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We imagine a world where all lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, questioning and ace (LGBTQ+) people are free to be themselves 🌈
🌍 The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for #LGBTQ+ people across Europe.
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
Stonewall responds to the UK dropping six places in this year's ILGA…
The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for LGBTQ+ people across Europe. Today it has been announced that he UK has reached an…
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May 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🌍 The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for #LGBTQ+ people across Europe.
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
No one should have to go through what Matthew did.
The Government promised to publish a fully inclusive draft bill before the summer - that’s why we’re campaigning to make sure it happens and they keep their promise.
Read Matthew’s story ▶️ bit.ly/454lbJk
#BanConversionPractices
The Government promised to publish a fully inclusive draft bill before the summer - that’s why we’re campaigning to make sure it happens and they keep their promise.
Read Matthew’s story ▶️ bit.ly/454lbJk
#BanConversionPractices
'I was put through gay conversion therapy - here's how it changed my life'
'I wanted to try and please them, it's what I thought God wanted.'
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May 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
No one should have to go through what Matthew did.
The Government promised to publish a fully inclusive draft bill before the summer - that’s why we’re campaigning to make sure it happens and they keep their promise.
Read Matthew’s story ▶️ bit.ly/454lbJk
#BanConversionPractices
The Government promised to publish a fully inclusive draft bill before the summer - that’s why we’re campaigning to make sure it happens and they keep their promise.
Read Matthew’s story ▶️ bit.ly/454lbJk
#BanConversionPractices
"Conversion practices are so damaging to an individual, their community, their family, and their friends. It rips people apart."
Matthew, a conversion practices survivor, shared his experience in the Metro. Matthew is free now, but the impact stays with him.
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Matthew, a conversion practices survivor, shared his experience in the Metro. Matthew is free now, but the impact stays with him.
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May 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Conversion practices are so damaging to an individual, their community, their family, and their friends. It rips people apart."
Matthew, a conversion practices survivor, shared his experience in the Metro. Matthew is free now, but the impact stays with him.
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Matthew, a conversion practices survivor, shared his experience in the Metro. Matthew is free now, but the impact stays with him.
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The LGBTQ+ community has long been a place of chosen family and compassion. At a time when many are seeking connection and support, that sense of community is powerful.
If you’re looking for mental health support tailored to LGBTQ+ people, visit our website for a list of services ▶️ bit.ly/3wt2vnQ
If you’re looking for mental health support tailored to LGBTQ+ people, visit our website for a list of services ▶️ bit.ly/3wt2vnQ
Mental Health
Mental health support for LGBTQ+ young people.
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May 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The LGBTQ+ community has long been a place of chosen family and compassion. At a time when many are seeking connection and support, that sense of community is powerful.
If you’re looking for mental health support tailored to LGBTQ+ people, visit our website for a list of services ▶️ bit.ly/3wt2vnQ
If you’re looking for mental health support tailored to LGBTQ+ people, visit our website for a list of services ▶️ bit.ly/3wt2vnQ
It's Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year it is all about celebrating the power and importance of community.
As #LGBTQ+ rights face growing challenges around the world, standing together and supporting one another is more important than ever.
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As #LGBTQ+ rights face growing challenges around the world, standing together and supporting one another is more important than ever.
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Mental Health
Mental health support for LGBTQ+ young people.
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May 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It's Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year it is all about celebrating the power and importance of community.
As #LGBTQ+ rights face growing challenges around the world, standing together and supporting one another is more important than ever.
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As #LGBTQ+ rights face growing challenges around the world, standing together and supporting one another is more important than ever.
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Trans+ History Week 2025 is here – and not a moment too soon.
🏳️⚧️ Trans+ History Week 05–11 May 2025
While courts and commissions debate our existence, our legacy speaks for itself: We’ve always been here & always will be.
Thank you 🙏 @thefoxfisher.bsky.social for the illustration 🖼️
🏳️⚧️ Trans+ History Week 05–11 May 2025
While courts and commissions debate our existence, our legacy speaks for itself: We’ve always been here & always will be.
Thank you 🙏 @thefoxfisher.bsky.social for the illustration 🖼️
May 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trans+ History Week 2025 is here – and not a moment too soon.
🏳️⚧️ Trans+ History Week 05–11 May 2025
While courts and commissions debate our existence, our legacy speaks for itself: We’ve always been here & always will be.
Thank you 🙏 @thefoxfisher.bsky.social for the illustration 🖼️
🏳️⚧️ Trans+ History Week 05–11 May 2025
While courts and commissions debate our existence, our legacy speaks for itself: We’ve always been here & always will be.
Thank you 🙏 @thefoxfisher.bsky.social for the illustration 🖼️
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Tickets to our big community event in LDN are now on sale and we'd love to see you there.
Show up for our history. Stand up for our future.
