11 things straight people need to know
As rainbow flags are flown around the world during Pride month, and many people have come to accept same-sex relationships as valid, it can be easy to forget that the LGBT+ community still...
Category: LGBTQ+
We’re here: LGBT issues and the UK General Election
It has only been a few weeks since Prime Minister Theresa May announced her snap General Election, but it feels like the fighting and sniping has been going on for years. Leaderless ‘leader...
Dear white gay men
Summer is coming, which means June is right around the corner, which means Pride celebrations. Canada now seems to be right back where it started last year with talk about cops participating...
Death and terror for LGBT community in Chechnya
Members of the LGBT+ community in Chechnya are being held in concentration camp-like conditions, and at least four have been killed. Ramzan Kadyrov, the country’s president, has vowed to...
Mack Beggs and Transphobia in Sport
A transgender teen boy has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons after he won the Class 6A girls’ wrestling state championship in Texas (where else?). Forced to compete with high school...
Conservative Christianity is making the LGB community sick
It is a bold claim, but new research carried out by the Oasis Foundation explains how the church is the predominant cause of mental health problems in the LGB community. To acknowledge that they are...
6 big LGBQT rights gains in 2016
As news breaks that actor Debbie Reynolds has died, just a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher, it is a bleak reminder that finding positive spins on 2016 is always going to be a bit of a challenge....
Post-election minority fears deserve to be taken seriously
I am 17, I am gay, and I am scared. I am scared of what a Trump presidency might mean for me, members of the LGBT community, and the society in which I live. But most of all, I’m scared that nobody...
12 ways to support LGBQT family and friends in a Trump era
Dark days are ahead for members of minority groups in the US and across the world. President-elect Trump and his team have demonstrated views and actions that are racist, misogynist, disablist,...
InterVarsity just sold LGBQT Christians out
To those of us who’ve been paying attention, it’s seemed obvious for a while that conservative Christians are at the forefront of a growing backlash against greater inclusion for LGBTQIA people,...