We need politics that listens and delivers for queer people! by Matt Rogan Trust is such an important thing in politics. Election after election we’ve delivered promise after promise on how parties would run councils, act as mayor, even run the country! However, it’s clear that there is an unfortunate lack of trust from LGBTQ+ […]
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‘Trans Visibility Day 2023 – as hard as patriarchy tries to suppress it, we’ve always been visible’ By Seb Cousins “My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.” Natalie Clifford Barney Trans visibility. If you listen to the kind of person who parrots the Daily Telegraph verbatim, or enjoy […]
As part of our campaign to End New HIV Transmissions by 2030, we’ve interviewed Daniel Laycock, our former Treasurer! Josh Harris asked him about the campaign, what it felt like to bring the motion to Conference, among other things. The motions that Daniel discussed around Ending New HIV Transmissions by 2030 are coming to Spring Conference 2023 […]
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NHS England is holding a public consultation on the ‘Interim service specification for specialist gender dysphoria services for children and young people’, which closes on December 4. We encourage you to complete the consultation Read the guidance below, and complete it before Sunday 4th December. Fill it out! This interim specification will be, following this […]
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by Seb Cousins This is an article about Trans Day of Remembrance. As such, I write here a content warning, covering mentions of murder, suicide, abuse, inequality, poverty, racism, ableism, and transphobia. Like with other remembrances, I hope that one day the number of those being remembered stops increasing. When writing about endings, beginnings are […]
By Matt Rogan Group of diverse bisexuals at a Bisexual Pride march in London Bi Awareness Week, and – soon – Bi Visibility Day, is upon us! Throughout the year, we have many days of visibility, weeks of awareness, all focusing on various identities within the LGBTQ+ community, and in September we focus on bisexuality. […]
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As Pride Month begins, both history and the future hang over it. Narratives are critical. Queer activism and discourse often, like most other groups and identities, emphasises the common highlights of the past: the Stonewall Riots is a great example of this. And with this year being the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march […]
I was sixteen when I first found, between my recommended videos on Youtube, a video of a girl talking about her experience in the LGBT+ community, her journey to discovering her sexuality, and coming out as a lesbian. It was all very new to me. Of course, I knew that there were gay people and […]
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Written by Lee Booker It is easy for many to assume that the struggle for LGBT+ equality has been achieved in Britain when we see the adoption of the rainbow and Pride branding by major corporations, banks and companies within their logos. But the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s recent research on LGBT+ […]
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This year is the 21st TDoR. In that time, we’ve seen trans issues receive more coverage than ever before – not all of it positive. […]
