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Viewers spotted that the pro-trans slogan had been digitally removed from the House of the Dragon actor's rehearsal top. The BBC points to its rules on branding and slogans; critics aren't buying it.
Simon Stone's Elsinore, with Andrew Scott as the gay Chariots of Fire star who played Hamlet while dying of AIDS, got a standing ovation at the BFI London Film Festival. Scott's message: 'The shame doesn't lie with us.'
In the High Court on October 8, the BBC retracted the allegations it broadcast about Benjamin Cohen and Anthony James in a 2024 documentary and agreed to pay compensation. The couple say the claims leaned on one of the oldest homophobic tropes there is.
Dame Esther Rantzen, who founded Childline in 1986, has died aged 86. Beyond That's Life and her assisted dying campaign, she put coming out and trans lives on daytime TV long before it was easy, and built a helpline that still answers young LGBTQ+ people today.
Totnes Pride's 'Capture the Castle' drew around 400 people to watch a 150-metre Pride flag unfurled across Totnes Castle on September 26. Organisers said it shows 'queer people have always been here'. A few online critics disagreed, loudly.
The world's richest short film prize for LGBTQ+ stories celebrates its 20th edition in Cardiff with 35 shorts from 22 countries, a record 16 features, Desert Hearts with Donna Deitch in person, and an online festival for UK viewers.
At the UN LGBTI Core Group's General Assembly event, Volker Türk said persecution is escalating 'at an alarming rate.' The Netherlands and UK pledged new money to fill the hole left by US aid cuts. Washington sent no official representative.
The draft ban is trans-inclusive, carries up to five years in prison, and reaches practices arranged abroad. It's a genuine milestone — and it still has to survive consultation and a Commons vote.
After being banned from women's eight-ball competitions and losing her initial discrimination claim, Harriet Haynes has been granted a High Court appeal that could reshape how the UK's landmark sex definition ruling applies to sport.
