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30 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
BBC staff are allowed to attend Pride 'Parades', as long as Pride isn't a protest, which it is. At Pride, we are not 'parading', we are marching for our rights and the rights of others. BBC proving once again that it fails LGBT+ people pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/30/bbc…
A reminder, the BBC has often been terrible on LGBT+ issues. A few from the archives: 1) the BBC hosted a debate on whether gay people should be executed
2) The BBC invited someone who supported executing gay people to comment critically on the birth of Elton John and David Furnish’s first child
3) The BBC bans onscreen staff from wearing the Red ribbon to mark World AIDS Day, despite allowing other causes and issues to be marked on-screen

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Based on the attacks I’ve had today, the ‘gender critics’ are moving onto same-sex couples starting families through surrogacy. It’s exhausting and disgusting. Why are people so vile?
There's so much nonsense in this thread. Too many to mention but apparently one of the reasons why we shouldn't have children through surrogacy is because neither my husband or I can breastfeed
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22 Sep
Because I dared to tweet this, people using the #IStandWithJKRolling hashtag are on the offensive. Telling me that I have no right to a family though surrogacy (1/3)
They are also claiming that I don’t want to pay “an adult female to rent a uterus”. Doing what they are asking for, would be illegal as commercial surrogacy is not allowed in the UK (2/3)
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22 Sep
In England, the NHS provides no support for gay male couples starting a family through surrogacy. In Scotland it does. So we have to do it privately, including blood & semen tests. All of our tests are invalid because of lockdown shutdown, so it means paying again (1/2)
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5 Sep
Tony Abbott being appointed as an unpaid lackey to a mid-ranking cabinet minister is a manufactured culture war that distracts us. I was just on @LBC to discuss this and my other thoughts are below (1/5) 👇
In late August, The Sun, Telegraph and the Daily Mail reported that Abbott would be made 'President of the Board of Trade', joint with Liz Truss, a cabinet ranking position. His homophobia, sexism and climate change denial are then immediately pointed out by campaigners (2/5)
The role then seemed to change to a 'Trade Envoy'. Liz Truss & Matt Hancock are forced to defend this role and publicly ignore accusations of homophobia and misogyny by Abbott. @PinkNews readers & others were rightly outraged. (3/5)
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Incredibly, it's 15 years, to the day, since I first started work on @PinkNews. It's been a labour of love! We will celebrate later in the year, but I wanted to share a few memories about the journey from zero to tens of millions of users plus some of our achievements (1/22)
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