LGBT+ Labour has announced it has raised £27,500 to support LGBTQ+ Labour parliamentary candidates ahead of the general election on July 4, surpassing the previous record held since the 2015 general election. LGBTQ+ Labour said: “LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms are increasingly under threat: from the rise in hate crime, to the failure to deliver a […]
UK Labour MP Stephen Timms has been criticised for praising the Jesus House church.
LGBT+ Labour has met with party leader Keir Starmer following his controversial visit to Jesus House church.
Press secretary Allegra Stratton said Downing Street stands by the prime minister’s decision to visit Jesus House.
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer has come under fire after visiting Jesus House.
LGBTQ+ groups from eight UK political parties have joined together to demand the government ban conversion therapy.
Trans activist and Liberal Democrat party member, Jasmine Joséphine Sakura-Rose, has quit her position as a diversity ambassador for the 50:50 Parliament programme.
Maureen Colquhoun, feminist pioneer and the UK’s first out lesbian MP, has died at 92. Colquhoun was a Labour politician, representing Northampton North from 1974 to 1979.
Dr Heather Peto, a trans woman who was the co-chair of LGBT+ Labour, has resigned amid allegations that transphobia is becoming increasingly common in the political party.
Last week, NHS England announced that Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) will be available on prescription from the NHS to 10,000 people as part of a three-year trial from September 1. The announcement follows in the footsteps of Wales as opposed to Scotland where the drug is already available. Campaigners in Northern Ireland are increasingly concerned about how they are falling behind the rest of the UK.
