Andy 🏳️‍🌈

GWithTheT (He/him)

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

My kind, gentle, beautiful husband Jerry died yesterday less than 48 hours after a very sudden deterioration in his health. He was only 30 years old. My family and I were by his side in the ICU for his final days. I am devastated beyond words.

[Queer Rage @QueerRageNow]

@LGBTLabour @Keir_Starmer @SadiqKhan @AngelaRayner @AnnelieseDodds @EmilyThornberry @JoeVinson @tomrutland @StephenMorganMP @angelaeagle @jamesmurray_ldn @LukePollard @FloEshalomi @PutneyFleur Duffield still has the whip. Nothing is done about transphobia in the Labour Party. Why are you - supposedly our advocates - doing his PR whilst doing precisely zero to call this out? You know how trans members feel about this. You are useless LGBT+ advocates.

[Scott Beasley @SkyScottBeasley]

The stars of Heartstopper absolutely loving it as anti-LGBT protesters are challenged by a young Pride supporter #Pride

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

I believe the party’s official LGBT affiliate has done and said more about Brexit than it has about transphobia within Labour, dating all the way back to the Corbyn years.

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

LGBT+ Labour has mumbled the bare minimum at Starmer’s silence and inaction on transphobia for *years*. In May he even joined in the attack on Emily Bridges. Now they’re happy to pinkwash him. This is not how self-respecting LGBT activists behave.

[LGBT+ Labour @LGBTLabour]

Today we marched at #PrideInLondon with @Keir_Starmer - the first Labour leader to ever march with us, alongside @SadiqKhan, @AngelaRayner, our members, supporters, activists, and parliamentarians.

History was made today.

Happy Pride everyone!

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

@LGBTLabour @Keir_Starmer @SadiqKhan @AngelaRayner @AnnelieseDodds @EmilyThornberry @JoeVinson @tomrutland @StephenMorganMP @angelaeagle @jamesmurray_ldn @LukePollard @FloEshalomi @PutneyFleur I’m sorry but you’re just allowing Starmer to use you as a PR stunt to make it look like he hasn’t spent years ignoring transphobia. You should be vocally challenging him to do better, not helping to pinkwash him.

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

Pretty much everyone he speaks to is a Labour councillor or staffer. He ignores LGBT people all Pride month then pulls this stunt to make it look like he actually listens to the community. Does he think we’re stupid?

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

This week @Keir_Starmer visited @gaystheword to hear how you want the next Labour government to stand up for LGBT+ rights. 👇

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

@huwlemmey And this despite the fact *pretty much everyone he’s talking to is a Labour councillor or staffer*. It’s a complete stunt and he still looks like a rabbit caught in headlights.

[PinkNews @PinkNews]

EXCLUSIVE: UK's newly-elected trans councillors want to prove 'trans people can achieve great things'
https://t.co/m8Qndz8Ryg

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

Great and well-deserved result overall but it is shameful that Sue Lent was allowed to stand and that local members continued to support her despite knowing full well her views and statements on trans people.

[Welsh Labour @WelshLabour]

🌹 Welsh Labour HOLD

Welsh Labour holds Cardiff Council.

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

@WelshLabour Great and well-deserved result but tarnished by the re-election of Sue Lent. Everyone in the party who stood by and let it happen should be ashamed.

https://t.co/IkjjC9QJj9

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

Everyone in the local party knew about her attitudes and campaigning. The local whip knew. The complaints unit knew.

[Queer Rage @QueerRageNow]

Mhairi seemed like a good person, so it's a shame she lost her seat but this is absolutely priceless.

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

A shameful blemish on a very good day for @cardifflabour in the council elections: Sue Lent has been reelected. Local members who stood by and allowed her to be reselected or actively campaigned for her despite her attitudes to trans people should be ashamed of themselves.

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

*All* candidates even the massively transphobic ones?

[LGBT+ Labour @LGBTLabour]

Good luck to all @UKLabour candidates standing in the local elections today, especially those who are LGBT+.

This year Labour is running a record breaking number of LGBT+ candidates, and we can’t wait to see many of them become councillors tomorrow!

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

(I live in a ward where the Tories don’t have a chance in hell and the Lib Dems aren’t standing, so no chance of accidentally getting one of them elected. In Wales I’d still have voted Labour.)

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

Voted Green in the locals for the first time because Keir Starmer can frankly go do one.

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

@LGBTLabour @UKLabour *All* of them? Even the transphobes?

[Andy 🏳️‍🌈 @AndyGCSoton]

@LuThomas80 I remember the fuss kicked up by homophobes when recognition for a second mother on the birth certificate was brought in because it “ignored biological reality”. That time, most people (at least on the left) saw through it for the transparent bigotry it was.