Stonewall Stories

How are you involved in campaigning for LGBT equality?

In 2015 I co-founded the campaigning group and charity Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) with Liam Stevenson. TIE has one aim: to tackle homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia with LGBT-inclusive education in schools. We have effectively...

Khakan Qureshi (pronouns: he/him), support worker and founder of Finding A Voice , Birmingham's first voluntary-led, independent multi-faith South Asians LGBT social /support group, is also a Diversity Role Model, speaker, writer, and one of our School Role Models . Discover his story below.

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Miki Vyse (pronouns: she/her), Regional Director for The Jewish Leadership Council and one of our School Role Models , has spoken to over a thousand young people and over 20 teachers about being your authentic self as an LGBT person of faith. Discover her story below.

I work alongside 36...

Comedy writer & actor

I'm Lewis and I identify as male. I’m a filmmaker and a comedian – I create comedy sketches in which I play a variety of characters. I also make trans-related content: I love that my work helps other trans people.

When I was growing up I never had any trans role...

Videographer and video producer

I’m Jayne. I identify as female, but at the same time, I don’t see gender in big black and white terms. It’s exciting to see young people making themselves heard and understood, and challenging what it means to be a ‘man’ or ‘woman’.

I am one of a...

Student mental health nurse

My name is Roch, I’m 29, and I'm a transgender man.

Right now, the only role for trans people seems to be as murder victims. That, or we’re somehow all perverts who are endangering people’s safety. And that’s wildly inaccurate.

Some studies show that...

Writer and Campaigner

My name is Juno Roche and I identify as she, her and they.

Trans and non-binary role models are incredibly important. My background in teaching makes me realise every trans and non-binary teacher, parent, carer and pupil is a role model in their own environment,...

WRITERS, FILMMAKERS & NON-BINARY TRANS ACTIVISTS

Fox: We both identify as non-binary trans people. For me, that means rejecting what it means to be a man or a woman and using the pronoun ‘they’. I’ve had many lifetimes in one, having tried my best to live as female and then gone on a proper...