Almost five years after a nineteen-year-old gay student was found dead in a King's Cross hotel basement, the Metropolitan Police has reopened its investigation and apologised to his family. For Ed Cornes's mother, and for a community that has heard the Met apologise before,
Labour has finally published its draft bill to ban conversion practices, eight years after a Conservative prime minister first promised one. It is the right thing to do, and it arrives from a government that has spent its time in office entrenching almost every Tory position on trans people it
Wayne Briggs, the cabinet member responsible for children's services in Warwickshire, has refused to apologise after a leaked email branded the Pride movement a dangerous ideology and worse. He is refusing to step down, and his party leader is standing behind him. The man who oversees children'
The Queen of Pop has finally confirmed that her long-gestating Universal film, once titled Who's That Girl and set to star Julia Garner, is dead. For the men who grew up worshipping her in the clubs, the consolation could hardly be sweeter. For the better part of
The Moloko singer has reopened a three-year argument about dissent and belonging by telling her followers that trans activists are not wanted at her shows. There is a grim familiarity to the way a Róisín Murphy controversy now unfolds, a rhythm of post, uproar, clarification and consequence that has
There are two Andy Burnhams, and the distance between them tells you almost everything about the kind of leader he would be. The first is the man who stood up at Manchester Pride and said, without hedging, that he supports trans rights and wants that on the record. The second
The morning after Makerfield, it was hard not to feel the old flutter. A working-class town that the entire commentariat had quietly written off to Reform looked the hard right in the eye and chose the man from Leigh instead, and for a few hours the British left permitted
Paul Mescal Speaks Out On Trans Rights For The First Time Ahead Of London Trans+ Pride Irish actor Paul Mescal has publicly spoken out in support of trans rights for the first time, joining a growing list of artists, activists and public figures backing this year's London Trans+
London is preparing to turn rainbow once again as Pride in London returns on Saturday 4 July 2026, bringing together activists, performers, community groups and hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ+ people and allies from across the UK and beyond. Organisers expect another huge turnout, with around 1.5 to 1.
There is a moment in the first episode of Tip Toe, Russell T Davies' new drama for Channel 4, where the Bolton Seven get a mention. Alan Cumming's character, Leo, the owner of a gay bar on Canal Street in Manchester, reels off a list of injustices.
When Lord Grade, who ran Channel 4 across two of its defining decades and went on to chair Ofcom, was asked about Married at First Sight this week, he did not reach for the diplomatic language you might expect of a man who has spent half a century deciding what
Topher's Slag Bag: your questions, answered without flinching Something we have learned fairly quickly at Outcast World is that the moment you create a space for queer people to ask questions without embarrassment, they take you up on it immediately and with considerable enthusiasm. The DMs have been
