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• LGBT+ (UK)

  28 percent rise in reported LGBT+ hate crime in UK a ’wake-up call’

  16 October 2018, by BATHA Emma

  Police recorded nearly 13,300 crimes against LGBT+ people in the year to the end of March.
  LONDON, Oct 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Reported hate crimes against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in England and Wales have risen by 28 percent, according to figures released on (...)

• LGBT+ (UK)

  Raise Your Gaze: The Inclusive Mosque Initiative, places of worship opened to LGBT Muslims, disabled Muslims and single-parent families

  16 September 2018, by IQBAL Nosheen

  Raise Your Gaze began as tongue-in-cheek conversation between members of the Inclusive Mosque Initiative about the ways in which Muslim women have been expected to maintain propriety – by being modest, averting their eyes and so on – and has expanded to become a core part of the mosque’s (...)

• LGBT+ (UK)

  UK: Gender Recognition Act Open Letter – Against transphobia

  13 July 2018, by Collective / Multiple signers

  Dear Editor,
  We, the undersigned, have a variety of positions about proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. Some of us have not yet fully formed our opinions.
  We are calling for action within our movement to allow informed discussion to take place over proposed changes to the Act. (...)

• LGBT+ (UK)

  Britain & homophobia – The London Pride, the East London Mosque and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain: responses to critics

  28 July 2017, by BANGASH Jimmy, CEMB, NAMAZIE Maryam

  A response to ELM/LMC
  CEMB is merely exposing the East London Mosque’s incitement to Hate and murder of LGBT at Pride in London
  Response to East London Mosque Statement dated 20^th July 2017 and Muslim Council of Britain Statement, dated 26 July 2017 (...)

• LGBT+ (UK)

  Guilty of “sodomy”: London Bridge attacker had ties to ‘death to gays’ preachers

  5 June 2017, by DUFFY Nick

  One of the men who perpetrated the London Bridge attacks on Saturday had ties to extremist preachers who call for gay people to be put to death.
  The Metropolitan Police has today named two of the three attackers suspected of perpetrating Saturday’s attack on London that injured 48 people and (...)

• LGBT+ (UK)

  Hate crimes: Homophobic attacks in UK rose 147% in three months after Brexit vote

  8 October 2016, by TOWNSEND Mark

  Campaigners call for tougher laws after hate crimes against LGBT people more than doubled after EU referendum.
  The number of homophobic attacks more than doubled in the three months after the Brexit vote, with toxicity fostered by the EU referendum debate spreading beyond race and religion, (...)

• LGBT+ (UK)

  Alan Turing, the twentieth century’s most important mathematicians, “Pardoned” by Queen of England of the crime of homosexuality

  2 January 2014, by SHEPPARD Barry

  On Christmas Eve the Queen of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Commonwealth deigned to pardon one of the twentieth century’s most important mathematicians of the crime of homosexuality.
  In 1952 Alan Turing was tried and convicted of engaging in sex with other men. He was (...)

• LGBT+ (UK)

  The Turing enigma: Campaigners demand pardon for mathematics genius

  18 August 2009, by BROWN Jonathan

  He should have been hailed a hero for his wartime codebreaking. Instead he was prosecuted for his homosexuality and took his own life. So why has Britain never said sorry? Jonathan Brown reports.
  He may have played a pivotal role in securing victory in the Second World War for his country six (...)