The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight on 29 March 2014, despite the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act receiving Royal Assent on 17 July 2013. The Act’s primary aim was to allow for marriages of same-sex couples across England and Wales, and Humanists UK was a leading voice in bringing about this pivotal change. It […]
This year, LGBT Humanists celebrates a remarkable milestone – its 45th anniversary. For nearly half a century, its volunteers have been a driving force for LGBTQ+ rights, championing compassion, reason, and human rights across the country. But how did it all begin? LGBT Humanists’ story begins in 1976. It was then that Mary Whitehouse, a […]
A Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy had its first reading in Parliament yesterday (Monday, November 20), which was put forward by All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group Vice Chair Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrats). The Bill aims to put an end to discredited and harmful practices that claim to ‘cure’ people of their homosexuality or trans gender […]
A ban on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ will reportedly be absent from tomorrow’s King’s Speech and it now seems highly unlikely that a ban can be enacted before the next election despite the Government’s commitment to ban the practice five years ago. This reported omission comes after years of inaction and u-turns. It has been over […]
“I will not agree that in a democracy, you then get to vote my life out of the picture.”
Humanists UK, a leading voice in the campaign for same-sex marriage, is today celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act, which received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013. The Act’s primary aim was to allow for marriages of same-sex couples, which came into force the following year.
Sandi Toksvig and Stephen Fry have led LGBTQ+ groups and activists in calling on the UK Government to grant legal recognition to humanist marriages in England and Wales immediately, in an open letter published today (Tuesday, April 18).
With love in the air, and the first proper wedding season for two years getting into full swing, we ask James Thomas, Brighton-based LGBTQ+ wedding celebrant, the question: Why should we pick a humanist wedding?
Northern Ireland Humanists (NIH), alongside Humanists UK, becomes members of the Coalition against Conversion Therapy (CACT), a coalition of leading psychological, psychotherapeutic, and counselling organisations committed to ending conversion therapy, and who hope to extend the reach of its activities into Northern Ireland.
MPs have voted today in favour of compelling the UK Government to make same-sex marriage legal in Northern Ireland, to decriminalise abortion, and to make provision for legal abortion in the cases of sexual crime and foetal abnormality.
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