Category: LGBTQ+ rights

‘Women are pitted against each other. It’s a blood sport’: Billie Piper on industry infighting, Elsinore’s Oscar buzz and thriving on personal crisis

The teen pop star turned Olivier-winning actor stars as Andrew Scott’s best friend in the acclaimed Ian Charleson biopic. She talks kindred spirits, social media and trying to channel a ‘mad storm of grief’The late Billie...

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‘I’m going to tell the truth. Screw this!’ Billie Jean King at 82 on coming out, tearing up tennis – and her one big regret

She was the world No 1, whose fight for equal prize money changed women’s lives. As competitive as ever in her ninth decade, she discusses sexuality, tenacity and what it was like to finally graduate college this yearEvery day,...

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‘I call them erotic landscapes’: fashion photographer Tim Walker on his powerful tapestry of queer Britain

He has shot everyone from Madonna to Rihanna, Kate Moss and Frank Ocean. Now Walker has turned his lens on the activists, artists, writers, models and everyday heroes of gay lifeSix years ago, Tim Walker was walking in the...

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Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people

Motion passed at party conference calls for new approach to implementing ruling that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex onlyThe Liberal Democrats have rejected official guidance by the equalities watchdog on...

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The rebranding of ‘Lake America’ is Trump’s desperate attempt to distract us | Arwa Mahdawi

Ignore Iran, the Epstein files, and your wallet – not to mention Trump’s plummeting approval ratingsDon’t mention the war! Or the economy, for that matter. Or the Epstein files. Or Natalie Harp. Or “affordability”, which, as...

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Wes Streeting describes ‘unbelievable volume’ of homophobic abuse since becoming defence secretary

‘People cannot cope with the idea that a gay person might lead the armed forces,’ says StreetingWes Streeting has described receiving a mass of homophobic abuse since he was made defence secretary last month, while also saying...

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