LGBTQIA+ HISTORY THE LAST 75 YEARS:

February marks LGBTQIA+ History Month in the UK. This months provides us with a chance to continue to educate ourselves on LGBTQIA+ issues, history and culture whilst also celebrating the unbelievable courage, bravery and hardwork that LGBTQIA+ activists have made to provide those within the community today with greater freedom, rights and representation.

This year marks 20 years since Section 28, the law that banned “promotion of homosexuality” in the UK, was repealed Since then The Equality Act has also come into force protecting people from discrimination based on sexual orientation

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or gender re-assignement and same sex marriage has also become legal.

While progress is being made we still have a way to go, with parts of the community still under attack; we must come together to keep moving forward!

We still have major hurdles to overcome such as the practical implementation of the ban of conversion therapy (more on page 5) and the increased risk of exclusion in representation and law of our transgender friends and family