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Alan Turing unveiled as the face of the new £50 note

Gay Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing will be the face of the new £50 note, the Bank of England announced today (July 15). Turing beat others on the Bank of England’s shortlist including Margaret Thatcher, Stephen Hawking and Ada Lovelace. He worked to crack the German Enigma codes, and is credited by many for...
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BTS Saudi Arabia concert sparks outrage among fans

K-pop boyband BTS are due to perform in Saudi Arabia on October 11 and news of the concert has sparked a Twitter storm because of the country’s human rights abuses against women and LGBT+ people. Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death in Saudi Arabia and in April this year, five men were executed...
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Government ‘too slow’ to tackle anti-LGBT school protests

The government was “too slow” to respond to the “mob” protests outside primary schools in Birmingham over the teaching of LGBT rights, the adviser tasked with challenging extremism in the UK has said. Sara Khan told BBC’s Panorama that the Department for Education should have given more support to head teachers and...
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Israeli minister Rafi Peretz claims gay conversion therapy ‘works’

An Israeli minister has been widely criticised for claiming gay conversion therapy works. Education Minister Rafi Peretz, an Orthodox rabbi, told Israel’s Channel 12 TV channel: “I think that it is possible to convert [someone’s sexual orientation]. “I can tell you that I have deep familiarity on the issue of...
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Anglican church of Canada rejects same-sex marriage by one vote

The Anglican church of Canada voted against approving same-sex marriage at its general assembly, or synod, on Friday (July 12), in a decision that hung on a single vote. The motion would have changed the language in the church’s marriage canon so that marriage would not longer be defined as only between a man and...
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All the places with better rights for non-binary people than the UK

Non-binary people are not legally recognised in the UK. This is despite the fact that, according to the government’s National LGBT survey in 2018 – the largest national survey of LGBT+ people in the world to date, which saw over 108,000 LGBT+ people participate – more than half of transgender people in the UK...
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17 people share what makes them proud to be non-binary

What makes you proud to be non-binary? “It’s like, I make sense to myself now, my identity makes sense. I can actually look at myself in the mirror in a way I couldn’t identifying as a woman. Everybody should get to be who they are without question. We’re breaking down walls, even though those walls …...
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I Am They is the non-binary representation we’ve been waiting for

Openly non-binary people aren’t often seen in films. In fact, when it was announced this year that Asia Kate Dillon – a non-binary actor – would be playing a non-binary character in John Wick 3, it was one of the first times we’d had that kind of representation onscreen. But a new documentary is about …...