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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

Fifty years on from the Stonewall riots, the picture for LGBT+ people is very different, yet there can be no complacency in a time when the far right is attempting to weaponise our struggle, writes Bethan Turner.

The Stonewall Riots of 1969 heralded the birth of the fight for LGBT liberation in the US and Britain says Ellie May. 

A Hard Rain is an intimate and moving depiction of the experience of LGBT people in the run up to the Stonewall riots.

The brother of murdered private detective Daniel Morgan has accused home secretary Theresa May of stonewalling.

This week we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots – three days of revolt led by gay men, lesbians and transvestites, which led to the founding of the gay liberation movement.

All of the main candidates for London mayor went head to head at a 400-strong hustings organised by the Stonewall LGBT rights group last Saturday.

The Unite Against Fascism conference was an excellent event, with a fantastic range of speakers from Daud Abdullah from the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) to Derek Mumm from gay rights group Stonewall.

The modern gay rights movement began in 1969 with the Stonewall riots in New York.

In 1969 the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) seemed to come out of the blue. It was a movement born from a riot after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York.