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ex. Drugs. Hook-ups. Chillouts. Whatever you call it.
You don’t have to call it chemsex. You don’t have to be having a problem. And you don’t have to want to stop.
Straightforward info, advice + support without judgement.
👉 lgbthero.org.uk/chemsex
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It's Voter Registration Week and along with registering we must also think about Voter ID.
If you’re a younger LGBTQ+ person, you may not have an accepted form of photo Voter ID. You may also struggle to have access to documents like birth certificates or passports which you need when applying for other forms of photo Voter ID, especially if family relationships are strained.
Get trusted info and advice via our Voter Hub
lgbthero.org.uk/advice-for-y…
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🗳️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ It’s Voter Registration Week!
All eligible LGBTQ+ people should have the information they need to be election-ready—and the first step is registering to vote.
You’ll need to register again if you’ve moved home or changed your name or nationality. It takes around five minutes online.
Register at gov.uk/register-to-vote.
You can also visit LGBT HERO’s LGBTQ+ Voting Hub for clear, impartial information about registering, voter ID and the different ways you can vote at lgbthero.org.uk/vote
This information is shared as part of LGBT HERO’s work with the Electoral Commission.
#LondonVoterRegistrationWeek #LVRW2026 #RegisterToVote #ElectionReady #LGBTQVote #lgbtq
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After the UK government’s guidance on single sex spaces, it's important that trans people and LGBTQ+ communities come together, support one another and make sure nobody faces this alone.
The guidance around trans people and single-sex spaces is going to leave a lot of people feeling anxious, upset, angry and uncertain about what comes next. Right now, it’s important that trans people and our wider LGBTQ+ community do not retreat into isolation or feel like you have to carry this on your own.
Community matters now more than ever.
Look after each other.
• Check in on your friends.
• Support people who are struggling.
• Build each other up.
• Make sure nobody is left alone with their fear, anger or anxiety.
Protect yourself and protect one another.
LGBTQ+ communities have always survived difficult moments through solidarity, visibility and community care. This moment is no different. Over the coming weeks there will be a huge amount of debate online and many organisations, workplaces and services will still be trying to understand what today’s guidance means in practice.
We would encourage people to take care of themselves, avoid spiralling online where possible and focus on staying connected to supportive people and spaces. If you need support, please reach out.
Ian Howley retweeted
Britain is now only just above Russia and Hungary on trans rights.
We are below Armenia, Romania, Kosovo, Turkey, Serbia and Belarus.
The anti-trans movement has, for now, won a decisive victory in Britain.
It will not last.
This historic injustice will be rectified.
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I'll just leave this here :
" @MelanieCmusic keeps rewriting the record books for Spice Girls solo careers with her new album Sweat.
Despite narrowly missing out on becoming her third UK #1 album overall after Spice (1996) and Spiceworld (1997) with the Spice Girls, Sweat debuted at an incredible #3 on the UK Official Albums Chart with 19,483 sales - the highest sales total for a #3 album in the last 35 weeks(!!!).
The album dominated multiple charts in its debut week:
• #1 Official Record Store Chart
• #2 Official Albums Sales Chart
• #2 Official Physical Albums Chart
• #2 Official Vinyl Albums Chart
• #2 Official Album Downloads Chart
• #2 Official Independent Albums Chart
• #2 Official Scottish Albums Chart
• #3 Official Albums Chart
At 52 years old, Melanie C has now achieved the highest-charting solo album by any Spice Girl, surpassing the #4 peaks of her own legendary debut Northern Star (1999), Geri Halliwell’s Schizophonic (1999), and Emma Bunton’s A Girl Like Me (2001).
Sweat also becomes Melanie C’s ninth straight Top 75 solo album, meaning every single one of her studio albums has charted - a level of consistency unmatched by the other Spice Girls combined.
While her biggest opening week remains Reason in 2003 with 30,866 copies sold, Melanie’s iconic debut Northern Star is still her defining commercial success, having now surpassed 900,317 UK units and achieved triple platinum status earlier this year. That makes it the best-selling solo Spice Girl album ever, far ahead of Schizophonic on 490,819 units.
More than two decades after launching her solo career, Melanie C continues to deliver one of the most stable, respected and successful post-group careers in British pop history."
Bravo red girl!!! 👏🎶
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If you’re a younger LGBTQ+ person, you may not have an accepted form of photo Voter ID. You may also struggle to have access to documents like birth certificates or passports which you need when applying for other forms of photo Voter ID...
lgbthero.org.uk/advice-for-y…
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For trans and gender nonconforming people, photo Voter ID can make it harder to vote
Here we explain exactly what voter ID means for trans and non-binary people. We’re here to support you and make sure that you don’t lose your vote.
lgbthero.org.uk/advice-for-t…
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Today we’re launching the LGBTQ+ Voter Hub
With the local elections coming up in England, we’ve created this to help LGBTQ+ people understand what you need to vote.
This includes clear info on photo ID requirements & how voting works with Trans+/younger LGBTQ+ people in mind
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Today we’re launching the LGBTQ+ Voter Hub.
With the local elections coming up in England, we’ve created this to help LGBTQ+ people understand what you need to vote.
This includes clear information on photo ID requirements and how voting works at polling stations with Trans, non-binary and younger LGBTQ+ people in mind.
Find out more: lgbthero.org.uk/vote
Funded by the @ElectoralCommUK.
#LGBTQ #VoterID #Elections
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The lack of fight. The lack of response. The lack of teeth or pride from a group of truly world-class footballers just screams: ‘we’ve downed tools on this guy, we want him gone’
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Pep Guardiola is first and foremost a good human being. Nothing else matters except that. ❤️
🚨 Pep Guardiola hits back at Jim Ratcliffe: "We treat immigrants or people that come from other countries like they are the ones causing problems for our country. It's a big problem because the fact I am Catalan and you are British? What influence did we have on where we were born?
"Everyone wants to have a better life, everyone wants to have a better future for themselves and their families. Sometimes the opportunities are where you are born and sometimes it is in the place where you go.
"The colour of your skin or the place where you were born don't make a difference.
"Most people run away from their countries for the problems that are in their country, not because they want to leave.
"The more we embrace other cultures, truly embrace it, then we will have a better society - I do not have any doubts about that."
Ian Howley retweeted
Rubio is completely twisting the facts.
The EU fine has nothing to do with “censoring Americans” or going after U.S. citizens. The penalty was issued because X broke basic transparency and consumer-protection rules: selling misleading blue checkmarks, hiding required advertising data, and blocking researcher access.
This is about a platform refusing to follow the same laws that Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and every other major service must comply with in Europe.
Turning a regulatory violation into an attack on “American people” is pure political shitshow, not reality.
Ian Howley retweeted
When European companies do business in the US, they abide by US law. US business in the EU is very profitable and must respect EU law. Simple, clear and hardly disputable.
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The wailing and gnashing of teeth by these guys would be slightly more credible if they were vocal about the X bans in China and Russia, as well as the concessions Musk made to operate in Brazil and Turkey just recently.
These guys are confusing free speech as defined in the US with how it varies globally. If X is going to operate outside American jurisdiction, it will have to comply with appropriate local and international laws. Musk is free to choose not to operate if he does not like the conditions. Given his behavior on this, he will choose to make the changes. He is free to appeal the Commission’s decision too.
Other countries absolutely have the right not to follow domestic U.S. law. Of course, these guys want to use the power of the American state to force them to do otherwise. Just like all of them invariably wish to use that power to coerce their own fellow citizens.
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RTVE va con todo contra #Eurovision y la EBU, a por ellos.