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Within the space of a week, two acts of appalling barbarity – one on either side of the Atlantic – have shocked and saddened us. On the night of 11 June, Omar Mateen killed 49 people in a gay bar in Orlando. Six days later, Labour member of parliament Jo Cox was...

The LGBT community and its allies in Orlando, Florida were the victims of an appalling hate crime and terrorist attack in the early hours of Sunday morning. We stand with them and their partners, friends and families at this difficult time and know, in the end, that...

Sowing the seeds of equality I was 17 when the miners’ strike began in 1984. I was a Labour activist in the Tory stronghold of Enfield Southgate; doing my A levels at Southgate comprehensive school; and I was gay but had not yet told anyone. Southgate Labour activists...

All over the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people experience persecution and discrimination. With over half the countries throwing adults in prison for having consensual same-sex relations based in the Commonwealth, this government should make the...