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Hospice Supports LGBT Community Princess Alice Hospice took part in this year’s Pride in London Parade on Saturday to highlight the importance it places on being there for everyone. Amongst the fun, sparkles and feathers the eight-strong team from the Hospice were marching in the parade with a serious message about the bereavement care that it provides to the LGBT community. Steve Wardlaw is a respected international business lawyer and prominent gay rights campaigner. Ranked highly across leading LGBT lists of influence, he co-founded Emerald Life to change the insurance industry for the better, bringing with him his passion for equality and his zeal for good business. This year, Steve is on the judging panel for the RBS British LGBT Awards 2016. Women are paid less than men for the same work, despite the Equal Pay Act in the UK. Women earn 85p for every £1 a man earns. Emma Watson has made a speech in her new (non-acting) role as UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women . She’s been a feminist since the tender age of 8 after being told she was ‘too bossy’ for wanting to direct a play: If boys were allowed to direct without question, then why wasn’t she? FCKH8’s potty mouthed video of five girls aged 6–13 swearing, has been reinstated by Youtube, who apologised for taking it down in the first place. The video, posted on 22nd October by American for-profit company FCKH8.com, features the girls dressed as princesses asking: “What’s more offensive? A little girl saying f**k or the sexist way society treats girls and women?” After the highly controversial comments of her former bandmate Julia Volkova, Lena Katina decided that she needed to make her own views know. Taking to her Facebook page the singer made the statement: Transgender activist, Gay Times and DIVA columnist, and 2013 Pink List winner , Paris Lees, has signed a book deal with publisher, Penguin Books . The class of 2014 MacArthur Fellows has been announced which gives its list members $625,000 each to carry on their work. Alison Bechdel, the cartoonist and graphic memoirist, famous for the ‘Bechdel Test’ is one of the nine women to receive what some call the ‘genius grant’ to fund future projects in a way that suits them best. Yulia Volkova, one half of faux lesbian pop duo t.A.T.u (pictured left) has revealed that her support for gay men is not all about love and let love. In an interview on Russian TV, which was translated by YouTube video description, she answered that she would condemn her own son if her was gay “because I believe that a real man must be a real man.”