Fighting for equality in conservative Northern Ireland.

Abortion rights protestors hold placards during a demonstration calling for abortion to be legalised in Northern Ireland, outside Belfast city hall in Belfast. Paul Faith / AFP / Getty Images

The LGBT and abortion rights movements in Northern Ireland have vowed to fight in solidarity to win the same rights as people in the rest of the UK and in the Republic of Ireland.

While women’s rights campaigners celebrated the Republic overturning its longstanding ban on abortion in a historic referendum last month…