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Gloucester Police Apologise for Past Wrongs

Posted on 18 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

In a press release, the Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights expresses thanks to Gloucestershire Police becoming the fourteenth police force to apologise for past homophobic witch-hunts and discriminatory law enforcement. In a letter to LGBT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell, Chief Constable Rod Hansen expressed regret for the harm caused by the often abusive way the police enforced historic anti-LGBT+ laws: “As Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary, I apologise for the historic misuse of the legislation, which may have led to the over-policing

Extremist TV Channel Challenged by Eco Group

Posted on 15 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

Despite its association with the now quit gay male television pundit Dan Wooton, the right wing television channel GB News is generally considered hostile to LGBTQIA+ rights, and particularly those of transgender women, the supposed dangers of, it continually fea

Charges Brought in Michigan Murder Case

Posted on 14 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

US based LGBT+ newswire Them reports that an eighteen year old heterosexual male has been arrested for the murder last June of gentle and caring black transgender woman Ashia Davis, whose compassion and humanity had led her to graduate from a nursing course and she was looking fo

Edinburgh Discussion on Abolitionism

Posted on 3 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

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Countering Hate Online with New US Laws

Posted on 2 Apr 2024 in Current Affairs

The Campaign for Countering Digital Hate, which monitors and advocates against the worst hateful excesses of the internet, says that it welcomes a draft bill before Congress. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has expressed its support for the U.S.

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Public Believe that Prison Reform Needed

The Guardian Media Group reports that a majority of the British public, albeit a small one, believe that pregnant and nursing mothers should not be sent to prison where a community

Mar

Horror at Right Wing TV Channel in the UK

The right wing news channel GB News has been described as "riding roughshod" over broadcasting laws in the UK, which are designed to defend fair access and a reasonable level of im

Mar

The Irish public broadcaster, RTE, has started broadcasting the internationally syndicated LGBTQIA+ newsmagazine programme This Way Out. Produced in Los Angeles,

Mar

Daily Mirror Readers Back Brianna Apology

A poll of readers of the centre left Daily Mirror newspaper reveals that an overwhelming majority of the papers readers believe that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak owes the family of m

Mar

BBC Radio 4 slammed for Misgendering Brianna

Spokespeople for the Crown Prosecution Service have said that the murder of trans teenager Brianna Ghey was "one of the most disturbing cases" their lawyers had ev