What a privilege and pleasure being part of the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Book Fringe, talking about Invisible Rainbows and even showing the launch of the next big infrared observatory the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope.
Philip Baldwin
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LGBTQIA+/HIV author, presenter, speaker, writer and activist (he/him/his). Gay Times column. Trans inclusive. https://linktr.ee/philipbaldwin.london
“Ultimately, this is a play which celebrates love in all of its many forms. Love is love and, however we identify, it falls where it falls. I can’t wait for us to share it with audiences.” #AsYouLikeIt #JonathanGroff www.thepinknews.com/2026/08/24/j...
Jonathan Groff's excited reply when asked to front all-male As You Like It
Jonathan Groff had a very excited response when he asked to play Rosalind in an all-male As You Like It at The Royal Shakespeare Company.
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“We need to think about attacks on Pride as a signal that our democracy is under threat. All of us in our democratic societies need to value Pride more and protect it.” Great to interview Marty Davies for Gay Times. @smartypantsmarty.com www.gaytimes.com/marty-davies...
Marty Davies: 'Attacks on Pride are a signal that our democracy is under threat'
Philip Baldwin speaks with Trans+ History Week founder Marty Davies about protecting Pride and "democracy itself".
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Beautiful vigil this evening in Soho Square, London, for Berlin’s Christopher Street Day attack. We stand with you, we grieve with you and we stand in solidarity with you. We will comfort and console and learn to dance with one another again. Tonight London stands shoulder to shoulder with Berlin.
Great to march at London Trans+ Pride today! Trans bodies are beautiful Non-binary bodies are beautiful Intersex bodies are beautiful #transpride
“As Prime Minister, I hope you take that same commitment to inclusion with you, because from where we’re standing, many LGBTQ+ young people feel the progress they believed was permanent is beginning to slip away.” – Rachel Williams #AndyBurnham www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/20/n...
LGBTQ+ charity sends hopeful message to new PM Andy Burnham
Rachel Williams, CEO of Manchester-based LGBTQ+ youth charity The Proud Trust, has written an open letter to Andy Burnham.
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“Queer Americans have always existed throughout history, that we have always had immense cultural power, and that we refuse to go quietly into obscurity.” @lgbtqnation.com #LGBTQ www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/cons...
Conservatives want us to forget our own power by erasing LGBTQ+ history. We won't let them. - LGBTQ Nation
Our existence reminds others that non-conformity is an incredibly powerful way to challenge power structures and contemporary culture.
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“Anybody who says it’s about anything else is just trying to muddy the waters and justify mistreatment and abuse because, frankly, conversion therapy is abuse.” – Julie Kruse @advocate.com www.advocate.com/politics/nat... #BanConversionPractices
RFK Jr. rolls back rule protecting LGBTQ+ kids in foster care from hostile parents
The Biden-era policy that would have protected queer kids in the child welfare system, advocates say.
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“We are a community built on hope. Transition itself is a form of hope. But, you know, I am open-minded. I don’t want to go into this cabinet thinking that it’s going to be a failure before it is.” – Munroe Bergdorf #AndyBurnham #transrights www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/06/a...
Trans activists share thoughts on potential PM Andy Burnham
Trans activists Munroe Bergdorf and India Willoughby have shared their thoughts on Andy Burnham potentially becoming the next prime minister.
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“There is an infantilisation and weaponisation of autistic existence to use as a bludgeon against trans people. I’m an autistic trans person and I understand who I am!” Great to interview @laurakbuzz.bsky.social for Gay Times in 2022. #DisabilityPrideMonth www.gaytimes.com/im-an-autist...
'I’m an autistic trans person and I understand who I am'
Philip Baldwin speaks with Laura Kate Dale about the importance of Disability Pride Month and their experiences as an autistic trans woman.
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Britain’s first LGBTQIA+ Pride took place on 1 July 1972, in London. Fifty-four years later, it was great to march with Terrence Higgins Trust, at Pride In London, remembering that Pride is a protest! @tht.org.uk #PrideInLondon #Pride
Excited to be marching soon with Terrence Higgins Trust at Pride In London! @tht.org.uk #HIV #PrideInLondon
Excited to be marching with Terrence Higgins Trust at Pride In London today! @tht.org.uk #PrideInLondon
Today marks 44 years since Terry Higgins passed away – the first person to be named as dying from an AIDS-related illness in the UK. His legacy is Terrence Higgins Trust. I am living with HIV, and owe so much to this amazing charity and their team! @tht.org.uk #HIV #TerrenceHigginsTrust
“In all, 30 states have restrictions in place on transgender student athletes participating in sports consistent with their gender identity.” An interesting overview of the Supreme Court trans sports ruling. #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Supreme Court trans sports ruling sparks red state crackdown and blue state resistance
The ruling does not require states to ban transgender athletes, leaving Democratic-led states to defend inclusive policies as Republican-led states push restrictions.
