11/06/2020
LGBT Bristol, the semi official body that networks community organisations to the City Council, has broadly welcomed the toppling of the statue of slave trading merchant Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in the city at the weekend. LGBT Bristol did not themselves make any public comments, but in their daily webfeed of community news, called the Daily Outburst, they republished a number of articles from newspapers such as the Guardian, looking at the reasons for the pulling down of Mr Colston's statue. Many news channels carried footage of the statue being torn down, rolled around two hundred meters to Pero's bridge and deposited in the harbour. The Daily Outburst is available for your inbox free of charge and contains a wide range of articles of interest to the West Country LGBTQ communities. Just visit the LGBT Bristol twitter feed to look at today's edition and to subscribe so that you receive it every day. Also in the Daily Outburst this week has been Daniel Radcliffe's response to the storm caused by author JK Rowling, who has once again been publishing separatist style feminist critiques of transgender people. The celebrity and gay friendly website Pop Sugar takes up the story saying that whilst Daniel acknowledged the debt he owed to Ms Rowling's “Harry Potter” books for his career, he was a contributor to the US based Trevor Project, that helps reduce LGBTQ teen suicide and mental distress. “"Transgender women are women," he wrote. "Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I."
