey of both primary and secondary school teachers on the issue of homophobic bullying.

According to the research, titled The Teachers' Report, more than 150,000 pupils are affected by anti-gay bullying, with boys who work hard, girls who play sport, young people with gay parents, and young people who are thought to be gay all suffering from name-calling and abuse.

Nine in ten secondary school teachers and two in five primary school teachers said pupils experience homophobic bullying, even if they are not gay.

Teachers reported that homophobic bullying was the most prevalent form of bullying after bullying because of weight, coming above racism.

Pupils suspected to be gay and boys perceived to act or dress in a feminine way were most likely to suffer abuse, followed by pupils who are openly gay.

Only two in five secondary school teachers and less than half of primary school teachers said their headteacher demonstrates a clear leadership role when it comes to tackling homophobic bullying.

Two-thirds of secondary school staff and three in four primary school staff blamed homophobic language on television for the frequency of homophobic language and homophobic bullying in schools.

Nine in ten teachers say they have never received training about homophobic bullying.

However, the survey did have some positive findings.

Three in five secondary school teachers and a quarter of primary school teachers said they had addressed sexual orientation in the classroom and ninety-five per cent say they would do so again.

Many teachers reported hearing the word 'gay' being used in a derogatory way in classrooms and using this to begin a debate about the use of the word, comparing it to racism.

One teacher said: "If pupils express misunderstanding about what it means to be gay, or show an anti-gay attitude, I confront the issue directly with the whole class so that it removes any mystery or secrecy."

Those teaching subjects such as English, drama or film studies also reported being able to address the issue in a positive way through texts studied.

Ben Summerskill, Stonewall chief executive, said: "This survey reveals how much remains to be done by our schools to demonstrate to all pupils that homophobic bullying is unacceptable.

"In July last year, 18-year-old Michael Causer from Liverpool was kicked to death by a young man shouting homophobic abuse.

"That young man had not been educated in the 1970s, or the 1980s, or the 1990s. He attended a British secondary school during the last five years. Teachers need support to ensure this tragedy does not happen again."

A survey of UK teachers has found a "deeply alarming" amount of homophobia in schools.

The report, released today by Stonewall, is the largest ever survey of both primary and secondary school teachers on the issue of homophobic bullying.

According to the research, titled The Teachers' Report, more than 150,000 pupils are affected by anti-gay bullying, with boys who work hard, girls who play sport, young people with gay parents, and young people who are thought to be gay all suffering from name-calling and abuse.

Nine in ten secondary school teachers and two in five primary school teachers said pupils experience homophobic bullying, even if they are not gay.

Teachers reported that homophobic bullying was the most prevalent form of bullying after bullying because of weight, coming above racism.

Pupils suspected to be gay and boys perceived to act or dress in a feminine way were most likely to suffer abuse, followed by pupils who are openly gay.

Only two in five secondary school teachers and less than half of primary school teachers said their headteacher demonstrates a clear leadership role when it comes to tackling homophobic bullying.

Two-thirds of secondary school staff and three in four primary school staff blamed homophobic language on television for the frequency of homophobic language and homophobic bullying in schools.

Nine in ten teachers say they have never received training about homophobic bullying.

However, the survey did have some positive findings.

Three in five secondary school teachers and a quarter of primary school teachers said they had addressed sexual orientation in the classroom and ninety-five per cent say they would do so again.

Many teachers reported hearing the word 'gay' being used in a derogatory way in classrooms and using this to begin a debate about the use of the word, comparing it to racism.

One teacher said: "If pupils express misunderstanding about what it means to be gay, or show an anti-gay attitude, I confront the issue directly with the whole class so that it removes any mystery or secrecy."

Those teaching subjects such as English, drama or film studies also reported being able to address the issue in a positive way through texts studied.

Ben Summerskill, Stonewall chief executive, said: "This survey reveals how much remains to be done by our schools to demonstrate to all pupils that homophobic bullying is unacceptable.

"In July last year, 18-year-old Michael Causer from Liverpool was kicked to death by a young man shouting homophobic abuse.

"That young man had not been educated in the 1970s, or the 1980s, or the 1990s. He attended a British secondary school during the last five years. Teachers need support to ensure this tragedy does not happen again."



Pink Pasty:- "Of Course here in Cornwall the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary & Cornwall County Council continue to gloss over & cover up homophobic abuse carried out by DC Magnus Scott 3033, Jim Walters social worker, PC Alexander & colleague & a list of other Homophobic Cornwall Police officer abuses against a former 15yr old homeless gay youth & other gay people. Including the suicide the end of last year 2008 of a 49yr old gay man following his arrest by Cornwall police who were warned of his fraggile state of mind.

