Abusive rhetoric by politicians, the media and social commentators has trickled down to produce increasingly abusive and hateful speech against LGBT persons in the United Kingdom (UK), the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity warned today. Victor Madrigal-Borloz's full report can be found here.
Also released today is ILGA-Europe's annual rainbow map (image attached and full details here), measuring 74 parameters to qualitatively place our country ever closer to the most conservative areas of the continent, where before 2015 we had been proud to call ourselves a welcoming home to our LGBT community (standing at 82% in 2014).