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Kay Knight: How the Christian church is still using conversion therapy to hurt LGB people
So called ‘gay conversion therapy’ has been much in the news of late. There has been a campaign to legislate a ban for which...
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Jonny Best: “Queer was decidedly ours and no-one else’s, a vital shot of ‘fuck you’ adrenalin into the bloodstream of polite, assimilationist, ‘please-may-we’ activism.”
I don’t want to be called queer. I know as well as anyone else the sting that queer delivers when used as a homophobic...
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Professional Judy: “Given the mob’s reaction to Alex he must have done something truly hateful to attract their wrath? Well no actually, he simply wore a T-shirt and beanie hat with LGB Alliance’s logo on it. That’s it.”
I sat down to write this piece several times over the weekend since the news first broke about Alexander Bramham having to be escorted...
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Debbie Hayton: “Transsexuals need to make it clear that angry mobs – on the streets or on social media – do not act in our name. What happened in Manchester was despicable, and we condemn it absolutely.”
The shameful treatment of Alexander Bramham at a Pride event in Manchester on Saturday ought to have been a wake-up call to everyone. Bramham...
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Trans-substantiation: A quest for truth in the Quakers, by Deborah Evans
The Society of Friends, also called Quakers, are a radical religious group that did away with church tradition, believing in ‘that of god in...
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Jo Bartosch on Radio 1’s Drag Day: “One wonders if the BBC thinks the diversity box is ticked by the rolling coverage of drag.”
The appeal is obvious; bright, brash and bombastic drag queens are pop culture on stiletto-wearing steroids. But the BBC’s lurid fascination with all things...
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Claire Heuchan: Queer or not, Lily Cole would never be criminalised for marrying a man
Supermodel Lily Cole came out as queer, saying “I felt the need to acknowledge that I'm not straight.” And this is fair enough. Being...
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Kay Knight on the death of subtext in LGB films: “We have an industry often so beholden to checkbox ‘representation’ that it has overlooked the need to tell real stories.”
The first film I ever saw where a lesbian relationship was depicted openly was Desert Hearts. The film was released in 1986, and by...
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As Pride in London wants 2022 to be “The Year of Queer”, Professional Judy says “We’re not subversive, we’re not unusual, we’re not deviants and we’re not fu**ing Queer”
If ever there was an example of how disconnected from everyday LGB people Pride in London has become, their call for 2022 to be...
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Kay Knight: The shaming of homosexuals for having sex
One of the most unpleasant new homophobic slurs to emerge in recent times has been ‘genital fetishist’. In an age when ‘kink-shaming’ has been...
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Demisexuality from an embarrassed ex-demisexual, by Kat Howard
Recently, Michaela Cuomo, daughter of New York governor Andrew Cuomo, ‘bravely’ came out as ‘queer’ to much acclaim from national newspapers and media sources...
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Gary Powell: Why is Boris’s UK Special Envoy on LGBT Rights silent when LGBT+ extremists send JK Rowling violence, rape and murder threats?
“I wish you a very nice pipebomb in mailbox.” Would it really be so unreasonable to expect a public statement of condemnation from the...
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Rebekah Wershbale on The Queering of JoJo Siwa: “It remains to be seen if JoJo is headstrong enough to resist the tide of labels and stay unashamedly gay.”
Let me begin by making this very clear – my community deserves JoJo Siwa. Let’s face it, we’ve got a dearth of decent lesbian...
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