UK Labour MP Stephen Timms has been criticised for praising the Jesus House church.
UK Labour MP Stephen Timms has been criticised for praising the Jesus House church.
LGBT+ Labour has met with party leader Keir Starmer following his controversial visit to Jesus House church.
Press secretary Allegra Stratton said Downing Street stands by the prime minister’s decision to visit Jesus House.
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer has come under fire after visiting Jesus House.
LGBTQ+ groups from eight UK political parties have joined together to demand the government ban conversion therapy.
Trans activist and Liberal Democrat party member, Jasmine Joséphine Sakura-Rose, has quit her position as a diversity ambassador for the 50:50 Parliament programme.
Maureen Colquhoun, feminist pioneer and the UK’s first out lesbian MP, has died at 92. Colquhoun was a Labour politician, representing Northampton North from 1974 to 1979.
Dr Heather Peto, a trans woman who was the co-chair of LGBT+ Labour, has resigned amid allegations that transphobia is becoming increasingly common in the political party.
Last week, NHS England announced that Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) will be available on prescription from the NHS to 10,000 people as part of a three-year trial from September 1. The announcement follows in the footsteps of Wales as opposed to Scotland where the drug is already available. Campaigners in Northern Ireland are increasingly concerned about how they are falling behind the rest of the UK.
LGBT Labour has raised a record £25,000 to support openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans(LGBT) candidates at the general election on May 7. The Chris Smith List, established in 2009, is a fund to support LGBT candidates standing for Parliament. The fund is named after Lord Smith of Finsbury, who, in 1984 made history as the first ever parliamentarian to come out as gay. He continued to make history as the first ever openly-gay cabinet minister in 1997 and in 2005 announced he was HIV-positive, the only MP ever to do so.
