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Intersection of Immigrant Rights Looks Grim

Posted on 4 Oct 2025 in Law

The essential daily briefing from Erin Reed, published on substack every day, is a must read for LGBTQIA people and others who care about the survival of minority groups in an age of hate and Trumpism. On Friday, Erin reported "Sometimes the political crises of our era collide, and few intersections are more stark than immigrant rights and transgender rights. A new complaint alleges that ICE agents have subjected transgender detainees to sexual assault, physical abuse, and forced labor.

Cruising Site Arrests Bring Back Trauma

Posted on 1 Oct 2025 in Law

Out Magazine reports that since June 1st, over two hundred gay and bisexual men, have been arrested for cruising offences at Penn Street Station in Central New York. Such arrests are reminiscent of earlier periods of policing in the city, where pretty policemen were used to entr

Tory and Labour Dithering is Costing Lives

Posted on 13 Jul 2025 in Law

In the new edition of gay magazine Attitude, Peter Tatchell blasts the old conservative government and its replacement, Sir Kier Starmer's Labour Party in its failings on many LGBTQIA+ issues. In particular, Mr Tatchell highlights years of dithering over anti-gay and anti-trans

Time for Police Apology - Tatchell

Posted on 30 Jun 2025 in Law

The Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights says that whereas some police forces, such as Avon and Somerset Constabulary, have apologised for past homophobic harassment of LGBTQIA+ people, so several of the forces which were the most bullying

Lavish Lifestyle "Misogynist" Tate Charged

Posted on 28 May 2025 in Law

According a newscast monitored Wednesday night from Chippenham Hospital Radio, right wing and self declared "misogynist" internet influencer Andrew Tate, and his young brother Tristan, are to face charges in the UK Including human trafficking, once they are extradited from Romania. The B

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All Out Fighting Back Against the Far Right

The LGBTQIA+ campaigning and action network, ALLOUT, says that it is doing all it can to mobilise supporters to defend the rights of minorities from the predations of the international far right wi

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Taking Action to Protect Democracy

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Sane Republicans Join to Save Trans Youth

Mira Lazine, writing for the Good News Feed of LGBTQ Nation, reports that several Republican senators have come out with their Democratic opponents in a show of bipartisan support

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Columbian LGBT+ Ally Passes Away

Columbian entrepreneur and politician Rodolfo Hernández Suárez has passed on at the age of seventy nine. He was politically syncretic and fitted neither left or right of the trad

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Small Victories over Right Wing Libel

Small victories in the legal sphere can have a major impact, particularly when dealing with the lies and misinformation of right wing commentators. So, LGBTQ Nation reports this w