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‘Not as proud as I should be’: How The Church of England’s divide plays out in Bristol

For decades, the Church of England has been divided on same-sex marriage. In Bristol, a city with a vibrant LGBTQ+ community, is the rift widening, or is a united Church still possible?

Faith Rhiannon Clarke

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The Bristol Way of Death

Michal Grant

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Strange sounds, synagogues and solidarity: Bristol’s radical Jewish artists

Tom Chachewitz

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‘Hundreds of paper cuts’: The mounting struggles of being trans in Bristol

With long waiting lists for treatment, negative media coverage and rising transphobia, everyday life is becoming harder for Bristol’s trans community

Hannah Vickers

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‘Violence is worse than loving your enemy’

Adam Quarshie

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Charting a new course: How Bristol’s Muslims are mapping their own futures

Muznah Sh Farah

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Children of the stones: Druidry in Bristol

With alternative spiritualities on the rise, reporter Isaac joins a dawn ceremony featuring Druids, ritual magic and one very small lighter

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

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‘I don’t want to use the trans loos’

In the first in a four-part series, trans Bristolians tell the Cable how last year’s Supreme Court decision on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act has affected their lives

Hannah Vickers

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