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I couldn’t start this piece without saying yet again that I am incredibly proud of all that Labour has achieved by championing the fight for LGBTQ+ equality. We abolished Section 28, equalised the age of consent, created civil partnerships…
There has been a lot of progress over the last 30 years in the fight for equality. Stonewall is celebrating its 30-year anniversary after being founded in the campaign against Section 28 of the Local Government Act, legislation designed to…
Tomorrow is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. I will be celebrating the gains made by LGBT people in the UK since the decriminalisation of homosexuality over 50 years ago. It is a mark of how far we have come…
A piece of legislation that would mean children are taught LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education (RSE) in primary schools was passed by a huge majority of 517 yesterday, with 538 MPs in favour and just 21 against. But LGBT Labour…
It may be hard to believe, but conversion therapy is still legal in the UK. Whenever I bring this topic up in conversation, I'm often met with the same reaction – a mixture of bewilderment and indignation. Since the mid-20th century, we've…
Yesterday, LGBT Labour wrote an open letter to Katy Clark and Dawn Butler MP raising our concerns about the new LGBT Advisory group that was launched at the Labour annual LGBT History Month reception. We wrote this letter to demonstrate our…
Tomorrow there will be a Commons debate on extending the right to civil partnerships to all couples regardless of gender or sexuality. The private member's bill, published by Tim Loughton and supported by a cross-party range of MPs, is a…
This article has been written by 14 Labour Party members: Honor Cohen, Ilford North; Emma O'Dwyer, Hackney North; Carli Harper, Greenwich and Woolwich; Katie Curtis, Hornsey and Wood Green; Estelle Hart, Gower; Melantha Chittenden, Ashford…
We now know the result of yesterday's referendum in Ireland about equal marriage - and it is a landslide in favour of equal rights for the LGBT community: Ireland says #YesToEquality by a huge 62.1%. Yes: 1,201,607 - No: 734,300. Only one…
Acclaimed actor and long-term gay rights activist Sir Ian McKellen has backed Labour with an enthusiastic endorsement of the party's LGBT manifesto, launched yesterday. McKellen is co-founder of the charity Stonewall and patron of LGBT…
LGBT Labour have raised a record amount of money to support openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) candidates in the election. The group have made £25,000, which will be split across 26 seats where LGBT candidates are standing for…
The Labour party has rightly been at the heart of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) equality for years. In 1967, the party helped to decriminalise homosexual relations practiced in private (under the condition that both people involved were…
