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Queer spaces: a “hotbed for addiction”?

Queer spaces: a “hotbed for addiction”?

by Caitlin James | May 14, 2025 3:39PM | Campaigns - LGBTQ Alcohol

Gay bars have long served as a sanctuary for queer people, but behind the glowing lights and echoing music, alarm bells are ringing as a culture of drink and drugs encourages substance abuse within the community. “The club experience can be described as a...
“We have never had equality”: Trans rights activists rally across the UK following court’s ruling 

“We have never had equality”: Trans rights activists rally across the UK following court’s ruling 

by Olivia Idle | Apr 28, 2025 12:48PM | News, Uncategorized

Hundreds of people gathered in over 20 UK cities, including Sheffield, this weekend, to show solidarity with the transgender community after the Supreme Court ruled the definition of a woman refers to biological sex. Lexi S, 21, a transwoman, who attended the Bite...
Menstrual Product bins to be put in male toilets in Sheffield Student Union

Menstrual Product bins to be put in male toilets in Sheffield Student Union

by Marie Koehl | Dec 8, 2023 2:43PM | News

The University of Sheffield Student’s Union is one of the first Student unions in the UK to install bins for menstrual products in men’s toilets.  Numerous students throughout the United Kingdom have asked for these bins to be put in place, but there has been no...
Protestors to stand in solidarity with transgender author outside Sheffield Central Library

Protestors to stand in solidarity with transgender author outside Sheffield Central Library

by Olivia Mustafa | Feb 27, 2023 4:16PM | News

Protestors are set to demonstrate outside Sheffield Central Library tonight in solidarity with an international transgender author. Canadian novelist and cartoonist, Sophie Labelle, is due to speak about her upcoming novel The Best of Assigned Male, a coming-of-age...
Sheffield trans activists call on government to urgently change Brianna Ghey’s death certificate

Sheffield trans activists call on government to urgently change Brianna Ghey’s death certificate

by Olivia Mustafa | Feb 22, 2023 2:21PM | News

Organisers of a Sheffield vigil for a transgender girl found dead in Cheshire have said the government must honour her chosen name and gender in her death certificate. The city’s trans community came together at a vigil in Peace Gardens on the evening of 16...
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