Pride Month is here, a time for joy and celebration for the LGBTQ+ community. However, pride is also about safety and freedom for LGBTQ+ people, it is about LGBTQ+ people feeling free to be themselves without fear.

Pride is a stark reminder that conversion practices remain legal in the UK. That’s right, interventions that seek to ‘change’, cure’, or suppress the sexual orientation and/or gender identity of a person are legal and happening in the UK right now.

Whilst the Government celebrates pride publicly, we’re reminded that they failed to deliver on their commitment to publish a draft Bill to ban conversion practices by the end of the parliamentary session. They recently reaffirmed their commitment in the King’s speech, and now we want to see action.