So, human rights abuses are fine as long as the books balance? 🤦‍♂️💰 England’s new football regulator says he can’t stop owners accused of torture or repression because his job is just “financial stability.” The moral goalposts have vanished ⚽🔥 #NoSportsWashing

Queer Syrians have survived war, exile, and erasure 💔🏳️‍🌈 Now, activists are reviving Mawaleh, a queer magazine, defiant glitterbomb of resistance 💥 Their voices belong at the heart of recovery, not on the margins 🌈✊

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A 17-year-old girl died waiting for care 💔🏳️‍⚧️ The coroner says she could have been saved if NHS gender clinic wait times weren’t years long Bureaucracy should never cost a young life. This was preventable😢⚖️ https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/

🚨 Anti-LGBT+ lobbyists have deceived the US Supreme Court into attacking conversion therapy bans 😡 Alliance Defending Freedom twisted expert research to defend abuse disguised as “healing,” it’s fraud 💔🏳️‍🌈

West Papua bleeds while Britain looks away 💔 New findings reveal UK ties to Indonesia’s violent occupation and environmental destruction No more denial, no more profit from pain 🌏✊ https://newint.org/indigenous-peoples/2025/britains-complicity-tragedy-west-papua #FreeWestPapua

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Dame Kelly Holmes recalls growing up with no lesbian role models 💔 “You had to be really careful with your exposure.” Her story reminds us why visibility matters Every role model changes lives 🏳️‍🌈✨

When universities become surveillance arms for weapons firms, freedom dies quietly 🎓🕶️ Emails show top UK institutions offering to monitor student posts for defence contractors Academic spaces are turning into surveillance spaces⚠️💔

Paul O’Grady’s widower has shared his headstone, a moving tribute to a man who gave so much love and laughter 🌹💖 Paul stood with those demanding an apology from the Police and supported our #ApologiseNow campaign.

Children who only knew war...

18,457 children. Gone. 💔 Each one a story, a laugh, a life stolen in Gaza There is no justification, no silence deep enough to hide this horror The world cannot look away 🕊️🌍

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A “Trumpian” assault on protest rights & it’s coming from Labour ⚠️💔 “They’re giving Reform everything they could wish for.” This is how democracy dies ✊🔥

He served his country, won awards & was fired for a Pride flag on his desk 💔🏳️‍🌈 This is what state-backed intolerance looks like ✊ https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/07/fbi-fires-employee-pride-flag/

Was prehistory more equal than today? 🌸⚖️ New research suggests ancient societies gave women real power, some even more than ours. Equality isn't a fantasy, it’s a forgotten possibility we can reclaim 🌍💪 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/05/was-prehistory-a-feminist-paradise

Burkina Faso’s LGBTQ+ community faces a growing witch hunt 💔 As the government deepens its alliance with Russia, it moves to criminalise love itself Queer lives are not bargaining chips 🏳️‍🌈🔥 https://76crimes.com/2025/10/06/burkina-fasos-lgbtq-community-fears-witch-hunt/

£180 million in profit, while asylum seekers are fed inedible food & rationed toilet paper 😡💸 This isn’t “care.” It’s cruelty disguised as business. People deserve dignity, not exploitation 🧻🔥 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9r5m74de8o

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The right to housing is not a luxury; it’s a right ✊🌍 The Council of Europe warns that treating homes as commodities has failed over a billion people Time to put people before profit 🏡❤️ https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/-housing-is-a-human-right-not-a-commodity-says-parliamentary-assembly

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Did you know these facts about Marsha P. Johnson? 🌟 Marsha P. Johnson helped ignite the Stonewall Uprising in 1969, the spark that set modern LGBT+ rights in motion https://diva-magazine.com/2025/10/06/did-you-know-these-facts-about-marsha-p-johnson/

A plane was forced to land after a passenger wearing 15 masks 😷💥 claimed LGBTQ+ people were giving him cancer Hate has officially gone off the deep end https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/sun-country-airlines-flight-lgbtq-face-masks/

Behind Saudi Arabia’s renewable energy projects lie stories of abuse 😡🌞 Migrant workers describe endless hours, scorching heat, and punishment for resting Greenwashed slavery is still slavery ✊🔥

