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We are aware of the recent Supreme Court hearing that has resulted in the definition of sex under the 2010 Equality Act being asserted as referring to biological or birth sex only. We have seen that a lot of organisations have issued statements in opposition to this and we are aware that current and future…

Each February we observe LGBT+ History Month, a yearly event started in the UK by Schools OUT in 2005. The month itself aims to raise awareness and fight prejudice against the LGBT community and coincides with the anniversary of the abolition of Section 28. This month, the theme chosen has been Activism and Social Change.…

After being unable to attend last years Reclaim The Night, we were very excited to be back taking part in 2024 and found that the event was very well attended by lots of different local groups including the Womens Institute, Northamptonshire Domestic Abuse Service and of course Northamptonshire Rape Crisis centre who lead the event…

For gay people everywhere homophobia is an unfortunate barrier that we face, one that days like IDAHOBIT help bring awareness to. For lesbians however this takes on a unique form – lesbophobia. Simply put, it is prejudice, discrimination and negativity towards lesbians and lesbianism. We are often grouped together with gay men – the Galop…

Virtual Lesbian Library is our online book club hosted over Google Meet every second Sunday of each month. The link goes out to our mailing list, Discord and Instagram. Join our Discord to take part in book club discussions throughout the month. For our next book this year we will be reading a poetry collection:…

Virtual Lesbian Library is our online book club hosted over Google Meet every second Sunday of each month. The link goes out to our mailing list, Discord and Instagram. Join our Discord to take part in book club discussions throughout the month. For our second book this year we will be reading historical fiction: Last…

Today we uploaded our latest LGBT History Month post covering the history of the Gilbert Baker rainbow pride flag and how it has become the enduring symbol and colours that we now associate with LGBT+ pride and liberation all over the world. You may have noticed there was a flag missing from our breakdown of…

If you’ve been following us since our burst onto the local scene at Northampton Pride 2022 you’ll know this was the slogan we were running with. We’ve been aware that since then, we left this pretty much unexplained. We’ve been saying we started this group to combat lesbian erasure and lesbophobia within the LGBT community…

Two of our founders identify with radical feminism so we thought it would be good to make a quick outline for anyone who wanted to know more. Many feminists already agree with radical feminist points without even knowing it! Flip through the slideshow to find out more. Sourceshttps://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/one-is-not-born-but-becomes-a-womanhttps://revisesociology.com/2017/02/03/feminist-theory-summary-sociology/https://criticallegalthinking.com/2021/02/03/salvaging-the-rf-radical-feminism-and-trans-exclusion/