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It is already a truism that the Supreme Court’s June 15 six–three decision, holding that discrimination against LGBT people constitutes sex discrimination, came as a shock to queer and trans legal advocates. With the replacement by Brett Kavanaugh of Anthony Kennedy, who tended to favor gay rights, and with John Roberts joining the dissenters in […]… Continue reading How a Conservative Legal Perspective Just Saved LGBT Rights — Paisley Currah

Any steps to remove the crime of buggery from the country’s Sexual Offences Act will be done at the detriment of the Mia Mottley administration, local religious leaders have warned. This position appears to have the backing of dozens of citizens who supported a mass meeting at Bay Street on Sunday night where they aired… Continue reading Evangelical Christians ‘disgusted’ with LGBT moves — SHE Barbados

Movies have always taught us what love is and how love stories are supposed to go. Girl meets boy. They fall in love. Something bad happens that disrupts their love. They fix it. And live happily ever after!… But movies aren’t real life and it is never how we expect it, leaving us questioning what […]… Continue reading 5 books that will tell you what real life love is all about — shannonmountford

The darkening of our screens and stages and its part in the theft of our past and future YOU FLY into London on a British Airways plane on which you are shown an animated film about safety. It stars a cartoon Black man with his cartoon White wife and their cartoon mixed-race child. You pass […]… Continue reading FADE TO BLACK — Boy Outa Brooklyn

Love, Simon’s television sequel Love, Victor premiered on Hulu in June 2020. Here are 10 things you may not have known about it. This article contains spoilers for both the film and series. via Love, Victor on Hulu: 10 Things You May Not Know — Courageous Nerd

During this time as we fight to abolish racist institutions, end interpersonal racism and free the black community, there’s some confusion going on. People aren’t understanding who this fight is truly for. People aren’t seeing outside of themselves. Hopefully this post can help clear the fog. We are not only fighting for Black Cishet Men […]… Continue reading ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOT DIVISION — Ninth Hour Fiction

UCL students attended Black Lives Matter protests in London and Berlin. Solidarity, unrest and placards- these are snapshots of the global movement. ‘We are at a critical moment in race relations discourse in the UK and around the world. The work of Black Lives Matter and many other anti-racist organisations that has been years in […]… Continue reading Portraits of Protest — The Bloomsbury Geographer

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Leonard “Len” Benker Johnson was born on the 22nd of October 1902. He grew up in working class Clayton as the son of William Benker “Bill” Johnson, a Sierra Leonean merchant seaman, and Margaret Maher, his proudly Irish Mancunian Mother. He grew up in a multi-cultural childhood with fellow immigrants of Jewish, Irish, Italian, and […]… Continue reading Len Johnson: A Legend Denied — Research Hive

It is time to admit the truth. Throughout my entire lifetime, Republican presidential candidates have promised us that if we help get them elected they will move the Supreme Court in a more conservative direction. But it hasn’t happened. A Republican has been in the White House for 31 of the last 51 years, and […]… Continue reading Effort To Reshape Court Has Completely And Utterly Failed… — CauseACTION Clarion