2020 Pride march will be led by gay veterans from 1970s.
By Veterans from the London Gay Liberation Front, including Peter Tatchell, will march along the same route that the official Pride parade was due to follow.
Queen honours world’s first trans MP.
Georgina Beyer, the world’s first trans Member of Parliament, has been awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to LGBTQIA rights.
Review. Dominic Cummings’ statement, all news channels.
By When The Telegraph and the Mail join the almost universal condemnation of a Conservative government, you know that something serious is going down.
Iraq leaders condemn raising of rainbow flag.
Iraqi political leaders condemned raising of the LGBTQ+ flag by British, Canadian and EU Delegations to Iraq, branding LGBTQ+ people “psychotic patients”.
Meet the former model fighting against care home abuse.
When Tony Stowell witnessed the abuse of an elderly family member in a care home, he decided to do something about it. His campaign has reached the highest echelons of Parliament, with an Early Day Motion on installing CCTV in care homes set to be debated. Here’s Tony in conversation with Continue Reading
Interview. Dawn Butler MP talks to Rob Harkavy (and she doesn’t hold back!).
What’s it like being a Member of Parliament during lockdown? What additional challenges are faced by MPs and their constituents? Why are BAME people more likely to contract Covid-19 and what can we do about the alarming increase in domestic violence during lockdown? Here’s former Shadow Secretary of State for Women Continue Reading
Better Late Than Never: This European Country Has Finally Made Homophobic Verbal Abuse Illegal.
By Swiss people just voted in favour of a new law protecting the LGBTQ+ community. Didier Bonny, an activist and politician, spoke to us about it… Last February, I had the honour to speak with the Swiss Co-President of the Green Party of Geneva, and of the Romand Federation of LGBT Associations, Continue Reading
Pride in London calls on UK Government to intervene on violation of LGBT+ rights in Poland
In light of the currently deteriorating situation in Poland for LGBT+ individuals, Pride in London, the organiser of the UK’s largest Pride, has called on the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Rabb MP, to intervene directly to safeguard LGBT+ rights. Pride in London has expressed serious concerns at the ongoing situation where over Continue Reading
Ugandan newspapers incite violence against LGBTQI-affirming church
A Ugandan pro-LGBTQ+ church was promoted in newspapers, resulting in the church being targeted for persecution. On February 21, 2020, Ugandan newspapers Trumpet News and Red Pepper, published photos and a video of a pro-LGBTQ+ church in Uganda, known as The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries. As a result, the church was targeted Continue Reading
A wish for 2020: let’s end this nightmare of hate and division.
I don’t know about you, but I am mightily fed up with the division, polarisation and hatred that seem to have defined life on these islands since the 2016 Brexit referendum. Social media, especially Twitter, has become a rancid sewer of unfettered bile, not only directed at Muslims, Jews, people of Continue Reading
