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Resistance is pushing back some attacks

A transphobic organisation has lost its bid to force Hampstead Heath’s famous swimming ponds to ban trans women. And a huge majority of the thousands of swimmers who use the pond voted to stand with trans+ people against bigots. Sex Matters took legal action against the City of London Corporation, which operates the ponds. It...

Organising in the workplace against transphobia

The fight for trans+ liberation is our fight

30,000 took to the streets of London

Stand against transphobia

It's right to protest against attacks on trans people

Vigils across Britain

Protests have sprung up all over Britain

Starmer plays into attacks on trans rights

Should "culture" be a barrier to change?

Push back the bigots

Criminal legacy of London Olympics 2012

Fight for liberation continues

Sky Golding explores the legacy of two defining LGBT+ radicals from the Stonewall riots

Nathan Johnston explores the life an early member of the Gay Liberation Front

Just possibly readers of Socialist Review may not be acquainted with the Kardashians and so may also be unaware that one of the show’s participants, 1976 Olympic gold decathlete Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn, has recently come out as transgender. Millions have watched interviews and read articles about her transition and social media has been buzzing....

In the late 1960s the Black Panthers and the early gay liberation movement fought against different forms of oppression. But, as Noel Halifax explains, they could find common ground.

Nicola Field and Gethin Roberts of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners spoke to Socialist Review about politicising this year's Pride season.

The Black Book trial of 1918 exposed the extent of anti-gay feeling in a British society at war. And, writes Noel Halifax, it gave us Noel Pemberton Billing, the Nigel Farage of his day.

“We’re going to break an unbreakable Nazi code and win the war” says Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) near the start of this new biopic of the computer pioneer. For anyone who doesn’t know the story, well they do now. And that’s one of the problems for the film makers. So they tweak the plot, glam...

Magnus Hirschfeld was central to the German gay rights movement at the turn of the 20th century. From the 1890s to the 1930s he was a member of numerous committees, societies, campaigns and institutes that together can be said to be the first major gay rights movement that involved thousands of people, and usually with...

Schools OUT was founded 40 years ago to campaign on lesbian, gay and bisexual issues in education. Sue Caldwell spoke to Tony Fenwick, a co-founder, about the fight against homophobia and transphobia.

Bayard Rustin was a key strategist in the US civil rights movement and the main organiser of the March on Washington. He was also gay and a communist. Josh Hollands celebrates his life and achievements.