We are very proud of what Lesbian and Gay News (LGN) has achieved since it was founded in February 2021, with quality articles written by a wide selection of contributors and representing a broad range of political perspectives. We feel that, during its year in publication, it has made an important and significant contribution to […] The post Announcement from the LGN Management Team: Lesbian and Gay News is closing appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

Lesbians United have today announced their 2022 Messaging Guide which lays out a strategy for combating sexism and homophobia with language. Here Lesbians United tell LGN readers more about it. This week, Lesbians United is excited to announce our 2022 Messaging Guide: Advancing Women’s and Gay Rights with a Lesbian-Centered Narrative. The guide, which is […] The post Lesbians United on taking back the narrative appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

The independent Cass Review of gender identity services for children and young people this morning published its interim report to NHS England. The Report does not include the Review’s final recommendations, though it pulls no punches with its suggestion that the current model of NHS child gender services is “not sustainable” and that there is […] The post “The current model is not sustainable and another model is needed”: Interim Report of Cass Review welcomed by families with transgender-identified children, reports Gary Powell appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

The Enemy Within is Adam Macqueen’s second thriller in his Tommy Wildeblood series. The Piccadilly rent boy turned detective is now studying at the Polytechnic of North London where he falls in love with handsome young Irishman Liam – and gets pulled into radical political activism. We asked Adam Macqueen to tell us more about […] The post “I was surprised thinking I’d been writing a thriller to discover I’d actually been writing a love story too!” Adam Macqueen on his new novel The Enemy Within set in 1980s radical politics appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

How do we find more lesbian spaces? For the duration of my twenties, this question has weighed on me more heavily than almost any other. And I’m not alone in that. Young women routinely ask me about lesbian space in DMs, emails, WhatsApp – almost always private forms of communication. Nearly every effort I’ve witnessed […] The post Claire Heuchan: How do we find more lesbian spaces? appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

In a spectacular failure to read the room, Edinburgh City Council voted last week to join Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Scheme and Workplace Equality Index. Joining Diversity Champions – for a fee – will enable the council to access advice and training (at additional cost) from Stonewall: submitting to the Workplace Equality Index will entitle the […] The post Shereen Benjamin on Stonewall: “It is alarming that City of Edinburgh councillors would affiliate their council to this increasingly discredited organisation.” appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

Sir Tony Blair has urged the Labour Party to respond to voters and rethink its position on women and transgender issues. “They [voters] don’t want a situation where women can’t talk about being women,” the former Labour leader said in an interview with The Times’s Alice Thomson on Saturday. “The polls might say voters don’t […] The post “Voters don’t want a situation where women can’t talk about being women,” says Tony Blair as MP Rosie Duffield talks about lack of support from Labour leadership appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is up against the ropes. “Partygate” has been the last straw for many Conservative MPs, and the PM has realised it is time for him to take measures in the hope of avoiding a confidence vote as the 1922 Committee letters mount up towards the critical trigger of 54 submissions. The […] The post Gary Powell: Why Conservative backbench MPs should demand that Boris Johnson cancel the “Safe To Be Me” international LGBT conference appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

In October 2020 there was a development that has proved to be a game-changer in the battle to defend sex-based rights and protections. An organisation called “Sex Matters” was founded by Rebecca Bull, Naomi Cunningham, Maya Forstater, and Emma Hilton. Since then, this professional and energetic body has continued to do sterling work and to […] The post The Government’s Conversion Therapy consultation ends this Friday and Sex Matters – a great ally to lesbian and gay people – have made it easy to respond, reports Gary Powell appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more

In what could be a pivotal moment in the debates about gender and sex, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued a stunning response to the Government’s proposals to ban “conversion therapy” (https://t.co/1djOSIrOfN). It zeroed in on the key problems and despite the polite language essentially told the government to get its act together. […] The post EHRC skewers the UK Government’s Conversion Therapy proposals, by Bev Jackson from LGB Alliance appeared first on Lesbian and Gay News ..read more