LGBTQ

Protestor holds ‘Trans Lives Matter’ placard during protest in Warsaw, 2018. (Getty/Maciej Luczniewski) An investigation is being opened into the brutal murder of Cindy Jones Torres, a trans woman found dead with multiple stab wounds in the Philippines. The 39-year-old was found dead on 28 July in her salon in Guiginto, Bulacan. It is believed she was

Azealia Banks has criticised DaBaby’s “performative cancelling”. (Getty) Azealia Banks thinks “cancelling” DaBaby over his homophobic comments is “performative”, and that he should have been binned a long time ago for a different reason. DaBaby has faced blistering backlash for delivering a homophobic rant at a gig last month. The rapper has lost sponsorships, been cut

Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit at Hong Kong Pride 2020. (Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) A gay pro-democracy activist from Hong Kong is facing a possible years-long prison sentence after being accused of subverting the state. Jimmy Sham Tsz-Kit, a prominent voice for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and a proponent of LGBT+ rights, was arrested

Former president Donald Trump brands US women’s football team ‘leftist maniacs’ and targets Megan Rapinoe’s purple hair in a rant. (Getty/Brandon Bell/Laurence Griffiths) Former president Donald Trump tried to burn Megan Rapinoe and the “wokesters” on the US women’s soccer team after they won bronze at the Olympics – and it failed so bad. Trump

Tom Daley showed off his Team GB cardigan. (Instagram/Tom Daley) After Tom Daley knitting poolside at the Olympics went viral, the diver has shown off his finished project while raising money for charity. The Team GB gold medalist captured the attention of Olympics viewers not only for his excellent diving ability but also for his attentive

Mary Trump believes Meghan McCain lacks “the courage” to have a conversation with her on The View. (YouTube/The View) Mary Trump, former president Donald Trump’s niece, believes Meghan McCain lacks “the courage” to face her in a debate on The View. Trump appeared on The View to promote her new book, The Reckoning, in which

RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under reportedly tried five times to get New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern to appear on the show. (World of Wonder/Getty/Hagen Hopkins) New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern turned down a spot as a guest judge on Drag Race Down Under multiple times. The Australian and New Zealand iteration of the

DaBaby performs on stage during Rolling Loud at Hard Rock Stadium on 25 July, 2021. (Getty/ Rich Fury) Emotes based on a song by controversial rapper DaBaby have been data-mined in Fortnite. Epic, the game’s developer, released a new update for the game in which data miners have discovered an unused file for an emote

Romania’s Roxen performs during the first semi-final of the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 on 18 May 2021. (Getty/KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP) Eurovision star Roxen has come out as non-binary in a powerful, open conversation with fans on TikTok. Roxen – real name Larisa Roxana Giurgiu – was chosen in 2020 to represent Romania

Birth certificates currently publicly record a baby’s sex as ‘male’ or ‘female’. (Envato Elements) The American Medical Association is recommending that sex be dropped from the public part of birth certificates – and conservatives are very upset. Designating babies as ‘male’ or ‘female’ on the public-facing part of their birth certificate “fails to recognise the

Matt Damon sought to stress he does not use homophobic slurs ‘in his personal life’. (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) Matt Damon has denied using homophobic slurs “in his personal life” after suggesting he retired “the f-slur” only recently. In an interview with The Sunday Times, the 50-year-old actor recalled telling a “joke” at

DaBaby performs on stage during Rolling Loud at Hard Rock Stadium on 25 July 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Getty/Rich Fury) DaBaby has issued a limp apology after his ugly “homophobic” rant about gay people and those living with HIV that led to several festivals dropping him. The rapper apologised in a lengthy statement Monday

Crowds attend a Pride march in Kiev, Ukraine in June 2018. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty) A Pride rave held outside the office of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was ambushed by far-right thugs, but Pride-goers refused to be stopped. On Friday (30 July), around 100 LGBT+ activists gathered outside of Zelensky’s office for a six-hour Pride rave.

