To celebrate LGBT History Month, MM talk to actor and ‘shock in a frock’ drag artist Dan Wallace aka Anna Phylactic about his experience of coming out and what progress Manchester still has to make towards equality.

The chair of a Manchester transgender discussion group has praised national charity Stonewall for its decision to finally start campaigning for the trans community.

Councillors and community leaders from across Manchester get together to discuss the impact of public sector cuts on the safety and security of local communities.

Manchester has been named the world’s 14th most sustainable city and community groups are the driving force behind it, according to an environmental campaigner.

Charlie Hooson-Sykes,an Executive Assistant at the University of Manchester, discusses same sex schools, coming out as bisexual and the friendly faces that the city so great with MM.

The trans community does not receive the same support given to other minority groups, according to prominent trans activist and organiser of Manchester Sparkle OBE Jenny-Anne Bishop.

Moss Side’s Hideaway Youth Project witnesses ‘the first steps towards building unbreakable communities and families’ as Black Lives Matter speakers and supporters turned out in droves for the Manchester stint of the Ferguson Solidarity Tour.

Manchester’s National Cycling Centre is cultivating a ‘production line of success’ according to its Velodrome Manager.

Despite being watched by an average crowd of just less than 3,500 this season, Rochdale fans have turned out in force as the club prepare to take on top-flight opposition for the first time in 10 years.

The report – Tackling Hidden Crimes and Behaviours – published on January 14 by Manchester City Council states that the city is a ‘hotspot’ for unreported sex crimes such as female genital mutilation.

All Souls Church reopened last month following the completion of a £4.9million regeneration project to modernise the Grade II*-listed Victorian church.