Trans rights

As they release their debut album, Body Building, writer and performance artist Tom Rasmussen reflects on what trans visibility means to them, after years of being torn between asserting their identity and self-preservation.

While the lives of queer young people are used as a political football, a wave of films are offering a counter-narrative, giving them agency onscreen while standing up to institutionalised homophobia.

Disproportionate homelessness, wider pay gaps and the loss of liberating nightlife spaces as clubs close at record levels: charities and campaigners tell us of the potential impact on queer people.

In 2022, it can sometimes feel as though we’re enmeshed in a raging, unrelenting, unforgiving reversal of, well, everything progressive. So how do we push back the pushback?

THE FACE spoke to the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ organisations, including Mermaids, Stonewall and Gendered Intelligence, about the practice’s devastating impact and what we can do to help.