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News and views from Stonewall and beyond
LGBT people of faith share their experience of lockdown
BySarah Hagger-Holt
The last few weeks have seen people of faith mark significant annual festivals. The last few weeks have seen people of faith mark significant annual festivals. Pesach, Lent and Easter, Ramadan and...
Remembering the Holocaust
ByJosh Bradlow
Following several years of escalating persecution under the Nazi regime, more than six million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust. Alongside Romany Gypsies and people with disabilities...
True equality doesn’t exist unless it includes everyone
ByJan Gooding
As winter draws in, and the end of the year gets closer, it gives you time to reflect. For someone who is a passionate supporter of equality, after a decade of what felt like great progress, it’s sad...
What Song of Praise’s first same-sex wedding means to me
ByJoey Knock
It wasn’t the first wedding on Songs of Praise, but it was the first one I truly felt invited to from my sofa. Two men getting married in a church. It looked like the wedding I hope for myself in the...
Why we need more representation of LGBT people of faith in popular culture
ByThe co-chairs of Stonewall’s Faith and Belief Network
Last week, we saw plenty of headlines talking about the rumours that EastEnders will debut its first openly lesbian Muslim character . Reports suggest that the character Iqra, played by actress Priya...
Faith and LGBT inclusion
ByRuth Hunt
Faith is an important part of many LGBT people’s lives, including my own. But this idea that keeps being perpetuated that LGBT people cannot possibly belong within faith communities has been deeply...
A chance for change: equal marriage in Northern Ireland
After the Supreme Court announced that only allowing same-sex couples to enter into civil partnerships is unlawful, we celebrated the fact that the Minister for Women and Equalities, Rt Hon Penny...
A Vision for Change
Today the Stonewall Trans Advisory Group launched 'A Vision for Change' , a five-year plan for trans equality in Britain. In reality, their 'Vision for Change' is about a lot more than Stonewall. It...
LGBT people of faith need respect and acceptance
ByRuth Hunt
Stonewall's CEO, Ruth Hunt, repsonds to The House of Bishops' report on same-sex relationships, released 27/01/2017. We’re disappointed by today’s news that the Church of England still won’t...
The Jeremy Pemberton case and what it means
BySimon Sarmiento
Canon Jeremy Pemberton is a priest of the Church of England. He works for the NHS as a chaplain in a hospital in Lincoln, and was recently offered a new job as a chaplain at a hospital in...