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It’s International Pronouns Day, and it’s time for all of us to step up as trans allies
BySanjay Sood-Smith, Executive Director of Workplace and Community Programmes (he/him)
Over the past few weeks, if you’ve read a newspaper, gone on the internet, or turned on the TV, you’ve probably seen some stories and discussions about people’s pronouns. Non-binary celebrities like...
Compulsory voter ID in elections
ByLaura Russell
This week, we have heard that the Government is planning to introduce compulsory photo ID for voters for all future parliamentary and English local elections. This would mean that in order to vote...
International Pronouns Day
ByNeil McDonald
There’s a lot of discussion in the media and online recently about the use of gender pronouns. Gender pronouns aren’t new though. We use them all the time to identify and refer to someone. Describing...
Coming out, and my mental health
BySarah Brown
Mental health can affect anyone, on any day of the year, but today is World Mental Health Day. So I want to talk about mental health, particularly LGBT people’s mental health. Research shows that...
Why we need Hate Crime Awareness Week more than ever
ByJosh Bradlow
This year, Hate Crime Awareness Week falls at a time when our nation is going through a period of intense divisions. In any society, as rhetoric grows coarser, and communities are pitted against each...
Black History Month Heroes
ByStonewall's BAME/PoC Staff Network
We’re acknowledging and celebrating the thousands of historic contributions that Black LGBTQ individuals have made throughout history, paving the way not only for LGBTQ PoC but the LGBT community...
U.S. Supreme Court takes on LGBT equality
ByLeanne MacMillan
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear three landmark court cases challenging the fact that you can still be fired for being LGBT. Even though this is taking place in America, it’s a pivotal moment...
Why diversity and inclusion are so important to your workplace
ByEvelyn Asante-Mensah OBE, DLtt, MA (she/her)
Stonewall works with more than 800 companies and organisations in every sector around the UK, supporting their work to create inclusive workplaces and better LGBTQ allies in all aspects of their...
7 lesbians open up about the importance of visibility in 2019
ByStonewall staff
For International Lesbian Day, we’ve asked our lesbian staff what it means to them to be a lesbian in 2019, and what message they'd like to share with other lesbians. Today, we want to celebrate the...
Dispelling myths around detransition
ByKirrin Medcalf
Over this past weekend, we saw some worrying headlines and conversations online about trans and cis people whose exploration of their gender identity involves detransition. So let’s start with the...