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Stonewall Sports Champion Jude Hamer speaks out on LGBTQ+ visibility at the Paralympics
ByJude Hamer
2024 has been a tumultuous year for LGBTQ+ people but one undeniably bright spark is this year’s Paralympic Games. As a professional wheelchair basketball player, I’ll never forget the thrill of...
3 ways to engage your local candidates in the 2024 General Election
ByStonewall staff
A General Election is coming on 4 July 2024 – we have an opportunity to create meaningful change for the LGBTQ+ community. Life is especially challenging for LGBTQ+ people right now, with anti-LGBTQ...
Why do we need Trans+ History Week?
ByStonewall staff
What is Trans+ History Week? Founded by QueerAF , Trans+ History Week (6 – 12 May 2024) is a week to learn and celebrate the rich and long history of trans, non-binary, gender diverse, and intersex...
The power of lesbian visibility
ByCatherine Dixon
Stonewall's Chair of Trustees, Cat Dixon, on the power of visibility, representation, and creating change for the lesbian community. As a lesbian, I sometimes feel caught between visibility and...
International Women’s Day 2024: Out of the Margins
ByStonewall staff
Every year on 8 March, we mark International Women’s Day: celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, and raising awareness of the barriers and discrimination they...
New research: shining a light on ‘dehumanising’ discrimination faced by ace people
ByStonewall staff
A new report, Ace in the UK , by Stonewall and activist Yasmin Benoit uncovers for the first time the shocking experiences of healthcare, workplace and societal discrimination that ace people face in...
Celebrating Lesbian Visibility Week 2023
ByLinda Riley
Lesbian Visibility Week is entering its fourth year and it remains just as important for our community as it was when I founded it in 2019. This is a time to celebrate all of our progress, but also...
6 campaigns for lesbian equality you should know about
ByStonewall staff
From education to the workplace to building a rainbow family, there are still many areas of life where lesbians don’t yet have true equality. In the 1980s, the decade in which we were founded, '...
5 things you might have missed from the 2021 Census
ByPrishita Maheshwari-Aplin
For over two centuries, LGBTQ+ people have been excluded from the Census. Now, after two decades of campaigning , the number of lesbian, gay, bi, trans and asexual people in England and Wales has...
What do the British public REALLY think about trans people?
ByStonewall staff
According to some corners of our press and politics, trans people are the single biggest issue facing the British public today. But is this the reality, or an echo chamber effect amongst out-of-touch...