LGBT

Reports round up: McStrike on menu at 6 stores

McDonald’s fast food workers who are members of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers’ union (Bfawu) were set to strike at six sites across south London London next Tuesday.

Letters—We hope our strike at Beis encourages others to fight

After being on indefinite strike since the middle of July, I and the other cleaners at the department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) finally have our victory.

Reports round-up: Success for UCL fightback and more

Cleaners, security workers and caterers at University College London (UCL) have scored a victory.

LGBT+ round up: Activists hold firm against hate on Soho protest

LGBT+ activists staged a “holding-of-hands” protest in Soho, central London, on Friday of last week against a spike in hate crime.

Join action against LGBT+ hate

Stand Up to LGBTQ+ Hate Crime—an alliance of LGBTQ+, anti-Islamophobia and anti-racism campaign groups—was set to hold its second action against hate crime on Friday this week.

Protesters stage ‘kiss-in’ in London against bigotry and LGBT+ hate

LGBT+ people staged a “kiss-in” to beat back the bigots in London’s Parliament Square on Friday.

LGBT+ activists organise ‘kiss-in’ against the bigots

13 August 2019
A coalition of LGBT+ groups was set to hold a “kiss-in” in Parliament Square, central London, on Friday.

Tories lent on Birmingham school to suspend LGBT+ lessons

30 July 2019
The Tory government put “extreme pressure” on a primary school to drop LGBT+ lessons, according to school bosses.

Defend LGBT+ Education

16 July 2019
LGBT+ education is under attack. That was the message from a BBC Panorama programme this week.

Pride marchers celebrate - and demand more rights

06 July 2019
Around 1.5 million people came out for the Pride in London festival on Saturday.

‘Pride is a chance to show anger at the attacks on us’

02 July 2019
Pride marches should see outpourings of anger against the rise of attacks on LGBT+ people that we’ve seen in recent weeks.

Remember Stonewall was a riot

24 June 2019
The Stonewall Riots started a movement for gay liberation. Attacks on LGBT+ people show that five decades later we still need its militancy, argues Tomáš Tengely-Evans

LETTERS - homophobic attacks show the need for militant resistance

18 June 2019
After reading your timely article on increases in LGBT+ attacks, I googled Pride in London (PiL) to find out how I might raise my voice against these atrocities.