Join us on the evening of the 6th of May for and evening in community and in celebration of our history at a time when we're facing down efforts to erase it.
Show up for our history. Stand up for our future.
Join us on the evening of the 6th of May for and evening in community and in celebration of our history at a time when we're facing down efforts to erase it.
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Tickets to our big community event in LDN are now on sale and we'd love to see you there.
Show up for our history. Stand up for our future.
Join us on the evening of the 6th of May for and evening in community and in celebration of our history at a time when we're facing down efforts to erase it.
Show up for our history. Stand up for our future.
Join us on the evening of the 6th of May for and evening in community and in celebration of our history at a time when we're facing down efforts to erase it.
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LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling
LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling
Charities say the judgment creates ‘a legal framework that simply cannot uphold the dignity’ of trans people
Fourteen national LGBTQ+ charities have written to Keir Starmer seeking an urgent meeting to discuss what they describe as “a genuine crisis for the rights, dignity and inclusion of trans people in the UK” after the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.
The UK supreme court ruled last month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 referred only to “a biological woman” and to “biological sex”, with subsequent advice from the equality watchdog amounting to a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other services of the gender they identify as. Continue reading...
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May 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling
Following the Supreme Court ruling, we have written a letter to the Prime Minister, with 14 national #LGBTQ+ charities.
We've asked for an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis for the rights and inclusion of trans people and how we can ensure their safety.
📰 @theguardian.com ▶️ bit.ly/3ShBKKg
We've asked for an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis for the rights and inclusion of trans people and how we can ensure their safety.
📰 @theguardian.com ▶️ bit.ly/3ShBKKg
LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling
Charities say the judgment creates ‘a legal framework that simply cannot uphold the dignity’ of trans people
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May 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Following the Supreme Court ruling, we have written a letter to the Prime Minister, with 14 national #LGBTQ+ charities.
We've asked for an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis for the rights and inclusion of trans people and how we can ensure their safety.
📰 @theguardian.com ▶️ bit.ly/3ShBKKg
We've asked for an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis for the rights and inclusion of trans people and how we can ensure their safety.
📰 @theguardian.com ▶️ bit.ly/3ShBKKg
Stonewall CEO, Simon Blake, writes about what this really means, and calls on the EHRC to extend their consultation period.
Read more ▶️ bit.ly/42BC8t9
Read more ▶️ bit.ly/42BC8t9
May 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Stonewall CEO, Simon Blake, writes about what this really means, and calls on the EHRC to extend their consultation period.
Read more ▶️ bit.ly/42BC8t9
Read more ▶️ bit.ly/42BC8t9
A consultation only works if it is meaningful and affected stakeholders have time to respond. That’s why, alongside other sector organisations we’ve written to the EHRC to ask them to extend it to 12 weeks.
May 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A consultation only works if it is meaningful and affected stakeholders have time to respond. That’s why, alongside other sector organisations we’ve written to the EHRC to ask them to extend it to 12 weeks.
On 25 April 2025 the EHRC published an interim update on the implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment.
May 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On 25 April 2025 the EHRC published an interim update on the implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment.
We're campaigning for the Government to deliver on their manifesto promise to make anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime an aggravated offence, so LGBTQ+ people have the same protections as people who face hate crime due to racism or religious discrimination.
Find out more ▶️ bit.ly/4hrOMjM
Find out more ▶️ bit.ly/4hrOMjM
Hold My Hand
We want the new Government to prioritise the safety of the LGBTQ+ community, and for you to stand hand in hand with us.
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April 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We're campaigning for the Government to deliver on their manifesto promise to make anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime an aggravated offence, so LGBTQ+ people have the same protections as people who face hate crime due to racism or religious discrimination.
Find out more ▶️ bit.ly/4hrOMjM
Find out more ▶️ bit.ly/4hrOMjM
At a time that feels especially uncertain for LGBTQ+ people, particularly the trans community, many are worried about rising hate and many feel unsafe in public spaces.
April 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
At a time that feels especially uncertain for LGBTQ+ people, particularly the trans community, many are worried about rising hate and many feel unsafe in public spaces.
💚 Today marks 26 years since the bombing of the Admiral Duncan, a gay pub in the heart of Soho in London.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives, and continue to fight for a world free from prejudice and hate.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives, and continue to fight for a world free from prejudice and hate.
April 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
💚 Today marks 26 years since the bombing of the Admiral Duncan, a gay pub in the heart of Soho in London.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives, and continue to fight for a world free from prejudice and hate.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives, and continue to fight for a world free from prejudice and hate.
🏅 Good luck to everyone running the London Marathon for Stonewall today!
Thank you for being a part of hashtag#TeamStonewall.
❤️ Your support and the money raised will help us continue to make meaningful change for LGBTQ+ people.
