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Presenter of Today in Focus, the Guardian's award winning daily podcast. Former North of England editor. Contact me in confidence via helen.pidd@theguardian.com
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Kezia Dugdale, incoming Stonewall chair, says sorry after backlash over JK Rowling remarks

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By Helen Pidd Verified
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Helen Pidd The incoming chair of the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall says she is “truly sorry” after she expressed “huge respect” for JK Rowling inan interviewwith the Guardian. Kezia Dugdale, the former leader of Scottish Labour, said she understood that her words had caused “worry, anger and upset and I am truly sorry about that”.
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‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale on safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall

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By Helen Pidd Verified
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Kezia Dugdale, the former leader of Scottish Labour, says she is now “quite scared” as a lesbian in Britain and has started to feel nervous holding her wife’s hand in public. Speaking to the Guardian in Edinburgh on the announcement of her appointment as the chair of Stonewall, the LGBTQ+ charity, she said it was “completely possible” gay rights in the UK could be eroded with the rise of rightwing populism. Equal marriage could not be taken for granted, she cautioned.
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A 'dress rehearsal' for life: inside the Manchester project helping homeless men rebuild

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By Helen Pidd Verified
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It costs a lot to live by the canal in central Manchester, with even the pokiest of studios renting for £1,000. But in Embassy Village, the city's newest waterside community, residents do not need to be rich. Quite the opposite, in fact. To live there, you have to be male, homeless and ready to get your life back on track.
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