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UK Black Pride founder Lady Phyll honoured with statue
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, executive director and co-founder of UK Black Pride, has had her work recognised with a statuette, which was created as part of a campaign to celebrate the achievements of 25 living...
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Black History Month: 5 black LGBT heroes who fought for equal rights
As the UK celebrates Black History Month, it’s important to recognise some of the black LGBT+ activists who led the fight for equal rights across the world. The contributions of black activists, from...
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A queer “Qween’s Speech” from LGBT+ icons including Sam Smith, Munroe Bergdorf and Lady Phyll has been released by Dazed, just in time for Christmas. The cast of Britain’s LGBT+ icons share a message...
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PinkNews launches Pride for All, a digital extravaganza to help every LGBT+...
As PinkNews launches its brand new digital extravaganza Pride for All, it’s important to reflect on how the coronavirus pandemic is pelting down on the world. LGBT+ people have been left shaken as...
View ArticleMunroe Bergdorf and Lady Phyll schooling investment bankers on racism and...
Black trans woman Munroe Bergdorf is schooling 300 investment bankers about racism and transphobia in the UK. It’s a sign of how far we’ve come: Just under three years ago, Bergdorf was publicly shamed...
View ArticleUK Black Pride will go ahead this year – as a virtual 15th birthday...
UK Black Pride will go ahead this year as a virtual 15th birthday celebration, organisers have revealed. The event, which is billed as Europe’s biggest celebration for LGBT+ people of African, Asian,...
View ArticleLady Phyll reflects on the powerful moment she rejected her MBE: ‘It’s based...
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, also known as Lady Phyll, has reflected on the moment she turned down a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award because of its “toxic legacy of empire”. The LGBT+...
View ArticleLGBT+ titans Munroe Bergdorf, Edward Enninful and Lady Phyll named among ‘100...
Model and trans activist Munroe Bergdorf, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful and UK Black Pride co-founder Lady Phyll are on a list of ‘100 Great Black Britons’ celebrating the achievements of Black...
View ArticleLady Phyll rejects Ghana’s attacks on LGBT+ community: ‘It is un-African to...
British political activist and co-founder of UK Black Pride, Phyllis ‘Lady Phyll’ Akua Opoku-Gyimah, denounced Ghana’s recent attacks against the LGBT+ community as “un-African”. In a column for...
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19 incredible lesbians who’re loud, proud and making the world a better place
Lesbian Visibility Week (26 April – 2 May) was created by DIVA publisher Linda Riley “both to celebrate lesbians and show solidarity with all LGBT+ women and non-binary people in our community”. So,...
View ArticleLady Phyll says ‘trying to be accepted’ was the ‘hardest thing’
The legendary Lady Phyll opened up about learning to accept herself in a new interview. The co-founder and executive director of UK Blade Pride shared her story on the Mind the Gap podcast, where she...
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Lady Phyll shares powerful story of the ‘Black, lesbian, warrior woman’ who...
In an extract from Jack Guinness’ new book, The Queer Bible, UK Black Pride co-founder Lady Phyll pays tribute to her the woman who “transformed her life”, LGBT+ activist Moud Goba When I was younger,...
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Powerful new LGBT+ anthology with Beth Ditto, Peppermint and Olly Alexander...
Amelia Abraham’s new LGBT+ anthology is a powerful manifesto on the future of LGBT+ rights around the world – but as she explains, it’s about more than legal battles. We Can Do Better Than This is a...
View ArticleLady Phyll on the urgent, unfinished fight for LGBT+ rights across the...
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, also known as Lady Phyll, is executive director of Kaleidoscope Trust. The charity works passionately to end LGBT+ persecution in Commonwealth countries, and to encourage the UK...
View ArticleLady Phyll explains why it’s vital schools teach Britain’s ugly history of...
Lady Phyll says schools need to not shy away from conversations about race, class, and sexuality. The co-founder of UK Black Pride said she was seen as a “trouble maker” at school because she dared...
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Icon and activist Lady Phyll explains Britain’s role in spreading anti-LGBT+...
We often hear people talk about countries across the world where it’s illegal to be gay – but what’s often missing from the conversation is the role Britain played in creating those laws. The fact of...
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LGBT+ activists call on House of Lords to do right thing and vote down...
Dozens of LGBT+ advocates and queer organisations have called upon the House of Lords to vote down the controversial policing bill. Hundreds of protestors took to the streets across the UK over the...
View ArticleUK Black Pride’s Lady Phyll shares powerful words after being made an...
There has been a wave of congratulations for revered activist and change-maker Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, aka Lady Phyll, after she was awarded an honorary doctorate. Opoku-Gyimah was awarded the degree by...
View ArticlePriti Patel using LGBT+ and women’s rights to sweeten cruel policing bill,...
Priti Patel has been accused of “window dressing” with LGBT+ and women’s rights to push through her terrifying Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. The bill, which among many other things would...
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UK is becoming ‘like Trump’s America’ as it spirals into anti-LGBTQ+ hatred,...
Top LGBTQ+ campaigners have warned that the UK is becoming “exactly like America”. Stonewall CEO Nancy Kelley joined Kaleidoscope Trust executive director Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, former LGBTQ+ government...
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