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A level playing field? Addressing discrimination in sports
Stonewall’s Director of Programmes, Liz Ward, celebrates the out and proud LGBTQ+ athletes from this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, but asks: “Is this enough?”. The theme for the Tokyo Olympics and...
We Can Do Better Than This: new book gives voice to LGBTQ+ experiences from around the world
ByPrishita Maheshwari-Aplin
How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? A newly released collection of stories and essays, We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights, tackles the question by...
10 ways to step up as an ally to non-binary people
ByStonewall staff
14 July is International Non-Binary People’s Day, which aims to celebrate the wide range of people worldwide who identify as non-binary. But do you know what it means to be non-binary? And do you...
Being non-binary in the UK today
ByPrishita Maheshwari-Aplin
What does it mean to be non-binary? For me, it means freedom and joy. To be non-binary is to exist outside of society’s confines and expectations. It’s to look at the world around me and to challenge...
Hidayah: Gender, Sexuality, and Islam
ByDeenah al-Aqsa
During Pride Season, we are celebrating the ways we are #ProuderTogether. Deenah from Hidayah talks about how the organisation provides visibility, information, and community support to queer Muslims...
AVEN – The Asexual Visibility and Education Network
ByMichael Doré
Content warning: sex, sexual coercion During Pride, we are celebrating the ways we are #ProuderTogether. Michael from AVEN talks about the importance of including ace identities in the LGBTQ+...
Queer East: LGBTQ+ cinema from East and Southeast Asia
ByYi Wang
During Pride, we are celebrating the ways we are #ProuderTogether. Yi from Queer East talks about the importance of queer representation in the media, and of amplifying the voices of Asian...
The Scottish Bi+ Network
ByNic
During Pride, we are celebrating the ways we are #ProuderTogether. Nic from the Scottish Bi+ Network talks about intersectionality in the bi community, and how you can get involved with the network’s...
Pride Month reflections from our departing vice chair, Simon Blake OBE
As part of our #ProuderTogether campaign, our departing vice chair Simon Blake has reflected on how much our movement has achieved in the past six years, and how much further we have to go. In 2015 I...
All about the collective working to decolonise contraception and so much more
ByGayathiri Kamalakanthan
During Pride we’re celebrating the ways we are #ProuderTogether. So Gayathiri also highlights the work of another organisation making an impact in LGBTQ+ communities. Decolonising Contraception (DC...