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Category: The Political Debate
COMMENT | Are you really an ally?; “It’s become clear that passive acceptance of the LGBT+ community is very different from being an active ally who fights to support LGBT+ inclusion”
I think I’ve been rather lucky in my 28 years on this planet, that I have surrounded myself by decent people and I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people that consider themselves to be “allies” of the gay LGBTQ+ community. It isn’t a bad thing by any means – I spend 90 per…
It’s time for companies to stop offering holiday prizes to countries where being LGBT+ can land you in prison
I’m a fan of holidays and I’m also a fan of prizes, so a prize that’s also a holiday it’s pretty much up there with buttery crumpets and that new car smell for me, but I have to plead with the marketing departments at large corporations not to offer trips to countries where being LGBT+…
Teachers ‘scarred’ by legacy of 1988’s Section 28
Legislation repealed in 2003 continues to affect the professional life of LGBT+ teachers
COMMENT | Trump’s Transgender military ban: How reducing minorities limits team success
The recent decision of the US Supreme Court to continue the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people serving in the military is an unnecessary limitation on organisational effectiveness.
COMMENT | Romanian government uses anti gay political spin
In Romania over the last weekend, there was a vote on changing the wording of the constitution of the nation where marriage is defined as between two spouses to between one man and one woman.
Is the Gender Recognition Law ready for change?
Two solicitors, Craig Longhurst and Alex Watson from the leading law firm Fieldfisher write about the government’s plans to revisit the relevance of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and some of the issues facing the transgender community today.
COMMENT | Banning “Gay Cure” therapy could drive it underground, so what can Government do to stop it?
Can the government create a robust enough system of ‘prevention’ which is better than the ‘cure’?
The Grindr Killer: “What went wrong here was that the net which should have caught him was full of holes. He was able to slither out and kill again, time after time”
Beyond ‘The Grindr Killer’: What the Stephen Port case tells us about gender, sexuality and hierarchies of victimization in the Twenty-First Century
Why I Care for The Royal Wedding
On Saturday, our Prince Harry becomes a married man, to actress Meghan Markle. Columnist Jack Strange writes why he’s raising a glass to the new married couple.. If you didn’t know about this, then that’s understandable, seeing as it hasn’t been mentioned anywhere. Oh wait, it’s been just about everything. The past week, in the…