The Hope Center homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska. A Christian homeless shelter in Alaska will receive $100,000 in damages after turning away a transgender woman who was living on the streets. Trans woman Jessie Doe was turned away by the Downtown Hope Center in Anchorage in the middle of the Alaskan winter, and she later
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Gender creative kids do not often see themselves in the toys they play with. (Creatable World/ YouTube) Homophobic Russian politician Vitaly Milonov has said that he wants to ban the new gender-inclusive dolls by Mattel from entering the country. Last week the toy manufacturer launched the gender non-conforming Creatable World dolls which come with short
The Queer Eye cast savage Bernie Sanders for his looks and his politics in a 2018 video – and they don’t hold back. The video apparently didn’t make much of a splash when it was first released by Into, but has resurfaced on Twitter in recent days, and LGBT+ people are not impressed. In the
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
Bowen Yang has made his first appearance on Saturday Night Live, becoming the first Asian comic to join the show’s cast. The comic made his debut on the September 28 SNL season premiere, portraying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the opening skit, as well as a brief appearance as fringe Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew
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
Far-right extremists clash with riot police as they try to disrupt the Equality March in Lublin, eastern Poland (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/Getty) Pride-goers in the Polish city of Lubin defied far-right protesters who hurled eggs, bottles and firecrackers in an attempt to stop them marching for LGBT+ rights. The event proved to be a violent flashpoint for
The judge sided with religious adoption agencies that reject LGBT parents (Stock photo) A federal judge in Michigan has thrown out rules that cuts off state funding for adoption agencies who refused to place children with same-sex couples. District Judge Robert Jonker sided with a Catholic adoption agency that refuses to place children in homes
From transgender movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime to independent shorts by trans and non-binary filmmakers on YouTube, here’s a round-up of the best trans films. We asked trans and bisexual man Stephan Kyriacou, and non-binary pansexual Cara Buchanan, to share their favourite transgender movies to watch – and why. Watch the video below to
Lesbian actress Ruby Rose shared a graphic photo of the emergency surgery on Instagram (Instagram/ JB Lacroix/WireImage/Getty) Batwoman star Ruby Rose has revealed she needed emergency neck surgery after a stunt accident left her with two herniated discs that nearly severed her spinal cord. A herniated disc occurs when the rubbery disc between the spinal
Gay valet Thomas Barrow sharing a kiss with an unidentified man in the Downton Abbey trailer (YouTube) The Downton Abbey movie may seem family-friendly, but its homophobic language and offensive references initially raised questions about the film’s suitability for children. The Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) revealed that the film was initially given a 12A
Chat show king reveals his favourite ever guest. (Getty Images) BBC’s The Graham Norton Show has welcomed a lot of A-list celebrities onto its sofa but the host reveals who is the biggest star amongst them all. The BAFTA TV award winning chat show has been running for 12 years and in that long time,
Mike Pence has played a quiet role in many of the Trump administration’s anti-LGBT policies (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) As Donald Trump faces the prospect of impeachment, Mike Pence is closer than ever to the Presidency – and that is probably not a good thing for LGBT+ people. Although the White House has sought to downplay
Actress Oluwaseyi Omooba chose to stand by the ‘homophobic’ comments she made in 2014 (David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty) The Color Purple actress Oluwaseyi Omooba is suing for religious discrimination after she was dropped from the the LGBT+ production for ‘homophobic’ comments. Omooba was set to play the lead role in a musical adaptation of Alice
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