A queer woman, who was a mother of three from London, has died after being set on fire by an intruder while visiting family in Barbados on July 28. Barbados news site Stabroek News reported that the intruder who attacked Natalie Crichlow, 44, choked her, “doused her with a flammable substance and then set the
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Bria Kam and Chrissy Chambers said their income fell from $3,500 to $500. (Vimeo) Five prominent LGBT+ YouTube channels are suing the video site and its parent company Google for allegedly discriminating against queer content creators. The group of YouTubers have accused the website of making it difficult for them to reach a wider audience,
Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. (CBS) US comedian Stephen Colbert has called out straight men, who – according to Penn State research – don’t recycle because they are scared it makes them “look gay”. In a segment called ‘Hey Straight Guys: Recycling Does Not Make You Look Gay’ on CBS’s The Late Show, Colbert
Borderlands 3 character FL4K has been revealed to be non-binary. As fans gear up for the highly-anticipated shooter game, it has emerged that one of its vault hunters does not fit into the gender binary. Ahead of its September 13 release date, eagle-eyed fans have picked up on gender-neutral pronouns and allusions to an LGBT+
Robert Oden is the first person to be charged with a bias crime (Multnomah County Jail) A 58-year-old man is accused of shouting homophobic and racial slurs during an attack on a group of Latino men leaving a gay nightclub in Portland, Oregon. The men passed Robert Oden after leaving CC Slaughters at approximately 2am
Mike Petke of Real Salt Lake during the match between Orlando City v Real Salt Lake on May 6, 2018 (Peter Lous/Soccrates/Getty Images) Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake has sacked its head coach Mike Petke for using anti-gay slurs. The club terminated Petke’s contract after he reportedly screamed homophobic slurs at a referee
The very name of recording artist Kfir Danieli’s charted pop single, “Drama Queen”, makes me smile. The anthemic, relevant and trendy toon comes with its own message, and eye opening video. The track is fun, addicting, funky, and vibrant, as is Singer/songwriter, dancer and Broadway sensation, Kfir Danieli. “Drama Queen” is raging with attitude, and
The SVTV Network is changing the world of online television, digital media, & entertainment within the LGBTQIA community, its allies, and advocates. SVTV Network (noun): Strong Voices Television, the VOD, digital distribution network, created to serve the underrepresented LGBTQIA community, its allies & advocates in film, television, and digital media. More than just a VOD
Brooklyn, NY – Will Sheridan #GIANT made the first announcement, via all social media, about the first ever GIANT Fest. This two day, all inclusive queer music festival takes place Friday & Saturday, August 30th & 31st, at 3 Dollar Bill, Brooklyn. Located in the heart of East Williamsburg, approximately a 3 minute walk from
A fifty foot high helter skelter amusement ride has been put up inside the nave of Norwich Cathedral on August 11, 2019 in Norwich, England. (James D. Morgan/Getty Images) The ex-CEO of Stonewall has criticised two cathedrals in England for installing a helter skelter and a golf course in their respective naves. Ben Summerskill, who
Sentencing of the Stansted 15 at Chelmsford Crown Court in February 2019. (Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images Images) As British Airways gears up for its 100th birthday on August 25, queer direct-action group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants are calling on the airline to celebrate its centenary by ending deportation flights. To mark
Ryan Curran and Jerome Pacquing are crowdfunding for IVF treatment. (Give A Little) A young gay couple in New Zealand who want to start a family are seeking $25,000 in public donations so they can have a child using IVF. Ryan Curran, 27, and Jerome Pacquing, 25, from Tauranga, New Zealand, have started a public
People hold a non-binary flag during the 2019 Trans Pride march in Dundee. (Stewart Kirby/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) The body responsible for formulating the census questions in Scotland has quietly announced that it has u-turned on plans to include a non-binary option on the next census. National Records of Scotland (NRS) had proposed to
Yanna Awtrey. (Facebook) A private Christian college in the US suspended a transgender man for “sexual perversion” just hours after he got top surgery. Yanna Awtrey is the son of missionaries and grew up in the Free Will Baptist Church. He went to a Free Will Baptist college called Welch College, which was chosen by
The organiser said Straight Pride was a “totally peaceful racist group.” (Modesto News/ YouTube) The organiser of a Straight Pride event was heckled at a city council meeting on Wednesday (August 7) for slipping up and saying that he was part of a “racist group.” Don Grundmann is the founder of the “National Straight Pride
