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LGBTQ+ young people #DeserveBetter — 365 days a year
Every LGBTQ+ young person deserves to grow up feeling safe, accepted, understood, and free to be themselves. It’s a simple idea. For far too many young people, it still isn’t their reality. Today, The Proud Trust launches #DeserveBetter — a campaign shining a light on what LGBTQ+ young people are
The spark of a movement: Stonewall and the UK it lit
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. In the early hours of 28 June 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a small, scruffy gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York. Raids like it were routine. What wasn’t routine was what happened next: the people inside, and then the crowd
A step, not the finish line: the conversion practices bill
Some news is worth pausing on. This week, the Government laid a draft Conversion Practices Bill in Parliament — a trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices, covering England and Wales. If you’ve followed this for any length of time, you’ll know how long “soon” has lasted. So first, plainly: this is
Racism in LGBTQ+ spaces: the silent topic
There’s a conversation our community tends to talk around rather than through. So let’s just say it plainly: racism happens inside LGBTQ+ spaces, not only outside them. That’s uncomfortable to put in writing. It’s meant to be. The numbers we don’t post about Stonewall asked Black, Asian and minority ethnic
Pride flag history: 48 years of the rainbow
This week, the Pride flag turned 48. It first flew on 25 June 1978, over the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. Most people picture six clean stripes and assume it arrived fully formed, like a logo. It didn’t. The real story is hand-stitched, slightly chaotic, and a lot more
Pride by the numbers: where Britain really stands in 2026
Every June the rainbow goes up, and every June it’s worth asking a blunt question: underneath the colour, what do people in Britain actually think? The new Ipsos LGBT+ Pride Report — 26 countries, nearly 20,000 people — gives us an answer. And it’s neither the triumph nor the disaster
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