Challenging denial, disinformation and stigma on World AIDS day

Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day – held annually since 1988. This year, we want to draw attention to and express our solidarity with those who took part in a die-in protest held by ACT UP London today, echoing a protest conducted in 1989. Stav Bee, ACT UP activist, is quoted by ACT UPContinue reading “Challenging denial, disinformation and stigma on World AIDS day”

How ‘The Light’ promotes transphobia and homophobia

The Light has published articles by many homophobic and transphobic people. It also gives credence, through praise and through web links, to groups and people that promote hate and mistrust of anyone that falls outside of their blinkered ideology. The origins of some of the myths that The Light supports are based in the rhetoric of the Religious Right from the USA about Black people, later extended to gay men, then further to other non-heterosexual and trans people.