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Added on: 01/29/2022

LGBT veterans: Flashbacks after ‘sadistic’ interrogation

1/28/22

A gay veteran said being starved, denied sleep and subjected to “sadistic” internal examinations on an RAF station has left him with flashbacks and depression 35 years…

World Voices

Added on: 01/28/2022

James Bates — Gender Community Lending Library, United Kingdom

Alturi Contributor

What led to the founding of the Gender Community Lending Library (GCLL)? In Autumn 2020, I was close to being ‘stealth.’ Not even my closest friends knew…

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Added on: 01/27/2022

UK equalities watchdog urges Scotland to pause gender recognition reforms

01/26/2022

The UK’s equalities watchdog has written to the Scottish government asking it to pause plans to simplify the legal requirements for gender recognition. LGBT+ equality campaigners hit back…

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Added on: 01/25/2022

UK’s first LGBTQ museum to open in London this spring.

01/24/2022

The UK’s first LGBTQ museum is due to open this spring in London, founded by the charity Queer Britain. The museum will be located on the ground…

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Added on: 01/20/2022

LGBT veterans who served during ban on gay troops to share experiences in government review

01/19/2022

LGBT veterans will be asked about how they were treated when serving in the British military while there was a ban on gay personnel. About 5,000 ex-service…

Global News

Added on: 01/19/2022

Peter Tatchell at 70: why the fight goes on – after Netflix stardom and 30 years of gay rights victories

01/18/2022

On a gloweringly grey January afternoon, Peter Tatchell arrives on time, bearing gifts. “Happy New Year!” he says, and hands me the latest issue of the New…

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Added on: 01/18/2022

‘They are literally murdering us’: poet Joelle Taylor on bringing the LGBTQ+ community together

01/17/2022

Since winning the TS Eliot award for poetry last week, Joelle Taylor has been referred to on more than one occasion as a “slam poet”. Which, she…

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Added on: 01/07/2022

‘Gay cake’ case shows power of US Christian Right

01/06/2022

Gay rights activist Gareth Lee has lost his seven-year battle with the Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery who refused to make him a cake decorated…

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Added on: 01/06/2022

U.K. expands ‘Turing’s Law’ to pardon past same-sex convictions

01/06/2022

In a long-awaited triumph for the U.K.’s LGBTQ community, the government on Tuesday announced that anyone convicted of consensual same-sex activity under now-defunct laws will soon be…

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Added on: 01/04/2022

All gay sex convictions to be pardoned in plan to ‘right wrongs of the past’.

01/03/2022

Any conviction that was imposed on someone purely due to consensual homosexual activity under now-abolished laws will be included in a scheme aimed at “righting the wrongs…

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Added on: 01/03/2022

Major group of UK girls schools says ‘it will not accept transgender students’

01/02/2022

A LEADING group of girls schools has stated it will not accept transgender students through fears of jeopardising single-sex status, leaving unions to call on the Government…

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Added on: 01/02/2022

Tom Daley promises to use his OBE to advocate for LGBT+ rights across the world

1/2/22

The Olympic diver was made an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List, and he told BBC Breakfast that he now feels a responsibility to make…

Global News

Added on: 12/30/2021

10 essential LGBT+ books that opened minds and broadened horizons in 2021

12/30/2021

Over the last year, countless powerful and important LGBT+ books have been published – and they’ve helped queer people feel seen in new and exciting ways. Queer…

Global News

Added on: 12/08/2021

Trans people waiting years for gender healthcare as demand surges

12/07/2021

When British tattoo artist Eva Echo found the courage to come out as transgender, she quickly sought specialist medical care to help her transition. More than four…

Global News

Added on: 12/07/2021

Banksy pledges work to help save ‘LGBT cultural heritage site’

12/06/2021

A stencil used by artist Bansky to paint the side of a former jail – described as an ‘LGBT cultural heritage site’ – is to go up…

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Added on: 12/07/2021

Church in Wales could elect UK’s first female and first out gay archbishop

12/06/2021

Cherry Vann, the Bishop of Monmouth, is in the running to be elected the Church in Wales’ first lesbian archbishop. Following the retirement of John Davies, the…

