🌍 The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map ranks the legal and policy landscape for #LGBTQ+ people across Europe.
🚨 The latest rankings today shows the UK has reached an all-time low position of 22 out of 49.
This should be a wake-up call for the British government.
Read our statement ▶️ bit.ly/3S0iuB3
No one should have to go through what Matthew did.
The Government promised to publish a fully inclusive draft bill before the summer - that’s why we’re campaigning to make sure it happens and they keep their promise.
Read Matthew’s story ▶️ bit.ly/454lbJk
#BanConversionPractices
"Conversion practices are so damaging to an individual, their community, their family, and their friends. It rips people apart."
Matthew, a conversion practices survivor, shared his experience in the Metro. Matthew is free now, but the impact stays with him.
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The LGBTQ+ community has long been a place of chosen family and compassion. At a time when many are seeking connection and support, that sense of community is powerful.
If you’re looking for mental health support tailored to LGBTQ+ people, visit our website for a list of services ▶️ bit.ly/3wt2vnQ
It's Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year it is all about celebrating the power and importance of community.
As #LGBTQ+ rights face growing challenges around the world, standing together and supporting one another is more important than ever.
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Image reads 'Trans+ History Week 5-11 May 2025' in vibrant colour splash pinks and blues. The illustration is by artist Fox Fisher.
Trans+ History Week 2025 is here – and not a moment too soon.
🏳️⚧️ Trans+ History Week 05–11 May 2025
While courts and commissions debate our existence, our legacy speaks for itself: We’ve always been here & always will be.
Thank you 🙏 @thefoxfisher.bsky.social for the illustration 🖼️
Image reads 'celebrate with us' tickets now on sale for Trans+ History Week's community event. Images of Marty Davies founder of Trans+ History Week and Jamie Wareham who is the Founder of QueerAF
Tickets to our big community event in LDN are now on sale and we'd love to see you there.
Show up for our history. Stand up for our future.
Join us on the evening of the 6th of May for and evening in community and in celebration of our history at a time when we're facing down efforts to erase it.
LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling
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Following the Supreme Court ruling, we have written a letter to the Prime Minister, with 14 national #LGBTQ+ charities.
We've asked for an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis for the rights and inclusion of trans people and how we can ensure their safety.
📰 @theguardian.com ▶️ bit.ly/3ShBKKg
What next? LGBTQ+ sector and human rights organisations, including Stonewall, have written to the EHRC to challenge whether this two-week consultation period gives people adequate time to respond. Those signing the letter have requested the consultation be extended to 12 weeks. We asked them to respond by the end of the week.
Stonewall CEO, Simon Blake, writes about what this really means, and calls on the EHRC to extend their consultation period.
Read more ▶️ bit.ly/42BC8t9
The upcoming EHRC consultation intends to launch in mid-May - for two weeks only. Two weeks is not much time to allow people – including businesses, service providers, charities and individuals – to meaningfully respond. Arguably, it is neither a meaningful or lawful time frame period.
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The EHRC say they will carry out a public consultation to seek views from affected stakeholders and understand how they should reflect the practical implications of the judgment in the guidance. A consultation needs to be long enough to be both meaningful and lawful, when important guidance is published.
A consultation only works if it is meaningful and affected stakeholders have time to respond. That’s why, alongside other sector organisations we’ve written to the EHRC to ask them to extend it to 12 weeks.
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Its publication was a surprise to the Government, civil society and others. It’s important to note, this update is not a legal document, or even statutory guidance. It’s simply an update.
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On 25 April 2025 - the EHRC published an interim update on the practical implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment What does this mean?
On 25 April 2025 the EHRC published an interim update on the implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment.
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We're campaigning for the Government to deliver on their manifesto promise to make anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime an aggravated offence, so LGBTQ+ people have the same protections as people who face hate crime due to racism or religious discrimination.
Find out more ▶️ bit.ly/4hrOMjM
At a time that feels especially uncertain for LGBTQ+ people, particularly the trans community, many are worried about rising hate and many feel unsafe in public spaces.
