The Daily Telegraph

=== LGBT+ rights ===
In 2012, prior to the legalisation of [[same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom]], Telegraph View published an editorial stating that it was a "pointless distraction" as "many [gay couples] already avail themselves of the [[Civil union|civil partnerships]] introduced by [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gay marriage: A pointless distraction|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9429173/Gay-marriage-A-pointless-distraction.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9429173/Gay-marriage-A-pointless-distraction.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|website=The Telegraph|date=26 July 2012 |language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ''The Telegraph'' wrote in another editorial that same year that it feared that changing "the law on gay marriage risks inflaming anti-homosexual bigotry".<ref>{{Cite web|title=A marriage proposal fraught with pitfalls|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9145917/A-marriage-proposal-fraught-with-pitfalls.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9145917/A-marriage-proposal-fraught-with-pitfalls.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|website=The Telegraph|date=15 March 2012 |language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2015, the newspaper published an article by former editor [[Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham|Charles Moore]] claiming a "gay rights [[sharia]]" was dictating what the LGBT+ community should believe, following [[Dolce & Gabbana]]'s openly gay founders criticising gay adoptions. Moore wrote: "If you are gay, Mr Strudwick seemed to assert, there are certain things you must believe. Nothing else is permitted under the gay rights sharia."<ref>{{Cite web|title=In the headlong rush for 'rights', children are an afterthought|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11485526/In-the-headlong-rush-for-rights-children-are-an-afterthought.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11485526/In-the-headlong-rush-for-rights-children-are-an-afterthought.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=30 September 2020|website=The Telegraph|date=21 March 2015 |language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Moore has previously expressed his views that civil partnerships achieved a "balance" for heterosexual and homosexual couples.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ukip's Rochester win shows voters no longer trust the main parties|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11246048/Ukips-Rochester-win-shows-voters-no-longer-trust-the-main-parties.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11246048/Ukips-Rochester-win-shows-voters-no-longer-trust-the-main-parties.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|website=The Telegraph|date=22 November 2014 |language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2013, he wrote: "Respectable people are truly terrified of being thought anti-homosexual. In a way, they are right to be, because attacking people for their personal preferences can be a nasty thing."<ref>{{Cite web|title=David Cameron would like to forget gay marriage, but it will haunt him|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10049451/David-Cameron-would-like-to-forget-gay-marriage-but-it-will-haunt-him.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10049451/David-Cameron-would-like-to-forget-gay-marriage-but-it-will-haunt-him.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|website=The Telegraph|date=10 May 2013 |language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Also in 2015, ''The Telegraph'' published its "Out at Work" list, naming "the top 50 list of LGBT executives".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Out at Work: The top 50 list of LGBT executives|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/11349808/Out-at-Work-The-top-50-list-of-LGBT-executives.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/11349808/Out-at-Work-The-top-50-list-of-LGBT-executives.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|website=The Telegraph|date=16 January 2015 |language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref>{{importance inline|date=August 2023}} Since then, ''The Telegraph'' appeared to shift towards a more liberal attitude on LGBT+ issues, publishing articles that then-Prime Minister [[Theresa May]] needed to be "serious about LGBT equality"<ref>{{Cite news|last=Segalov|first=Michael|date=21 October 2016|title=If Theresa May is serious about LGBT equality, she needs to offer more than pardons|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/21/if-theresa-may-is-serious-about-lgbt-equality-she-needs-to-offer/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/21/if-theresa-may-is-serious-about-lgbt-equality-she-needs-to-offer/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and that "bathroom bills" in Texas – which were criticised as being transphobic – were "a [[Franz Kafka|Kafkaesque]] state intrusion".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cunliffe|first=Rachel|date=11 January 2017|title=Transgender 'bathroom bills' are a Kafkaesque state intrusion – and Republicans should oppose them|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/transgender-bathroom-bills-kafkaesque-state-intrusion-republicans/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/transgender-bathroom-bills-kafkaesque-state-intrusion-republicans/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The newspaper also featured an article written by [[Maria Munir]] about their experience coming out to [[Barack Obama|President Barack Obama]] as [[Non-binary gender|non-binary]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Munir|first=Maria|date=27 April 2016|title=Why I came out as non-binary to Barack Obama|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/why-i-came-out-as-non-binary-to-barack-obama/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/why-i-came-out-as-non-binary-to-barack-obama/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Stonewall (charity)|Stonewall]] CEO Ruth Hunt penned an article in ''The Telegraph'' after the [[Orlando nightclub shooting]] in June 2016 that the attack on a gay nightclub "grew out of everyday homophobia".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hunt|first=Ruth|date=13 June 2016|title=The Orlando shooting grew out of everyday homophobia – we cannot be complacent|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/13/the-orlando-shooting-grew-out-of-everyday-homophobia--we-cannot/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/13/the-orlando-shooting-grew-out-of-everyday-homophobia--we-cannot/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2021|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Also in 2016, Telegraph Executive Director [[Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood|Lord Black]] was awarded Peer of the Year at the 2016 [[PinkNews]] Awards for his campaigning on LGBT rights.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lord Black: PinkNews -|url=https://www.guyblack.org.uk/news/lord-black-pinknews-peer-year|access-date=6 March 2021|website=Guy Black|date=26 October 2016|language=en|archive-date=16 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516051329/https://www.guyblack.org.uk/news/lord-black-pinknews-peer-year|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Telegraph'' has published articles which have been criticised by ''[[PinkNews]]'' as [[Transphobia|transphobic]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 January 2019|title=Daily Telegraph criticised for anti-trans NHS women's wards article|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/01/11/daily-telegraph-transphobic-headline/|access-date=4 January 2021|website=PinkNews|language=en-GB|archive-date=29 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129234120/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/01/11/daily-telegraph-transphobic-headline/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, the newspaper published an article by [[Allison Pearson]] titled: "Will our spineless politicians' love affair with LGBT ever end?", arguing that [[National Health Service|NHS]] patients' being asked their sexual orientation was unnecessary and another in 2018 with the headline: "The tyranny of the transgender minority has got to be stopped".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Pearson|first=Allison|date=16 October 2018|title=The tyranny of the transgender minority has got to be stopped|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/tyranny-transgender-minority-has-got-stopped/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/tyranny-transgender-minority-has-got-stopped/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=4 January 2021|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Pearson">{{Cite news|last=Pearson|first=Allison|date=17 October 2017|title=Will our spineless politicians' love affair with LGBT ever end?|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/will-spineless-politicians-love-affair-lgbt-ever-end/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/will-spineless-politicians-love-affair-lgbt-ever-end/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=4 January 2021|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>