Activism

Two people wearing rainbow colours kiss in a park in Bogota, Columbia during a LGBTQ+ protest

Americas
Aug 02 2022

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Colombians stage moving ‘kiss-a-thon’ after bigoted mob threatens gay couple

Matt Gaetz.

US
Jul 27 2022

Disgraced Republican Matt Gaetz body-shamed a teen abortion activist. It backfired

CGF CEO Katie Sadleir pictured as The Commonwealth Games Federation and Global Esports Federation deliver a demonstration for the upcoming Commonwealth Esports Championships at the Hyatt hotel on March 15, 2022 in Birmingham, England.

Sport
Jul 22 2022

Commonwealth Games boss says anti-LGBTQ+ countries unlikely to host – but no ban is in place

Zak Kostopoulos in front of a Pride flag

Crime
Jul 20 2022

Thug who beat Greek LGBTQ+ activist to death walks free after two months in prison

Leigh Meyer, Belfast Site Head and Global Head of FXLM at Citi, spoke about the importance of diversity in the workplace.

Sponsored
Jul 19 2022

Community groups come together to discuss making life better for LGBTQ+ people in Northern Ireland

Demonstrators hold up flags while chanting slogans during the demonstration.

Americas
Jul 18 2022

El Salvador urged to introduce trans rights reforms and act on historic Supreme Court ruling

A protester holds a flag that reads 'trans joy is divine' at Trans Pride Brighton

Pride
Jul 16 2022

20,000 people march for trans rights and liberation at Trans Pride Brighton

Yulia Tsvetkova

Activism
Jul 15 2022

Russian activist arrested for vagina drawings acquitted of pornography charges in rare win

Side by side pictures of Janelle Monáe who is posing for the camera while wearing a black dress, Mae Martin who is smiling at the camera and Hikaru Utada who is singing

Non-Binary
Jul 14 2022

20 non-binary people breaking boundaries and making the world a better place

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky holds a press conference with the heads of state of France, Germany and Romania, at Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv, on June 16, 2022.

Europe
Jul 12 2022

Ukraine’s Zelensky to consider same-sex marriage after tens of thousands sign petition

James Webb and the picture from the telescope of the same name

Science and Tech
Jul 12 2022

Breathtaking first James Webb Space Telescope images reignites row over homophobic ‘purge’ leader

Joe Locke and Sebastian Croft, who are stars of the hit series Heartstopper, wear Pride flags as they dance around and wave the middle finger at a crowd of anti-LGBTQ+ protestors at Pride in London

Pride
Jul 02 2022

Heartstopper cast troll pathetic anti-LGBTQ+ protesters with joyous dance at Pride in London

Members of the Gay Liberation Front marching in a historic picture.

Pride
Jul 01 2022

Gay Liberation Front veterans reflect on ‘radical’ changes since UK’s first-ever Pride march

Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) hold up signs during a protest in 2019

Pride
Jul 01 2022

UK’s first Pride march couldn’t be further from Pride in London, original marchers say

A colourful sign reading 'All Our Pride?? No Pride in Cops' is displayed outside a bus stop in London

UK
Jun 30 2022

Billboards declaring ‘no pride in cops’ spring up along Pride in London parade route

Singer Jade Thirlwall with Labour MP Kate Osborne holding a pink sign that reads: I support a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban

UK
Jun 29 2022

Huge protest at Downing Street demands Tory government stop attacking LGBTQ+ rights

Roe V Wade protests

US
Jun 23 2022

Abortion rights protesters tell powerful, personal stories outside Supreme Court

Rainbow Rebellion members march in Soho with a giant pink dildo

UK
Jun 21 2022

LGBTQ+ climate protesters march with giant ‘climate dildo’ to make urgent point

US
Jun 16 2022

Christian uni students turn graduation into epic protest against LGBTQ+ staff ban

LGBTQ+ activist Peter Tatchell at an event

Pride
Jun 09 2022

Peter Tatchell explains why police should be banned from Pride marches: ‘We need to reconfigure Pride’

Europe
Jun 08 2022

Snowflake MEPs demand iconic LGBTQ+ Virgin Mary be removed from Brussels museum

Several people gather in a crowd in support of the trans community in the UK. One person holds up a sign reading 'trans is beautiful' in the crowd.

Opinion
Jun 08 2022

Stonewall boss: ‘Census data dispels harmful myth that trans people are replacing LGB people’

Police and istanbul Prude organisers square off

World
Jun 06 2022

Turkish police violently arrest and ‘torture’ Istanbul Pride organisers during peaceful protest

Emmett Schelling sits in a chair while wearing a white button up shirt and grey jacket. He is gesturing with both hands towards himself

Trans
Jun 05 2022

World’s ‘most influential’ trans activist Emmett Schelling issues urgent rallying cry

Gay Florida student Zander Moricz gives his graduation speech

US
May 24 2022

Florida student gives epic speech tearing apart Don’t Say Gay law – without saying gay

Activism
May 24 2022

Protesters who fought Thatcher’s Section 28 explain what we can still learn from vile law today

Tim Cook and Megan Rapinoe named among TIME 100 most influential people of 2022

World
May 23 2022

Ariana DeBose, Tim Cook and Megan Rapinoe among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2022

A Google doodle honours Stacey Park Milbern with a doodle that features a picture of the late disability justice advocate, flowers, a progressive Pride flag

Activism
May 19 2022

Google Doodle honours queer Korean-American disability justice activist Stacey Park Milbern

Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) hold up signs during a protest in 2019

UK
May 18 2022

Gay Liberation Front vets commemorate first UK Pride march with reminder Pride is indeed a protest

Activism
May 17 2022

Urvashi Vaid, ‘giant in the fight for LGBTQ+ freedom’, dies aged 63: ‘We owe her an enormous debt’

A photo of a Pride parade showing flags with rainbow colours being held

US
May 12 2022

Scrappy Florida students defeat school’s pathetic attempt to cover up ‘Don’t Say Gay’ protest

Ukraine queer couple fighting Putin

World
May 10 2022

Queer Ukrainian couple fighting side-by-side say they’re ready to die defending home from Putin

People hold banners and shout slogans during a demonstration in support of Mariupol defenders on May 3.

World
May 06 2022

Trans Ukrainians being forced back into closet as cruel despot Putin’s bloodthirsty war rages on

two people hold up a sign that reads 'trans lives are sacred'

UK
May 06 2022

Mermaids launches pioneering scheme to help make young trans and non-binary people’s voices heard

The Knights and Orchids Society speaks at a rally on behalf of trans youth

Activism
May 04 2022

Trans people are being failed at every turn in Alabama. This group is taking matters into its own hands

Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks to protesters outside the US Supreme Court

US
May 04 2022

Furious Elizabeth Warren says Republicans have been plotting abortion rollback for ‘decades’

Protesters hold a banner during the demonstration against the Home Office

UK
May 04 2022

‘Cruel’ Home Office denied asylum to 25 LGBT+ men who fled Afghanistan for their lives

Four photos on a wall in Queer Britain, showing protestors, the Admiral Duncan LGBT+ pub, and Princess Diana meeting AIDS patients

Arts
May 04 2022

Inside the UK’s first national LGBT+ museum: How Queer Britain is opening up our history to all

Protesters outside Sheffield City Hall

Activism
May 01 2022

Furious protesters take to streets against government’s cruel conversion therapy U-turn

A demonstrator holds a poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin with make-up.

Activism
Apr 26 2022

LGBT+ activists forced to flee Russia as vicious dictator Putin clamps down on queerness