Stonewall Stories

Jordan Daly
CampaigningIn 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's story
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Lewis Hancox
CampaigningI'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...

Jayne Rowlands
CampaigningI’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...

Roch Mclean
CampaigningMy 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...

Juno Roche
CampaigningMy 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,...

Fox & Owl
CampaigningFox: 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...