Protest Against President Museveni in London
On Monday, members of Out and Proud Diamond Group, an African LGBTQ organization, protested alongside allies outside the Savoy Hotel in London. The protest sought to confront President Yoweri Museveni...
View Article50% Cuts to HIV Prevention Funding Announced
The Government has announced funding arrangements that threaten the national HIV prevention programme in England with devastating cuts. Funding will be halved for the year 2015/16, with no commitment...
View ArticleA Thank You Note from a Black Lesbian
You may recall a distressing chain of events from 4 months ago in which a British lesbian, Christina Fonthes, was held captive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by her mother on account of her...
View ArticleOrashia’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...
View ArticlePardon 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...
View ArticleHIV 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...
View Article#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...
View ArticleHave 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...
View ArticleSwitchboard 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...
View ArticleReopen 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...
View Article#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...
View ArticleDirect 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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