Homophobic abuse, attitudes & practises, in 2009 one still need look no further than a Cornwall police station"

New probe into police’s handling of death may end devastated family’s ‘years of hell’
Mar 11 2009 by Ben Glaze, South Wales Echo

THE parents of an epileptic schoolboy who died during an outdoor pursuits holiday hope a probe into police’s handling of the case will end their “five years of hell”.

Cerebral palsy sufferer Thomas Frost, 15, from Whitchurch, Cardiff, died in July 2003 while staying at an activity centre in Bodmin, Cornwall.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission last night announced caseworkers would examine Devon and Cornwall Constabulary’s inquiry following allegations from Thomas’ father, accountant Gregory Frost, the force was “incompetent and negligent”.

IPCC Commissioner Rebecca Marsh said: “I have recently met with Thomas’ parents and I explained to them the IPCC role and how this investigation will be carried out.

“This is a complex matter and in the circumstances I have decided that an independent investigation is appropriate.”

The IPCC said police officers attending the activity centre following Thomas’ death quizzed staff and decided the death was not suspicious.

A post-mortem examination found Thomas had suffered an epileptic fit and inhaled stomach acid, causing damage to his lungs.

The report gave “massive intrapulmonary haemorrhage” as the cause of death.

But Mr Frost, a director of Bobath Children’s Therapy Centre in Whitchurch, which helps youngsters with cerebral palsy, obtained an independent report on the post-mortem examination which disputed the findings.

The IPCC said the report also concluded insufficient effort was made to eliminate other causes, including foul play.

Mr Frost sent the report to the coroner for Cornwall in September 2003 who requested a police investigation into the death.

The IPCC said the investigation was carried out by a senior detective.

An inquest was held in December 2007 in Taunton, Somerset, and the coroner recorded the cause of death was “unascertained” because necessary post-mortem tests were not carried out.

The inquest noted that “intrapulmonary haemorrhage” was not a valid cause of death. It also heard nursing staff at the centre, Churchtown Farm, had no medical qualifications or training.

Mr Frost made his complaint to the police last December and it was referred to the IPCC in January.

He declined to comment ahead of the IPCC investigation, but said he and wife Wendy had been through “five years of hell trying to get some justice for Thomas”, who was a pupil at Ysgol Erw’r Delyn special needs school in Penarth.

Mr Frost, 55, added: “The inquest was completely inadequate; there is an awful lot that needs to be said.”

A Devon and Cornwall Constabulary spokesman said: “We are co-operating fully with the IPCC inquiry, but it would be inappropriate for us to comment further until the investigation is complete.”

PinkPasty:- "Well if anyone believes that Bullsh*t from the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary spokesperson. I would warn the family not to have any hope or faith in the conduct of the Independent Police Complaints Commission whom I know in my personal experience choose to ignore evidence, ignore witnesses & generally do practically whatever it takes to cover up misconduct, abuses, violations carried out by police officers like those I have encountered in The Devon & Cornwall Constabulary.

The next cover up will be the Cornwall police involvement & post death conduct of Cornwall police following the suicide last year of a 49 year old gay man in Cornwall....Corruption & dishonesty, the public need look no further than a local Cornwall police station."

BBC media ignores murdered Gay Teenager

Message from Ben Summerskill, chief executive

Last July, 18-year-old Michael Causer was viciously assaulted as he slept at the home of a friend's grandmother.

His battered body was dumped outside on the street. Just over a week later his family were forced to take the heartbreaking decision to switch off his life-support system but vowed that whoever had attacked him would be brought to justice. 'We won't let Micky be pushed aside because he was gay, never in a million years,' they bravely vowed.

A fortnight ago teenager Gavin Alker was cleared of murder and manslaughter at Liverpool Crown Court, even though witnesses testified that he'd hurled homophobic abuse at Michael as he brutally beat him. His accomplice James O'Connor admits murdering Mr Causer but denies it was motivated by homophobia. From the outset of this tragic case, Merseyside Police have treated it as a homophobic attack.

Responding after the verdict to how her son was portrayed in court, Michael's mum said, 'I want someone to explain to me how a lad who worked in an old people's home for free to try to bring some joy into their lives, who called bingo numbers, who volunteered. can be a thug. Michael was seven and a half stone, he couldn't have hurt a fly. He was dragged out of his bed at night. I am determined to fight this for him. I have to.'

Something we've been struck by throughout the case is the scant attention paid to it by the national media.

It's testament to the lack of seriousness with which these kinds of incidents are treated - they're simply not regarded as newsworthy. The BBC has reported every single murder of an adolescent in the past 18 months in this country as a national news story - yet not this one.


Michael's tragic death reminds us how much more work there's still to do to challenge the prejudice that still blights the lives of so many.

