Tagged “LGBTQ+”
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In reporting about Graham Linehan’s conviction for criminal damage, the BBC used offensive language to describe the 17-year-old victim of this crime
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book recs
LGBTQ+
Book review: “Shy Trans Banshee” by Tony Santorella
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Book review: “Seven Recipes for Revolution” by Ryan Rose
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The government has announced another transphobe as their preferred candidate to lead the “Equalities and Human Rights Commission”…
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Less than 6 months ago it was puberty blockers, now it’s the Supreme Court with some outrageous bullshit. So I’ve written to my MP again.
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The Northern Ireland executive has permanently banned the use of puberty-blockers to provide gender affirming care to trans adolescents. So I’ve written to my MP again.
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On this day 30 years ago I attended my first ever Pride. Straight cis people will never fully understand the previously-unknown sense of belonging this young gay man felt on realising he was surrounded by thousands of kindred queers.
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weeknotes
work
LGBTQ+
TV and film
Missed a week due to Covid; back now, with So. Many. Meetings.
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Harry Nicholas’s first book, an autobiographical work, contains an impressive amount of interesting and considered thought in its 224 pages. At its core, the book is an eloquent narrative of his journey from one relationship to another, with transformative self-discovery in between.
But, of course, it is so much more than that, as any such tale always is.
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I’ve seen this original tweet a lot in the last few days and it has brought me joy every time.
For two reasons. Firstly, Wickes didn’t need to go all-in like this with corporate allyship — and then to back it up with a LinkedIn post from their COO.
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I’m sure most readers will have seen some of the recent transphobia, now emanating from the BBC, as well as the rest of mainstream British journalism. So I made a complaint to the BBC, making sure to reference the appropriate BBC Guidelines. (It’s a lot of them.)
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2021 has been A Lot™ — somehow even more so than 2020 has been. Thankfully, 2021 started with 4 books I had excitedly pre-ordered, having seen them talked about online, which made me realise that reading queer characters was making me feel better. And in 2021, we all need to feel better.
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LGBTQ+
Content note: This article includes a pixellated image of the aftermath of a hate crime and descriptions of the attack.
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I’ve been keeping track of the TV and film I’ve been watching, but then didn’t get round to polishing it into actual blog posts. I soft-launched the piece on zombie films a few days ago and the rest will come shortly. This post lists the highlights of the Queer-themed works I’ve seen in the last 18 months.
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LGBTQ+
representation
parenting
Yesterday on the LGBTQ in Technology Slack, Franzi posted a screenshot they’d seen of a Facebook post with an adorable story. I make no promises as to whether it ever happened, I just found the story so cute that I had to share it more widely. The text was helpfully transcribed by Cable, another Slack user.
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LGBTQ+
representation
TV and film
Or: Why Hollywood needs to stop ignoring us LGBT+ types and give us more screen time
