Opinion News

American Atheists Pledge Support for LGBTQIA+

Nick Fish, writing for American Atheists in a press release, calls on LGBTQIA people, immigrants, the disabled, welfare claimants, the left, trade unions, and progressive Christians - indeed, all those singled out for abuse and opprobrium by a narrow minded administration - to support each other and build counter power.  Mr Fish says "Whether we call ourselves atheists, agnostics, humanists, nones, or none of the above, nonbelievers now account for nearly a third of the population. We’re a growing demographic and  a rising political force.

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Trans Blogger Dissects Post Shooting Terrain

Top LGBTQIA+ news commentator Erin from the In the Morning blog, dissects attempts by the Trumpist right wing in the States to use the murder of social media influencer Charlie Kirk last week, to suppress free speech, undermine legitimate NGOs and even call for the mass incarceration of people wh

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Polyamorous Relationships On the Rise

LGBTQ  Nation reports in with a lengthy piece this week on polyamorous relationships both amongst heterosexuals and the LGBT+ population.  Here are a few choice snippets from their essay and a link to it - it really does make for fascinating reading:  

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Gay Hero Fry Slams "Radicalised" Rowling

His intervention into the debate on transgender people might be considered somewhat long in appearing, but gay raconteur Stephen Fry, who had previously remarked that author Joanne Rowling "remained a friend" has quietly distanced himself from her remarks about transgender people, describing them

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Music Industry Unites for Trans+ People

Here's some much needed uplifting news, courtesy of the independent music and arts magazine Crack, which you can find distributed across the city of Bristol via record shops, independent bookstores and community centres.  

Crack reports "

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16
Feb

There are no pull punches pulled in a press release from AllOut.org, the international fundraising site that works with local projects on the ground to protect LGBTQIA+ lives.  The

11
Jan

Doctor Neal Baer is the editor of a new book about about the incredible promise and potential pitfalls of CRISPR gene-editing technology.  Doctor Baer talks to the science web portal "Live Science"

04
Jan

Henry Giardiana writing at LGBTQIA+ portal Them.com reports that, after two weeks of silence, the transgender fixated Joanne Rowling is "at it again", and appears to be goading Alg

19
Dec

LGBTQIA+ blogger Erin Reed, whose blog we recommend you subscribe to for latest incisive news and comment, reports some victories to celebrate in Florida.  On Tuesday, several anti

16
Dec

Ellie Creamer for the Guardian newspaper reports that more than two dozen school librarians in the UK have been asked to remove books – many of which are LGBTQ+ titles – from schoo

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