Employment News

Waterstones Fires LGBT+ Worker in Shock Case

Posted on 31 Oct 2024 in Employment

We usually recommend that LGBTQIA+ people will get the best service from independent, queer owned and progressive businesses such as the network of independent bookstores around the UK. The problem with Waterstones, a big chain store in Britain, was underlined this week after it dismissed a worker for making a personal comment on their own website about a transphobic author. LGBTQ Nation takes up the story and says " Tilly Fitzgerald, a bookseller at the British bookstore chain Waterstones, was fired after she made a social media post criticizing a so-called “gender-criti

Women in Cyber Security are Celebrated

Posted on 10 Jul 2023 in Employment

Kris Lovejoy, a leading figure in the field of cyber security, talks to the progressive feminist web portal March 8th this week on the need for the industry to improve its representation of women, as cyber and security agencies across the free world deal with cyb

TV Series Will Share Joy of LGBT+ Muslim Life

Posted on 9 Jan 2023 in Employment

Young actor Adam Ali speaks to the LGBTQIA newswire Pink News this week about the return of the hit BBC television school drama series “Waterloo Road”, which is to return to our screens in 2023.

Authors Union Backs Trans Friendly Leader

Posted on 7 Dec 2022 in Employment

In its round up of news from the trade unions, the left wing weekly Socialist Worker says that a thinly veiled attempt orchestrated by transphobes to undermine the Chairperson of the Society of Writers, that is the main authors union, has fallen flat.

Lady Boys Present Spectacular Show

Posted on 16 Jun 2022 in Employment

The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back on their UK tour, supported by the generous patronage of the Arts Council of England. In our home city of Bristol, they are performing from Friday 10th June until Saturday 18th June. There will be two performances a night on the Fridays and Saturdays of their r

May

Contest Spell Broken as UK Comes in Second

Pink News reports that fans are as elated as they are surprised that the UK’s run of bad luck at the Eurovision Song Contest, with year on year coming last in the festival, was finally broken on Sa

Apr

First Female TUC Chief To Quit at Year End

The Metro Newspaper reports that the first woman to lead the Trades Union Congress in the UK is to step down at the end of 2022. Frances O’Grady was elected General Secretary of the TUC in 2013 an

Mar

Gay Fetish Portal Recon Seeks New Staff

T101, which is the company that owns gay and bi men’s fetish network RECON, is advertising for several positions at its London offices close to Shoreditch and Hoxton.

Mar

Adult Industry Realities Explored on TV Doc

Channel FiveStar, a free to view and cable television station in the UK, spent time last Monday evening with a tiny fraction of the estimated one hundred thousand people who work in the adult indus

Sep

OFCOM quits Stonewall Equality Scheme

The BBC News Channel reports that OFCOM, the broadcast and telecommunications regulatory body, is to quit the Stonewall Equalities Scheme, Called Diversity Champio