Remembering Harvey Milk
As America marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of his passing, Milk’s once-radical demand that gays receive full equality has never enjoyed greater support.
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Tories vote against anti-discrimination legislation in Europe
Tory MEPs have voted against an EU initiative to fight caste-based discrimination in a vote today in the European Parliament.
29 US states allow you to be fired for being gay
In 29 states there are no anti-discrimination laws regarding sexual orientation and in 34 states it is legal to discriminate against transgender people.
Why is anti-Traveller abuse not seen as racism?
John Millington looks at the racism suffered by Gypsies and Travellers, such as the boxer Tyson Fury, who often receives such abuse on Twitter.
The Mental Health Bill is an improvement
Currently, legislation is going through parliament to ensure that those who have had mental health problems will be able to stand for parliament. This is a sign of how attitudes towards mental health issues are improving over time. However ittest
Davies’s remarks are a much needed wake-up call; discrimination is alive and well
Philip Davies’s disgusting, disgraceful, ignorant, ill-informed remarks about the disabled today have proved to be a much needed wake-up call, writes Jos Bell.