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Scotland Yard has apologised to the LGBTQ+ community for past failings, in what campaigners have hailed as a historic first they hope other police forces around the UK will follow.The Met police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, made the admission in a letter to Peter Tatchell, a prominent British LGBTQ+ activist.

The head of the UK's largest police force has apologised for past failings towards the LGBT+ community in what a renowned gay rights campaigner has hailed as a historic first.Peter Tatchell thanked Metropolitan Police Commission Sir Mark Rowley for being the first UK police chief to say sorry for decades-long victimisation of this community.

East London MPs have expressed concern after parents were encouraged to tell children that homosexuality is a sin which can be reversed through repentance.This paper revealed on Thursday (Feb 2) that the comments were made at a Chadwell Heath conference organised by Parents United, which opposes promotion of LGBT lifestyles in Redbridge schools.

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Football at its best is an exceptionally simple game: groups of people brought together to try and kick a ball into the back of a net.Whenever and wherever this takes place, there will be other groups of people brought together to watch it happen.

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Gwen Knapp, a prominent sports reporter and columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The San Francisco Chronicle and most recently an editor on the sports desk of The New York Times, died on Friday in Manhattan.She was 61.The cause was lymphoma, her sister Susan Knapp McClements said.Ms. Knapp spent nearly 30 years reporting on sports.

They came from Iceland, Portugal, Switzerland, Detroit.Dressed in alien superstar chic rhinestone boots and disco-ready, glittery cowboy hats a huge crowd gathered on Wednesday at the Friends Arena, their cheers reaching an almost deafening pitch as a woman gradually emerged from below, lights bouncing off the sequins on her outfit.

Lake Forest High School Principal Erin Lenart is strongly criticizing the characterization made in a posted social media video that a room in the school was being used as a, "secretive and exclusive LGBTQ+ gathering place."The video, which has been viewed approximately 1,400 times on YouTube, was later incorporated into a story posted by the Lake County Gazette, a news organization which is published by the Local Government Information Services, and funded "in part, by advocacy groups who share our beliefs in limited government," according to its website.

Mary identifies as a transgender woman, but presents to society as a gay man."I am forced to be gay in Zambia because it isn't as dangerous as being trans," Mary told DW when we met at a Lusaka restaurant."Gay people are at least tolerated in Zambia, even if they are not accepted," Mary explained.

Despite overwhelming medical evidence that so-called conversion therapy is nothing more than the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity through psychological or spiritual interventions, it remains legal to perform on minors in half the states in America.

Callum Scott Howells has said Harry Potter author JK Rowling isn't helping with trans rights being attacked.The Welsh actor, who won multiple awards for his role as Colin Morris-Jones in Russell T Davies's hit drama It's A Sin, said the fight for LGBT+ rights is terrifying.The 23-year-old told Attitude magazine: With trans rights being attacked, JK Rowling isn't helping.

Rebekah Vardy has spoken for the first time about her experiences of growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, as she alleges in a Channel 4 documentary that the religion failed to support her through sexual abuse as a child.The media personality and wife of footballer Jamie Vardy was raised as a Jehovah's Witness in Norwich, Norfolk, but left at the age of 15, after she was shamed for the sexual abuse and was shunned by the community alongside family members following her parents' divorce.

Rishi Sunak was criticised after praising World Cup hosts Qatar for the quality of this year's tournament.Ahead of England's last-16 match against Senegal, the prime minister tweeted: Hats off to Qatar for hosting an incredible World Cup so far.The group stages will be remembered as one of the all-time greats.

This just in, folx: Former second lady Karen (a.k.a."Mother") Pence has a new book coming out later this year.When It's Your Turn to Serve: Experiencing God's Grace in His Calling for Your Life will be released in September.It's an ironic title for a book penned by a woman who did virtually nothing during her four years "serving" as second lady.

Literary editor Will Schwalbe is best known for The End of Your Life Book Club, in which he wrote about reading and discussing with his dying mother some of the books that had the greatest impact on their lives.In We Should Not Be Friends, he turns his attention to an unlikely friendship that has also affected him profoundly.

It's 70 years since British author Ian Fleming published the first James Bond novel: "Casino Royale".The book, published on April 13, 1953, introduced the world to British secret agent James Bond, code number 007, who would go on missions to defeat villains in a total of 14 books, which also served as the basis for a popular film franchise.

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A group of ex-TikTok employees has blown the whistle on the company's alleged practice of keeping a list of users who watched gay content for at least a year.As the Wall Street Journal reports, employees became concerned about the alleged list because it could be used to identify LGBTQ users and, if leaked or provided to hostile governments, could put those users at risk.

Pope Francis on Friday blasted the adolescent belligerence that brought war back to Europe and said the continent must recover its founding spirit of peaceful unity to confront Russia's war in Ukraine.Francis outlined his vision for the future of Europe as he began a three-day visit to Hungary.In a carefully calibrated speech, he demanded that the European Union approve safe and legal ways for migrants to enter and for the Hungarian government not to hold Europe hostage to populist demands.