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“We are being targeted, and the only way to fight back is to say: Look what we do as a community. Look how we contribute.” – Robert Kesten www.advocate.com/history/ston...
The Stonewall National Museum, overflowing with LGBTQ+ history, seeks a bigger space
The organization is launching a multimillion-dollar archiving campaign amid federal efforts to minimize queer history.
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“The responses, collected from between 1,627 and 3,416 adults living in the UK, reveal that 51% of responders ‘strongly support’ same-sex marriage, while 25% marked ‘tend to support’.” #LoveIsLove www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/01/u...
76% of UK adults support same-sex marriage, poll shows
YouGov have published new data which tracks support in the UK for same-sex marriage among the adults surveyed.
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As Pride Month comes to a close, I want to emphasise the importance of uplifting LGBTQ+ voices all year round, particularly our trans, intersex and non-binary siblings, migrants and asylum claimants, racially minoritised groups, as well as disabled people. Pride is 365 days of the year. #PrideMonth
“My love, today isn’t over yet. In fact, we’re just getting started. We’re not giving up. We’ll keep taking to the streets from every corner we’re in.” #IstanbulPride #PrideMonth www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/29/t...
At least 50 people detained by police at Istanbul Pride event
At least 50 people were detained this weekend at a banned Istanbul LGBTQ+ Pride event, organisers have said.
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“So this Pride Month, as we head into marking this country’s 250th birthday, the LGBTQ+ community and allies are showing up loud and proud – we’re reclaiming this country and its freedoms as our own. We say with our full chest: Pride is Patriotism.” #PrideMonth www.advocate.com/opinion/prid...
Pride is patriotism. LGBTQ+ Americans aren’t backing down
Pride remains both a protest and a declaration that LGBTQ+ Americans “are not going anywhere,” writes Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson.
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Today is the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots! “Rights are precious and our identities are precious and the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots is an opportunity to remember that we fought for the right to be here and we need to keep fighting for the right to be here.” – Nancy Kelley
Hold the applause. The draft exempts conversion carried out under a clinical label unless the practitioner falls “far below” professional standards — the gross-negligence test. It shelters the very practice it claims to ban. Review it; don’t call it a win. #BanConversionPractices
“We will scrutinise every word in the bill to ensure it is compliant with human rights standards, fully trans inclusive and provides effective protection and remedy for victims and survivors.” – Chiara Capraro @amnestyuk.bsky.social #BanConversionPractices www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/uk-dr...
UK: Draft bill to ban conversion practices published – Amnesty ‘will scrutinise every word’
After years of broken promises, this draft bill is the first real opportunity to protect LGBT+ people from these harmful practices – but our work is just beginning.
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“Jasmine O’Connor, the co-CEO at Galop, said the charity ‘frequently witnesses the devastating impacts caused by conversion practices’ and the ban was ‘urgently needed’.” #BanConversionPractices www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Perpetrators of LGBTQ+ conversion practices could face prison under new bill
Draft bill to ban abusive practices that aim to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity in England and Wales hailed as ‘historic’
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“I think it (a ban) just sends a really clear signal, as well… They’re hearing from the highest point that this is wrong and that it should not be happening to you. You’re not broken, you don’t need to be cured.” – Matt Hyndman www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/25/t...
Traitors' Matty Advocates for Ban on Conversion Practices
Traitors star Matty Hyndman backs the draft conversion therapy ban in the UK, saying it would reassure LGBT+ people they are not broken.
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“This Bill sends a clear message to LGBTQ+ people that they don’t have to change who they are – they are not broken or in need of ‘fixing’.” – Simon Blake I’m pleased that the government has, after eight years, introduced a bill to ban conversion practices. www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/25/u...
UK Gov publishes trans-inclusive draft bill to ban conversion therapy
The UK Government has today (25 June) announced that it has published a draft bill to ban conversion therapy practices for all LGBTQ+ people.
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