Liberate wrote an open letter to all members of the States of Jersey this week (17th of June 2014) in support of Deputy Sam Mézec’s proposition to introduce civil marriage for same sex couples in Jersey. You can read Jersey Evening Post report on our letter below. Deputy Sam Mezec’s proposal of civil marriages for same sex…
Liberate’s first public ‘outing’ was at the Guernsey Arts Commission Seafront Sunday on the first Sunday of June 2014. We had an amazing day and a fantastically positive response to the work we are doing. We’d especially like to thank everyone that took part in our Dance for Equality. The video will be up on our You…
Ben was raised in Guernsey and recently returned from Cornwall with his husband Oliver. They want to raise a family here and are hoping to adopt. Having been through the adoption approval process in the UK they are now embarking on that same journey here in Guernsey. Surprisingly, very few same sex adoptions have happened…
Welcome to our new website. We hope you like it and find it fun and informative. My name is Martin Gavet, I’m Liberate’s Honorary Chairperson and I’ve been asked to write a ‘blog’, which I’ve never done before. I hope you like it! When I was approached about setting up a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender…
We wanted to do a couple of blog posts to help people understand more about the ‘T’s’ amongst our LGBTQ community. Especially with this subject being the hot topic of conversation in the Guernsey at the moment. We wanted to put some ‘voices and faces’ to the Trans community of the Channel Islands, along with…
A great concise and informative article from the BBC News on the policy change for gender reassignment surgery. Read the full article here.
Transjersey.org is a new group has launched to provide help and support for transgender, transsexual, androgynous, genderqueer, bigender and intersex Jersey residents. Trans Jersey is the idea of the Jersey novelist, Vic Tanner Davy, and grew from his own experience of transitioning in Jersey and the need to respond to the States of Jersey’s consultation paper…
Liberate talk, to ITV Channel Islands, about their joy of being involved in the change of policy regarding Transgender reassignment surgery in Guernsey. We hope it will be the first of many policy changes that will be made in regards to the LGBTQ community of the Channel Islands.
We’ve been asked to elaborate on the meaning of the ‘Q’ in the LGBTQ. We found the below which summed it up rather nicely: Today, more and more people are coming out “queer/questioning,” much to the dismay of the older generation of the GLBT community who is used to hearing it as the oppressors attempt to…
1290 First mention in English common law of a punishment for homosexuality. 1300 Treaties in England prescribed that sodomites should be burned alive. 1533 Buggery Act introduced by Henry VIII brought sodomy within the scope of statute law for the first time and made it punishable by hanging. 1861 Death penalty for buggery in England…