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The case against Sri Lanka was brought by LGBT+ rights activist Rosanna Flamer-Caldera. (Facebook/ Rosanna Flamer-Caldera) The UN has become the first international law body to declare that criminalising lesbian sex is a violation of human rights. On Wednesday, 23 March, a UN committee, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against

Robert Foster ran a failed gubernatorial campaign in 2019. (Facebook/ Robert Foster) A Republican politician and former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives has called for trans people to be executed by firing squad. Robert Foster served in the state’s House of Representatives from 2016 to 2020, and in 2019 embarked on a failed

Presidential candidate Eric Zemmour speaks during a “grand oral” presentation on 28 March 2022. (Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty) LGBT+ rights groups have filed a lawsuit against far-right French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour who say he denied gay Holocaust victims.  Zemmour, who is Jewish, is being sued by six LGBT+ organisations in the country: Inter-LGBT, SOS

Marjorie Taylor Greene during Joe Biden’s his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on 1 March, 2022. (Getty/ J. Scott Applewhite-Pool) Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has suggested Pete and Chasten Buttigieg want to use girls’ bathrooms in a truly bizarre rant at a Donald Trump rally. On Saturday, March

DaVinci Academy of Science and the Arts senior Jocelyn Anglesey held a Queer Prom to create a “safe space” for LGBT+ youth in the local area. (YouTube/KSL News) Students in northern Utah have thrown an inclusive prom to create a “safe space” for LGBT+ kids to have fun.  Jocelyn Anglesey, a senior at DaVinci Academy

Two people hold placards in support of trans people. (Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty) Republicans in Arizona have passed a bill to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for trans youth in the state.  The state’s Republican-led House approved Senate Bill 1138 (SB 1138) on Thursday (24 March) by a 31-26 vote. The bill passed

Counter-protestors gather to support trans swimmer Lia Thomas at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty) Conservative lawmakers in three states have passed bills that would ban trans students from participating in girls’ and women’s sports teams. Lawmakers in Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky approved three bills that would prohibit trans

Marjorie Taylor Greene. (CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty/ Tom Williams) Firebrand Republican Majorie Taylor Greene has been dubbed an “insurrectionist” by a lawsuit seeking to stop her running for reelection. The Georgian congresswoman has, among many other things, touted QAnon conspiracy theories, spewed COVID misinformation and compared the mask mandate on the House floor to the

Vladimir Putin has compared the so-called “cancelling” of JK Rowling as akin to Nazis burning books in the 1930s. Putin cited Rowling during a rant claiming that the West is trying to “cancel” Russia as his troops continue to wreak devastation on Ukraine. In dubbed footage broadcast by Sky News on Friday (25 March), Putin claimed that the West seeks

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton speaks during a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference on 27 February 2021. (Getty/Joe Raedle) Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has declared a school’s Pride event “illegal” and referred to LGBT+ people as “predators”.  Paxton wrote a letter to the Austin Independent School District superintendent Stephanie S Elizalde

Indiana governor Eric Holcomb and Utah governor Spencer Cox. (Getty/Michael Hickey/YouTube/Gov Spencer J Cox) Two Republican governors have vetoed trans sports bans, departing from GOP leaders in other states who signed similar laws. Indiana governor Eric Holcomb and governor Spencer Cox of Utah vetoed bills that would have banned trans girls from competing in girls’

US Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson shut down a series of loaded questions on marriage equality, trans inclusion and the definition of a woman. Brown – US president Joe Biden’s pick for the bench – has been fielding

Biden to reportedly expedite resettlement of LGBT+ Ukrainians (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Joe Biden is reportedly set to expedite the resettlement of some vulnerable Ukrainian refugees, according to NBC News. The plan will reportedly be unveiled as early as this week, three sources told the network, and will allow vulnerable Ukrainians including members of the LGBT+

Elliot Page and Stephanie Beatriz. (Getty) Elliot Page and Stephanie Beatriz will hand out gongs as Oscars 2022 presenters. Beatriz and Page join a long list of presenters for this Sunday’s Oscars (28 March). Newly-announced presenters also include DJ Khaled, H.E.R, Bill Murray, Tiffany Haddish, Tony Hawk, Jennifer Garner, Kelly Slater and Shaun White. Page is

Hundreds of anti-war protesters gathered at Times Square in New York City, to protest Russian attacks in Ukraine. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Between police raids and censorship, an LGBT+ group has fled Russia as they fear the “responsibility” for losing the Ukraine war “will be assigned” to the queer community. Watching Vladimir Putin

Minneasotans hold a rally at the capitol to support trans kids in Minnesota, Texas, and around the country. (UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty/ Michael Siluk) In 2022 so far there have been 238 anti-LGBT+ bills filed in the United States, mostly targeting trans folk, and it’s not even the end of March. According to analysis

Fezco is a “good boy”. (Facebook) A dog has been dumped at an animal shelter after his owners decided they no longer wanted his because he is “gay”. According to local TV station WCCB Charlotte, the pup was dropped off at an animal shelter in Stanly County, North Carolina, US. The shelter said that the

A queer nightclub in Northern Ireland isn’t changing it’s name in protest against Vladimir Putin. (Google Maps/Getty Images) The Kremlin nightclub in Belfast, Northern Ireland has said it has no plans to change its name anytime soon. The decades-old bar, on Donegall Road, is one of the country’s largest LGBT+ nightclubs, promising partygoers a “sexy

Non-binary activist in Madrid, Spain, 2021. (Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images) Non-binary people have worse mental health than other genders, according to a new report. On average, more than one in two non-binary people (51 per cent) are clinically distressed or struggling, the second-ever Mental State of the World Report 2021 found. The researchers at Sapiens Lab,

Environment minister Zac Goldsmith. (Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press South/Getty Images) Conservative environment minister Zac Goldsmith, known for failing in his bid to become London mayor, has compared gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth to lobotomies. In a tweet Friday morning (18 March), Goldsmith described puberty blockers as a “brutal pathway” despite the treatment being safe, well-studied and

Republican lawmakers in Idaho have killed a bill that would have criminalised doctors and parents who helped trans kids receive gender-affirming treatment.  The reviled bill, House Bill 675 (HB 675), would have made it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical care to trans minors in the state. Under the bill, anyone who provided or knowingly gave

SNP MSP John Mason argued against a total conversion therapy ban in Scotland. (Twitter) SNP MSP John Mason has compared conversion therapy, often described as torture, to the “self-control” of not “eating too much chocolate”. Mason has previously opposed retrospective pardons for historically criminalised gay people in Scotland and argued against same-sex marriage, describing it