The women at banking giant Santander UK count on teamwork to shape a new corporate culture. The team from mygwork, the LGBT recruitment and networking hub, sat down with Santander UK’s Susan Allen and TJ Richards to talk about female empowerment and the importance of visible role models. Susan Allen, Santander UK’s […]
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LGBT+ and Human Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is in Moscow to protest at the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Speaking from the Russian capital Mr Tatchell, who was badly beaten by neo-Nazis in Moscow in 2007 while the police stood by and watched, said: “I am here in Moscow […]
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In what appears to be a huge step backwards for LGBTQ equality in the USA, on Monday the Supreme Court ruled in favour of a Colorado bakery whose Christian owner had refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, overturning a previous decision by the Colorado judiciary. Now – […]
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Renowned singer songwriter David McAlmont delves into the closets of the UK’s historic houses to explore LGBTQ histories and their contemporary significance to create a new performance, girl.boy.child Historian and respected singer songwriter David McAlmont has produced girl.boy.child, a series of performances drawing on LGBTQ histories, commissioned by ProfessorRichard Sandell, researcher and museum […]
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The exhibition “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” will take place in Harpa during the Reykjavík Art Festival. The festival runs from 1 – 17 June. Daniel Lismore is known for elaborate and extravagant ensembles that brilliantly combine haute couture with charity-shop finds, yards of vintage fabrics and tartans, found […]
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Could Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson get the top job? The political rumour juggernaut has smashed through the confines of Holyrood and Westminster with the gas pedal pressed hard to the floor and the sat nav set full ahead for Downing Street, SW1. After months of fevered speculation, Scottish Conservative Leader […]
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Some people think that there are no more battles to fight. Rob Harkavy begs to differ. The starting gun has been fired for the UK Pride season, with Birmingham Pride – the first major event of the season – having taken place over the May Bank Holiday weekend, setting the tone […]
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Chris Wild’s memoir, reviewed by Rob Harkavy Chris Wild’s searing exposé of life in and around the children’s care system in the early 1990s stirs such a maelstrom of emotions that even now, three days after finishing Damaged, I am still coming to terms with this no-holds-barred, often distressingly graphic depiction […]
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Could the new Duchess be a sign of royal diversity to come… Goodness only knows how many trees have been felled to cope with the reams of commentary which have been penned over the nuptials of the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex – not to mention the billions of electrons […]
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