Queer engineer and founder and president of Space Pride, Franco Labia is on a mission to diversify the space industry, which as it stands is an ‘elite old boys club’ with a serious lack of any visible LGBTQIA+ community. We got in touch with Franco to discuss Space Pride – an international charity dedicated to celebrating […]
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Military Charity Fighting With Pride Flies The Flag For LGBT History Month
Liverpool’s HMS Eaglet will host a special Veteran’s Pride event this month celebrating the service of LGBT+ veterans and serving personnel in the UK’s Armed Forces. In a first event of its kind, Veterans Pride will take place during LGBT history month on Saturday 10th February and has been created and organised by a team of partner military charities […]
Philip Baldwin meets Adrian Trett
“It’s a real challenge to be non-binary and open about it in sport.” Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett is a Liberal Democrat politician and also enthusiastic about sport. Adrian is non-binary, living with HIV and was a gold medallist at the recent Gay Games. Tell us about non-binary representation in sport. Within sport, it’s rare for people to be […]
Fynest Reads: To Cage a God
To Cage a God combines two things that fascinate me: Russian history and mythology. The book’s backdrop of a brewing people’s revolt against a magically gifted upper class evokes some parallels to the real-world tensions surrounding the decline of the Russian empire and the House of Romanov. However, the story also explores themes around the […]
LGBT+ History Month 2024
The 2024 theme celebrates LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to the field of Medicine and Healthcare both historically and today. We want to showcase the amazing work of LGBT+ staff across the NHS and in other healthcare settings, in providing healthcare, especially during the pandemic. Whilst still shining a light on the history of the LGBT+ community’s […]
Touch-Me-Not: Ian Humphreys
Touch-Me-Not Ian Humphreys this flower doesn’t belong on the canal hiding in an airless tunnel where no-one goes before dark rooted to a thin layer of dirt head bowed butter bloom an open mouth that faint smell of sherbet when someone passes it brushes a thigh springs back against the wall careful just one […]