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King Charles to unveil memorial to LGBT veterans after ban on serving A ban on being openly gay in the armed forces lasted until 2000. The sculpture to honour former personnel was recommended by Lord Etherton

www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam... Good. Long-overdue

Booked last minute accommodation with Booking.com. Payment did not go through. System said someone may have just booked it before me. Booked somewhere else. Got charged for both. Booking.com won't refund me. I am closing my account. Another dissatisfied Booking.com customer.

(3) In follow-up, Dr Gilmore co-authored a letter with Professor David Mead (UEA Law School), published in The Guardian on 15 July 2025, warning that restrictions on jury trials threaten access to justice in protest cases.

(2) The submission addressed issue of overcharging in protest-related cases.This work builds on Dr Gilmore and her colleagues’ BA/Leverhulme-funded project, Justifying Protest in the Courts: Voice, Democracy, and the Law [BA SRG 23–24].

@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social‬ Dr Joanna Gilmore’s research on criminalisation of protest receives national recognition. Co-authored submission with Dr Graeme Hayes (Aston Univ) Dr Steven Canmiss (Birmingham Uni) & Prof Brian Doherty (Keele Uni) cited in Independent Review of Criminal Courts (1)

New article by me - emerging LGBTQ+ rights issue: Westwood, S. (2025). ‘You Have the Right to Be Respected in Death, Just as in Life’: LGBTQ+ Funeral Providers in the UK – Pursuing Social Justice or the “Pink Pound”? OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying doi.org/10.1177/0030... Copy on request

Alarm raised over slow pace of payouts to UK veterans fired over sexuality MP Jess Brown-Fuller says at the current rate it could take more than a decade to complete the compensation process

Old LGBTQ+ veterans could die without getting the compensation they're entitled to for being discharged from services (often after being pressured to undergo "corrective" treatments) because of their sexuality. Process is too slow. Intentional? #Injustice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A consultation has been opened on the code of practice the EHRC is developing to inform how the recent Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of sex is communicated/implemented. It is important everyone shares their views. Please complete the survey: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equality/equ...

Are you an LGBTQ+ Londoner aged 50+? Together with LGBT Consortium (@lgbtconsortium.bsky.social) and Trish Hafford Lethfield (@trishhaffordletch.bsky.social), I'm conducting research about your social support/mental health issues. Would you complete our survey? york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

WRoCAH PhD Studentship opportunity at York Law School: 'Passing on the Torch: Using the arts to facilitate intergenerational dialogue promoting the transmission of LGBTQ+ cultural knowledge, memory, resilience, and resistance': wrocah.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

PhD Studentship (LGBT Foundation & University of York) to start Autumn 2025. I'm supervising. 'Passing on the Torch: Using the arts to facilitate intergenerational dialogue promoting the transmission of LGBTQ+ cultural knowledge, memory, resilience, and resistance' wrocah.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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The wonderful Jane Traies has a new book, '3000 Lesbians Go to York', a re-creation in words & pictures of an iconic time in gay women’s history – the years of Libertas! bookshop & York Lesbian Arts Festival. Free book launch - and trailer of the film based on the book - is in York 8 Feb. Do come!

Sorry, I don't have time to organise one this year, Rebecca. Hope to see you there, though.

FREE Webinar on Work, Ageing and Gendered Inequalities 20 Jan 2025. Hosted by York Law School, University of York, UK. buytickets.at/yorklawschoo...

FREE Webinar on Law, Ageing and Justice Monday 3rd February 2025 2pm - 4pm (GMT). Hosted by York Law School University of York UK. buytickets.at/yorklawschoo...

As Liz Kendall stands at the despatch box right now, telling hundreds of thousands of WASPI women they won’t receive a penny in compensation, there are multiple articles on her website proclaiming support for WASPI women 👇

WASPI women won't get compensation, UK Government announces An ombudsman report found Women impacted by state pension age changes were owed compensation.

The WASPI women deserve fair and fast compensation.

This is a shameful betrayal given the promises that many Labour MPs made to the WASPI women during their election campaigns.

news.stv.tv/scotland/was...

The Labour Government will not pay WASPI women any compensation.

Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said the proposed payments weren't 'fair or value for taxpayer money'.

What is not fair are the false promises made by Labour politicians, who have betrayed the WASPI women.

It is beyond disappointing that Liz Kendall has rejected any compensation for the WASPI women.

First, the government cuts winter fuel. Now this? Whose side is the government on?

WASPI women have been disgracefully cheated out of their pensions — and they deserve justice.

Just arrived. Currently working on: LGBTQ+ menopause; older LGBTQ+ rights in care contexts; older people & armed conflict; building international research network on older persons' human rights with @cahr-york.bsky.social & @ox.ac.uk. If you've similar interests in one/all areas do get in touch.