LGBTQ

Far-right extremists clash with riot police at a Pride parade in Lublin, eastern Poland, in 2019. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty) A leaked letter has revealed Poland’s plans to replace the Istanbul Convention on violence against women with an international treaty banning abortion and same-sex marriage. It’s understood that the Polish justice ministry is preparing an alternative treaty

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). (Getty) The British government on Tuesday (16 March) effectively doubled crucial funding to its national rollout of pre-exposure prophylaxis, otherwise known as PrEP. Health ministers have injected a thumping financial boost to the routine commissioning of the daily drug, the most effective protection against HIV transmission. The public health grant, used to fund local authority health

Sharon Osbourne was criticised for “gaslighting” and “weaponising her whiteness” over her defence of Piers Morgan. (CBS) Sharon Osbourne’s show The Talk has been taken off air by CBS while an investigation takes place over her comments on racism and defence of Piers Morgan. Osbourne tweeted in support of Morgan when he faced blistering backlash

Liam Cooper, the first openly bisexual participant of Married at First Sight Australia. (Screen capture via Nine Network) Married at First Sight Australia fans have expressed their alarm and “disgust” at star Liam Cooper being outed as bisexual during Monday night’s (15 March) episode. The show sees total strangers get hitched after relationships experts pair

A man identified by social media sleuths as police officer Rick Fitzgerald attending a Proud Boys event. (Facebook) A police officer in Fresno, California, has been placed on paid administrative leave after being photographed attending a Proud Boys protest Sunday (14 March). Rick Fitzgerald allegedly attended the demonstration organised by the far-right nationalist group which

Singer Manizha Sangin performs at Crocus City Hall, Moscow. (Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images) The people of Russia made a striking rebuke of the country’s relentless homophobia as they chose a proud LGBT+ ally for its Eurovision 2021 act. For this year’s song contest, Russia will bank on celebrated queer campaigner and modern feminist torchbearer,

Tunisian activist Rania Amdouni dressed as a clown in an anti-government protest on January 23, 2021 (Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty) Human rights advocates are sounding alarm after a prominent Tunisian LGBT+ activist was jailed for pursuing a harassment complaint against the police. Rania Amdouni, 26, was arrested on 27 February and sentenced to six months in prison

Andrea Jenkins vice president of the Minneapolis City Council spoke to community members at “The Path Forward” meeting at Powderhorn Park, a meeting between Minneapolis City Council and community members. (Photo by Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images) Andrea Jenkins, the first Black openly trans woman to hold office in the US, talked about the

A man has been charged with battering a transgender woman with a skateboard (Envato Elements) A California man who allegedly beat a transgender woman with his skateboard has been charged with a hate crime. 23-year-old Costa Mesa resident Johnny Santos Moreno appeared in court on Thursday (11 March). He was charged with felony counts of

A school in Texas has called in counsellors and issued a formal apology after a teacher read an “inappropriate” storybook about a transgender child. Parents were outraged after it emerged that fourth-graders at Forest Trail Elementary in Austin, Texas had been read Call Me Max by Stonewall Award-winning author Kyle Lukoff. The sweet illustrated book tells

Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, at a press conference in February (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/ Getty) Hungary’s top court has thrown out Viktor Orbán’s attempt to implement a retroactive ban on trans people’s gender identity being recognised in official documents. Launched last year, the devastating law known as Section 33 legally erases trans people by forcing

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have introduced a bill that would allow cisgender students to sue a school if they are ‘forced’ to share school facilities with trans students. Jason Zachary, a Republican congressman from Knoxville, introduced House Bill 1233 at the same time Mike Ball, a Republican senator from Riceville, introduced its sister bill in

Boris Johnson. (AFP via Getty/ RICHARD POHLE/POOL) Boris Johnson has apologised to the three members of the government’s LGBT+ Advisory Panel who quit this week over inaction on conversion therapy and a “hostile environment” for LGBT+ people. Jayne Ozanne was the first to quit the LGBT+ Advisory Panel on Wednesday (10 March), and was followed

Queer as Folk ran for two seasons, the first episode airing on February 23, 1999. (Channel 4) Russell T Davies has said he is hopeful for a reboot of his iconic series Queer as Folk, even if he won’t be the one to write it. Following the runaway success of It’s a Sin, which was

The actor who played the original blue Power Ranger, David Yost, is a survivor of conversion therapy (Saban Entertainment) Many fans of the iconic 90s kids’ show Power Rangers may be unaware that the original blue Power Ranger, played by David Yost, is both gay and a survivor of conversion therapy. Yost, who played Billy Cranston,

