Six opposition parties have united behind Péter Márki-Zay for crucial spring voteWhen Hungarian opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay was in Brussels at the end of last year, he visited the street where an MEP from prime minister Viktor Orbán’s ruling part…
Even after 40 years the response to Aids in many countries is still held back by stigma | Hakima Himmich and Mike Podmore
It is hard to protect yourself from HIV when having sterile syringes or condoms can lead to arrest: discrimination is restricting progress in eliminating HIV Forty years after the first cases of Aids were discovered, goals for its global elimination ha…
Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over? | Judith Butler
Increasingly, authoritarians are likening ‘genderism’ to ‘communism’ and ‘totalitarianism’In June, the Hungarian parliament voted overwhelmingly to eliminate from public schools all teaching related to “homosexuality and gender change”, associating LGB…
‘GPs fob us off’: most trans people avoid the doctor when they’re sick
Survey shows need for training to ensure patients are listened toWhen Ellen Mellor’s doctor said that her severe headaches were caused by the stress of being transgender, it did not sit right. “My life was at the calmest point it had been in a long tim…
University defends ‘academic freedoms’ after calls to sack professor
Campaigners call for Kathleen Stock to be fired from University of Sussex over views on gender identificationA university has said it will not tolerate threats to “academic freedoms” after a professor faced calls to be sacked over her views on gender i…
Tom Daley on love, grief and health: ‘It was hammered into me that I needed to lose weight’
Fresh from winning gold in Tokyo, the diver answers readers’ questions on everything from gay role models to his passion for knitting and the secrets of his successTom Daley, Britain’s most decorated diver, grew up in the spotlight. He was 14 when he m…
Tory conference roundup: pigs might die but Johnson doesn’t seem to care
The PM took a relaxed view of farmers’ fears they may have to dispose of over 100,000 pigs because of abattoir worker shortages“If I may say so, the great hecatomb of pigs that you describe has not yet actually taken place. Let’s see what happens.” Bor…
Britain needs clear laws to protect LGBT+ people from ‘conversion therapies’ | Helena Kennedy
Lawyers and campaigners have drawn up a framework to take long-overdue action against these coercive practicesBaroness Helena Kennedy QC is chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights InstituteIn May, at the opening of parliament, the Que…
Turner prize 2021: a collective effort to make art radical again
Pickled cows and unmade beds: the art award has always challenged convention. But in 2021 it is going further, by abolishing individual artists altogetherThe Turner prize has given us some great characters. Grayson Perry was a little-known alternative …
Saintmaking: the canonisation of Derek Jarman by queer ‘nuns’
Director Marco Alessi speaks about the genesis of the documentary Saintmaking and working with the Sisters of Perpetual IndulgenceA new Guardian documentary, Saintmaking, tells the tale of a group of queer “nuns” in 90s London who decided to canonise D…