Paris Lees
Paris Lees is editor of META, a new publication devoted to gender issues. She has columns with Gay Times and DIVA and appears in The Guardian, Attitude and Pink News.
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Why do the likes of David Starkey, Andrew Pierce and Rupert Everett oppose same-sex marriage despite being gay? Is it Stockholm Syndrome?
12 October 2012 12:00 AM
Apart from anything else, it shows a terrible lack of imagination
Paris Lees: Bodily autonomy - confessions of a transsexual sex worker
18 June 2012 03:34 PM
When Channel 4 screened Ria: Diary of a Teen Transsexual last Tuesday I was prepared for ignorant comments. I didn’t predict though that criticism towards 17 year old Ria would focus so heavily on her sex work.
Paris Lees: Heard the one about the ladyboy? Media jokes about trans people are not acceptable
31 May 2012 04:00 AM
Transphobia has passed the dinner table test because those who mock trans people simply don’t expect to see one of us at their dinner tables
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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Eyewitness Ingrid Loyau-Kennett gives extraordinary account of her confrontation with Woolwich attackers
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Woolwich attack: The EDL might have a sinister plan as a soldier is murdered in suspected Islamic terrorist attack
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Edward VIII’s phone calls - and how MI5 bugged them
Sent down at the Old Bailey
Hollywood's random acts of red-carpet kindness
British football scores an own goal
James Lawton
Dylan Hartley talks tough
Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group
'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system'
Plenty of sleaze
The Freemasons’ Code
Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last
How to say ‘I’m a sellout’
Why clubs are keen to take a stand
In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City
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