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Blog: Celebrating our Black LGBT+ activists

Rizwan Sheikh was a leading activist in lesbian and gay, and Black members groups. He became a senior activist in his region and then nationally. He […]

Article, General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

Bi visibility day

Date
22 – 23 September 2016
Location
Events will take place across the UK

Event on the UNISON National site.

Celebrate Bi Visibility Day

Date
23 September 2017 2:00am–2:00am
Location
Across the UK

UNISON can make all the difference by standing up for bi workers’ equality. Display our new poster on your noticeboard to mark Bi Visibility […]

Event on the UNISON National site.

Blog: Government proposals to end ‘conversion therapy’ are a cop out

As UNISON national LGBT+ officer Mitchell Coe examines the problems with the latest UK government proposals and explains how you can add your voice to the consultation that has just opened

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Blog: Happy Pride season

As always, UNISON activists will be at many Prides across the UK, being on stalls, marching and promoting our LGBT+ equality work in workplaces and branches. And after the last two years, we have […]

General Secretary, General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

National Disabled LGBT members network day

Date
28 June 2017 1:00pm–6:00pm
Location
UNISON Centre 130 Euston Road, London NW1 2AY

These caucus meetings allow these groups to submit motions and amendments in line with the conference timetable –as set out by the Standing Orders Committee […]

Event on the UNISON National site.

Blog: Proud to welcome in Pride

UNISON’s LGBT+ members bring so much to our union, and make it a diverse, wonderful organisation to join and to work for. A year on from the last time […]

Article, Blogs, General Secretary, General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

Delegates call for help to combat the epidemic of male suicide

In 2020, 75% of those who took their own lives in the UK were male, with 4,880 men and boys ending their lives – equating to 12 deaths every day of the year. While people of all […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Bi Visibility Day 23 September Poster

Bi Visibility Day – 23 September Poster – PDF only

Media on the UNISON National site.

UNISON launches model trans equality policy

Most employers still don’t have specific policies on trans equality and those who are developing them often consult UNISON on draft policies. These drafts reveal […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Conference unanimously gives LGBT the + factor

young people have taken it back from the bullies and made it positive.” She said that “adding a letter here and a letter there” to ‘LGBT’ […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Voices for Palestine won’t be silenced

And for the executive, Paul Glover stressed that the union’s work on Palestine has always been based […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

LGBT conference stress that we’re ‘stronger in UNISON’

As speaker after speaker made clear, given global events, standing together is more important than ever. Speaking to a motion calling for zero tolerance of […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Standing with our LGBT members

The features on LGBT history in our journals and website earlier this year show that we were negotiating and campaigning for equality early in the […]

Article, General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

Blog: During Pride, let’s recommit to act for LGBT+ equality

It’s a time for joy. LGBT+ people and communities face layers of discrimination. I’ll come to that. But it’s right to start with the […]

General Secretary, General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.