Gareth Thomas of Crusaders in action during the Engage Super League Match between Crusaders RL and Salford City Reds at Millennium Stadium on February 13, 2011 in Cardiff, Wales. (Stu Forster/Getty) Rugby player Gareth Thomas has revealed that he made contact with a gay footballer who is in the closet. Thomas, who is one of
Transgender Jessica Jones actress Aneesh Sheth says the media is too focused on “sensationalism over their bodies.” An out and proud transgender woman, Sheth plays the role of Gillian—Jessica Jones’ assistant on the Netflix show. Sheth, who made history as the first transgender character to appear in a Marvel series, spoke exclusively to PinkNews about being a
Activists parade during the “March of Diversity” campaigning for the comprehensive trans law in 2017. (MIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty) When conservatives in Uruguay campaigned to repeal a law that provides essential protections for trans people, a vast majority of population stopped it from happening. Trans people have been able to legally change their gender since 2009, but
David Corenswet and Ben Platt in new Ryan Murphy musical comedy The Politician (Courtesy of NETFLIX) The first images have been released from Ryan Murphy and Ben Platt’s new Netflix musical comedy series, The Politician. The upcoming show is Pose creator Ryan Murphy’s first show under a big-budget deal that will see him create exclusively
Landon Cider is a “proud cis woman, lesbian and drag king.” (landoncider/ Instagram) US reality drag competition The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula will be the first in America to feature a drag king. The show is currently available on Amazon Prime video, and when its third season is released this month (August 27) one of the contestants
The organiser of a Straight Pride parade has hit back at her estranged gay son, claiming it is “typical” of gay people to “pull away” from their family. Matthew Mason has vowed to resist his mother Mylinda Mason’s Straight Pride rally, which is set to take place in Modesto, California, on August 24. In an
Two members of the German heavy-metal band Rammstein defied Russia’s anti-LGBTQ policies by sharing a kiss during a concert in Moscow on Tuesday. Guitarists Paul Landers and Richard Kruspe kissed onstage as the band performed “Ausländer,” German for “foreigner.” “Russia, we love you,” the band wrote in an Instagram post accompanied by an image of
Actor and television personality Mario Lopez is facing backlash for claiming it’s “dangerous” for parents to support children who identify as transgender. Lopez, a father of three and co-host of the entertainment news program “Extra”, shared his opinions during a June interview on The Candace Owens Show, a PragerU video series hosted by the 30-year-old
Carissa Pinkston ― an up-and-coming model who has worked for Rihanna’s lingerie line, Savage x Fenty ― apologized Saturday for lying about identifying as transgender, after losing her job over transphobic messages she posted on Facebook, reports the HuffPost. The controversy began in May, when a number of Facebook posts Pinkston made under the name
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R), who announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate last week, claims Americans are too “preoccupied with homosexual activities” and “the wife swap shows” and it is ruining everything from TV to the country’s moral direction. Merrill, one of multiple Republicans looking to challenge Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) in 2020,
“One Million Moms” is calling for a boycott of Pixar’s Toy Story 4 over what the conservative anti-LGBT group admits is a “subtle” nod to the LGBTQ community. “At the start of the movie, when Woody’s new owner Bonnie goes for her first day of kindergarten, in the background there is a quick scene where
New York Police are investigating after eight posters featuring U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe were found vandalized with homophobic slurs. The New York Police Department (NYPD) hate crimes task force said it was investigating after the posters were vandalized with derogatory slurs at the Bryant Park subway station in New York. Police confirmed to
As some Disney fans continue to vent about the casting of an African-American actress to play the iconic role of Ariel in the new live-action remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, many have pointed to a group of biographers of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen who claim that he wrote “The Little Mermaid” as a short fairy tale in 1837
A life-size wooden statue of first lady Melania Trump has been unveiled in near her hometown in Slovenia – but local residents say “it’s a disgrace”. The project was commissioned by Berlin-based American artist Brade Downey, who hired local sculptor Ales “Maxi” Zupevc to carve the statue out of a tree stump by the river
Twitter users couldn’t help but notice First Lady Melania Trump’s rain-soaked white dress offered a very revealing glimpse of everything underneath during President Trump’s Fourth of July “Salute to America” event at the Lincoln Memorial. The First Lady, who pushed the racist Obama birther conspiracy, wore a white Caroline Herrera dress to the event, but