Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: The might of 900 Trans+ people who showed strength in the UK's halls of power

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In just three years our small but mighty publisher has achieved incredible amounts - without the profits and developed audiences of the UK’s legacy gay media. We've:

• Invested in, mentored, paid and published over 100 marginalised queer creatives. Six in ten of these are from a gender-diverse background; three in ten with disabilities.
• Launched and supported Trans+ History Week to end the pernicious lie that being gender diverse is a modern contagion, with nationwide campaigns declaring that ‘We’ve Always Been Here, and Always Will Be’, hybrid events, and international and national media coverage.
• Been recognised by the World Health Organisation as a crucial part of the response to the Global North MPOX break out, delivering community journalism and holding the government to account 
• Launched the careers of journalists and audio producers by directly facilitating bylines and commissions with national media like Virgin Radio and the Metro.
• Championed grassroots news, investigated the NHS, exposed government failures and set news agendas for the UK LGBTQIA+ news that matters most to the community, not for clicks. 

But that is literally only the start. And we're not afraid to keep punching above our weight - and doing the work, no-one else will. To deliver you critical journalism, whilst using all of our resources to change the media - for good.

That's why we're running our Pride Month membership drive - to ensure we can continue delivering our investigations. The good news is we've nearly hit our match funding goal - but we need your help to hit it this weekend, before the deadline runs out.

Our initial goal was to recruit 100 new members to get all the funds we needed. But thanks to some incredible support from annual members at the highest tiers, we’re only 12% away from maxing out our matchfunding goal.

You could join new members like Bridget Hart, Jennifer Menges, Tristan Grayford, Finn, Jules, and Joshua Gladwin, who signed up in the last week alone and picked up one of our membership discounts and claimed their optional newsletter shout-out:

🙏 10% off 'Supporter': Monthly / Annual
🏳️‍🌈 15% off '100% QueerAF': Monthly / Annual
✨ 20% off 'Editor': Monthly / Annual

I believe deeply in our mission. That’s why I'm always blown away -and so grateful - during our membership drive campaigns at just how much support there is out there for our work.

Not only for doing the journalism that the mainstream won't, but for our work developing the careers of queer creatives, who can join the sector with the resources they need to make it better for all of us.

Please, help us double all of that matchfunding money, and sign up today as a member, or donate here.

We are Queer As Fuck. And so are you.

Understand the LGBTQIA+ headlines and keep track of the latest queer content and perspectives. The QueerAF newsletter is written by Jamie Wareham and a different queer creative each week.

💬 This week:

• Mass lobby: We speak to the organisers of what is thought to be the biggest ever LGBTQIA+ lobby in Parliament. What was the response, as 900 people turned up to the UK's halls of power?
• Dependency: The award-winning QueerAF podcast is halfway through its sixth season. In the spotlight we take a deeper dive into the importance of connecting the dots of Trans+ history, as we're doing each week on the show.
• Benefits cuts: As the government confirms significant concessions to its controversial welfare bill, Gabriel Caine writes in the Queer Gaze about why we need to see people as more than their individual labels.

Skip the doomscrolling and support queer creatives instead. We are QueerAF – and so are you.

900 Trans+ people join mass lobby just a day after Parliament's bathroom ban for the community

TL;DR: Just days after the UK parliament instituted a ban on Trans+ people using bathrooms that didn't match their sex assigned at birth, nearly a thousand people from all over the country queued for hours for a chance to meet MPs and warn them of the dire consequences segregating Trans+ people will have.