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Liam Beattie is a freelance writer and commentator. He also works for a trade union.
This World AIDS Day, what’s needed to end new HIV transmissions is political will – but by slashing sexual health funding, letting inequalities spiral, and forcing the NHS to its knees, the Tories are making clear they don’t have it.
Before corporations decided to show up at Pride, trade unions were standing up for LGBT+ rights. On the 50th anniversary of Britain’s first Pride rally, that radical relationship is more important than ever.
The Tories’ decision to exclude trans people from a conversion therapy ban is a cynical attempt to divide the LGBT+ community and fan the flames of media frenzy – once again, it will be marginalised communities that suffer the fallout.
The Thatcher government’s Section 28 made it illegal for public bodies to ‘promote homosexuality’ – a policy that continues to detrimentally impact the lives of LGBT+ people decades later.
In the 1980s, a virus epidemic ripped through Britain – with Tory government neglect leading to countless unnecessary deaths. To mark LGBT History Month, we remember the AIDS Crisis.
England’s sexual health services have had their funding slashed by 25% in the past five years, leaving clinics and other services severely understaffed. It is an avoidable crisis – entirely caused by Tory government policies.