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The Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) Young Leaders Project is inviting groups of young people to apply for small grants to create and deliver their own sex and relationship education projects. The grants are to educate their friends and the wider community on issues relating to sexually transmitted infections, sexual health and HIV.

It should come as no surprise to any regular readers of this website to hear that the never-ending round of gay venue openings and closures in the area continues unabated. The Elephant/Ivory relaunched recently as the Market Place and Bristol’s other pub in the running for the longest-established gay venue mantle, the Griffin, reopened its doors recently, just a few short days after the previous incumbents had moved on.

With no Pride or Mardi Gras event taking place in Bristol in 2008, it’s once again down to the Bristol Bear Fiesta to show the gay community that the city really does know how to party. BBF is now in its fifth year, and chief organiser Niall Milligan has lined up the busiest three days so far in the festival’s history, with more venues, more events and hopefully more people visiting than ever before.