BRUSSELS  The office of the Belgian federal prosecutor announced on Sunday that it had charged four people with corruption and other crimes as part of a major investigation into suspected bribes from Qatar to current and former officials and lawmakers in the European Parliament.The prosecutor did not name any of those charged and named only a gulf state when the charges were announced in this case.

The ex-Red Devils captain, 41, was not in court in Paris when he was fined 1,000 (890) and ordered to pay 2,000 (1780) compensation to two anti-hate campaign groups.Stop Homophobia and Mousse complained in March 2019 when Evra posted a video of himself on social networks following a game between United and Paris St Germain.

Charles Silverstein (left) and his partner of 20 years, William Bory, smile at the camera in the 1970s.Silverstein dedicated his work to helping LGBTQ people live without shame.Rutgers Oral History Archives Charles Silverstein, a psychologist and therapist who played a key role in getting homosexuality declassified as a mental illness, died Jan. 30 at 87.

One can only wonder what effect Mark Hyatt's only known novel, Love, Leda, would have had on British culture had it found a publisher and reached bookshop shelves when it was written, in the middle of the 1960s.A frank, intimate portrait of a young working-class homosexual struggling to find meaning, work or just a good fuck in London, living between friends' sofas and dingy bedsits, Love, Leda is a book without contemporaries.

Qatar is reviewing its investments in London after the city's transport authority banned the country's adverts on buses, taxis and underground trains, it was reported.The move by Transport for London (TfL) is understood to be linked to concerns about the World Cup hosts' human rights record, stance on homosexuality and treatment of migrant workers.

E ngland opted to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community by lighting up the Wembley arch in rainbow colours rather than protest in Qatar.The Three Lions' players did not follow Germany's lead by making an on-pitch protest against Fifa before their World Cup clash with the United States at the Al Bayt Stadium, north of Doha.

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There were some terrific LGBTQ films screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival.Select films are still available for online viewing ( https://festival.sundance.org/) through January 30, except where noted.Here are a handful of films to catch or keep an eye out for.Fairyland (not available online) is a shaggy, engrossing, and ultimately moving drama-bring tissues-about Alysia (Nessa Dougherty as a 6-year-old), who is taken by her father Steve (Scoot McNairy) to San Francisco in the 1970s after her mother dies.

Germany commemorated the victims of Nazi persecution on the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, placing a focus Friday on people who were incarcerated and killed because of their sexual orientations and gender identities.Thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people were arrested and thrown into camps during Adolf Hitler's 1933-1945 dictatorship, based on anti-homosexuality laws that preceded and outlasted the Nazi era.

In this series we ask authors, Guardian writers and readers to share what they have been reading recently.This month, recommendations include a Booker-longlisted novel, excellent short stories and heartfelt memoirs.Tell us in the comments what you have been reading.Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is one of those books that follows you around long after you have read it.

The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) is notoriously corrupt, and the World Cup has been irreparably harmed after officials allowed Qatar to host the prestigious sporting event.The country openly persecutes women and LGBTQ+ people and adheres to strict religious law that forbids the sale of alcohol.

World Cup Scandal - Oscar Cacheux, Hampton School (Image: Unsplash) Every four years the football tournament organised by FIFA, known as the World Cup, is hosted in various locations across the globe.Previously hosted in countries such as Russia, Brazil and South Africa, the 2022 World Cup has raised scepticism for FIFA from football fans throughout the world.

What do you give the queen who has everything?When Mark Antony was wondering how to impress Cleopatra in the run-up to the battle of Actium in 31BC, he knew that jewellery would hardly cut it.The queen of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt had recently dissolved a giant pearl in vinegar and then proceeded to drink it, just because she could.

Barbara Love, a feminist activist who fought for gay rights and for lesbians to have a place  and a voice  in the women's movement in its early days, died on Nov. 13 in the Bronx.She was 85.The cause was complications of leukemia and Parkinson's disease, said her wife, Donna Smith.Raised in privilege in New Jersey, Ms. Love came of age in the late 1950s and early '60s as a closeted young woman in Greenwich Village who haunted the city's Mafia-run lesbian bars, which were often raided by the police.

Fans in Qatar were left frustrated but hopeful after England laboured to a 0-0 draw with the United States in their second World Cup 2022 game.The Three Lions could have sealed qualification for the knockout stages with a win but came away with a point against a hard-working US side at the Al Bayt Stadium, Al Khor.

The England football team was threatened with unlimited sanctions if players wore the OneLove armbands just two hours before they stepped on to the pitch for their first World Cup match, the FA chief has revealed.Mark Bullingham, the CEO of the FA, said Fifa officials arrived at the England squad's hotel to explain that anyone wearing the anti-discrimintation armband would be given a yellow card or face being banned from playing in matches.

England opted to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community by lighting up the Wembley arch in rainbow colours rather than protest in Qatar.The Three Lions' players did not follow Germany's lead by making an on-pitch protest against Fifa before their World Cup clash with the United States at the Al Bayt Stadium, north of Doha.