SUCH a sad few days since news of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub broke on Sunday. The worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11, the worst gun crime in US history, and perhaps the largest murder of LGBT people since the Holocaust. How do we respond in the face of such horror? I have …
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May 01
Stonewall interfaith seminar – #LGBTHM review part 6
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Christianity, Hate Crime, Homophobia, Human Rights, LGBT rights, Spirituality, Transphobia
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1st May 2016
THE LAST event I spoke at during LGBT History Month in February was the first interfaith seminar coordinated by the LGBT rights charity Stonewall. The invitation came after I trained as a Role Model to deliver LGBT awareness sessions in schools registered as Stonewall School Champions. I wrote about my first experience as a Role …
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Apr 24
Barnardo’s Faith Toolkit – #LGBTHM review part 5
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Christianity, Coming Out, Homophobia, LGBT rights, Spirituality, Transphobia
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24th April 2016
IN OCTOBER 2014, the UK Government announced £2 million funding for charities offering creative ideas to stamp out homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying in schools. In March 2015, eight organisations received a share of the fund, including the children’s charity Barnardo’s, for its plan ‘to provide face-to-face support for victims of HBT bullying and training for …
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Mar 06
Believing in LGBT people – My review of LGBT History Month part 1 #LGBTHM
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Christianity, Homophobia, LGBT rights, Liverpool
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6th March 2016
LGBT History Month has taken place in the UK every February since 2004, organised by Schools Out UK, a campaigning group for LGBT people in education, and taking inspiration from the annual commemoration in October each year in the USA.
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Nov 20
Making noise for #AntiBullyingWeek, #InterfaithWeek, #TDOR
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Christianity, Civil Partnership, Coming Out, Hate Crime, Human Rights, LGBT rights, Liverpool, Spirituality
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20th November 2015
THIS WEEK in England there is an interesting combination of commemorations – Anti-Bullying Week, Interfaith Week, and Trans* Awareness Week, culminating today in Trans* Day of Remembrance (TDOR). I have been at four events in the past week to mark these campaigns: ‘An All Embracing Faith’ – Keynote speech by Ruth Hunt, CEO of Stonewall …
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Oct 18
LGBT hate crimes in UK ‘more likely to be violent’
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Hate Crime, LGBT rights
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18th October 2015
HATE CRIME AWARENESS WEEK has just ended in the UK. The Home Office release the latest statistics on hate crime, which showed that: the number of hate crimes (motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity) reported in England & Wales was up 18% on the previous year (52,528 in 2014/15, 44,471 in …
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Sep 22
Kim Davis – Let me show you what persecution looks like
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Christianity, Hate Crime, Human Rights, LGBT rights, Liverpool, Marriage Equality
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22nd September 2015
ON US TV today (Sept. 22), the clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to ANY couple because she didn’t believe in same sex marriage has said what hurts her most about how she has been treated since she defied the Supreme Court ruling on marriage in June – being called ‘a hypocrite’. Kim Davis …
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Jul 12
‘Rainbow profile pictures for sex offenders’ – Homophobia NOT satire
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Coming Out, Hate Crime, LGBT rights, Marriage Equality
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12th July 2015
IT’S LATE – my phone rings. It’s someone I haven’t heard from in a while. I answer. His greeting is warm, but it sounds like he’s been drinking. He chats about Facebook – he says he doesn’t use it much but he’s logged in and noticed the rainbow filter on my profile picture, the only …
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May 16
WATCH: United Nations ‘Free & Equal’ campaign video marking #IDAHOT2015
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Coming Out, Hate Crime, Human Rights, IDAHOT, LGBT rights
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16th May 2015
In at least 76 countries around the world, loving someone of the same sex is illegal and, in ten countries, it is even punishable by death. In many more countries citizens are denied their right to live as their preferred gender identity. As well as legal discriminations, social homophobia, biphobia and transphobia daily serve to deny millions …
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Apr 14
A conversation that matters: #OpenChurch2015 conference
- By abravefaith in Bullying, Christianity, Civil Partnership, Coming Out, Marriage Equality, Spirituality
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14th April 2015
Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters. This was the aim of last week’s two-day conference Open Church: The church, sexuality, mission and the future hosted by Steve Chalke, Baptist minister and founder of international charity the Oasis Trust. Steve hit the headlines two years ago when he called for an ‘open conversation’ around same-sex relationships and …
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