LGBTQ

Jorge Diaz-Johnston. (Facebook/ Don Diaz-Johnston) The former roommate of Jorge Diaz-Johnston has been indicted as a suspect in the LGBT+ rights activist’s death by a Florida court. The Leon County grand jury indicted Steven Yinger, 36, on Thursday (14 April) on several charges concerning the death of Diaz-Johnston. Diaz-Johnston was last seen on 3 January, and
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Gay porn star Steven Miles, known professionally as Sergeant Miles, has been arrested for his alleged role in the 6 January, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Miles, 39, from Zephyrhills, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday, 12 April, according to the US Department of Justice.  The gay porn performer and director, who is also an army veteran, allegedly
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Women’s cycling has been entangled with the drawn-out ‘debate’ over trans rights. (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images) A women’s cycling competition has lost vital funding over British Cycling’s decision to suspend trans athletes. Top tournament sponsor Peter Stanton said he would be “letting down” the trans community if he “did not make a stand to show my
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Fern Feather, 29, was found dead in Morristown, Vermont on 12 April 2022. (Facebook/Pride Center of Vermont) A Vermont community is “heartbroken” over the loss of a trans woman who was “always in bloom” and brought “joy and happiness to everybody”. Fern Feather, 29, was found dead alongside a road in Morristown, Vermont, on Tuesday
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Trans people and allies rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2018 before marching to demand basic human and civil rights. (Cory Clark/NurPhoto via Getty) Lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House have passed a bill that would ban trans students from competing in girls’ and women’s sports – despite the governor’s promise to veto it. House Bill 972 (HB
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Britney Spears and her partner Sam Asghari. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Britney Spears fans across the globe are screaming, shouting and celebrating till the world ends after the pop star announced she is pregnant with her third child. Taking to – where else? – Instagram, the …Baby One More Time hitmaker revealed that she had been gaining weight
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Bimini Bon Boulash pleads with JK Rowling to be ‘loving of people’ (Getty/Mike Marsland/Gareth Cattermole) Drag Race UK star Bimini Bon Boulash has urged JK Rowling to “be accepting and loving of people” as the Harry Potter author continues to share her controversial views about the transgender community. Rowling has faced intense backlash over her
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In London, thousands of LGBT+ folk and allies protested against the British government’s lacklustre conversion therapy ban. (Kestral Gaian) Thousands of LGBT+ people took to the streets of central London in a striking show of pent-up anger against the government’s threadbare conversion therapy ban. Organisers said that at least 3,000 people gathered outside Downing Street
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Boris Johnson appointed former MP Nick Herbert as special envoy for LGBT+ rights (Peter Summers/Getty) The British government’s LGBT+ adviser has condemned the “LGBT lobby” for the cancellation of a landmark queer rights conference. In what he described as an “act of self-harm”, LGBT+ special envoy Nick Herbert criticised the “crocodile tears” shed by LGBT+
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has long been an LGBT+ ally. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images) London mayor Sadiq Khan has come out swinging for trans rights amid Boris Johnson’s repeated potshots against them. On Saturday afternoon (9 April), the Labour politician joined local council candidates in Higham Hill, a suburb in the northeast borough of Waltham
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Alabama lawmakers advanced a ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ bill and legislation that would criminalise gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty) Alabama lawmakers have passed a controversial bill that started as a trans bathroom ban and turned into a ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ bill. House Bill 322 (HB 322) –
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Quidditch is a thriving, real-life sport. (Quidditch UK) Real-life quidditch – the sport that sprung from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books – has long championed LGBT+ inclusion. Now, its community is queerer than ever. To this day, the list of team sports that are mixed gender, acknowledge trans and non-binary identities and actively encourage people
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Republican lawmaker’s ‘ugly’ anti-LGBT+ bill paves the way for child marriage in Tennessee (Newsy/YouTube) A Republican bill to make common law marriage legal in Tennessee, United States, could allow for cases of child marriage to occur, opponents say. The bill, which was sponsored by state representative Tom Leatherwood along with 23 other Republicans, would see
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Britney refuses to pay her mother’s £460,000 legal fees from conservatorship battle (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) Britney Spears has asked judges to deny a request that she pay more than $600,000 (£460,000) for her mother’s legal fees. The colossal sum was amassed during the singer’s conservatorship battle, the PA news agency has found.  From
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