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What do the terms asexual and aromantic mean and what is the ‘asexual spectrum’?

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With one in ten young LGBT+ people now identifying on the asexual spectrum, many are questioning what asexuality is and how they can be an ally to asexual people. Put simply, asexuals experience a lack of sexual attraction towards others, but there are many forms of asexuality and it can mean different things to different people. Sadly asexuals are often overlooked both in and outside the LGBT+ community, and according to a 2019 survey, most British adults can’t even define the term. But the first thing you need to know is that asexuals are valid – and they’re far more common than you might expect. What does asexual mean? Asexuals or “ace” […]

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Russian minister claims ‘Western schools’ are teaching children that Jesus was bisexual

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Russia’s foreign minister has made the unlikely claim that schools in a number of Western countries are teaching children that Jesus was bisexual. Minister Sergei Lavrov, 71, painted the improbable picture in an essay for the Russian Kommersant newspaper titled “The Law, Rights, and the Rules,” published Monday (28 June). In it he delivered a sweeping critique of “boundlessly permissive” liberal democracies which he believes “encroach on human nature”, starting with Jesus’ sexuality. “Attempts by reasonable politicians to shield the younger generation from aggressive LGBT propaganda are met with bellicose protests from the ‘enlightened Europe,’” he said. “All world religions, the genetic code of the planet’s key […]

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Women’s Institute puts proud trans woman on magazine cover in historic first

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The Women’s Institute (WI) has featured a trans woman on the cover of its magazine for the first time ever: 74-year-old activist Petra Wenham. Petra, a member of the Cake and Revolution WI in Suffolk, said she was “honoured” to be the first trans person to grace the cover of WI Life. In the magazine, she explained that she came out as trans to her wife, Loraine, in 2015 and came out publicly in 2018. Around the same time, she began delivering a talk to other WI groups titled: “Have you ever met a trans woman?” In it, she explains to members the difference between […]

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Top lawyers, MPs, academics and activists tell Boris Johnson how to end conversion therapy

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Lawyers, politicians, academics and activists have banded together to tell Boris Johnson exactly how to legislate for a ban on conversion therapy after his claim it is “technically complex”. In March this year, following the resignation of three members of the government’s own LGBT+ advisory board, Johnson promised to “stamp out” conversion therapy, but claimed that a ban would be “technically complex to deal with”. Four monthson, there has been no progress aside from the announcement of a consultation which will take place before a ban is introduced, with no timeline, aiming to “protect the medical profession, defend freedom of speech, and uphold […]

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Methodist Church to perform same-sex marriages after historic, landslide vote

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The Methodist Church has voted to allow same-sex marriage, and will now define marriage as between “two people”, rather than between “one man and one woman”. In 2019, the Marriage and Relationships Task Group presented a report to the church’s annual conference, titled “God in Love Unites Us“. The report put forward proposed resolutions same-sex marriage, and these were approved by all but one of the local Methodist synods. On Wednesday (30 June), the 2021 conference gave final considerations on the resolutions, and officially voted to allow same-sex marriages to be conducted in Methodist churches. The conference voted overwhelmingly for marriage […]

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High Court rejects bid to force trans women into men’s prisons in landmark ruling

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The High Court has rejected claims that housing trans women who’ve committed sexual or violent offences against women in female prison facilities is discriminatory to cis women. A judicial review against the government was launched last year to determine whether the Ministry of Justice’s policy on the care and management of trans prisoners discriminates against cis women. The High Court returned its judgement on Friday (2 July), stating that the policies “do not involve an unjustified or disproportionate intrusion with the [Human Rights Act] Convention rights of women prisoners”. The landmark case was brought by an unnamed cis female inmate at HMP Downview, who said she […]

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EU to finally take legal action against Poland over horrific ‘LGBT-free’ zones

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The EU will finally take legal action against Poland over the country’s “LGBT-free zones”, which began popping up in 2019, according to reports. Bloomberg Equality reports that “four people familiar with the matter”, who asked to remain anonymous, said the move could be formally announced as soon as next month. The legal action, known as an infringement procedure, would see the EU give Poland notice to correct the issue. If it fails to do so, the EU could take the case to the European Court of Justice, which may impose a fine. Some towns and regions in Poland that declared themselves “LGBT-free” […]

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Ohio governor signs bill allowing doctors to refuse care to LGBT+ people

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The governor of Ohio has signed a bill that allows doctors to refuse medical care to LGBT+ patients if they have an objection based on “moral” grounds. The provision was buried in a 700-page document of last-minute amendments to the state’s two-year budget bill, which governor Mike DeWine approved last Wednesday (30 June). t allows any medical provider – from doctors and nurses to researchers, lab techs and insurance companies – “the freedom to decline to perform, participate in, or pay for any health care service which violates the practitioner’s, institution’s, or payer’s conscience as informed by the moral, ethical, […]

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Parents of ‘scared’ 13-year-old trans girl sue Florida over transphobic sports ban

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The parents of a 13-year-old girl have launched a federal lawsuit to challenge Florida’s reviled ban on trans girls taking part in school sports. Mounted by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest LGBT+ advocacy groups in the US, the lawsuit argues that the ban violates both the constitution and existing federal anti-discrimination law. It was filed on behalf of Daisy, an avid football player aged 13, and her parents. Under Florida’s anti-trans sports law, she will be forced to play either on the boys’ team or quit the sport altogether. “Playing sports makes me feel like I fit in,” Daisy […]

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Young gay man tortured and killed in Mexico after he revealed that he had HIV

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A young gay man was tortured, burned and killed in Mexico after he revealed at a party that he was living with HIV, activists say. The victim, who has not been named, was allegedly slain in a blacksmith shop in Cancún, a southeastern beach town in the state of Quintana Roo, in early June. t was a night of revelry that slipped into mayhem when the victim informed party-goers that he was living with HIV, advocacy group Resilientxs told Presentes, a local queer news outlet. He died from a “blow to the head with a blunt, short object”, the Attorney General’s […]

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