Browsing: LGBTQ+

The Guardian says the Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has ended decades of silence within men’s football to become the first player in the UK to come out as gay since Justin Fashanu in 1990.

Sky News says A 17-year-old player has come out, becoming the only openly gay male professional footballer in Britain.

The Guardian says the Royal British Legion has apologised for its historical refusal to acknowledge the sacrifices of LGBTQ+ British military personnel.

The Guardian says about 50 Tory MPs could force the government to toughen up its ban on conversion practices by backing a move to extend the protections to transgender people.

The Metro says the Government has been forced to cancel a landmark international LGBT+ conference after it was revealed transgender people will be excluded from a conversion therapy ban, it is understood.

The Independent says LGBTQ charity Stonewall and 80 other organisations have pulled out of a UK government conference over its transgender conversion therapy U-turn.

The Independent says millions of people from the LGBT community have been “betrayed” and “thrown under the bus” by Boris Johnson.

The Metro says Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the controversial ‘Parental Rights in Education’ bill into law on Monday.

Euronews says Finland’s former interior minister has gone on trial in Helsinki accused of inciting anti-LGBT+ hate speech.

VICE says Lawmakers voted 82 in favor and just 20 in opposition to legalizing same-sex marriage in the South American nation, considered one of Latin America’s most conservative countries.