Current Affairs News

Trans+ Pride to Brighten Oxford University

Posted on 28 May 2023 in Current Affairs

The city of dreaming spires, Oxford is to enjoy a day of celebrating community and transgender joy, courtesy of a coalition called by the University LGBT+ Society and backed by The LGBT+ Oxford Staff Network, Feminist Society, Oxford Against Conversion Therapy and the town's largest LGBT+ venue, the Jolly Farmers. The organisers say "We will fight for trans rights and combat transphobia with the best weapon we have: loud and strong trans visibility - showing the country what community looks like" In response to the anti-trans ps

Fundamentalist Radio Station Knocked Off Air

Posted on 14 May 2023 in Current Affairs

Media web bloggers have noted that a nominally "Christian" radio station which transmits hate filled, Christian fundamentalist programming on Sundays, has been knocked off the air on shortwave. Since 1988, Christian nationalist, anti-gay and extreme anti-democratic programming from fundamentalis

Peter Tatchell on Police Misinformation

Posted on 14 May 2023 in Current Affairs

Although it is fair to say that the LGBTQIA+ communities have a wide variety of views on the monarchy as an institution, one thing that is agreed is that the right to protest against any aspect of authority is to be defended. After all, our communities have had to do so many times in the past.

Linking the LGBT+ And Vegan Movements

Posted on 11 May 2023 in Current Affairs

Although homophobia sadly exists in all movements, there is also a strong sense of solidarity between the LGBT+ and vegan animal rights movements, with many crossovers between activism and analysis on how to build a better world. The vegan website Plant Based News reports that a

Met Police "Sided with Fascists" in Drag Demo

Posted on 8 May 2023 in Current Affairs

The Metropolitan Police, who are still reeling in the wake of the Casey Report into institutionalised bigotry, are the subject of a formal complaint to the Lewisham borough commander, after allegedly maltreating peaceful protesters from the LGBTQIA and anti-racist groups who had

May

Peter Tatchell Condemns Policing of Ceremony

Gay human rights campaigner and democratic socialist Peter Tatchell was streaming live from the anti-monarchist protest spot on the parade route of the Coronation of King Charles I

Apr

Positive Trends in Equality Impact Population

The Earth4All network of scientists and economists has published a new paper that suggests that, given current trends towards greater equality for all genders, the global population will peak at ar

Apr

Linking Struggles for Trans & Neurodiversity

As has been reported on “ShoutOut” before, some scientific evidence suggests that there is a correlation between transgender identity and autism. But as neurodiverse conditions such as autism join

Apr

Met Police Criticised Over Port Murders

Gay radio station Queerly and LGBT+ magazine Attitude have reported comments made by Matt Parr CB of His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Resc

Apr

Anti-Abortion Extremists Undermine Democracy

Katherine Dodds writing in the “Guardian” warns that anti-abortion extremists, often bankrolled with money from right wing US conservatives, are increasing their agitation in the United Kingdom, de