🚨 New Year, New Role🚨
Thrilled to announce that next week I will be joining
@LivEchonews
as their LGBTQIA+ Community Reporter 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
As always please send tips, stories and everything in between to paul.mcauley
@reachplc
.com ✍️
Reform being in the top three for the majority of Merseyside's constituencies should be a wake-up call for the preachers who claim Liverpool is a left-wing utopia
Being a journalist is actually exhausting at times.
You could write a story on how a two-year-old flew across the world to save 17 cats from a fire and someone would say 'well, what about the fuel he used?'
Tickets for Franklin Grahams event in Liverpool this weekend are only 1p. I bought the maximum amount of 10 to help ensure he walks out to an empty audience!! 💋
Children's entertainer Aida H Dee was told they would be "cut up and thrown into the River Mersey" if they were to come to the city to work.
It's a tiny % of people that ruin Liverpool's reputation as a progressive city but disgusting nonetheless
The shortlist for the 2022 Awards for Excellence is here! 🌟
Congratulations to the 59 students, trainees, apprentices and training providers on the shortlist!
The winners will be announced at a ceremony at Twickenham Stadium on 2 March.
Find out more:
A year ago today I started at
@LivEchonews
🎉 As always I'm still on the look out for stories impacting or involving the LGBTQ+ community as well as other minority groups✍️ paul.mcauley
@reachplc
.com x
Liverpool FC fan Paul Boardman was not able to see The Reds beat Chelsea on penalties at the showpiece event at Wembley after being caught singing an abusive chant
“Cowards seek refuge in the homes of innocent people whose lives are now changed forever. Heroes can bring the gunmen before the courts and make sure justice is served for this innocent little girl.” -
@mariabreslin
/
@LivEchonews
“National Coming Out Day isn’t a day to force LGBTQ+ people to come out or to shame people who haven’t done so. It’s a day to celebrate the beauty of being true to yourself."
#NationalComingOutDay
35 years ago at the height of the AIDS crisis, 35 policemen raided The RVT wearing rubber gloves.
Lily Savage was on stage at the time, and she said: ‘Well well, it looks like we’ve got help with the washing up.’
Today is not only Shafilea Ahmed's birthday, but the National Day of Memory for victims of honour-based abuse. The aspiring solicitor was only 17 when she was killed in front on her siblings at her family home.
After Everton's post of their new equality shirt was flooded with homophobic comments, Peter Reid’s brother Mike summed up the situation perfectly: "The fact the shirt sold out so quickly is more of an indication to the mindset of most bluenoses."
"When I found a community that embraced me for my drag and for everything that I am, it really meant the world to me" -
@MaxxyRainbow
on being part of the
#Eurovision2023
community
Can’t wait for the World Cup LGBTQ discourse to be finished and we move swiftly on to why some feel the need to sing the F slur in Fairytale of New York🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
When teenager Brianna Ghey was murdered, the killers were named, despite their age, as it was viewed a public interest story.
Surely it’s in the public interest to name the sick and twisted savage that murdered three children and severely injured others?
Why keep it protected?
I caught up with
@LaytonWilliams
to talk about all things
#StrictlyComeDancing
- his pre-dance ritual, queer representation and how he handles the haters x
🔗👇🏻
The British public will be called up to fight if the UK goes to war, the head of the Army warns.
Would you fight for your country? And would enough Brits be willing to sign up?
📞 0344 499 1000
@JuliaHB1
The Reds striker paired up with fashion powerhouse British GQ to be their first February cover star, but disgustingly the photos were flooded with homophobic slurs👎
@LFC_LGBT
@Liverpolitans
To say "TQ+ is a parasite feeding off LGB goodwill earned over decades by gays & lesbians" is absolutely ridiculous.
As if it was Marsha P. Johnson, a trans activist, who helped paved the way for people like yourself - a gay man.
I’ve been reporting on the LGBTQ+ community and issues they face for a month now💅 Without sounding boastful but rather proud - my stories have been viewed over three hundred thousand times already👏 You can read them here -
Whether they were an activist, friend or someone who just lived unapologetically - they deserved not to be forgotten.
The ECHO's first Loved and Lost list for LGBTQ+ folk to coincide with Pride in Liverpool❤️
Bonnie Spofforth, the woman believed to be the 1st to spread false rumours about Southport killer Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, has ironically said: "People should be very careful about putting what they think is true (online) without doing the research."
Kate has helped over 2,000 families by offering free meals, heat, entertainment, Christmas presents and school uniforms - Iconic behaviour
#InternationalWomensDay
First week almost done in my new role @ Reach✍️ If you’ve got any
#dog
or
#staycation
related stories send them over to: paul.mcauley
@reachplc
.com (especially interested if they have a Liverpool angle)
#journorequest
Don't be fooled, Labour are the lesser of two evils in this General Election
A glance at the party's track record tells you everything you need to know as a queer person. They can't be trusted.