In The South Greens advance LGBTIQA rights at Spring Conference Green Party pass five motions improving policy to support members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersex, Queer, and Asexual community at their Spring Conference last week. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
In The South Greens celebrate work of Brighton learning disability charity Green councillors joined service users, staff and volunteers of Brighton and Hove ‘Speak Out’ to celebrate its work advocating for adults with learning disabilities in the city last week. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Labour take control of City Council as the largest group A clean sweep of Labour councillors in troubled Queens Park Ward pushed Labour, three seats ahead of the Conservatives to make them the largest party on the city council at the local election count yesterday, (May 9). In a spectacular reversal of the 2011 results when Greens took control of the city By Besi • 3 min read
Election Special Green Party launch national LGBTIQ Manifesto in Soho Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, launched the party’s LGBTIQ Manifesto in Soho today. The manifesto contains pledges to: Review the discriminatory blood ban; introduce LGBTIQ-inclusive sex education; protect LGBTIQ asylum seekers; improve services for trans people and By Besi • 1 min read
Christopher Hawtree: Green Party Parlimentary Candidate for Hove and Portslade Election Special Christopher Hawtree: Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Hove and Portslade People ‘enter politics’ through many doors. Always interested by this, Christopher says he was galvanised by the campaign to prevent the imposition of a directly-elected Mayor on Hove and Brighton – and by running a nationally resonant campaign to prevent Hove Library being closed down. By Contributor • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Green leader apologises for candidate’s transgender comments GREEN PARTY leader Natalie Bennett has apologised for comments made by the Green parliamentary candidate for Cambridge, Dr Rupert Read, about trans* people. In a twitter exchange Dr Read said he found the word cisgender “troubling”, going on to describe trans* women as “a sort of opt-in version of w By Besi • 2 min read
