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South Australia is planning to ban the horrific “gay panic” defence in court cases, meaning the practice would be illegal all across the country. The gay panic defence has been used in numerous murder cases over the years. The controversial legal strategy claims that discovering a victim’s sexuality or gender identity caused the defendant to

Pete Buttigieg has delivered a stunning takedown of Donald Trump over his frenetic town hall performance – and he went on to throw some shade at Lindsey Graham too. Trump was compared to a “crazy uncle” during his bizarre NBC town hall event, which aired on Thursday night (October 15). During the event, Trump was

Non-binary actor Indya Moore at World Pride in New York, 2019. (Erin Lefevre/NurPhoto via Getty) Pose star Indya Moore has opened up about their conservative, religious upbringing – and how they’re using the extra time during the pandemic to try to heal. In an wide-ranging interview with Vogue India, the 25-year-old explained how they balance

Texas Governor Greg Abbott at the state capital on May 24, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Drew Anthony Smith/Getty) Social workers can freely discriminate against LGBT+, as well as people with disabilities, thanks to the administration of Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott as of Monday (12 October). The lawmaker, who once signed a bill banning discrimination

Chi Chi DeVayne. (Getty) Latrice Royale and a legion of Drag Race legends are hosting a special tribute to Chi Chi DeVayne, celebrating her life and incredible legacy. PinkNews spoke to Latrice about her friend to find out how she’d want to be remembered. On August 20, it was announced that Chi Chi DeVayne, the

LGBT+ Labour said that ‘swift action’ must be taken over Rosie Duffield’s comments on trans people. (Facebook) LGBT+ Labour is calling for “swift action” to be taken against Rosie Duffield after a second woman quit the MP’s team citing her “transphobic” comments. Duffield, who was elected Canterbury’s first-ever Labour MP in 2017, has been plagued

Singer/songwriter Demi Lovato attends the 2018 Billboard Music Awards 2018 at the MGM Grand Resort International on May 20, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo by LISA O’CONNOR / AFP) (Photo credit should read LISA O’CONNOR/AFP/Getty Images) Demi Lovato has managed to convert the relentless, inexpressible rage people feel towards Donald Trump into a song

Don Lemon and Mary Trump. (Screen capture via Facebook) Mary Trump, the lesbian niece of Donald Trump, tore into the US president’s terrible dancing skills to the delight of CNN anchor Don Lemon. Mary, who recently published a scathing hair plugs-all book on her uncle, managed to compress the levels of horror, confusion and delirium felt

The legendary Stevie Nicks at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty) Fleetwood Mac‘s Stevie Nicks fears women will be pushed into “back-alley abortions” if Amy Coney Barrett is sworn into the Supreme Court. Speaking to the Guardian, the 72-year-old gay icon added her voice to the growing unease surrounding

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett. (LEAH MILLIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett sparked outrage Tuesday (13 October) by insisting she has never discriminated against LGBT+ people based on “sexual preference”. You know, that vastly dated term long criticised by LGBT+ people as being a discriminatory dogwhistle? On

Viktoria Basakovskaya was allegedly strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend in Siberia, Russia. (Screen capture via YouTube) A police officer in Novosibirsk, Russia has confessed to killing his missing ex-girlfriend, a 24-year-old trans woman, after leading the charge to find her. The body of Viktoria Basakovskaya was found in the southern village of Burmistrovo and showed

Elton John performing Auckland, wig intact. (Getty) Elton John has recalled the time that he almost lost his hairpiece in the middle of an Australian concert earlier this year. The singer recounts his wig’s “bid for freedom” in a new chapter of his autobiography Me for the book’s paperback release. It came during a concert

Amy Coney Barrett (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) and Pete Buttigieg (Alexander Tamargo/Getty) Pete Buttigieg has expertly broken down the ominous Supreme Court opening statement from Amy Coney Barrett, calling it “a pathway to judicial activism cloaked in judicial humility”. The gay former presidential hopeful was being interviewed on MSNBC’s AM Joy on Sunday (11 October) when Barrett released

Judge Amy Coney Barrett attends first day of her Senate confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on October 12, 2020. (ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump’s nominee to replace LGBT+ rights hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, has been accused of cozying up to

Christian adoption agency New Hope Family Services is fighting for its right to refuse same-sex couples (Envato Elements) A federal judge has temporarily blocked the shut down of a Christian adoption agency which refused to place children with LGBT+ families. In 2018 New Hope Family Services in Syracuse, New York, was told that its discriminatory

