Don't forget – IDAHOBIT 17.05.16
Here is a little reminder that Tuesday 17th May is IDAHOBIT – International Day Against Homophobia, BIphobia and Transphobia. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is an important… Read More »Don't forget – IDAHOBIT 17.05.16
Here is a little reminder that Tuesday 17th May is IDAHOBIT – International Day Against Homophobia, BIphobia and Transphobia. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is an important… Read More »Don't forget – IDAHOBIT 17.05.16
“People think you can be disabled or LGBT but not both” The Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA), hosted by leading children’s charity National Children’s Bureau, is publishing… Read More »ABA: Disabled young people that identify as LGBT+ bullied and silenced in our schools
A new campaign for LGBTI education as a statutory right in the curriculum of Scottish schools has been launched to tackle homophobic attitudes among young… Read More »#TIE Campaign
In 1967, male homosexuality was partially decriminalised in England and Wales (1980 in Scotland and 1982 in Northern Ireland). Since then, terms like ‘clause 28’,… Read More »STOP HOMOPHOBIA Launches Timeline around 1967
Prejudice and Pride, a book of personal LGBT histories, was launched in Manchester at The people’s Museum on February 28th at an event held by… Read More »Prejudice and Pride Launched in History Month
A major new initiative to tackle hate crime has been announced by the LGBT Consortium today. It brings together a partnership of 31 Lesbian, Gay,… Read More »New National Hate Crime Partership
The 2014 edition of Past2Present is the 7th! And the biggest so far at 64 pages. (The downside is that the file is big, slightly over 9Mb). This year they look at the LGBT influence on pop music in the 70s and 80s, Music Hall, the beginnings of gender affirmation surgery and Russia – among lots of other stuff.
Schoolchildren in Birmingham have been taking part in workshops to celebrate LGBT History Month with Elly Barnes (includes video footage from ITV News)
Desmond Tutu: Uganda’s anti-gay bill is as evil as Nazism and Apartheid – The former Archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize winning Desmond Tutu has compared Uganda’s new anti-gay law to Nazi and Apartheid discrimination.
‘Wow, you really do have two mums!’: What it’s like when the children of lesbian mothers go to school – As the debate around Putin’s homophobic stance rages around the Sochi Winter Olympics; as gay people in Nigeria arebeaten to death in the streets as the police stand by; and with the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales only 38 days away, Anna Carlile feels the need to talk about how her family, and other families with lesbian mums, experience school. The fact is, things are better in the UK than they are in many other places around the world, but there is still a long way to go.