Remind us — what’s so awful about the European Court of Human Rights again? The right to life? Fair trial? Not being tortured? Outrageous. 😏

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cancel Elon Musk

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Another LGBTQ+ space lost 💔🌈 One of central London’s main queer bars is closing. Its owner says Soho’s Old Compton Street has lost its LGBT soul, its slipping away 🕯️🏳️‍🌈 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15k2eln77zo

Trump is calling to militarise American cities ⚠️🕶️ His speech to military leaders sparks deep fears about power without oversight. When the army is turned inward, democracy trembles 💣 https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/02/united-states-trump-call-to-militarize-cities-risks-abuse

Elon Musk is crying “cancel Netflix” 😭📺 because the platform dares to show trans people existing Billionaires with hurt feelings aren’t culture critics https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-hamish-steele-dead-end-b2838042.html

A flotilla of 44 boats, filled with 500 activists from 44 nations, sailed toward Gaza with only aid and hope 🌊💔 Israeli forces stopped them, detaining all on board. Even mercy is met with violence ✊🌍

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A new report from LGBT Voice Tanzania sounds the alarm 🚨🌈 Systemic homophobia is destroying lives across the country Arrests, abuse, and fear are daily realities https://76crimes.com/2025/10/02/report-anti-lgbt-laws-tanzanians/

Putin has pulled Russia out of the Convention against Torture 💔🔥 This is a declaration Russia no longer even pretends to care about human rights. 🌍⚡ https://euneighbourseast.eu/news/latest-news/eu-russia-clearly-demonstrates-its-disregard-for-human-rights-protection/

Visibility is power ✊🏿✨ Celebrate Black History Month with stories that matter 🌈🎥 Five documentaries shining light on Black queer life & love https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/five-documentaries-about-black-queer-life-everyone-should-watch-in-black-history-month/

The Women, Life, Freedom uprising did not leave things unchanged 💥🌸 For queer Iranians, it meant being seen at last. Their struggle is part of Iran’s fight because liberation without queer voices isn’t liberation at all 🌈✊ https://en.radiozamaneh.com/37203/

“Starmer is Reform-lite” 💥 The PM’s U-turn on the ECHR & talk of a review is dangerous Playing tough politics risks dismantling protections for asylum seekers & human rights 🌍⚡ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/echr-human-rights-keir-starmer-uk-immigration-b2837372.html

Progress in Japan 🌸🌈 More legal recognition for same-sex partners is a victory Yet over 120 laws still deny them equal rights on taxes & social security Equality delayed is equality denied ⚡💖 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/japan/same-sex-partners-law/

the internet is back in Afghanistan.

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British companies are complicit 🌍💥 A new report in Parliament exposes their role in environmental destruction and human rights abuses in West Papua Climate justice means corporate accountability ✊🌱

Do better ✊💥 “Labour isn’t working for the LGBT+ community” 🌈💔 Campaigners are calling out the party’s silence & inaction https://diva-magazine.com/2025/09/30/labour-conference-trans-solidarity-alliance/

The Taliban just cut Afghan women off from the world 💔📵 Shutting down the internet means silencing their last hope, their voices, their freedom, their fight ✊🌍 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98dmq03n92o

Lesbian did not commit the first crime in space! And we urge Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to apologise to LGBTs for past homophobic police witch-hunts #PTFweekly newsletter is out. Read &subscribe(free)at https://mailchi.mp/6aea0d7fc09c/lesbians-are-not-responsible-for-all-crimes-in-space-13380991

Top human rights groups are furious!😱 Yes, in 2025 🚨 In the US, the FBI may be coordinating with the Heritage Foundation to brand trans people as “violent extremists” https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/09/30/fbi-transgender-threat-classification/

Russia’s relentless airstrikes have turned life into hell 💥🔥 Ukrainian civilians and soldiers live in constant terror, drone swarms above, bombs below. Every day is survival under siege 💔🌍 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt_OZXkT4qA

Crimes against humanity can’t wait ⏳💥 Three years on, Uyghur abuses continue & the UN admits no progress Used as a tool of repression & control, enforced disappearances in China aim to silence dissent and punish collectively