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Added on: 12/05/2021

Lewis Hamilton condemns ‘terrifying’ LGBTQ+ laws before Saudi Arabian GP

12/2/21

Lewis Hamilton has said he is not comfortable competing in Saudi Arabia given its repressive laws regarding the LGBTQ+ community. Speaking before this weekend’s grand prix in…

World Voices

Added on: 11/30/2021

Aritha Wickramasinghe — Equality Director at iProbono, Sri Lanka

Phillip Baumgart

Alturi Contributor

How did you initially become involved in activism? I was passionate about human rights from a young age. Yet, I was primarily focused on child abuse and…

Global News

Added on: 11/23/2021

Labour pledges ‘vital changes’ to hate crime laws and more to make UK fairer for LGBT+ people

11/22/2021

Labour’s Anneliese Dodds has pledged to no longer allow those guilty of anti-LGBT+ hate crimes to “dodge longer sentences”. Dodds, who was appointed shadow secretary of state…

Global News

Added on: 11/21/2021

LGBT bookshop sends 300 Trans history books to MPs across the country

11/20/21

An independent LGBT bookshop has sent hundreds of books about the history of Trans people to MPs across the country – paid for by their own constituents….

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Added on: 11/19/2021

NHS gets green light for game-changing HIV treatment injected just six times a year

11/18/2021

Currently, people living with HIV are offered antiretroviral medicines that must be taken every day to suppress the virus – usually one to four daily pills. Effective treatment…

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Added on: 11/17/2021

LGBT+ Church of England members stage defiant protest after archbishop of Canterbury’s Ghana apology

11/16/2021

A gay canon and other LGBT+ members of the Church of England have staged a demonstration at a meeting of the General Synod to show solidarity with…

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Added on: 11/16/2021

Gay priest and partner make Church in Wales history with ‘rejoiceful’ same-sex blessing

11/15/2021

Father Lee Taylor, 44, and his partner Fabiano Da Silva Duarte, 45, received a blessing from the Church in Wales on Saturday (13 November). Father Lee said…

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Added on: 11/11/2021

BBC quits Stonewall diversity scheme over impartiality concerns

11/10/2021

The BBC has quit a diversity programme run by the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, saying it believes coverage of transgender issues should be considered an impartiality topic that…

Global News

Added on: 11/08/2021

Married lesbian couple launch discrimination action against NHS

11/07/2021

A married lesbian couple are launching a landmark legal test case against a branch of the NHS fertility sector in England, claiming it discriminates against LGBT+ families. Influencers Megan…

Global News

Added on: 11/07/2021

Furious LGBT+ football fans to protest Saudi-owned Newcastle United at Brighton showdown

11/6/21

LGBT+ football fans in Brighton will be demonstrating in support of a gay man jailed in Saudi Arabia when their team plays Newcastle United. The protest will…

Global News

Added on: 11/04/2021

LGBT+ group left ‘frightened’ after queer Liverpool art viciously torn down in suspected hate crime

11/03/2021

Homotopia – the UK’s longest-running LGBT+ arts and culture festival – said on social media it was “devastated” after two acts of vandalism just days apart. On…

Global News

Added on: 11/01/2021

LGBTQ Afghans, who were in ‘grave danger’ from the Taliban, evacuated to the UK

10/31/2021

A flight of LGBT Afghans arrived in the UK, following a mission from the government and gay rights organizations to move them to safety, it was confirmed….

Global News

Added on: 11/01/2021

DUP councillor thinks conversion therapy ban is a ‘hoax’ that will push ‘neo Marxist utopia’

10/30/2021

Colin Kennedy, a councillor for Ards and North Down Borough Council, spoke out a conversion therapy ban after the council passed a motion calling on Stormont to ban the discredited…

Global News

Added on: 10/31/2021

‘I feel free’ – LGBT Afghan refugees arrive in UK

10/30/2021

I feel like “a human being for the first time” in my life, a gay Afghan man has said after arriving in the UK with 28 others…