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...
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 ArticlePride Volunteering Fair – 31 March – London
Tuesday 31st March 2015, 6pm St Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London. Ever want to give something back but not sure where, what, how, who? Well never fear as the Pride Volunteering Fair...
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 ArticleIDAHOT Prayer Service – Sunday 17 May
No Fear In Love – Challenging homophobia and transphobia in religion To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Bihphobia (IDAHOT; known elsewhere as IDAHOBIT), the Out and...
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...
View ArticleTG PALS | 1st Annual Transopoly Walk
TG PALS is a UK charity dedicated to supporting trans people and raising awareness of issues affecting the trans community in wider society. On Saturday 15th August, a small group made up of members...
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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...
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Deborah Gold, Chief Executive of the National AIDS Trust (NAT) | Interview
Interview by Rakshita (Raks) Patel and Photography by Robert Gershinson @shootTalkPhotos. Today we are launching our LGBT+ ICONS series, which shines a spotlight on the true icons of our communities –...
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...
View ArticleHalloween vigil to save The Black Cap, Camden
This Saturday (October 31) sees a special Halloween gathering outside the Black Cap from 1pm. Organised by community campaign group #WeAreTheBlackCap, the event will mark six months since the iconic...
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World AIDS Day Interview | Ant Babajee “Unashamedly Positive”
For World AIDS Day I interviewed Ant Babajee, a Terrence Higgins Trust volunteer and trustee. Ant is a gay man, who was diagnosed with HIV in 2007. I wanted to hear about his HIV diagnosis, about what...
View Article‘Music Not Borders’| Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants
Following on from recent high profile demonstrations against the treatment of migrants, at home and abroad, the campaign group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants have announced ‘Music Not Borders’,...
View ArticleThe Boy From Mushin – Bisi Alimi’s Biopic
In 2004, the president of Nigeria claimed that there were “no gays in Nigeria.” Then, Funmi Iyanda, interviewed Bisi Alimi about his sexuality on her popular television show, New Dawn. As you may...
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