A BA student has contacted MGRM to help in recruiting interviewees for his dissertation.  We encourage anyone who can spare some time to get in touch to allow him to successfully carry out his research.
 
Request for participation in research – lesbian or gay person in early-mid 20s

Researcher: M. Vella
 
Contact details:
Email: mike_vella@hotmail.com
 

ArciGay, Italy's main LGBT rights organisation, has issued a press release following a recent spate of anti-LGBT attacks in italy.
 
It can be downloaded below.
 
MGRM would like to show solidarity with ArciGay and send its best wishes for the activist work of its members and volunteers.

The Malta Gay Rights Movement would like to show its full support to fellow activists in Russia who are holding their second International Queer Culture Festival in the city of St Petersburg this September.  This is a non-commercial social and cultural project with the goal of promoting tolerance and values of diversity, introducing queer culture to the city, and attracting society's attention to the problems of homophobia, transphobia and other forms of discrimination.
 

 
An MA student has contacted MGRM to help in recruiting interviewees for his dissertation.  We fully support the researcher in his studies and thus encourage anyone who can spare some time to get in touch to allow him to successfully carry out his research.
 
Request for participation in research – lesbian, gay or bisexual person
 
Sponsor: University of Derby, UK

Researcher: M. Conti
 

Pride Week 2010 has come to a successful end with a well-attended Pride March organised on Saturday 17th July in Valletta.  This was clearly the biggest Pride March so far in Malta, with between 200-250 people marching with Pride, despite the intense heat in Valletta on the day and despite other social hurdles which may deter some people from coming to Pride.
 
We strongly believe this year's successul Pride march can be the start of something positive for LGBT rights in Malta!
 

Below is a message from the Drachma Parents Group:
 

The Malta Gay Rights Movement and the Malta Humanist Association have issued a joint press statement expressing their concern at the way in which the Roman Catholic Church and the Muslim leaders in Malta find themselves united in their disregard towards the recognition of same-sex relationships, as was reported on a meeting betwee

Below are more details on Pride Week 2010, with a theme of 'Rights Now!'
It will be a very exciting week and we hope to see you in numbers!
 

 
 

 
Playing at the Pride March:

• International singer Michael Ashanti
• Believe (We are One) by Chunky featuring Chiara and Muxu

The Malta Gay Rights Movement is very pleased to hear that the remit of the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE) is to be widened to cover discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, amongst other forms of discrimination.
 
MGRM had in the past years been working hard and lobbying for the NCPE remit to be extended to cover sexual orientation discrimination.