LGBTQ+ Rights
50 years of gay liberation
27 November 2020 Sam Stroud looks back at the UK’s first ever LGBTQ+ demonstration and explains its significance for liberation struggles today
The importance of queer space
30 October 2020 From creating to ‘taking up’ space, Molly Fleming reports on the ongoing efforts to sustain radical queer traditions
This government is failing trans people: Labour must take a stronger stand
16 May 2020 Aisling Gallagher explains why Liz Truss’ recent rhetoric on proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act signals a worrying shift.
Pride in an Irish border town
18 October 2019 This summer, Irish LGBTQ campaigner Joseph Healy joined the Pride march in his home town of Newry. Here, he explains how life on the border has changed - and the stakes of Brexit installing a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic
Trans and gender-queer prisoners face a double punishment.
24 October 2017 For trans prisoners, abuse isolation and poor medical care are routine parts of incarceration. By 'ASBO', a former inmate.
The rights and safety of LGBTQ+ people are not guaranteed – we must continue to fight for them
26 September 2017 Kennedy Walker looks at the growth in hate attacks at a time when the Tory government is being propped up by homophobes
It’s time to shut down Yarl’s Wood detention centre
16 May 2017 Hundreds of people surrounded the fences this weekend. Hera Lorandos spoke to women who have suffered inside.
Book Review: Sex, Needs and Queer Culture: from liberation to the post-gay
3 December 2016 Aiming to re-evaluate the radicalism and efficacy of queer counterculture and rebellion - April Park takes us through David Alderson's new work.
Summer event: the Spark
15 May 2014 A week of workshops, films, discussions, poetry, music, art and more, looking at the fight for social justice in the UK and around the world to take place in June
Out of the furnace, into the fire?
3 April 2014 Prossy Kakooza and Siobhán McGuirk report on the recent Anti-Homosexuality Act passed in Uganda, and the UK’s own draconian approach to LGBT asylum seekers.
Married strife: going beyond marriage equality
1 January 2014 The same-sex marriage campaign has been successful, but LGBTQ equality is still a distant dream. It’s time to reassess our priorities, argues Siobhan McGuirk
Putting the protest back in Pride
25 July 2010 Siobhan McGuirk reports on the fight to reclaim Pride in Manchester and beyond
Unnatural no more
11 October 2009 In July, the Delhi high court in India decriminalised homosexuality. Sylvia Rowley talks to Shaleen Rakesh, the activist who brought the case
Coming out in Kenya
23 August 2009 Pauline Kimani is one of Kenya's few openly lesbian women. Interview by Arusha Topazzini
