President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and his wife Kim Jung-sook, meet New Zealand ambassador Philip Turner and his husband Hiroshi Ikeda. (Philip Turner/ Twitter) The gay New Zealand ambassador to South Korea has made history as the first foreign diplomat to visit Blue House with a same-sex partner. Blue House is the official residence
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Photo illustration of popular dating website Tinder logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Tinder “only caters to cis people” and its attempts to be inclusive of the trans community are “virtue signalling”, say trans folks who’ve been banned from the dating app. Despite having more than 50 gender options,
Monét X Change and Nina West helped Meghan McCain celebrate her 35th birthday. (The View) Drag Race favourites Monet X Change and Nina West have come under fire for helping Republican pundit Meghan McCain celebrate her 35th birthday. Nina and Monet made an appearance on US panel show The View – an American Loose Women
Draggy Thatcher (BBC). RuPaul’s Drag Race UK was a brilliant, instant classic from the moment it sauntered onto our screens three weeks ago. But this is Snatch Game. There’s a high bar, and if it’s not topped the whole season can be left in a stink. So how did it fare? Drag Race UK season
A human rights commissioner in Virginia said being trans is a “mental illness” and homosexuality is an “abomination to the human race”, but is keeping his position. Kenick El was appointed to the Virginia Beach Human Rights Commission (VBHRC) this year and, according to 13News Now, on October 21 he shared an article on Facebook
Kenny Coppedge sustained injuries to his face during the unprovoked attack. (Screenshot from local news station WJZY) A gay couple in North Carolina say they were assaulted by a group of men who claimed to be police offers on October 20. Kenny Coppedge and his boyfriend Jordan Frye were beaten in a vicious and unprovoked
Anna Foster, 20, was allegedly assaulted in South Carolina, US, while a police officer watched and “refused” to help her. (Facebook) A 20-year-old trans woman was attacked by three men and her body left bleeding and covered in bruises, all the while a police officer stood by and allegedly did nothing. Anna Foster claimed she
A newly hatched loggerhead turtle makes its way to the sea in Turkey, 2018. (Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Climate change means that the loggerhead sea turtle population is now almost entirely female. A University of Exeter study found that 84 percent of young loggerhead turtles in Cape Verde – one of the sea
Anti-gay US pastor Steven Anderson has declared that New Zealand is “in trouble” with God after it became the 34th country he is barred from visiting. The leader of Arizona’s fringe Faithful Word Baptist Church, who supports the death penalty for homosexuality and openly celebrated the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse gay club, had applied for
A man is suing a gay porn site after he received “a barrage” of junk mail because he said it sold his information without written consent and violated his privacy rights. Dennis Chiamulera is also seeking class action status on behalf of other subscribers to the site who he thinks are in a similar situation.
Always sanitary towels with the female ‘Venus’ symbol on the wrapper (Twitter/@aitch_ell/@CjDoult) The sanitary brand Always has removed the Venus female symbol (♀) from its packaging of sanitary towels to be more inclusive of trans and non-binary people who have periods. It made the decision in response to questioning from two trans advocates, who pointed
A pair of women hurled horrific homophobic insults at a gay couple simply because they were kissing. (Screen captures via Twitter) A gay couple outside a London, England, bus stop were verbally harassed by a pair of women in a car and told to kiss “behind closed doors”. In shocking mobile phone footage from the
Actress Lilly Singh attend the Vogue Women of the Year on October 19, 2019 in Mumbai, India. (Prodip Guha/Getty Images) YouTuber Lilly Singh, known on the video-sharing site as Superwoman, delivered a heartwarming acceptance speech at the Vogue Women of the Year awards this weekend. The Canadian YouTuber, who has more than 14 million subscribers,
Bangladeshi hijras dance in the street during a rally. (Munir Uz Zaman/Getty) In a country where it is not only illegal to be gay, but laws are defined by traditional and strict religious views, a trans woman being elected councillor seems like a fever dream. But for Bangladeshi garment shop owner Pinki Khatun, it’s a
Graziano di Prima (L) and Johannes Radebe. (Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) In a groundbreaking move, the first same-sex couple will take to the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom next month, according to an alleged source. Two of the show’s pro dancers will perform the first one-on-one same-sex dance next month, The Sun reported. Italian
