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  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Gay old time: inside the UK’s first LGBT+ retirement home

    In a Norman Foster-designed tower in Vauxhall, a group of older queer people have found safe harbour — and a lot of fun

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Style
    What queer women wore down the ages

    The history of lesbians’ fashion choices in past times is scrutinised in a fascinating new book

    A mid-19th-century painting of two women wearing the robes of Ancient Greece seated in a garden and in the midst of an embrace
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    Chris Bryant’s James and John — when British men were hanged for being gay

    The Labour politician painstakingly traces the difficult story of the last two British men executed for sodomy

    A colour illustration from the late 1700s of a public hanging in London. Crowds fill a square where three men hang from the gallows in front of a church
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Gender politics
    Academics boycott Wiley gender journal after ‘anti-woke’ shift

    Backlash highlights dilemmas of publishers trying to remain profitable in disrupted industry

    The cover of the Wiley journal Gender, work and organization
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    African economy
    Anti-LGBT+ law puts Ghana’s IMF and World Bank funding at risk, finance ministry warns

    Department says bill could derail billions of dollars in multilateral financing if signed into law

    A same-sex couple at a meeting in Ghana
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    Greece set to defy Orthodox tradition and legalise gay marriage

    Law backed by centre-right PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis will formalise same-sex unions and parenthood

    Yolanda Kalantzi and Georgia Ampatzidou with their 3-year-old son
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Russian politics
    Russia bans LGBT movement as ‘extremist’

    Supreme Court ruling places gay and transgender rights campaigns on legal par with al-Qaeda and Isis

    LGBT activists holding a rainbow flag
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong tests China’s tolerance with Asia’s first Gay Games

    Pro-Beijing lawmakers slam event as Chinese territory gradually advances LGBT+ rights

    Athletes cheer at the opening ceremony of the Gay Games in Hong Kong on Saturday
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    Gardens
    A Kew Gardens festival explores sexual diversity in nature

    Botany has used gendered language since Carl Linnaeus’s taxonomy but plants are anything but binary

    a huge colourful artwork among foliage in glasshouse at Kew
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
    Sydney’s HIV success shows way for others

    Experts say joint effort by clinicians, activists and politicians to deploy preventive tools shows how effective they can be

    An elderly patient sits on her bed at the community hospital
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    InterviewMusic
    Actor Billy Porter: ‘I wanted to be the male Whitney Houston!’

    The singer, writer and star of ‘Pose’ is about to release a new album celebrating 1990s gay culture

    Billy Porter stands wearing a black silk robe or coat, his hair in cornrows and his chest bared
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Target Corp.
    Target sales hit by Pride backlash and consumer caution

    Profits top forecast but retailer reports first year-on-year decline in revenue in six years

    Protesters react to Pride Month merchandise outside a Target store in Miami, Florida
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Middle East countries move to ban ‘Barbie’ movie over LGBT+ content

    Kuwait refuses to show blockbuster film that has broken studio records around the world

    Filmgoers queue to have their pictures taken at a Barbie photo booth at a cinema in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    Uganda
    World Bank freezes new lending to Uganda over LGBT+ crackdown

    Move by Washington-based lender could spur other institutions and western nations to follow suit, say analysts

    A person draped in a flag with hands clasped in prayer
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak apologises for past ban on LGBT+ people serving in military

    PM says sorry for ‘appalling failure of the British state’ after independent review

  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Russian Duma bans gender transition

    Anti-trans legislation is part of the Kremlin’s effort to cast LGBT+ community as an existential threat

    Russian police officers detain a gay rights activist during an attempt to hold a gay pride parade in Moscow
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    News in-depthItalian politics
    Italian leader Meloni ‘cancelling lives’ in crackdown on same-sex parenting

    Lesbian couples no longer recognised as legal parents on birth certificates

    Members of the protest group dressed in pink watch as infant dolls are placed on the ground
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    OutlookJosh Spero
    Uganda shows LGBT+ people face growing danger globally

    The legislation is not an outlier but is echoed by anti-gay measures and rhetoric in the US and Turkey

    A man putting clothes into a suitcase
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    ‘When the morphine wore off, I realised I had outed myself’: senior executives share their stories for Pride

    Business leaders tell of their positive and more challenging experiences coming out at work

    Robyn Grew, with short hair and glasses, wearing a blue checked shirt, stands in front of a Pride flag
  • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
    Vienna
    Terror attack on Vienna pride parade thwarted by Austria’s intelligence agency

    Three suspects arrested after allegedly planning to harm attendees using air guns and swords

    Participants in Vienna’s pride parade
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    David Pilling
    When homophobia comes with a convenient anti-colonial veneer

    Uganda is presenting punitive new legislation as a defence of sovereign rights

    An LGBT+ person hides their face behind a rainbow coloured fan
  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Culture wars test corporate America’s commitment to Pride month

    Advocates urge continued support of LGBT+ rights despite boycotts of brands such as Target and Bud Light

    A FT montage of Dylan Mulvaney, the logos of Bud Light, Target and Disney with the pride colours in the background
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    InterviewSport
    Jakub Jankto: ‘Football is homophobic but it’s going to get better’

    Czech midfielder, the first active international player to come out, puts spotlight on attitudes within the men’s game

  • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
    Steven Paulikas
    The Church of England can learn from Episcopalians on same-sex marriage

    Divisions currently roiling the global Anglican church may fade in the face of lived reality

    FT montage of a church and two hands with rainbow wristbands holding each other
  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    ReviewArts
    Memories from the Dancefloor podcast is a deep dive into queer history

    The new series hears from the people at the centre of Britain’s gay club scene

    A group of men in a nightclub dance in a conga line
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