Award-winning queer campaigners Friends of the Joiners Arms, who have fought proposals to demolish iconic queer venue The Joiners Arms since 2014, announce that they have obtained new commitments for an LGBTQ+ venue to be re-provided in the redevelopment of the site, including a new landmark commitment for developers to pay towards a meanwhile-use space. […]

    Researchers from the National Centre for Social Research will assess the COVID-19 pandemic’s ongoing impact on UK LGBT+ communities, and how the LGBT+ voluntary and community sectors can be best supported to respond. The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), in partnership with Consortium, a national organisation focused on the development, resilience and […]

Equality charity says attempt to overturn widely-supported 2018 legislation is ‘misguided’, and will have a ‘chilling effect’ on trans people in Scotland. Scottish Trans (ST), part of the LGBTI human rights charity Equality Network, have been given permission to intervene in a legal case which is seeking to throw out legislation passed two years ago, ensuring greater involvement of women in public life in Scotland. The Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018, guarantees women 50% of places […]

The London Community Foundation (LCF) is pleased to launch the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime’s (MOPAC) Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Grassroots Fund. This £3m fund will support existing VAWG-specialist grassroots organisations operating across London’s diverse communities. The aim of the fund is to support the resilience of grassroots organisations who focus on […]

Rainbow Crossing’s have been popping up all over London’s roads over the last 2 years as a way to celebrate LGBT+ residents, workers & visitors. With Pride Month and the lost Pride season of 2020 long over, Wandsworth LGBTQ+ Forum have been researching which London Boroughs have installed crossings, when & where. Read here for […]