Thank you for being a part of hashtag#TeamStonewall.
❤️ Your support and the money raised will help us continue to make meaningful change for LGBTQ+ people.
April 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🏅 Good luck to everyone running the London Marathon for Stonewall today!
Thank you for being a part of hashtag#TeamStonewall.
❤️ Your support and the money raised will help us continue to make meaningful change for LGBTQ+ people.
Thank you for being a part of hashtag#TeamStonewall.
❤️ Your support and the money raised will help us continue to make meaningful change for LGBTQ+ people.
🚨 A new survey from @divamag.bsky.social found that nearly 1 in 3 respondents say it's difficult to be a parent where they live.
Our new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide with @ISS aims to ensure LGBTQ+ people are supported.
Download the guide here ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
Our new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide with @ISS aims to ensure LGBTQ+ people are supported.
Download the guide here ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
Stonewall and ISS launch new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide
Today we launch our brand-new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide, produced in Partnership with ISS. The guide is designed to support LGBTQ+ people to navigate…
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April 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨 A new survey from @divamag.bsky.social found that nearly 1 in 3 respondents say it's difficult to be a parent where they live.
Our new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide with @ISS aims to ensure LGBTQ+ people are supported.
Download the guide here ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
Our new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide with @ISS aims to ensure LGBTQ+ people are supported.
Download the guide here ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
We were honoured to be joined by the Minister for LGBTQ+ Equalities, @niagriffith.bsky.social who shared her thoughts on the barriers to fertility services for LGBTQ+ people.
"Everyone should be supported in their journey to parenthood."
Download the guide to learn more ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
"Everyone should be supported in their journey to parenthood."
Download the guide to learn more ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
April 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We were honoured to be joined by the Minister for LGBTQ+ Equalities, @niagriffith.bsky.social who shared her thoughts on the barriers to fertility services for LGBTQ+ people.
"Everyone should be supported in their journey to parenthood."
Download the guide to learn more ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
"Everyone should be supported in their journey to parenthood."
Download the guide to learn more ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
👏 Yesterday we launched our brand-new Family Formation Guide, created in partnership with ISS.
To celebrate, we hosted a panel event exploring the different routes to forming a family, and the unique challenges lesbian parents often face.
To celebrate, we hosted a panel event exploring the different routes to forming a family, and the unique challenges lesbian parents often face.
April 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
👏 Yesterday we launched our brand-new Family Formation Guide, created in partnership with ISS.
To celebrate, we hosted a panel event exploring the different routes to forming a family, and the unique challenges lesbian parents often face.
To celebrate, we hosted a panel event exploring the different routes to forming a family, and the unique challenges lesbian parents often face.
This #LesbianVisibilityWeek, we're launching our new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide!
LGBTQ+ people, including lesbians, can face unique hurdles on their journey to parenthood.
Created with ISS, the guide breaks down routes to parenthood for LGBTQ+ people.
Read now ▶️ bit.ly/4ivZWTV
LGBTQ+ people, including lesbians, can face unique hurdles on their journey to parenthood.
Created with ISS, the guide breaks down routes to parenthood for LGBTQ+ people.
Read now ▶️ bit.ly/4ivZWTV
April 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This #LesbianVisibilityWeek, we're launching our new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide!
LGBTQ+ people, including lesbians, can face unique hurdles on their journey to parenthood.
Created with ISS, the guide breaks down routes to parenthood for LGBTQ+ people.
Read now ▶️ bit.ly/4ivZWTV
LGBTQ+ people, including lesbians, can face unique hurdles on their journey to parenthood.
Created with ISS, the guide breaks down routes to parenthood for LGBTQ+ people.
Read now ▶️ bit.ly/4ivZWTV
🌈 It's #LesbianVisibilityWeek, and this year's theme is Celebrating Rainbow Families.
For many LGBTQ+ couples, having children comes with unfair financial barriers, impacting people like Emma and her wife.
That’s why we’re campaigning for #IVFforAll,
Email your MP today ▶️ bit.ly/3YdrRR6
For many LGBTQ+ couples, having children comes with unfair financial barriers, impacting people like Emma and her wife.
That’s why we’re campaigning for #IVFforAll,
Email your MP today ▶️ bit.ly/3YdrRR6
April 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🌈 It's #LesbianVisibilityWeek, and this year's theme is Celebrating Rainbow Families.
For many LGBTQ+ couples, having children comes with unfair financial barriers, impacting people like Emma and her wife.
That’s why we’re campaigning for #IVFforAll,
Email your MP today ▶️ bit.ly/3YdrRR6
For many LGBTQ+ couples, having children comes with unfair financial barriers, impacting people like Emma and her wife.
That’s why we’re campaigning for #IVFforAll,
Email your MP today ▶️ bit.ly/3YdrRR6