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No matter how many assurances this government gives, I cannot shake off the feeling that our rights may slowly erode, one unnoticeable bit at a time.

Demonstrators had been holding weekly protests outside Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham.

Demonstrators had been holding weekly protests outside Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham.

A look over the Spanish director's four decade career

Superintendent James Sutherland, attended Ely Pride at the weekend with a number of officers from Cambridgeshire Police.

Right now there are no openly gay or bisexual players in the Premier League.

Studies show that LGBT+ specific trauma and addiction treatments have a much higher success rate.

Pop singer and songwriter Taylor Swift on Monday released a star-studded music video that scolded social media trolls and urged fans to sign a petition demanding U.S. legal protections for gays, lesbians and transgender people. The video for Swift's new single "You Need to Calm Down" featured a surprise cameo ...

Basildon mayor David Burton-Sampson was faced with a tirade of racist abuse while celebrating Essex pride

Hollywood A-list star George Clooney has called for a boycott of nine hotels because of their links to Brunei. The state is planning to impose laws that will impose the death penalty, by stoning, for adultery and gay sex. The brutal legislation is supposed to be in place from next ...

Parents of children at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham have been protesting the No Outsiders programme for two months

LGBT and diversity lessons have been suspended at Parkfield Community Primary school after weekly protests by parents, about the project. The programme at Parkfield Community Primary school was introduced by Assistant Head, Andrew Moffat. In a statement, the school said: "Nothing is more important than ensuring our children's education continues ...

Parents accuse gay assistant head Andrew Moffat of promoting homosexuality and LGBT issues without their consent

"I've never been more sure that inclusivity starts from the youngest possible age. I hope these stories will be used for years to come."

Artist and curator Jason E Bowman launched the Queer Times School Prints at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)

The International Deptford Heritage Festival will pay homage to Kath Duncan 100 years on from key civil and LGBTQ rights battles with a production of the play Liberty. Red Blouse Theatre, a local radical theatre company first formed in the 1930s and newly re-formed for the festival, will stage the ...

A new pop-up store is launching this month to raise funds for LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers during Pride in London 2018. Run by charity Help Refugees, the Choose Love x Pride in London store at St Martin’s Courtyard and Mercer Walk, Covent Garden invites customers to celebrate diversity and ...

An adoption service is supporting the call for more lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to consider adoption this LGBT Adoption & Fostering Week (5-11 March 2018). Coram, which runs three dedicated adoption services in London, Cambridgeshire and the East Midlands, has supported LGBT people to adopt for many years. ...

Drag queens entertained primary school children on World Book Day in a performance designed to teach tolerance around LGBT issues. Pupils at Parsons Street Primary School in Bedminster, Bristol, shrieked with laughter during the storytelling sessions and joined in enthusiastically with singalongs. Head teacher Jamie Barry invited entertainers from Drag ...

When looking for ways to bring about equality and improve the lives of minorities we must be bold enough to call time on a bad idea and come up with a new solution. This, it could be argued, is true in the case of bisexuals and tethering their equality to ...

A vicar says words such as 'pride' and 'gay' are being "hijacked" by people who "seek to normalise LGBT activity as part of mainstream life". Reverend Melvin Tinker, slammed his fellow clergy for hosting a special service to mark Pride and LGBT 50 celebrations and said: "where there is light, ...

A controversial scheme from America is set to be launched in British primary schools – stories read to children by DRAG QUEENS. The project will see men dressed as women visiting kids in class for ‘fun and inclusive’ reading sessions to raise LGBT awareness. The ‘Drag Queen Story Hour” scheme ...

More worrying news has emerged in post-Brexit Britain, with a 147 per cent rise in homophobic attacks in the UK in the three months since the UK voted to leave the EU. There have already been reports of a rise in racist attacks, but the rise in attacks on the ...

Owen Jones has walked out of a Sky News interview after a heated discussion over the LGBT hate crimes in Orlando. The outspoken Jones was disgusted after presenter Mark Longhurst told him people should "delineate" between Islamist terror and homophobia after the attack which killed 50 at gay Florida nightclub ...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor 51 Muslim states have stopped 11 LGBT groups from being part of a meeting at the UN on ending Aids across the world. The move has been met with vocal protests from the EU, Canada, and the US. There have been a series of issues ...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor This clip shows a homosexual cyclist being applauded by a group of bystanders when he closes down a man preaching his views on the LGBT community. The video from Glasgow, shows the preacher holding what appears to be a bible in his hand. The preacher yells ...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In Mississippi the Governor has signed off a law that allows public and private businesses to refuse to their service to same-sex couples, as long as that couple’s existence conflicts with the “sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions” of the proprietor. The news has ...

By Pallav Patankar  Many LGBT people in India grow up without understanding their sexuality and feeling dirty about it because they’re surrounded by homophobia.  Most delay addressing their sexuality which causes problems later.  Once you’re in your mid-twenties you have to get married.  In Indian society your social status is ...

By Pieter Cranenbroek – International Politics Blogger It has been an eventful year for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community (LGBT). Germany recently became the first European country to add an extra gender box on forms, which gives recognition and expression to intersex and transgender people, whereas same-sex marriage laws ...

The western star made derogatory comments about blacks, Native Americans and LGBTQ people and downplayed slavery.

Labour’s Dawn Butler recalled the final words of George Floyd as she called for action.

A No 10 source told the PA news agency that the details of the response were yet to be finalised.

The practical barriers can be addressed but how can we fix a collective consciousness that accepts it is virtually impossible for a working-class writer to be published?

And Then We Danced is the first LGBTQ+ film to come out of Georgia. Based on the story of dancer Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) whose aspirations of joining the national ensemble start to slowly dissipate as his burgeoning sexuality surfaces. Its an exceptionally crafted coming-of-age movie set within the hypermasculine world ...

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The inventor of the World Wide Web has used an open letter on its 31st birthday to warn of ongoing gender inequality online.

Critics say the planned event could breach anti-discrimination laws.

President Zoran Milanovic condemned the incident as an ‘inhumane, totally unacceptable act’.

LGBT environments are one of the main places bisexuals receive discrimination - it's time we put that to a stop.

Can anyone doubt that homophobia and male chauvinism will be weaponised against a Buttigieg candidacy?

Woodside High School in Wood Green, north London, said they were the first school to paint a rainbow crossing in the UK to mark LGBT History Month

The guidance says marriage is the proper context for sexual activity.

Brighton and Hove City Council have announced they have filled their unusual position - which was advertised with a top level wage of £35,000.

James Healy admitted assaulting Owen Jones outside a pub.