“It’s a Coalition, innit!” No one would accuse me – I hope – of a lack of commitment to LGBT equality. Nor would anyone  – I fear – of being a cheer-leader for the Government, nor indeed of slavish support for Liberal Democrats in Government. But I can not accept my friend Peter’s criticism of

As Chair of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, I welcome the government’s announcement to consult and determine whether restrictions on NHS workers with HIV, should be relaxed, after a review found an “extremely” low risk of the disease being passed on to patients. Alongside the Blood Ban announcement in July, which for me was only a small

The all-member Liberal Democrat News currently in the post to party members includes this update on the party’s Leadership Programme, designed to support candidates from under-represented groups: Of the first 11 candidates, five are women, three from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, three have disabilities. There is one LGBT candidate and five of the 11

by Mayor Lutfur Rahman I had the opportunity to speak at the East London Gay Pride event yesterday. Taking to the stage, I made it clear that our LGBT residents are part and parcel of the Tower Hamlets Community. I talked of how important our togetherness, and our unity in diversity, is in our efforts to remain One Tower

We all know how the following story works. Governments use stats to demonstrate the problem. And then they give us their answer. The more shocking the figures, so it goes, the greater the need for bold action. But too often we don’t consider the human impact of these figures. Let me give you an example.

I note with caution the TUC's press release below forgive me if I'm wrong but I would have thought the TUC would have been coordinating the further action on pensions between the public sector unions - but there is no mention of further action involving more unions. Let's hope the TUC take note of TUC LGBT Conference who along with almost everyone else in the TU movement have called fo...

but I was left wondering what exactly happened to LGBT activism. We started out as a genuinely counter-cultural subversive movement; Stonewall wasn’t named after a riot for nothing. Now we’re a demographic to be marketed to. Yes, that means you won. Rightly so. Your preferences in gonad/gonad encounters are no more counter cultural, odd, strange

On the eve of the annual Pride march in London, Ken Livingstone has called for greater support all-year round for the fight for equality and tolerance in London. Ken Livingstone will join hundreds of thousands of Londoners at Pride on Saturday 2nd July 2011 and march with LGBT Labour. Ken is committed to reversing the decisions by Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson to downgrade support for equality ...

Please find the following statement from LGBT Trade Unionists on the issue of homophobic stickers that have appeared in LB Hackney and LB Tower Hamlets statement from these Trade Unionists and community bodies issued in Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils name   Statement   We deplore the recent homophobic stickers that have appeared in LB Hackney and LB Tower Hamlets.
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The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council’s Cabinet and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee voted yesterday evening that the Council would not meet with Stonewall, Britain’s leading LGB charity, to discuss the possibility of becoming a Stonewall Diversity Champion. The proposal had been made by Cllr Todd Foreman after he discovered that the Council had not