‘I was absolutely furious…beyond almost uncontainable fury’.

This was Keir Starmer’s response on Pete Wicks’ podcast Man Made, to the homophobic attack his niece endured for holding hands with her wife, which is of course a normal reaction to this horrible crime.

But hearing him discuss the incident left me feeling angry.

‘Having my own niece being beaten up in the street for being gay’, Starmer continues, ‘I thought we moved on from that’.

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

The fact that Starmer had believed we moved on from violent homophobia is not only absurd, but displays an ignorance that seems to be evident in the way the Labour Party treats LGBT+ people.

As a white cis straight man, he of course wouldn’t have the experiences of queer or trans people, but as our Prime Mini

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