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‘Lives were ruined’: 25 years after Armed Forces ‘gay ban’ repeal, LGBTQ+ veterans share their memories

12 January marks the 25th anniversary of the lifting of the Armed Forces’ ‘gay ban’ which prohibited all LGBTQ+ people from serving in the military

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LGBT veterans to receive up to £70,000 in compensation for gay ban in the Armed Forces

The total amount set aside for payments is £75 million, well above that which was recommended in the Etherton Review into the treatment of LGBT veterans

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LGBTQ+ charity blasts UK government’s ‘cruel’ Rwanda policy as it becomes law

"This government has signed off a policy to banish and abandon people who fled to the UK, seeking to find safety here"

Just Like Us has criticised the government's trans guidance

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LGBTQ charity warns schools against UK government trans guidance

"We encourage teachers to stand for inclusion, not exclusion"

An asylum seeker has given a stark warning as the government tries to add Georgia and India to countries considered safe to send asylum seekers back to

News UK

Gay refugee warns Georgia ‘cannot be considered safe’ as UK government tries to add to safe list

The UK government's own guidance warns of anti-LGBTQ attitudes in Georgia

News UK

UK government warned of legal challenges to schools trans guidance, leak suggests

Lawyers have warned of a "high risk of successful legal challenge" on several fronts in the new trans guidance for schools

News UK

Government blasted over ‘cruel’ trans guidance for schools

One lawyer called the guidance "a cruel attack on a vulnerable minority by a nasty government"

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UK government reverses plans to scrap ‘military gay ban’ parliamentary debate

The debate will reportedly now be held in the New Year

News Politics

Kemi Badenoch describes gender-affirming care as ‘new form of conversion therapy’

"We are traumatised by what is happening to young children and we are not going to run away from this issue any longer"

Activists, politicians and more have condemned the inclusion of plans for a 'conversion therapy' ban in the King's Speech

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UK Government slammed for ‘total moral failure’ over ‘conversion therapy’ ban

"The government promised to outlaw this practice five years ago, and further delay will only put more LGBTQ+ people in danger"

Jayne Ozanne, the Chair of the Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition

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‘The Prime Minister will come to rue the day he decided to choose silence over action’

Opinion: Jayne Ozanne, the Chair of the Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition, gives her thoughts on continued delays to a 'conversion therapy' ban

Charities respond to comments from Suella Braverman

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Human rights coalition calls for ‘compassion and support’ for LGBTQ and women refugees from UK government

"Every day, the signatories to this letter work with women and LGBTQ+ refugees and bear witness to their scars from being persecuted"

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Man subjected to homophobic abuse at immigration detention centre, damning report finds

A charity has called for an urgent end of the use of immigration detention centres.

News Politics

UK Government confirms plans to scrap gender neutral toilets for new buildings

New public spaces in England will be required to provide separate male and female or unisex facilities

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‘Too little too late’ after UK government offers military ‘gay ban’ apology

”I lost my career, home and family ... all for being gay - how can that be made up for?" says one veteran

A leaked UK Government document has anti-trans policies proposed in it

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Leaked document includes ‘terrifying’ anti-trans guidance for UK civil servants

"I’m shaken by all of this and I know trans civil servants are too," says one civil servant.

Protest in solidarity with Ugandan LGBTs against Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

News World

UK government helped fund Ugandan anti-LGBTQ+ organisations, report says

The UK aid-funded programme “Uganda – Open Society” has received £134,900 since 2021.

News UK

Scottish government to challenge the UK government’s blocking of gender reforms

"Legal challenge is our only reasonable means of resolving this situation," Scotland's Social Justice Secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville, has said.

News UK

Equality watchdog slammed after new trans guidance

The EHRC has suggested redefining 'sex' as 'biological sex'.

Rainbow Migration has called out the UK Government over its Illegal Migration Bill for asylum seekers

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LGBTQ asylum seeker charity warns of ‘extreme’ human cost to the UK government’s Illegal Migration Bill

Exclusive: Rainbow Migration's Legal and Policy Director, Sonia Lenegan, told Attitude that the bill is "an absolute horror show."