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Added on: 02/09/2021
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He previously told ITV: “It was always, ‘hide yourself, hide yourself’, and don’t show your colours. “If you show your colours it means that you are going…

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Added on: 02/06/2021
2/5/21
Abderrahim El Habachi, 28, said he felt “unsafe” living alongside some men from North Africa and the Middle East after he arrived in Cardiff in 2017. He…

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Added on: 02/05/2021
In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Britain, homosexuality was an illicit act, and would remain that way until 1967 when the law changed in England and…

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Added on: 02/04/2021
Non-binary and trans people have always been here, not least in every recorded society from the ancient world onwards. Why is it then that they’re often absent…

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Added on: 02/02/2021
02/01/2021
The Scottish government has pulled an amendment that sought to exempt “criticism of transgender identity” from hate crime laws. The country’s justice minister Humza Yousaf announced via…

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Added on: 02/01/2021
01/31/2021
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom have announced they will begin hearing a case for whether gender-neutral markings, like ‘X’, should be allowed on passports. The…

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Added on: 02/01/2021
01/31/2021
Eddie Izzard, the genderfluid stand-up comedian and longtime Labour campaigner, has a simple mission: Become Britain’s first openly trans member of Parliament. Speaking to the Sunday Mirror…

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Added on: 01/30/2021
Dinah Rose QC is a human rights lawyer of great distinction. A former Barrister of the Year, she has appeared in several high profile cases, ranging from…

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Added on: 01/29/2021
01/29/2021
Nicola Sturgeon has been challenged to include meaningful reform of gender recognition legislation in her party’s spring manifesto, after she made her strongest statement yet in support…

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Added on: 01/19/2021
01/18/2021
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs GIDS, the only gender clinic for trans youth in England and Wales, said it would appeal the ruling when…

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Added on: 01/15/2021
01/14/2021
Conventional perceptions around sexuality, gender and manliness are challenged in a new documentary about Kings Cross Steelers – the world’s first gay rugby club. The film, called…

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Added on: 01/06/2021
A non-binary person from El Salvador has been granted asylum in the UK in a first-of-its-kind ruling. Arthur Britney Joestar, 29, identified as a gay man when…

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Added on: 01/03/2021
For most of us, the Bell v Tavistock ruling was just another news story. You may not even know what it was. But for a small group…

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Added on: 01/02/2021
1/1/2021
Broadcasters were previously required to ensure shows contained no material that incited hated based on race, religion, nationality or sex. This has now been amended to include…

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Added on: 12/30/2020
LONDON, Dec 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Coronavirus dominated news around the world in 2020, creating particular challenges for the LGBT+ community in terms of mental health,…

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Added on: 12/29/2020
12/26/2020
llustrator Dandy Doodlez has opened up about sex, the intersection between queerness and disability, and why the LGBT+ community is so inaccessible. Dandy developed Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME),…

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Added on: 12/27/2020
12/26/2020
An LGBTQ asylum seeker described their tears of joy when a judge said they could stay in Liverpool after fleeing murder, police brutality and discrimination in El…

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Added on: 12/24/2020
12/23/2020
More than 40 anti-LGBTQ organizations are skirting AmazonSmile’s ban on promoting hatred and intolerance, according to a new report. Amazon’s charity platform is allowing dozens of anti-LGBTQ…

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Added on: 12/23/2020
12/22/2020
As the first COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out around the world, HIV/AIDS experts and advocates have sought to reassure those living with HIV that they can safely…

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Added on: 12/23/2020
12/22/2020
LONDON, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – England’s only youth gender clinic said on Tuesday it had sought leave to appeal a court ruling that has stopped…

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Added on: 12/21/2020
12/21/020
Boris Johnson has sparked serious concern with the appointment of Fiona Bruce MP as his new envoy for freedom of religion and belief. It was announced on…

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Added on: 12/15/2020
12/14/2020
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New Zealand and Britain became on Monday the latest countries to ease rules on blood donations by gay and bisexual men, as…

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Added on: 12/13/2020
In September, it became compulsory for schools across England to teach LGBT-inclusive lessons as part of the curriculum. Pupils in secondary schools will now learn about sexual…

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Added on: 12/11/2020
THE first gay rights protest in the UK has been celebrated 50 years on at an event in Highbury Fields. The park in Islington was a popular…

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Added on: 12/09/2020
12/08/2020
Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane were the first gay men in the UK to get a civil partnership back in 2005. But they were left in a legal…

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Added on: 12/08/2020
Children under the age of 16 are unlikely to give “informed consent” to take puberty blockers to begin their gender transition process. This is according to the…

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Added on: 12/06/2020
12/4/2020
British LGBT+ groups have received a surge in calls and emails from transgender children and their parents following a court ruling this week that will force doctors…

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Added on: 12/01/2020
11/30/2020
LGBT charity Pink Saltire said it was proving doubters wrong with the creation of the inclusive centre in the town centre. It will contain a café, shop,…

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Added on: 11/27/2020
11/27/2020
A climate change protester who climbed Big Ben dressed as Boris Johnson has avoided a jail sentence. Tree surgeon Benjamin Atkinson, 44, scaled the clock tower during…

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Added on: 11/16/2020
11/15/2020
Being transgender in Britain in 2020 has at times felt incredibly difficult: not because being trans is in itself hard, necessarily, but because society makes it so….