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Trans Pride Brighton & Hove becomes first to sign the Fossil Free Pride pledge
LGBTIQA+ activists recently launched a petition calling on Pride celebrations across the country to end their sponsorship relationships with the fossil fuel industry. The group - Fossil Free Pride -…
Why we’re campaigning to kick fossil fuels out of Pride
We love all the ways Pride brings us together for celebration and protest. The music, the crowds, the dancing, the outfits, the love and the fighting spirit. We’re also all…
LGBTIQA+ activists launch petition to kick fossil fuel companies out of Pride
LGBTIQA+ activists have launched a campaign demanding that Pride celebrations refuse to accept sponsorship from fossil fuel companies. Organised under the banner of Fossil Free Pride, the campaign has emerged…
Why Pride is still relevant
Image credit: Creative Commons, The Lilac Bonzai Every year in June we celebrate Pride month. We do this to remember the Stonewall riots which occurred in 1969, which happened in…
Police arrest LGBTIQA+ activists at Glasgow Pride
Five LGBTIQA+ activists were arrested at Glasgow Pride on Saturday after peacefully protesting the police presence. Several activists engaged in a peaceful blockade against the police leading the parade at…
Budapest diary: another brick in the wall
NATO specification barbed wire. Photo by Lars Plougmann. It reads like a work of fiction in instalments, published in the daily newspaper, Népszabadság, that I avidly study with my morning…
Northern Ireland – Still The Worst Region of the UK to be LGBT
Last Saturday saw Belfast’s annual Pride parade take to the streets. It’s a celebration that will be familiar to many cities across the world. It’s a lively day with an…