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LGBTQ+ rights

20 July 2024

  • Sophie Duker in yellow shorts and hat and a black top, with check platform wedges, sitting legs akimbo

    On my radar
    On my radar: comedian Sophie Duker’s cultural highlights

    The London-born standup on a magical Netflix animation, Joe Lycett’s activist T-shirt, and how she fell in love with pole dancing

19 July 2024

  • A driver passes the chequered flag at Silverstone in 1954

    Out of the straight: motor sport’s gay drivers

    Letter: Ralf Schumacher’s announcement that he is gay reminds Peter Grimsdale about the life of a leading figure of Britain’s early motor racing scene
  • Steve and Scott Johnson in their last photograph together in 1988

    ‘He was a beautiful man’: one man’s long journey to justice for the killing of his brother

    After a decades-long battle to discover the truth about what happened to Scott Johnson, his brother Steve has written a book about never giving up
  • Viola Di Grado

    My queer friends in Italy are so worn down by discrimination, they don’t notice it. Here’s why

    Viola Di Grado
    Giorgia Meloni is trampling what few rights the LGBTQ+ community has left – so many just feel grateful to be ‘tolerated’, says novelist and translator Viola Di Grado

15 July 2024

  • people sitting and standing hold up signs and mini flags

    California bans rules requiring schools to tell parents of child’s pronoun change

    First-in-nation law bars passing of policies that require school staff to reveal student’s gender or sexual orientation
  • Wes Streeting leaves Downing Street after attending a cabinet meeting: he is seen in a head and shoulders view in front of black iron railings on which England flags are hung as bunting. He is a young man with short fair hair and is smiling; he wears a dark blue jacket, pale blue shirt and dark tie with red horizontal stripes, and holds a red folder under his arm.

    Wes Streeting expected to tell parliament why he backs puberty blockers ban

    Health secretary understood to be ‘minded’ to make ban permanent as Labour MPs criticise move to retain Tory policy

    • Former Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher comes out as gay

    • Crossing review – search for estranged trans niece becomes emotional Istanbul journey

    • From the agencies
      Japan’s LGBTQ+ photo weddings – in pictures

14 July 2024

  • The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour<br>LOS ANGELES - OCTOBER 1: Little Richard appears on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. Image dated October 1, 1971. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

    The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period

    In this erudite book with broad appeal, the renowned critic moves deftly from insightful analysis of pivotal artists and songs into the wider social history of the era that changed culture

12 July 2024

  • a woman speaks into a microphone

    Women ‘don’t need’ Harrison Butker after controversial speech, says Serena Williams

  • Director Levan Akin.

    ‘I saw In Bed with Madonna 50 times. I’d never seen guys kissing before’: Levan Akin on formative films, trans rights and usurping his heroes

9 July 2024

  • Suella Braverman gestures as she speaks behind a lectern on which ‘National Conservatism’ is written

    Suella Braverman’s ‘divisive politics’ make her unfit to be leader, says Tory mayor

    Opposition among senior Tories grows after ex-home secretary derides Progress Pride flag being flown over Home Office
  • Keir Starmer

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer praises Abbott and hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – as it happened

    Parliament the most diverse by race and gender the country has ever seen, says Starmer, with the largest cohort of LGBT+ MPs in the world
  • Greg Louganis at home in Topanga, California.

    Fascinating Olympians
    Secrets, betrayal and shocking abuse: how Greg Louganis survived – and became the greatest diver of all time

    On the outside, he was the happy, handsome young athlete who thrilled the crowds. But as the medals piled up, he was having to hide his sexuality, HIV-positive status and the violence meted out by his partner and manager

8 July 2024

  • The Church of England General Synod in York

    Church of England moves closer to services of blessing for same-sex couples

    The archbishop of Canterbury urged traditionalists not to abandon the church over the move
  • Missy Higgins plays the piano on stage

    Missy Higgins soundtracked my generation of queer teens. Seeing her live is euphoric

    Joseph Earp
    Her debut album The Sound of White turns 20 this year. It’s still brilliantly queer and as heart-stirring as ever
  • Carbon &amp; Water.

    Carbon & Water review – sexual fulfilment of a gay man in his 60s is little-explored territory

    An isolated older man falls for his nurse in a well-intentioned but erratically edited film undercut by poorly written characters with lengthy, repetitive dialogues

7 July 2024

  • nancy-valverde3 (1)

    The Chicana butch lesbian who defied the LAPD – and won: ‘I couldn’t be someone else’

  • Ben Woodbury at his design store

    Years at Exclusive Brethren school were ‘darkest moments of my life’, former student says

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