Equality: the big picture

This week sees the start of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) History Month. In this guest post, Tom Reaney (Alumni Information Officer and member of SIGNAL! – Sheffield Hallam University’s LGBT staff network) tells us about the background to the month and looks at what’s going on on campus and in the city to celebrate it. […]

Friday 20 November 2015 will see Sheffield’s annual commemoration of the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. This day is a vital opportunity for transgender communities and their allies to unite and make their voices heard against the injustices that are still levied at transgender lives. So far in 2015, more than 20 transgender people are […]

Many of us are aware of the term LGBT (or even LGBTQ/LGBTQI and LGBT+) which refers to someone identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans. Here in the UK we have one of the highest degrees of LGBT liberties in the world, but these changes have been very recent and much later developments than other protected […]