On May 11, 1982, the New York Times published an article bringing attention to a previously-unknown disease that had taken the lives of a few-hundred gay man across the country. Gay-related Immunodeficiency (as it was then coined) was at first ignored, and later joked about; besides, it was only the gays and drug-abusers who were […]
50 years on from the Sexual Offences Act, and LGBTQ people are protected by a plethora of rights that are enshrined in law. Legally, we are now permitted an existence without fear of arrest or worse—which granted—is a small prize, but one which was not afforded to queer people in the 60s, and indeed the […]
When you look upon Grenfell Tower peering over North Kensington, it’s hard to believe that only a week ago it housed a vibrant, sprawling community of people. Grenfell was once a familiar backdrop to the people of Ladbroke Grove – mundane even – but what is left now is certainly not that. The thing that […]
Those who belong to marginalised communities are probably familiar with the (often infuriating) retort that ‘things are better now than they were!’ And for the most part this is objectively true; industrialised slavery is now a thing of the past (and, if you didn’t know, we just had the first black American president); the battle […]
