A final judgment from the Supreme Court has been handed down today, finding in favour of the Christian couple who own Ashers Bakery. The case was first heard in 2014 and concerned a gay couple being refused a cake that was in support of gay marriage. It was initially found that the bakery had discriminated…
We couldn’t be more pleased to announce our new Chair – Markis Allen! Our eternal thanks also go to Pippa McCathie for steering our ship for the last 18 months. She and her husband Niall will still be involved in supporting Liberate from the background. Markis has a long history of campaigning for LGBT rights. Read…
Transport for London are giving the Underground a makeover for Pride fortnight. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, launched the #LoveIsLove campaign. He said: “Here in London, you’re free to love whoever you want to love and be whoever you want to be.” This year’s Pride event marks fifty years since homosexuality was made legal…
Doctor Who is to get the first ever out gay companion in the upcoming series. https://youtu.be/98MXo_erGKE Bill Potts will be revealed as a lesbian, and will come out in her second line of dialogue in the latest series of the BBC show.
Lesbian and bisexual women are being incorrectly told they don’t need a smear test The National LGB&T Partnership has highlighted the fact that 37 per cent of women who have sex with women have been told they do not require a cervical screening test due to their sexual orientation. This is wrong. The HPV Virus can cause cervical cancer. Genital HPV…
Pink News have picked up on a local story related to Guernseyman Leo Thomas and his refusal to pay his parish rates. Mr Thomas has apparently written an open letter asking if he could be removed from his duty to pay the parish rates “due to the Church of England’s institutional homophobic stance on gay…
No sooner has Donald Trump been sworn in as the 45th President of the USA, than changes have been made to the White House website. President Obama’s administration was supportive of LGBT rights, even going so far as to light up the White House in rainbow colours to celebrate the Supreme Court ruling on equal…
We’re delighted to announce we’ve been shortlisted in two categories for this year’s Guernsey Community Foundation Awards, taking place this Thursday 3rd November. CI Pride parade on the streets of St Peter Port We have been shortlisted in the Organising Committee of the Year category for CI Pride, and in the Outstanding Individual Achievement category…
It was recently announced in the UK that the government would be issuing pardons, some posthumously, to gay people who had been previously convicted of being gay. Alan Turing (pictured), was an English computer scientist and mathematician, who was prosecuted in 1952 for engaging in homosexual acts, which was a crime at that time. He…
VU University Amsterdam are seeking people for a survey on relationships & mental wellbeing within the LGBTQ community. Information about the survey can be found here. A few people have asked if heterosexual people can also take the survey. The answer is yes! Heterosexual people are shown a very similar, but without the LGBTQ-specific questions.…