WNBA star Natasha Cloud with her professional softball player wife Aleshia Ocasio. (Instagram/ t__cloud9) WNBA star Natasha Cloud has revealed that she married her softballer girlfriend in a secret wedding, fearing her rights would be taken away. Cloud and her and professional softball player partner Aleshia Ocasio, who plays for the Chicago Bandits, announced their

The DC Comics Pride anthology will be released on 8 June. (DC Comics) DC Comics will be releasing a huge queer anthology this summer in celebration of Pride, and introducing trans superhero Dreamer into the DC universe. Announced on Thursday (11 March), DC Pride #1 will feature queer characters from across the DC Comics universe, and

Lil Nas X has absolutely destroyed an Eminem stan’s cringe-worthy rap on TikTok. The video is the latest in a TikTok ‘war’ between “Gen Z” and Millennials, which all started after younger users dove into Eminem’s back catalogue and realised how problematic he is. Gen Z declare Eminem cancelled, inspiring one Eminem stan to throw

LGBT+ prisoners are often segregated “for their own protection”. (Envato) Prisons in England and Scotland are “traumatising, rigid and frequently dangerous places” for LGBT+ inmates, research has found. A report from the University of Dundee titled LGBT+ people in prisons: Experiences in England and Scotland, used interviews and focus groups with more than 60 prison staff

Marsha P Johnson. (Netflix) Plans for a gaudy rainbow mural in the Marsha P Johnson state park in New York have been scrapped, after complaints from the trans hero’s family. In August, 2020, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Brooklyn’s East River State Park was being renamed Marsha P Johnson State Park, making it

The Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo is defiantly flying the LGBT+ Pride flag from his official residence as the country reels from its first homophobic murder in nine years. The victim, a 42-year-old gay man named in Belgian media as David P, was found beaten to death in a park just outside Antwerp on

Piers Morgan has quit Good Morning Britain. (Getty/ Indigo/ Max Mumby) Piers Morgan has “decided” to leave Good Morning Britain following his “diabolical” comments about Meghan Markle. On Monday’s (8 March) episode of Good Morning Britain, the day after Meghan Markle‘s interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on ITV, Morgan declared he did not “believe a

Former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas announced he is HIV positive after “evils” threatened to out him. (Clemens Bilan/AFP/Getty) Welsh rugby star and TV personality Gareth Thomas has described being “petrified” each time someone knocked on his door, while he was blackmailed over being HIV-positive. In 2019, Thomas was forced to publicly reveal his HIV

Oprah Winfrey said she’s happy to “go to hell” for supporting LGBT+ rights after an audience member called her out for interviewing Ellen Degeneres. The Oprah Show episode, which aired in 1997, featured audience members asking Winfrey about her decision to interview DeGeneres about coming out. DeGeneres revealed to Winfrey how she coped with coming out and

Jess Glynne has apologised for using a transphobic slur. (Getty) Jess Glynne has apologised for using a transphobic slur in a wildly offensive anecdote about a trans strip club. The singer was widely condemned for speaking the word “tranny” and using a trans strip club as the punchline in an anti-queer anecdote. Appearing on The

Boris Johnson. (Christopher Furlong/WPA Pool /Getty) MPs from across the UK have insisted that any ban on conversion therapy must also include trans people. During a debate in Westminster Hall on Monday evening (8 March), MPs urged the government to ban the harmful, pseudoscientific practice. The debate, triggered by a petition to government signed by

The new book reports to have insider knowledge of Obama doubting Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. (Drew Angerer Alex Wong/Getty) Newly released book, Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, claims that Barack Obama privately doubted Pete Buttigieg’s suitability for president, joking about him being “gay” and “short”. In an exclusive excerpt shared by The Hill, the

After criminalising all forms of so-called “gay propaganda”, Russia has now turned its attention to positive depictions of bisexuality and polyamory. With Russia’s population expected to decline by 30 million over the next decade, the question of how to raise the birth rate dominated discussions on Thursday (4 March) at a conference of United Russia,

The term “barebacking” became widespread in the LGBT+ community in the 1990s. (Pexels/ Ketut Subiyanto) Like riding a horse without a saddle, barebacking is when someone with a penis penetrates a sexual partner without using a condom. Many people who have any kind of penetrative sex report that going at it without a condom is

Owen Hurcum was the was the first genderqueer Plaid Cymru candidate, before their resignation. (Facebook/ Owen Hurcum) The first-ever genderqueer Plaid Cymru candidate for the Welsh Parliament elections has stepped down, claiming that the party “platforms transphobia”.  Owen Hurcum, who identifies as genderqueer and agender, is currently deputy mayor of Bangor and was fourth on