Untitled drawing, c.1946-1959, Duncan Grant (1885-1978), The Charleston Trust © The Estate of Duncan Grant, licensed by DACS 2020.⁣⁣ More than 400 “lost” paintings depicting gay sex by the British painter Duncan Grant have been discovered under a bed years after they first went missing. Grant was a painter and designer and was famously a

Milton Hershey school was accused of forcing boys to watch conversion therapy videos (YouTube/Milton Hershey School) A student who claimed an elite school forced him to undergo conversion therapy after he was caught watching gay porn has been ordered to pay $800 of the school’s legal fees. Former student Adam Dobson claimed he was forced

Coming out can be a tricky business at the best of times. But for many, living through an unprecedented pandemic has made it that much harder. A new poll of LGBT+ youth found that COVID-19 is making living situations much more stressful, as it limits people’s ability to be themselves and contact their support systems. More

Michael Gunning will compete in next year’s Olympics. (E!/Getty) Michael Gunning, the first openly Black gay man to swim for Team Jamaica, has opened up about the horrific bullying he endured as a child. The Olympic hopeful, who is one of only a handful of Black swimmers at the sport’s elite level, talked to BBC

Charlie Cressey opened up about the moment he was targeted with homophobic abuse while volunteering (Envato Elements) A gay volunteer has opened up about the horrific moment he tried to help an “intoxicated” man, but was met with a torrent of homophobic abuse. Charlie Cressey, from Hove, spoke about his experience as part of Sussex

Felycya Harris is the 31st transgender person to die by violent means so far this year (Human Rights Campaign) After yet another transgender woman was tragically shot to death, 2020 has officially become the deadliest year for the trans community since US records began. Police found the body of 33-year-old Felycya Harris, a transgender interior

Paul Hollywood’s suggestion that rainbow bagels “represent the NHS” led to a number of complaints, the broadcast regulator Ofcom has confirmed. The Great British Bake Off judge was roundly mocked on social media for claiming that the rainbow colours commonly associated with LGBT+ Pride actually symbolised the UK’s National Health Service. “Paul, why rainbow coloured

The Chicago police union is fighting an official recommendation to fire an officer who was recorded hurling homophobic slurs at a Black Lives Matter protestor. A video filmed during the May 30 protests in Chicago showed officer Matthew Drinnan shouting aggressively at a protester: “B***h! Wait ’till I turn my back, you f**king faggot!” The

The colourful display can be seen throughout the capital city of Kyiv (YouTube/Kyiv Pride) A 140-metre Pride flag is being projected onto one of Ukraine’s tallest buildings in defiance against the growing wave of homophobia spreading across eastern Europe. The rainbow colours will cover Gulliver Mall, a 35-storey shopping and entertainment centre in the capital

Pete Buttigieg has revealed how he channeled his “inner Mike Pence” while helping Kamala Harris prepare for the vice-presidential debate. In a strange twist of fate, the gay former presidential candidate has been role-playing as Pence in mock debates with Harris to help her practise. Appearing in an MNBC segment ahead of the big showdown

Thousands of trans people have just lost access to vital healthcare and medication after spate of articles about private provider GenderGP. GenderGP is a private “online health and wellbeing service, which provides advice and support to members of the trans community, and those who care for them”. A spate of anti-trans media coverage has targeted

Kristie Higgs lost her tribunal case against Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire (Christian Concern) Kristie Higgs, a school worker who was sacked over extreme Facebook rants in which she attacked LGBT+ “brainwashing”, has lost her employment tribunal case after attempting to argue she was discriminated against for Christian beliefs. A tribunal told the 44-year-old Wednesday

Ana Brnabic, Prime Minister of Serbia, at the Western Balkans Summit in Poland on 5 July, 2019. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty) Serbia’s first female and first openly gay prime minister Ana Brnabic has won a second term following an election marred by claims of corruption. Prime minister Brnabic, leader of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, was nominated

Craig Chapman – a white male assistant professor of chemistry at the University of New Hampshire, is alleged to be behind the account (UNH) Craig Chapman, a University of New Hampsire (UNH) professor and straight white man, allegedly posed as a Black woman to run the anti-trans Twitter account, The Science Femme. The troll account

20-year-old Massiah Berkley was rushed to hospital but died of his injuries (Envato Elements) A young, queer Black man has tragically lost his life after being stabbed in the head and chest in a suspected Labour Day hate crime. 20-year-old Massiah Berkley died moments after sitting next to James Williams, 51, on a park bench