Opinion News

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.

Crack reports "

a group of artists and music industry professionals have penned an open letter expressing solidarity with the trans community.

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

Warning and Opportunities on Genetic Tech

Posted on 11 Jan 2025 in Opinion

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" and discusses some of the arguments debated in this book comprising researches, bioethicists and ph

What Fuels one woman's Fixated Transphobia?

Posted on 4 Jan 2025 in Opinion

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 Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has already proven that she was born a woman. This i

Tide Turns Against Anti-LGBTQIA School Reps

Posted on 19 Dec 2024 in Opinion

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-queer and anti-transgender candidates backed by Governor Ron DeSantis lost their school board races

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

Dec

A View from the North and Fighting Fascism

Declan Muholland, a Labour Party councillor in Burnopfield and Dipton, warns anti-fascists that racism is thriving in the dark and damp of deindustrialised and neglected northern t

Nov

Musk Told to Butt Out of Britain Commentary

Billionaire right wing extremist Elon Musk, who is considered by many mental health and neurological experts to be a sociopath if not a psychopath, has been sharply rebuked by the

Nov

Remembrance Day on ShoutOut Partner Station

One of the partner community stations which works with "ShoutOut" - South Bristol's BASE Radio, is at Dundry Church south of Bristol on Sunday 10th November, to