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Orashia’s Story – LGBTQ Asylum Seeker Faces Deportation

by Jennifer Lee O’Brien – Leeds No Borders   What would you do if you had to choose between living your life as a lie, or living a life-in-waiting? This is the reality for Orashia Edwards, a 33...

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Pardon the 49,000 Convicted under ‘Gross Indecency’

Sign the petition to pardon the 49,000 convicted under homophobic gross indecency laws at change.org.   Previously  I wrote a piece on Alan Turing and the absolute atrocity that was his treatment at...

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HIV Prevention –“Underfunded and Deprioritised”

A report by the NAT (National AIDS Trust) has highlighted a worrying decrease in funding to HIV prevention, and this reduction’s direct impact on the rate of new HIV infections. In comparison with an...

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#WeAreTheBlackCap – Protest on Saturday

Following the sudden, unannounced closure and sale of The Black Cap, an iconic LGBTQ venue and drag bar in Camden, the queer community has mobilised and are ready to fight in solidarity! On Wednesday...

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Have a Eurovision party for the Albert Kennedy Trust

This Saturday, while most of Europe will celebrate an event that prides itself on difference and diversity, thousands of LGBT youth will be left on the streets for being different. This Saturday, while...

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Switchboard Selfie | Calum McSwiggan | Interview

In a trendy front room, somewhere in London, sit three youtubers. Vinnie and Luke Vaillancourt (of V2) bookend Calum McSwiggan. In front of them lie a multitude of discarded plastic shot glasses, 6...

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Reopen the Black Cap – Petition ahead of hearing on venue’s future

Click here to sign the petition to reopen the Black Cap, Camden.   As regular readers will be aware, a campaign to save the Black Cap, Camden, a drag and cabaret venue has been in action since the...

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Open Letter from #WeAreTheBlackCap to Venue’s Owners

This morning the campaign group #WeAreTheBlackCap released an open letter to Kicking Horse, the owners of the iconic cabaret and queer venue, The Black Cap. This follows months of protests over the...

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#RefugeesWelcome – Day of Action

Like me, you’ve probably spent the last with with a broken heart, helpless and lost in the face of a crisis that leaves Syrian toddlers like Aylan Kurdi to drown in a foreign land; unable to understand...

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Direct action for social injustice: an ACT UP case study

The imbalance in modern society seems to be the driving force for every politically charged discussion happening in our media, on public transport and around the water cooler. The notion that our...

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