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'I was kicked out of the family home during lockdown for being LGBT' The pandemic has led to a sharp rise in the number of young LGBT people left homeless by families who refuse to accept them Almost a quarter of homeless young people identified as LGBT before the pandemic Credit: Getty Images “I wish that I could have told my mum all about my boyfriend and been met with love and excitement,” says Jack, 17. “Instead I was thrown out.” Jack was outed as gay last summer and word soon got round to his mum. “She absolutely lost it with me,” he recalls. 

Some of Britain's top LGBT+ charities have voiced concern over the government's now wavering support for rough sleepers. (Stock photograph from Elements Envato) Some of Britain’s top LGBT+ homeless charities have urged the government not to ditch a vital emergency housing scheme amid a third national lockdown. As another lockdown paralyses England until at least mid-February, the government is yet to confirm if it will provide rough sleepers with shelter as part of its Everyone In scheme, as it did previously. The emergency measures, first introduced in March 2020, saw the government requir...

Madre Goose has ‘punk songs, psychedelic backgrounds and embraces inclusivity’ “Kids love a mosh pit! They love a headbang,” says Tali Clarke, the writer and director of a queer punk pantomime, Madre Goose, which is streamed this month. Madre Goose tells the story of an LGBTQ+ community of activists rallying against gentrification and materialism. All the wacky costumes, silly characters and daft jokes are as you’d expect from panto, but it has punk songs, psychedelic green-screen backgrounds and embraces inclusivity. “The problem with a lot of pantos, when...