Musicians from LGBTQ+ communities face significant barriers and issues relating to discrimination, sexual harassment and concerns around physical, mental and financial wellbeing – according to new research released today from the Musicians’ Union and Help Musicians. Over a third of LGBTQ+ musicians (37%) have experienced or witnessed discrimination based on sexuality whilst working as a […]
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LGBTQ+ Musicians Experiences with Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
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WIN! A Storydo Family Storybook
Storydo is a ground-breaking platform that allows all types of families to tell their unique story and celebrate their family, simply by answering questions and uploading images. The bespoke, hardcover, A4 book captures the child’s story from grandparents, pregnancy, and birth, right through to the family’s best holidays. Storydo books include all the people and […]
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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 […]
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Franco Labia: Space Pride
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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Sacha Polak on Silver Haze
Screening at BFI Flare later this year, Silver Haze reunites Dutch writer/director Sacha Polak with British actor Vicky Knight. Having worked together on Dirty God in 2019, Sacha Polak’s new film is loosely based on Knight’s own experiences as a child, and explores the confrontation of trauma, the juxtaposition socioeconomic status, and the concept of […]
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Capturing People’s Truth: Anais Stupka
Anais Stupka is a London-based, Georgian-Italian multimedia artist who grew up in 14 different parts of the world. Her work was initially influenced by the diversity of beauty she noticed around the world, actively going beyond the surface of beauty that is easily acknowledged to focus more on the beauty that can be challenging […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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