Matt Damon at the premiere for Stillwater. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images) Matt Damon, a 50-year-old grown man, had to be told only “months ago” by his young daughter not to use the “f-slur for a homosexual”. Damon, the actor known for playing the scrappy everyman in films, volunteered the information in a new interview with The Sunday

Jeffrey McCall in PRAY AWAY. (Netflix) At the start of Netflix’s Pray Away, a man approaches a group of strangers and tells them how he lived as a trans woman until, one day, he stumbled head first into Christianity Now, Jeffrey McCall sees his past life as sinful. He lives as a cis man and is

DaBaby’s “homophobic” rant is continuing to cost him as Lollapalooza announces it is dropping him from the festival lineup. The North Carolina rapper was scheduled to perform at the the long-running festival tonight (1 August), until organisers confirmed that his set had been pulled. The announcement was made in a statement on Lollapalooza’s Twitter page,

President Joe Biden has nominated out lesbian rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum to serve on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Kleinbaum is the chief rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), an LGBT+ synagogue in New York which counts Sex and the City‘s Cynthia Nixon among its many thousands of members. She’ll bring crucial LGBT+ representation

CauseImEd. (Twitch) “I’m not much interested in… physical stuff,” says Parvati. Ed’s face slowly widens into a grin as the realisation hits him. He points at the flag behind him. This is what asexual representation looks like. “When I figured out that [Parvati] was [ace], it was like getting a surprise birthday party for me,”

Vitalina Batsarashkina / The Witcher. (Getty / Netflix) Japan is of course the home of video games, manga and anime. But the Tokyo Olympics 2020 are so far proving to be the nerdiest yet. It all began way back at the Rio games where, during the closing ceremony, Japan’s Prime Minister emerged from a Mario

LGBT+ rights campaigners complain of a ‘culture of disbelief’ in the Home Office’s treatment of LGBT+ asylum seekers. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty) The British government failed to put in place crucial systems to protect detained asylum seekers living with HIV, a High Court judge has ruled. A Congolese man, 28, went without antiretroviral medication for three days

Supporters of the #FreeBritney movement flew to Los Angeles from across the US to protest. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Britney Spears fans are furiously trying to have her former attorney Samuel Ingham investigated by the state bar amid her turbulent conservatorship battle. Ingham served as Britney’s probate lawyer for 13 years before resigning following the singer’s

Bianca Del Rio performs on stage at ‘Voss Events presents Drive ‘N Drag’ at the Rose Bowl on 19 March 2021 in Pasadena, California. (Getty/Emma McIntyre) Drag Race icon Bianca Del Rio has confirmed that producers filmed a tie between herself and Adore Delano, explaining that it left her upset for a surprising reason. The

Gay and bisexual men earn less than their heterosexual peers, a new study has found, confirming what we’ve all known for years. Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University combed through 24 studies that charted the salaries of people in Europe, North America and Australia between 2012 and 2020. Their findings, published Friday (30 July) in the

Rapper T.I. (Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic) T.I. has said that the LGBT+ community is “bullying” rappers such as DaBaby after he delivered a homophobic rant during a Miami, Florida, concert. In a roiling speech that has cost him key brand deals, DaBaby told the Rolling Loud festival: “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any

Disney On Ice: Find Your Hero will feature characters from Frozen, The Little Mermaid and more. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images) Disney On Ice is skating across the UK with a brand new show in 2021. The live extravaganza on ice will see popular characters star in the show at arenas across

Tom Daley, Amandine Buchard and Carl Hester are among the several out LGBT+ athletes to have won medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games. (Getty/Clive Rose/Franck FIFE/AFP/Julian Finney) If LGBT+ Olympic athletes were a country, they would be tied with Brazil and Switzerland on the leaderboard for the 2020 Tokyo games. There are at least

Troy Bailey has been sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison for killing Michelle “Tamika” Washington – a trans woman and passionate LGBT+ advocate. (YouTube/CBS Philly) A Philadelphia man has been sentences to up to 50 years in prison for the murder of a transgender woman and passionate LGBT+ advocate in 2019. According to

Stock photo of a group of young trans people. (Broadly Gender Spectrum Collection/Zackary Drucker) A growing number of adults in the US know a trans person or someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns, research has found. Four in 10 (42 per cent) of Americans say they personally know a trans person, which is up five per

Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley told reporters that he hoped his win will inspire LGBT+ youth to realise “you can achieve anything”. (YouTube/BBC Sport) An author has expertly explained why Tom Daley saying he’s proud to be gay at the Olympics is necessary, actually. Following Tom Daley’s groundbreaking victory in the men’s synchronised 10m platform

A bouncer at the Nordic Bar allegedly threw two women to the ground for sharing a kiss. (Facebook) A nightclub owner in Malta has said he is investigating claims that bouncers brutally threw to the ground two women for sharing a kiss. Activists first raised concerns after a woman recalled her “horrendous experience” at the