Kay Burley slams an abuse victim by telling her she should remember Prince Andrew was a Falklands War Hero.
That's like saying Fred West was a skilful builder.
Remember @UKLabour are currently pushing to criminalise attempts to prevent autistic, gay and gender-nonconforming children from mutilating themselves.
These statistics from the @CanSG_org conference should give everyone pause.
Up to:
• 50% incontinence after phalloplasty
• 54% sexual dysfunction after phalloplasty
• 87% urinary symptoms on testosterone
• 65% genital discomfort on testosterone
Before we encourage young people toward irreversible medical interventions, we should be asking whether they and their families are being fully informed about the possible lifelong consequences.
Some more good old-fashioned homophobia from Stroud Pride.
They're looking for performers, but they won't accept anyone who holds "harmful views", such as "LGB views."
So there you have it, in black and white: homosexuals and homosexuality are no longer welcome at Pride.
#LGBWithoutTheT
It was lesbians and gays who put in the hard graft and the TQ parasites have stolen, rewritten history and appropriate our struggle. Not only are they trying to redefine innate attraction and now the TQ along with the narcissistic spicy straights are promoting rape culture against lesbians.
We’ve all had a few days to sit with @JuliaGillard’s declaration of whoops and as the minutes go by, the angrier I get. Not just at the admission that, basically, it was a “regret” to open up the legal category of women to men, but at the reluctance to admit it was wrong.
And the fact that it’s only now, after amazing UK women & men are putting on pressure by turning up to her events to remind of her of the whooosy, that she dares to say anything.
Not when @jk_rowling was getting countless r*pe & d*ath threat from the very men these kind of laws were changed to include.
Not when a man in his 50s took a pregnant woman (🙋♀️) to federal court, using that very specific Australian law change & institutional capture to his advantage.
Not when @ActiveLesbians were told by the Australian Human Rights Commission that heterosexual men who claim to be lesbians must be included in lesbian events.
Not when @martina came under attack for defending women’s sport, years after already battling for LGB rights.
Not when @KirralieS was dragged through courts for bringing attention to MEN who claim to be women in womens sport.
Not when that very league told the women in that sport if they so much as walk off the field because men are on it *they* will be punished.
Not when media started reporting on school girls not drinking WATER at school because boys were in the only unisex bathroom available to them & no adults would help them.
Not when women prisoners finally got word to the outside that they were in cells with MALE SEX OFFENDERS, locked up with them only because the Gillard amendments to the sex discrimination act (arguably) allowed it.
Not when Jasmine Sussex’s life was turned upside down for stating the fact that men cannot breastfeed infants, and because men can be women in law suddenly she’s the bad guy.
Not when the sex discrimination commissioner told senate estimates that men who claim to be women can have pregnancy protections in law but women can’t have single sex spaces, thereby interpreting the Gillard amendments to give men protections they don’t need while taking away women’s protections we do need.
Not when countless women in Australia and around the world were and are being punished for saying NO to this absolute bullsh-t that men can be women in law.
She said nothing until it started to interrupt her day in the mildest of ways. It’s pathetic.
The people who decided Peter Mandelson should be trusted to be our ambassador to the USA think they should decide what news sources are to be trusted.
That's what boffins call 'taking the fucking piss'.
Mmmm. Very pretty & professional looking, I’ll admit…
I’ll also admit I wasn’t instrumental in LGB activism, like Bev Jackson, Kate Harris or Fred Sargeant, but, if I may, I’d like to correct the multitude of errors that litter this statement (again, very pretty, all typed out neatly, by Miffy The Whiffy Gamer… either from some bot or his imagination)
But let’s get a few facts straight, shall we?
I’ve been a vocally out gay actor since 1990. In those days, if you were gay, & open about it, you were only cast in gay parts. And it was bloody difficult.
I worked for The London Gay Theatre Company in 1992 & 1994. I was in many different LGB plays throughout the 90’s, & was interviewed & spoke about being “openly gay” with Gay Times, Attitude, The Pink Paper & many other gay publications. In every interview I gave, it was mentioned (much to my eventual boredom & to the irritation of the gay press, who seemed to be frustrated at me for not believing that being gay was the most interesting thing about me.)
In 1993, I was part of the West End cast of “Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens”, alongside Regina Fong, Simon Fanshawe, Trudie Styler, Kim Cresswell & many others. The show was about those who’d died from AIDS, & every night, we raised a significant amount of money for AIDS charities. We also all performed on the main stage at Pride that year.
In 1994, I was in New York during the Gay Games, where I made a film about lesbian ice skating, which we shot on location. I marched with Ian Mckellen (who was also in the film) & Martin Sherman, to celebrate the Games.
In 1996, myself & 6 other openly gay actors were part of a successful little indie film called “Boyfriends”. Again, we all vocally supported gay rights in various interviews.
In 1997, Stonewall invited me to their Equality Show at the Albert Hall, to high kick with the Tiller Girls, as part of a small group of out performers, including Stephen Fry, Jimmy Somerville, Simon Fanshawe, to encourage others to come out & be proud. Yes, we were actually “celebrated” by Stonewall back then, believe it or not.
In 1999, I played a controversial, purposefully vile gay character in Jonathan Harvey’s sitcom ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’. It was controversial because it was one of the first gay characters that was entirely comfortable with his sexuality, was vulgarly open about it & wasn’t always portrayed in a positive light. The gay press were not happy, initially, but it apparently grew on them. The series continued until 2001. Again, I did interview after interview discussing & championing gay rights.
In 2000, I played Bette Midler’s ‘openly gay’ musical accompanist, Oscar, in the short lived sitcom ‘Bette’. Being a series regular, I used my voice in interviews to speak up for gay rights.
In 2004, I took part in the first series of Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen, raising £40, 000 for my chosen charity The Terence Higgins Trust, which I publicly supported & endorsed endlessly.
Do bear in mind, there was no social media as we know it now.
I joined Twitter in 2014. From 2000 to 2014, LGB people had achieved equality & for the first time, it seemed to be ok to be gay.
I rejoined the fight online when I saw the damage the TQ+ was now was doing to the rights we’d, as gay people, had already won, at much cost. I was reluctant & angry, as I’d thought we’d been there, done that, bought the t-shirt etc. But no.
So if you mean I played no part in the fight for LGB rights, you’d either be wrong or lying. The world didn’t start with the advent of the internet.
Perhaps if I stuck on a red beret, a dress, held an Antifa flag & hollered at a crowd through a megaphone to “punch terfs in the f**king face”, I’d already be lauded as a “champion of LGBTQIA+ rights”.
Maybe that was my mistake…🤷
Please RETWEET as my reach is yet again severely restricted. Thank you.
Every @UKLabour MP like @AlexJJNorris who votes this through must be held accountable when it is repealed because of the completely foreseeable harm it will introduce.