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💚 Today marks 26 years since the bombing of the Admiral Duncan, a gay pub in the heart of Soho in London.
Today, we remember those who lost their lives, and continue to fight for a world free from prejudice and hate.
🏅 Good luck to everyone running the London Marathon for Stonewall today!
Thank you for being a part of hashtag#TeamStonewall.
❤️ Your support and the money raised will help us continue to make meaningful change for LGBTQ+ people.
🚨 A new survey from @divamag.bsky.social found that nearly 1 in 3 respondents say it's difficult to be a parent where they live.
Our new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide with @ISS aims to ensure LGBTQ+ people are supported.
Download the guide here ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
We were honoured to be joined by the Minister for LGBTQ+ Equalities, @niagriffith.bsky.social who shared her thoughts on the barriers to fertility services for LGBTQ+ people.
"Everyone should be supported in their journey to parenthood."
Download the guide to learn more ▶️ bit.ly/4jnpS5B
👏 Yesterday we launched our brand-new Family Formation Guide, created in partnership with ISS.
To celebrate, we hosted a panel event exploring the different routes to forming a family, and the unique challenges lesbian parents often face.
New! LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide
This #LesbianVisibilityWeek, we're launching our new LGBTQ+ Family Formation Guide!
LGBTQ+ people, including lesbians, can face unique hurdles on their journey to parenthood.
Created with ISS, the guide breaks down routes to parenthood for LGBTQ+ people.
Read now ▶️ bit.ly/4ivZWTV
It feels like I am screaming for help in an empty, unempathetic void. Nothing has changed and it's devastating after we were given hope 3 years ago. In the future I hope to see a fair system for all where all couples get the same support no matter their sexual orientation or location. But most importantly I hope that guidance changes before time runs out for us to have our own family.
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My wife and I are thinking about having kids. However, as a lesbian couple, we have to prove infertility by self-funding 6 cycles of artificial insemination before we can get access to NHS-funded IVF. This means we have to pay up to £10,000 before we can access the same treatment as a heterosexual couple. The lack of progress made means that sadly I think time is running out for our dream of being parents to become a reality.
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I hope the Government acts before time runs out for my wife and I to have our own family. Emma’s story Lesbian Visibility Week
🌈 It's #LesbianVisibilityWeek, and this year's theme is Celebrating Rainbow Families.
For many LGBTQ+ couples, having children comes with unfair financial barriers, impacting people like Emma and her wife.
That’s why we’re campaigning for #IVFforAll,
Email your MP today ▶️ bit.ly/3YdrRR6
We urge anyone affected by this to reach out for support to: Switchboard LGBT MindLine Trans+ MindOut TransActual Mermaids
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Stonewall shares the deep concern at the widespread implications for today’s ruling from the Supreme Court. It will be incredibly worrying for the trans community and all of us who support them. It’s important to be reminded the Court strongly and clearly re-affirmed the Equality Act protects all trans people against discrimination, based on Gender Reassignment, and will continue to do so. Once we read and fully digest the judgement, we will work with stakeholders across all sectors to provide as much clarity as possible. Stonewall will continue its work with the Government and parliamentarians to achieve equal rights under the law for LGBTQ+ people. Simon Blake OBE, Stonewall CEO
Stonewall responds to today’s Supreme Court ruling.
You can read the full judgement here: bit.ly/3ROPmMS
I was made to undergo exorcisms, or what they called ‘strong prayers’. A group would surround me, lay hands on my head, and command the devil to leave my body. I was once even locked in a store cupboard. I was so young and scared that I believed everything they told me. I lived in fear all the time.
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For years, they drilled it into me that being myself was a sin, letting go of that shame hasn’t been easy. Syd, a conversion practices survivor
For five years, Syd endured conversion practices, was made to undergo exorcisms and told she needed to be "cured" just for being herself.
No one should have to go through what Syd did. Yet, conversion practices are still happening across Great Britain.
Read Syd's story ▶️ bit.ly/4cw1njU
@thetrevorproject.bsky.social
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