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My dad was beaten up for being trans. Trust me when I say the Supreme Court ruling will hurt people

The Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman may seem innocuous. But it will have dire consequences for trans people, writes Cello Dutton-David

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Melissa Gilpin

Young LGBTQ+ people are made homeless because of who they are – but official stats don’t show it

How can we expect services to respond when the data doesn’t even acknowledge that LGBTQ+ young people exist?

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Trans rights

‘We don’t live single issue lives’: This exhibition is celebrating trans joy amid the culture wars

TRANSCESTRY: 10 years of the Museum of Transology is a new exhibition celebrating Trans joy and resistance

Film

Clara Amfo: ‘You will never lose learning about how somebody else lives differently to you’

Justin Bengry

Our history is way queerer than you think – here’s why that matters

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Changemakers 2025

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Communities and equality

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LGBTQ+ veterans

‘I didn’t see a future’: Trans veteran forced to hide true self for decades under armed forces ‘gay ban’

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My Big Year

Drag Race star Tia Kofi: ‘Trump winning the election? I wouldn’t call it iconic…’

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Book of the Year 2024

Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst named Big Issue’s book of the year for 2024

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Drag

Drag Race star Tia Kofi: ‘We need to stand side-by-side with trans people more than ever’

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Interview

I wound up living in my car after coming out as a lesbian. Now I use music to help people heal

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Drag

Drag star Le Gateau Chocolat: ‘As a Black drag queen, I’m political… even when I don’t want to be’

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Craig Jones

Veterans kicked out of armed forces under ‘gay ban’ to get £75m. But can it right the wrongs?

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Simon Blake

LGBTQ+ rights have come a long way in the last 35 years – but the work is far from done

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Lucy Robinson

The UK needed Bronski Beat in 1984. Forty years on, their pop and politics remind us to be strong

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Film

Will Ferrell takes a crash course in trans advocacy in new Netflix doc Will & Harper

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Comedy

Dylan Mulvaney on womanhood, identity and why there’s so much on the line in the US election

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Sonia Solicari

What is the meaning of home? It’s complicated…

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Music

Marc Almond on being the antidote to Thatcher and why he’s probably a queer icon after all

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Damian Kerlin

I found strength, joy, resilience and community on the dance floor of queer clubs

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LGBTQ+ rights

LGBTQ+ homelessness is worse than people think. This charity is ‘on a mission’ to create safe spaces

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