Twitter have removed a series of tweets posted by North Dorset Conservative MP Simon Hoare for hate speech against LGBTQ members of society.
Twitter's response was quick and decisive.
The tweets, homophobic in nature, were reported to twitter who took them down within about 20 minutes.
The tweets were:
This is yet...
Space Youth Project are continuing to deliver vital support services to young people across Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole who identify or are questioning within the LBGT+ community.
Our team leaders and volunteers have worked hard to find ways of connecting with both individuals and groups in order to...
We provide this alert to community members and fellow LGBT & LGBT allies in regard to suspicious perceived homophobic discriminatory phone calls. The Network received such a call today, and wishes to alert community members and other community supportive organisations and groups. The particulars indicate a religious fundamentalist and/or...
“Valentine was a rule-breaker, she was a wonderful, inspirational queer women in Dorset who was always bravely herself – I’d have loved to learn about her at school.”
Valentine Ackland was born Mary Kathleen Macrory Ackland in 1906 in Mayfair, London. Her father taught her traditionally male pursuits like boxing...
This is wonderful.
"I spent so much time wishing I was not gay now I am making up for lost time."
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1145726329704329216
We thought history had solved the puzzle of Ann Widdecombe and her army of bigoted demons but alas the 21st century has ushered in whole new ways of archaeological techniques and now their finds are swarming across nations and continents.
Come on science we need a virus that attacks the...
Three councils have raised rainbow flags to show support to LGBTQ+ communities and mark the start of LGBT History Month.
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Ceremonies were held outside two of the councils’ offices on Monday 4 February attended by councillors, council staff, members of UNISON (who helped organised the events) and local LGBT groups.
The...
If there is a more smug and obnoxious creature then someone who is righteous in their own eyes, I do not know what it is.
Norman Tebbit, in his overweening arrogance, has declared that LGBT+ (sounds like a new exciting Subway sandwich) or transgendered people are the result of air...
This year, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of non-heterosexuality, the National Trust launched its ‘Prejudice & Pride’ educational initiative. The ‘Exile’ exhibition, with its sombre but striking ‘In Memoriam’ installation at historic Kingston Lacy, highlighted not only the enforced exile of its owner in the...
The fight for equality is far from over. Whatever you do and however you do it, it’s time to come out in support of lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) people. Share the message.
