LGBT - Hackney Citizen

All the Young Queers, Nathan Evans, book review: 'Deliciously creative'

The local author's collection of short stories provides a 'kaleidoscopic portrait of growing up as LGBTQ+ in Britain'

Author: Sarah Birch

All the Young Queers, Nathan Evans, book review: 'Deliciously creative'

Grants on offer for events celebrating transgender awareness and LGBT+ history

Residents can apply for up to £1k in funding before 20 August deadline

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Stik's image, representing Hackney at ‘Pride in London’ 2016

Queer campaigners offer up shares in ‘UK’s first community-run LGBT+ venue’ – with £100k needed to open it this year

Friends of the Joiners Arms, still waiting for the new LGBT+ pub it fought hard for, has decided to build its own

Author: Hackney Citizen

Queer campaigners offer up shares in ‘UK’s first community-run LGBT+ venue’ – with £100k needed to open it this year

Council promises more robust support for LGBT+ schoolkids following ‘disturbing’ Birmingham protests

Deputy Mayor ‘welcomes’ recommendations to further develop voices of LGBT+ young people

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Council promises more robust support for LGBT+ schoolkids following ‘disturbing’ Birmingham protests

Local students meet Will Young for new education project tackling homophobic bullying

Petchey Academy pupils spoke to the singer at the launch of Amazon’s LGBT+ Reading Roadshow, which is providing free books and workshops to schools with the help of Pink News and Just Like Us

Author: Hackney Citizen

Local students meet Will Young for new education project tackling homophobic bullying

Two pedestrian crossings in Hackney get a rainbow remake for Pride

The crossings have been painted on two roads with historical ties to the local LGBTQI+ community

Author: Hackney Citizen

Two pedestrian crossings in Hackney get a rainbow remake for Pride

Hackney Brewery to bring back Unicorn Rodeo charity beer for Pride 2019

The eye-catching pale ale will be on sale in support of LGBT+ helpline Switchboard from the beginning of June

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Brewery to bring back Unicorn Rodeo charity beer for Pride 2019

Queer film festival to return to east London for its eighth year

Volunteer-led Fringe!, founded in 2011 in response to arts cuts, is back for six days in November

Author: Hackney Citizen

Queer film festival to return to east London for its eighth year

Hackney at Pride: Drag royalty join council staff for ‘solidarity march’

120 locals put on a colourful show for the annual LGBTQI+ parade

Author: Max Eckersley

Hackney at Pride: Drag royalty join council staff for ‘solidarity march’

Stik sculpture to take Pride of place in Hoxton park

Holding Hands, a 4m tall piece based on the artist’s trademark stick figures and famous LGBTQI+ Pride banner, will be coming to Hoxton Square later this year

Author: Andrew Barnes

Intimacy: a mock-up of how Holding Hands will look once erected. Photograph: Hackney Council

Joiners Arms: community meetings announced as plans for new LGBTQI+ pub/hub take shape

Campaign group Friends of the Joiners Arms will solicit ideas for the dormant Hackney Road institution at two get-togethers in March

Author: Andrew Barnes

Joiners Arms will live on as an LGBTQI+ pub. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

Pride in your image: young and old LGBTQI+ locals come together for a pair of artistic Hackney Museum exhibits

Out and About and From Bedroom to Battleground will be open in time for LGBT History Month, after the Council spent a year collecting historical testimony and artefacts from the community

Author: Andrew Barnes

Badges of honour: Project Indigo worked with artist Liv Wynter to make their voices heard. Photograph: Hackney Council