Category: Features
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Tracks Monday host fundraiser in aid of trans drag artist seeking asylum
In this country, trans rights and access to healthcare are at an atrocious level but add seeking asylum from a transphobic country into the mix and your life would surely feel impossible. That is what it is like for Lorelai (she/they), a trans woman and drag artist based in Glasgow. This Indian-born Law student has…
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Turn Up for Trans Health: how it started and where it is going
Cory, from Turn Up for Trans Health, wants to see a complete shake up of the current trans healthcare system. Trans people across the country are facing an immensely hard time right now. From their whole existence being questioned by cis-gendered people to the highest levels in recorded hate crime in history. But even worse,…
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Huge Number of Young LGBT+ People Feature On Local Election Polling Cards
The Local Elections 2022 are now underway, with polling to start at 10am on Thursday 5th May. With all that is going on in UK politics at the moment from the cost of living crisis to Partygate, one thing that did strike me was the amount of LGBT+ young people who are running as candidates…
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Queer radio show host releases diss-track about an Edinburgh Gay Bar
Simba (he/they) started his radio show on EH.FM in 2021 and has had a blast so far. He said, “a year ago, a friend of mine suggested I’d be good for a radio show. And I pitched an idea, and my idea was just essentially an excuse to just play the music that I like.…
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The Stage is Set
It may not be the West End, but B2 Theatre Company’s leap from amateur to professional production is bound to get a standing ovation. The theatre is back, and I couldn’t be happier. Being a lifelong theatre fan, involved in different amateur productions from the age of seven, I know its importance. Pivotally, it’s got…
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Trans rights are a waiting game
The life of a trans person is complicated Teddy Hope, 26, explained to me over an early morning phone call. The journey a trans person takes, not just physically but emotionally, is unique to every individual but one commonality still stands – they need to wait on the actions of cis-gendered people. Teddy (they/them) identities…
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