Rob Rinder: ‘I want to highlight the joy of the LGBT+ community’
Rob Rinder has joined Metro.co.uk as the first-person and opinion section's guest editor for our Pride takeover.
Because I didn’t scream during labour, I was forgotten about and had 3 traumatic births
As first-timers, we respected the expertise of the professionals around us, until the arguments started.
I married my partner after he died
As we slipped one of the rings onto Marc’s finger and the other onto mine, I promised to love him forever.
I wasn’t feeling unwell when I was diagnosed with leukemia – it was picked up during a random blood test
I decided that to have a health MOT done at the same time as my mum.
Being pregnant while in recovery for an eating disorder is a minefield
For so much of my pregnancy, I have felt guilty and ashamed.
My date thought it would be romantic to take me to a cemetery
Not just any cemetery, a cemetery for children and sex workers in the 1800s. Strange? Yes. Concerning? Slightly.
Teachers’ workloads are so extreme that I quit after having daily panic attacks
On one occasion, I had to send a pupil to get help because I feared that I was about to faint.
A year after cutting contact with my narcissist mother, I got back in touch
I now say ‘no’ regularly to unreasonable demands without guilt or explanation.
We moved to the UK to be together, but our family was ripped apart – I’ve never felt more lonely
One woman reveals the loneliness she felt as a teen refugee arriving in the UK.
I became a single mum to twins months after moving to the UK
I had a very difficult and lonely pregnancy.
War is still ongoing in Syria – please don’t forget about us
With the world closely focusing on the crisis in Ukraine, all we ask is that our humanitarian plight in Syria is also remembered.
I have fostered 27 children and every single one has become part of my family
I've been fostering since 2004.
A racist attack on my Windrush generation dad made me question my Britishness
They punched and kicked my dad. He fought for his life, refusing to be killed by racists.
The guy I was dating stealthed me three times – when I confronted him he raped me again
It never occurred to me to double check that he had used the condom until he finished and I felt something sticky seeping down my leg.
The real story of the UEFA Champions League final carnage Liverpool fans faced in Paris
A first-hand account of the dangerous crowd control at the Stade de France.
My mum’s confidence was shattered once she started chemo – makeup changed that
A hard part of my mum’s cancer diagnosis was seeing my mum not want to go into shops because she was self-conscious about her thinning hair.
I’ve been left with PTSD after working in critical care during the pandemic
The amount of death we witnessed left a lasting impression. I had 16 years of experience, yet it was still overwhelming.
My mum is an internet troll – I don’t know what to do about it
When she first joined Facebook, her profile picture was a swastika.
I thought my date was going to propose – instead he told me he had a toilet fetish
He told me there was something important he had to say and he got on his knees in front of me.
I wouldn’t be alive today if I didn’t have an abortion at 19
Removing access to abortion removes women’s control over their lives.
Don’t ask me if I’ll ever see my dad again – I don’t even know myself
I regularly hear questions like: ‘If your dad was terminally ill or something, would you go and be with him?’
No one should feel ashamed for being HIV positive
The xx's Oliver Sim’s has opened up about his HIV diagnosis at just 17 years old.
Meningitis left me paralysed – now I’m a disabled fashion designer
After my meningitis diagnosis, I died clinically three times, but was resuscitated.
Strangers asked me for sex when my details were put online – I had to change my number
It all started when I received an email containing a badly photoshopped image of my face onto a scene from an adult film.
I didn’t think my tummy ache was worth fussing over – it turned out to be a burst appendix
I told paramedics that I was sure the feeling would pass. If they'd have listened I wouldn't still be here.
