LGBTQ+ News
West Mercia’s Chief Constable, Alex Murray, has made a formal apology to the LGBTQ+ community, acknowledging past homophobic witch-hunts and discriminatory law enforcement. In a letter to Peter Tatchell, Murray expressed regret for the harm caused by the often abusive way the police enforced histori
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Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch MP has received an invitation to meet with leading LGBTQ+ advocacy groups. The invitation, which comes from human rights organisation Peter Tatchell Foundation, is in response to reports that Badenoch has had little or no engagement with most LGBTQ+ organisations, d
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Chris Haward is the fifth UK police chief to say sorry following apologies from the heads of the Metropolitan, City of London, Sussex and South Yorkshire forces.
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Angela McLaren is the fourth UK police chief to say sorry
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She is only the third UK Chief Constable to do so, following a similar apology by the heads of the Metropolitan and Sussex forces.
International News
Their protest, outside the downtown Sogo shopping mall on Saturday (29 July), was prompted by the recent public caning of two alleged lesbians and other crackdowns on the LGBTQ+ community in Malaysia.
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The Chief Constable of Sussex, Jo Shiner, has made a “full and unreserved apology” to the LGBTQ+ community for past, historic “prejudice, ill- treatment, bias, discrimination, harm, (and) injustices” by the police.
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LGBT+ Community Liaison Officers are part of the force’s “commitment to deliver the strongest ever neighbourhood policing for London, and is a crucial part of the mission for more trust, less crime, high standards”.
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He’s the first UK police chief to apologise.
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Apologise Now!, a new campaign organised by the Peter Tatchell Foundation to get British police forces to apologise for past “homophobic witch-hunts”, is being launched on Wednesday, June 7
News
Veteran LGBTQ+ human rights defender, Peter Tatchell, has pulled out of tonight’s (Thursday, June 1) Oxford Union Pride debate over its hosting of Kathleen Stock on 30 May, without a speaker to challenge her trans-exclusion policies.
Birmingham
West Midlands’ Chief Constable, Craig Guildford, was challenged at Birmingham Pride on Saturday, May 27 over his force’s refusal to apologise for its past “witch-hunting of the LGBTQ+ community”.