Paddy Smyth took home £70,000 after winning reality show The Circle. (Channel 4) Paddy Smyth, a gay disability activist with cerebral palsy, was announced tonight (October 18) as the winner of Channel 4’s reality show The Circle and took home £70,000. Georgina placed second, Tim and Sammie came joint third, and fifth place was taken
On October 13, PinkNews reported that thousands of people were calling for ITV to fire Piers Morgan for his “dehumanising” treatment of trans people. The petition was started by Twitter user @hotboykennedy – musician Liam Austen – and had at that point been signed by a little more than 6,000 people. Five days later, almost
Elijah Cummings has sadly passed away after complications from longstanding health problems. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) Tributes are pouring in for the Democratic congressman and staunch LGBT+ ally, Elijah Cummings, who sadly passed away on October 17 aged 68. The Maryland congressman and chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee was a prominent figure in the
Labour MP Dawn Butler called out Baroness Williams for saying that GRA reform is “contentious.” (Paul Grace) Dawn Butler, Labour MP and shadow women and equalities secretary, gave a powerful and frustrated speech on the delays to Gender Recognition Act (GRA) reform, and hit back at Baroness Williams on the issue. Butler started by saying:
There are various pressing issues affecting the LGBT+ community in the United States today. Members of our community can be fired because of their sexual or gender identity and trans women are facing an epidemic of violence, among countless other issues. But presidential candidates were not asked about these issues at a debate on Tuesday.
Online hate may be fuelling the rise in homophobia among young people. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) A new report has shown that homophobia is on the rise among young people, with one in four 18-24 year olds believing being LGBT+ is “immoral or against their beliefs”, higher than any other age group. According to the Hate
The victim was allegedly followed through the streets by a man who demanded oral sex (Pexels) A gay man in Queens has told of being beaten, dragged and robbed in the street after refusing to perform oral sex on a stranger. The alleged attack occurred in the early hours of October 13 as he walked
Antoni Porowski has become aggressively relatable after admitting he’s felt worse about his body image since dating men, alongside calling himself “human garbage”. (Rich Fury/Getty Images for GLAAD) Queer Eye heartthrob Antoni Porowski has compared his experiences of dating women to dating men and the differences are eye-opening. The food and drink expert spoke to
Trump addressed O’Rourke’s proposal at a a summit hosted by the Family Research Council, which has been officially classified as an anti-LGBT+ hate group (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty) Donald Trump has eloquently dismissed Beto O’Rourke’s proposal to end the tax-exempt status of anti-LGBT+ churches as “wacko”. At the CNN Equality Town Hall debate on October
Gold medalist Kerron Clement of USA poses during the medal ceremony for the Men’s 400m Hurdles Final on day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. (Jean Catuffe/Getty) Olympic champion Kerron Clement came out as gay on National Coming Out Day because he said he was “tired of loving in the dark”. Clement won the
In last night’s Saturday Night Live spoof of CNN’s Equality Town hall, Ellen DeGeneres was skewered for going to a football game with former US president George W Bush. Comedian Colin Jost, who was playing gay Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg in the SNL sketch, was asked by an audience member how he would respond to
Cedrick Green, 23, of Racine, Wisconsin, is facing a hate crime charge over the alleged anti-gay beating A gay man in Wisconsin told police that a homophobic attack by three men, who beat him so severely he had to have all his teeth removed, taunted him for his sexuality before beating him up. The man,
The image Daphne Dorman posted on Facebook, with a goodbye note. (Facebook) Comedian Daphne Dorman, the trans woman who was referenced in Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, has reportedly died by suicide. Dorman, who lived in San Francisco, wrote a “goodbye” note on Facebook in the early hours of Friday morning (October 11). Hours later, Becky
Jane Fonda is arrested on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2019. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Gay icon Jane Fonda has been arrested in Washington, DC, at a climate-change protest. The 81-year-old was among 16 people arrested outside the US Capitol building for unlawfully protesting. She
Presbyterian Church leaders told Steven Smyrl his marriage was ‘incompatible’ with his role (BBC) An elder within Ireland’s Presbyterian Church has been ejected from his post after an anonymous “complaint” about his same-sex marriage. An unidentified person raided the Facebook page of Steven Smyrl to download family photos of him with his husband Roy Stanley,
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