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Democratic Presidential candidate Julián Castro has escorted a group of LGBT+ asylum seekers across the US-Mexico border. Castro travelled to Matamoros in Mexico on Monday to meet with the eight asylum seekers, who fled Cuba, Guatemala and Honduras because of persecution based on their sexuality and gender identity. Among them was Ray, a 35-year-old asylum
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Antoni Porowski (C) arrives for 2019 CFDA Fashion Awards at Brooklyn Museum in New York City. (Rob Kim/GC Images) Queer Eye star and full-time heartthrob Antoni Porowski has said he hates being single and alone because he is “pathologically co-dependent”. The food and wine expert, 35, said that rocketing to fame on the Netflix show
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Protestors outside Parkfield Community School on March 21, 2019 in Birmingham. (Christopher Furlong/Getty) Islamist extremists took advantage of LGBT+ school protests to “entrench social division” and “amplify hate” towards the LGBT+ community, an official probe has found. Protests against LGBT-inclusive education centred on two Birmingham primary schools. Demonstrations are still ongoing, despite a government ruling to
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The Roman Catholic archbishop of Kraków, Poland, has compared the existence of LGBT+ people to an “aggressive” communist regime. Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski wrote a pastoral letter dated September 28, which was published in full by right-wing Polish magazine Do Rzeczy.  He said: “Currently we are living at a time in which the next great threat
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Brett Kavanaugh has no judicial record on LGBT+ rights cases, but LGBT+ advocates fear he is likely to align with the opposition. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) October 8 is the day the Supreme Court will hear arguments that represent the future of LGBT+ rights in America – and at the centre of it all will be Brett
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A man who stages peaceful protests against homophobia in New York City was reportedly attacked with his own sign, in an incident being treated as a suspected hate crime. LGBT activist Anthony Dolci, 50, says he was targeted on Saturday, October 7, while protesting on the streets of Manhattan. Dolci’s one-man peaceful protests are a
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Elton John performs during his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at the Wizink Center on June 26, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. (Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images) He’s currently on his farewell tour, but Elton John has revealed he was close to not living to see it. The singer, 72, was diagnosed in 2017 with
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Trans woman Daniela Calderon, 35, was shot seven times last month. (Screen capture via Dallas News) A trans woman shot seven times – her shooter released back onto the streets shortly after being arrested – has spoken out for the first time since the shocking attack. Daniela Calderon was working in Northwest Dallas in Texas
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Hillary Clinton compared her hard decision to stay married to Bill Clinton to the experience of parenting a transgender child (YouTube/ABC) Hillary Clinton has described her decision to stay married to Bill Clinton after he was unfaithful as “gutsy”, and likened the experience to parenting a transgender child. Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 after
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Mattel has created dolls that are customisable in their gender expression. (Mattel) To the surprise of no one, the anti-LGBT+ evangelical group One Million Moms is not happy about Mattel’s new gender-inclusive dolls. Last week the toy manufacturer launched the gender non-conforming ‘Creatable World’ dolls which come with short hair and a longer wig, as
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EastEnders’ Phil Mitchell finally putting those fists to good use (Twitter/@mitchellsbowden) A punch up in the Queen Vic is standard fare for BBC’s EastEnders, especially when Phil Mitchell’s involved – but October 1’s episode was especially satisfying for viewers. After a long struggle to accept his son’s sexuality, fans were thrilled to see Phil Mitchell
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Joe Biden said he gets “more credit for marriage equality” than he deserves. (Scott Varley/MediaNews Group/Torrance Daily Breeze via Getty) Joe Biden reportedly said he gets “more credit for marriage equality than [he] deserves” at a private fundraiser held on Saturday night (September 28). The Washington Blade reported that Biden made the comments at a
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Eddie Murphy has said he now ‘cringes’ at his old anti-gay jokes. The comic had a decidedly homophobic start in comedy, with his 1983 special Delirious opening with a five-minute homophobic rant. The comedy special features Murphy insisting that “faggots aren’t allowed to look at my ass while I’m on stage” before claiming straight men
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World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, who was convicted of gross indecency for consensual homosexual sex in 1952 (Creative Commons) The UK Home Office has been accused of failing to wipe historical convictions for gay consensual sex, despite a 2012 government scheme to “see this wrong finally put right.” Sex in private between two men
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Joshua Payne-Elliott (right) and his husband, Layton Payne-Elliott, were both employed as Catholic school teachers before Joshua was fired. (Delaney and Delaney) In a “highly unusual” move, the US Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest letter siding with an archbishop’s decision to fire a gay teacher from a Catholic school. Joshua Payne-Elliott
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The baking star has been inundated with messages of support online (Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage/Getty) Former Great British Bake Off contestant Rav Bansal has been flooded with “love and positivity” after sharing a vile homophobic letter he received from a stranger. Bansal appeared on the hit show in 2016, and came out publicly as gay last month.
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Lady Gaga meets a 19-year-old superman in an emotional video. (Screen capture via Allure Magazine) In today’s ‘We are truly blessed to live in the same universe as Lady Gaga’ news, the pop icon surprised a gay fan during a promotion of her new make-up line, Haus Laboratories. While his make-up was undeniably gorgeous, heart-strings
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The nurse responded: “We end up giving them an IV instead since they were adamant they didn’t want a suppository.” Another hilarious anecdote she shared involved some leaps of the imagination (and of believable logic, too). The meme goes: “Patient scootered in by two police officers and a sex toy in a certain orifice…” “Says
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A Conservative conspiracy theorist tried to come for Jonathan Van Ness, and people returned the favour. (Getty/Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for Clusterfest) A Conservative conspiracy theorist tried to shut down Jonathan Van Ness and Twitter came, bearing scientific research papers and logic, to tell him all the reasons why he’s wrong. The Queer Eye star opened about living
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Amid the furore of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment enquiry towards US President Donald Trump, LGBT+ Twitter users found the lighter side of it all, mainly with peach puns. (Getty/Twitter) Democrats deciding to move forward with impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump has sent the political world haywire but sent LGBT+ Twitter wild with
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Gay comedian Julian Clary. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images) Comedian Julian Clary has said in a rather candid interview that anal warts stopped him from acquiring HIV. The 60-year-old, who is no stranger to making an offbeat comment, spoke to The Guardian about this three decades-long career. Sandwiched between discussing his marriage to longtime partner, Ian Mackley,
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