Stonewall will continue with our work to tackle homophobic hate crimes and our campaigning to challenge homophobia and anti-gay bullying in our schools. Our research reveals that one in five people lesbian or gay people have been the victim of a hate incident in the last three years. Two thirds of young lesbian, gay and bisexual people have experienced homophobic bullying at school. Hatred cannot be allowed to fester unchallenged.

We're currently lobbying politicians to back measures in the Coroners Bill to remove an unnecessary exemption from our newly passed incitement to hatred protections.
The exemption means a very small number of people of extreme views could exploit the loophole to avoid prosecution for stirring up hatred and violence against gay people. We'll keep you updated as the Bill passes through Parliament.


Pink Pasty NB:-Despite the Stonewall message, there are those within the LGBT community (as experienced in Cornwall) who are complicite in attempting to supress wider knowledge of institutional homophobic abuses & violations. In Cornwall we have experienced the problem of local media & LGBT groups reliant on government funding ignoring homophobically motivated institutional abuse of gay people by failing to investigate homophobic abuse of former homeless 15yr old Peter Midwood, the abuse carried out by identifiable & named Cornwall police officers & Cornwall social services. Institutional abuse of gay people, in particuar in Cornwall remains commonplace & complaintents attacked for raising awareness, even when incidents occuring just months, sometiomes weeks ago, are dismissed as 'historical' by those like Intercom Trust & Gay Cornwall who prefer not to know the reality of homophobic abuse still being carried out.

More recently have been the number of gay male suicides in Cornwall in 2008 & the level of protaganistic cause involvement of persistent & protected homophobic attitudes & practises of Cornwall police officers in actual and attempted gay male suicides.

Homophobia & the fear even of some homosexuals to challenge & combat protected homophobia are still prevelent within society

LGBT Asylum

Dear friends

The petition to Gordon Brown supporting lesbian and gay asylum seekers is in its final week and we are writing to ask for a final push for its support from you. The deadline is 7 March.


The signatures currently stand at 4,000. They include a number of prominent individuals such as the actors Simon Callow, Ian Flintoff and Cathy Tyson, musicians Andrew Oldham and Tom Robinson, playwright Jonathan Harvey, Green MEP Caroline Lucas, Conservative MEP John Bowis, Labour MEPs Eluned Morgan, Claude Moraes and Glenys Kinnock, Green MEP Jean Lambert, Mick Houghton, Secretary Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils, Chair of The Gender Trust Rebecca Dittman, authors Neil Forsyth and Bob Cant, activist Peter Tatchell, architect Yvonne Dean, Professors Ken Mortimer MBE and A.P.M. Coxon, former Cambridge Mayor Jennie Bailey, London Assembly Member Darren Johnson, LibDem MPs Lynne Featherstone and Jo Swinson, Labour MPs Celia Barlow, Lorely Burt and Tom Brake and former Minister Stephen Twigg. As well, a large group of signatorees are Christian ministers.

The petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Stopdeportinggay/ was initiated by the Reverend Walter Attwood when the young Iranian asylum seeker Mehdi Kazemi's case was in the news. Some may remember how Pink Pasty was slated by some gays in Cornwall for supporting Mehdi Kazemi's case in this blog.


Unfortunately the position of the Home Office has not changed and they continue to insist that gays and lesbians can be sent back to unsafe countries 'so long as they are discrete'. It was only due to the massive publicity which Mehdi's case engendered that he was saved.

Given that the numbers of cases are so small and the situations which people are fleeing from so well documented, their stance is completely untenable.




It is also well-documented that homophobia exists in the Home Office so we simply do not believe their position that these cases are given 'due and fair consideration'. Pink Pasty knows homophobia is common place through institutional UK government still, however, it is for informed persons to campaign and not to swallow the mantra that equality has been achieved...we know it has not.

The Canadian Immigration Minister has just announced that he will consider using the services of lesbian and gay immigration groups to help bring genuine asylum seekers from Iran to his country. We believe that the Home Office should consider doing the same here. These groups are best positioned to weed out the genuine cases - those people who should be welcomed here as their cases are formally assessed.

For the UK government to do otherwise would, we believe, highlight its hypocrisy when it comes to the situation of lesbians and gays overseas.

The Foreign Office has made great play of its efforts to oppose homophobia internationally, such as through flying the rainbow flag at the Polish embassy. At the same time another government department treats those lesbians and gays fleeing the worst persecution appallingly. As you may be aware, the Home Office has been ordered by a judge to find and return to the UK one African gay asylum seeker it violently conned and literally threw on a plane last year.

We believe that the British people do not support the policies and actions of the Home Office. We believe that they recognise lesbians and gays fleeing regimes such as Iran as genuine asylum seekers of the sort this country has historically made welcome here.

Please urge everyone you know to sign the petition so as many people as possible can send this message to Gordon Brown:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop deporting gays and lesbians to countries where they may be imprisoned, tortured or executed because of their sexuality.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Stopdeportinggay/