Opinion News

Trans Blogger Dissects Post Shooting Terrain

Posted on 20 Sep 2025 in Opinion

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 who disagree with them. Erin points out that " Vice President JD Vance and Stephen Miller used the death to demand the dismantling of NGOs critical of Kirk.

Polyamorous Relationships On the Rise

Posted on 3 Jul 2025 in Opinion

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:

Gay Hero Fry Slams "Radicalised" Rowling

Posted on 20 Jun 2025 in Opinion

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

Music Industry Unites for Trans+ People

Posted on 10 May 2025 in Opinion

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.

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International Solidarity Group Appeals Funds

Posted on 16 Feb 2025 in Opinion

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 AllOut Fundraising department makes a grand appeal for funds, and says "We'll cut right to the chas

Jan

Warning and Opportunities on Genetic Tech

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"

Jan

What Fuels one woman's Fixated Transphobia?

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

Dec

Tide Turns Against Anti-LGBTQIA School Reps

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

Dec

Dangers of School Book Silencing

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

Dec

LGBTQIA+ People Welcome Freethinking

Way back in the 1950's it was remarked on how gay and trans people were natural freethinkers, that every idea, every subject, could be up for civilised debate in their bars and cafes and people wou