IN PICTURES: Brighton & Hove Pride Parade – by Simon Pepper Photography

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Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Queer-Side! Margate gears up for summer of Pride

Margate is fast becoming one of the UK’s most prominent LGBTQ+ communities, with census data indicating that over 7% of its population identifies as LGBTQ+. This figure places the town ahead of Manchester and Bristol, and just behind Brighton, often referred to as the UK’s LGBTQ+ capital. Against

By Graham Robson • 3 min read

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Munroe Bergdorf: “If you want to be a good trans ally, do more than posturing.”

British model and trans activist Munroe Bergdorf has issued a powerful call to action for those who consider themselves allies of the trans community, urging them to move beyond symbolic gestures and engage in meaningful support. In a candid interview with the Daily Mirror, Bergdorf criticised what she described as

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

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“We just want to bring Fiongal home." Grieving mother of Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek receives wrong body after Air India crash

A British mother has spoken of her devastation after discovering that the body returned to her following the tragic Air India crash was not that of her son. Amanda Donaghey, whose son Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek died alongside his husband Jamie in the crash of Air India Flight 171, was preparing to

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

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Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Queer-Side! Margate gears up for summer of Pride

Margate is fast becoming one of the UK’s most prominent LGBTQ+ communities, with census data indicating that over 7% of its population identifies as LGBTQ+. This figure places the town ahead of Manchester and Bristol, and just behind Brighton, often referred to as the UK’s LGBTQ+ capital. Against

By Graham Robson • 3 min read

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Munroe Bergdorf: “If you want to be a good trans ally, do more than posturing.”

British model and trans activist Munroe Bergdorf has issued a powerful call to action for those who consider themselves allies of the trans community, urging them to move beyond symbolic gestures and engage in meaningful support. In a candid interview with the Daily Mirror, Bergdorf criticised what she described as

By Graham Robson • 1 min read

Pride

Berlin Pride marchers warn of rising homophobia amid political backlash

Berlin’s Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade drew record crowds this weekend with marchers and activists using the occasion to raise alarm over a surge in homophobia and what they see as a dangerous shift in Germany’s political climate. Under the defiant slogan “Never shut up,” tens of thousands

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

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“We just want to bring Fiongal home." Grieving mother of Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek receives wrong body after Air India crash

A British mother has spoken of her devastation after discovering that the body returned to her following the tragic Air India crash was not that of her son. Amanda Donaghey, whose son Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek died alongside his husband Jamie in the crash of Air India Flight 171, was preparing to

By Graham Robson • 2 min read

Sandi Goodwin: The art of making art

Queer musical theatre genius Stephen Sondheim said: “the art of making art is putting it together, bit by bit.” And Sandi Goodwin has certainly done that, in a varied life which has encompassed being an aspiring dancer and actor, then HIV nurse and activist, theatre producer, and now an abstract

By Brian Butler • 5 min read

North America

Trans congresswoman Sarah McBride condemns Trump’s anti-trans military ban in powerful speech

US Representative Sarah McBride, the first openly trans member of Congress, has delivered a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump’s ban on trans military personnel, calling the policy “immoral,” “unfair,” and “un-American.” Speaking passionately on the House floor, McBride denounced the Trump administration’s decision to expel trans service

By Graham Robson • 1 min read