Nigel Owens is a fantastic referee. As every ardent rugby fan will surely agree, one cannot help but release an audible sigh of relief when finding that their highly-anticipated ‘big game’ is in fact going […]
LGBT History Month: Role Models Matter
SPORT has a special way of bringing people together. The Christmas Truce of 1914 is a powerful and moving image – uniting two entirely different (and seemingly irreconcilable) groups together in the most serious and high-pressured […]
Gender Fluidity And Fashion’s Part To Play
The clothes we wear can help to construct (or perhaps more crucially deconstruct) the gender binaries that we as consumers of fashion have come to so rigidly prescribe to. But how far is gender fluid […]
LURUFC Players Banned After ‘Inappropriate’ Social Media Activity
Three members of Leeds University Union’s Rugby Union Club have been handed a one week ban from matches and social events for ‘inappropriate’ behaviour on social media, with one of these members found to be […]
Proud to be ‘red’
For anyone that knows me, the title would not seem at all out of place. As a Labour Party activist and huge Arsenal fan I am very used to shouting proudly about being a red. […]
12 Days of Christmas Cheer
Short days and long nights and an incessant battle against wind and rain. In addition to our own personal ‘winter slump’, terrible and pessimistic news has been reverberating around the world in the last few […]
#NationalComingOutDay2015
My Coming Out story isn’t a particularly entertaining or enthralling one. It involved getting absolutely blind drunk several times a month in order to muster up the courage to tell my closest friends that I’m […]
Not Your Gay Best Friend
Hello my precious little ones, and welcome to Freshers 2015! So my basic objective is to slowly walk you through the many steps of making the most out of the next couple of weeks; a […]
UKIP Secretary asks Leeds student: ‘What are LGBT people?’
A Leeds University student has been left shocked after receiving an email from UKIP’s Yorkshire regional secretary asking her to explain “what LGBT people are.” Charlie Smith, a third year Broadcast Journalism student, contacted Peter […]
Should Civil Partnerships be open to heterosexual couples?
Yes Jasmine Andersson Civil ceremonies were initially introduced as a poor cousin to marriage in order to not only demean LGBTQ relationships, but to heighten the virtues of marriage. Although this agenda still sits stiffly […]
Being straight about ‘coming out’
It is hardly an original or acute observation to note that heterosexuals feel no need to ‘come out’, but that LGBTQ people do. And yet it raises a very important point; immediately there is a […]
It’s not ‘gay’ to be gay
When does a petty insult go too far? Whether meant as an attack on a person’s sexuality or not, the word ‘gay’ is surely not necessary to express distaste for something. Though it could be […]