gay rights

• Features / Lesbian

  ‘They’d say “I’ve never spoken to someone gay before” and often they would cry’

  Dale Wakefield, activist and co-founder of Bristol Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, has died aged 78

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• News / community

  LGBTQ+ organisation celebrates 50 years

  GayWest will turn 50 in 2020

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• Theatre / gay rights

  ‘Once vice got established it spread like a pestilence’

  Thousands of gay men were incarcerated pre-1967 and a new performance recounts this traumatic era

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• Features / Hate Crime

  “There will always be a small proportion that disapproves of being gay, Brussels sprouts and the Royal Family”

  What do LGBT+ people think about research that suggests acceptance of same-sex couples is stalling?

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