Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. This event celebrates transgender people and their contributions to society. It is also a time for raising awareness about the discrimination transgender people continue to face today…
1967 – seems so long ago[1] ‘Men who choose to love other men are treated not only with intolerance and contempt but prosecuted and jailed. As a result, they become vulnerable to violence, blackmail, and…
Preamble 1948: NHS formed. 1952: King George died; I was born, (prematurely, by caesarean). In December the Great Smog blanketed London with a right ‘pea souper’ for five days, killing thousands. 1954: End of food…
If it was a normal year, right now, I’d be at Women of the World Festival at the Southbank. I’ve been lucky enough to go pretty much every year since Jude Kelly started it eleven…
I was born in 1970 and grew up in Birmingham. I attended religious schools and even a religious sixth form college, whose principal sent me to talk to the priest because he thought the intense…