Results for: be the change
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The Conservatives’ DUP Deal Illustrates Their Consistently Cynical Support for LGBTQ Rights
After a decade of using our community to score votes, the Tories have shown that they were always waiting to throw us under the bus.
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Blame Conservatives and Their Austerity Measures for Why LGBTQ Healthcare Sucks in the UK
Seven years of cuts have left the NHS on its knees, and we’re all suffering.
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Northern Ireland Is Proof of How F*cked Abortion Access in the UK Really Is
“In the United Kingdom abortion is free on the NHS and available up to twenty four weeks — which is around when people stop listening and fail to notice the small print.”
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More Brits Than Ever Are In Between on the Kinsey Scale, New Survey Shows
In poll results published Sunday by YouGov, a full 49% of 18-24 year olds identified as something other than exclusively heterosexual on the Kinsey scale.
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Asylum Seekers and “Dishonest” Sexualities: Bisexuality at the Border
The UK Home Office has a questionable track record when it comes to LGB asylum seekers, and for bisexual asylum seekers, narratives of “proving” sexuality or being “gay enough” can be deadly.
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Recent EU Court Ruling Might Make Life Less Miserable For LGB Asylum Seekers
Last week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice is being hailed as a “landmark” change for LGB asylum seekers – that is, if you’re willing to overlook how asylum seekers in the EU are regularly detained, demonised and deported.
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Jacqueline Nantumbwe Must Stay: Why the Current UK System For LGB Asylum Seekers is Broken
The UK Border Agency has detained Ugandan asylum seeker Jacqueline Nantumbwe, placing her at risk of abuse and deportation unless she can “prove” she’s gay.
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UK LGBT Politics Crash Course: What Austerity and the Far Right Mean For Queers
With austerity here to stay and far-right parties on the rise, it is time now more than ever to recognise that queer liberation cannot be disentangled from economic justice.
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UK LGBT Politics Crash Course: 2013 Was A Real Banner Year for Colonially-Influenced Homophobia in the Commonwealth
From India to Uganda, the legacy of British colonial sodomy laws live on today in many countries around the world. What can or should the Commonwealth do about this, if anything at all?
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Survey Says: Gay is Okay in the UK, Will Probably Continue to Be
The annual British Social Attitudes survey indicates increasing acceptance of homosexuality, though same-sex adoption and parenting remain controversial.
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PinkNews Gives Award to Anti-Trans Politician, Only One Trans Judge on Award Panel
PinkNews, an LGBT news outlet in the UK, honoured Baroness Stowell, an anti-trans defender of the “spousal veto,” as Politician of the Year. They now face criticism for how the judging panel was put together.
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Don’t Let London Rain on Your Pride Parade or Potential Lack Thereof
The prospects for London Pride 2013 look bleak, but hopefully communities can change that.
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Back to the 80’s and Section 28: Anti-Gay School Policy Resurfaces in the UK
A decade after its repeal, sex ed policies which are alarmingly similar to Section 28 have cropped up again, raising questions as to how much autonomy schools should have over sex and relationship education syllabi.
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Gay Marriage Victory in the UK: We Win Yet Another Thing!
The Queen makes it official by signing off on gay marriage in England!
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UK’s Plan to Block Porn and “Adult Subjects” Doesn’t Bode Well for Gay and Sex Ed Resources
Flawed attempts to make the internet a safe space could be compromising actual safe spaces with an indiscriminate default-on porn filter.
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Britain To Change Gay Male Blood Donation Policy To Slightly Different Version Of The Same Policy
“It’s supremely bloody homophobic, extremely discriminatory and potentially dangerous for thousands of patients in need of transfusions. The inequality has just got worse, not better.”
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Here’s What’s Happening With Gay Marriage In The UK
David Cameron says yay, the church says nay, Parliament has the final say.