Christine Burns has a quite alarming post up about LGBT charities in the UK and why they can’t get much traction. Here’s the money shot:

Most public authorities have electronic ‘firewalls’ and email filters that are programmed to bar any communications or web site traffic with words such as ‘lesbian’ or ‘gay’.

Yes, that’s right, public authorities. Many of them apparently refuse to even accept an email containing the words “lesbian” or “gay”. And that means that if your organization’s name contains one of those words you can’t communicate with many UK-based public bodies.

Read the whole thing here. It is mind-boggling.