This is Christopher Curren sitting in for Autumn McNeil to bring you another eventful week in What the News?! There is a content warning of hateful slurs on the story for Tuesday. Monday: UK’s first trans and non-binary domestic violence refuge opens The Loving Me project has opened a Lancashire Continue Reading
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What The News?! 29/01/24
Well, we are back! It’s been over half a year since our last edition of What The News?! But here we are. It takes a lot of time and effort to put these weekly summaries together. But now we have some new fantastic news reporters who should be working on Continue Reading
Russia designates “the international LGBT movement” as an extremist organisation
Russia has just made life even worse for LGBTQ+ community. The Russian Supreme Court has ruled to designate “the international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organisation”. There is, of course, no such organisation at all. It doesn’t exist and never has. It is an entirely fictitious thing created in order Continue Reading
Fox and Fascists Failure at The Honour Oak Pub
I arrived at Honor Oak at around 7.30am on the morning of 29th September. Although the demo was to start around 9:30 am, I thought it was best to arrive early. This was the 8th time the far right group “Turning Point UK”, an offshoot of Turning Point US threatened Continue Reading
What the news 26/06/23
Pride month has ended, and so has my cruise (I really miss the unlimited drinks), but the moral panic unfortunately has not. It is still going on and on, in a depressing cycle: A cycle of things like physical attacks on trans activists by fascists, and the date for the Continue Reading