Our Alumni & Public Relations Officer Jack Harvey caught up with The Yorker‘s News Editor 2015-2016, Laura-Autumn Cox, now a Senior Staff Writer at D/SRUPTION. Laura studied for a BA in History 2013-2016. She […]
Tag: LGBTQ
Fortnightly News Roundup 24th June-8th July 2018
Being well informed isn’t easy, but it doesn’t have to be time consuming. In this feature, The Yorker is bringing you a fortnightly roundup of politics free national and international […]
YUSU Elections 2017: Rowen Ellis (LGBTQ Officer)
Rowen Ellis is running to be the LGBTQ Officer at the University of York Students’ Union. What inspired you to run for the position? After being a member of the […]
YUSU Elections 2017: Henry Fairnington (LGBTQ Officer)
What inspired you to run for the position? Seeing the work that previous officers have done has inspired me to continue that, as well as hearing LGBTQ individuals talk about […]
Following ‘Transgender Awareness Month’
As many may (and should) be aware, November marked Transgender Awareness Month, meaning that all transgender people were permitted to remove our invisibility cloaks and be recognised for who we […]
Live Review: Jesus & His Judgemental Father (18/11/2016)
Queer music is an emerging kind of music. Taking inspiration from more mainstream LGBTQ artists, whose work is generally welcome on the radio, queer artists combine elements of rock, pop, punk and […]
Photographs from York LGBT Pride 2016
Below are a selection of photographs of the 2016 York LGBT Pride parade.
LGBT Pride parade and party held in York
York has held an LGBT Pride parade through the city and a festival at Knavesmire today. In a celebration of York’s solidarity with its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) residents, […]
“Are You Oppressed Enough?” is crude but not transphobic
An article for the latest edition of The Lemon Press has received a lot of attention for its supposed transphobia and offensiveness, even prompting Ben Leatham, the University of York Students’ Union […]
Three killed in Bangladesh
This week three people were brutally killed in Bangladesh. Over these last few years, terror attacks have become commonplace in this South Asian country, yet UK media have rarely given […]