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Sara Hegazy took her own life after enduring torture in Egypt (Twitter/@karimshot) A candlelight vigil is being held in honour of Sara Hegazy, an Egyptian LGBT+ activist who died of suicide after being tortured for raising a Pride flag at a concert. Hegazy took her own life on Sunday, leaving behind a handwritten note in

Donald Trump praised American scientists for developing a non-existent AIDS vaccine (Screenshot: The Hill) Donald Trump has falsely suggested that American scientists have “come up with” an AIDS vaccine, which doesn’t exist. Speaking at a press conference on police reform, the president began rambling off topic and instead hailed his own efforts to tackle the

Khary Payton revealed his son, Karter, is trans. (Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic/Instagram) The Walking Dead star Khary Payton has revealed his son is trans in a tear-jerking Instagram post and, yes, we’re already crying here. Payton, who portrays King Ezekiel in the AMC show, took to social media Monday evening (June 15) to share an adorable snap

Michael Clifford, guitarist with 5 Seconds of Summer, has apologised after past sexist and homophobic tweets resurfaced online. In a tweet from 2013, the guitarist told bandmate Luke Hemmings that he tweets “like a f*g” and used the word “gay” in a derogatory way. In another tweet, he wrote: “I am so bad at making

A gay man who was beaten to within an inch of his life in a 1980s hate crime has claimed that a police report from the time said he “deserved” to be attacked. Martin Parker told The Australian that he was beaten so badly by a man who pretended to be gay outside a public

Peter Tatchell during Pride in London 2019 (Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Pride in London) Outspoken gay rights activist Peter Tatchell plans to mark Pride in London by marching along the parade route, despite the cancellation of the event. The city’s annual Pride march, which had been due to take place on June 27, has been

Liz Truss gives a speech at think-tank ‘Onward’ on March 19, 2019 in London. (PLuke Dray/Getty Images) Topping off a dispiriting few years for trans Britons, vital plans to reform legislation around legally changing one’s gender have been reportedly abandoned. But ministers hope to, nevertheless, “placate” the LGBT+ community by introducing a state ban on

Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco’s death spared outcry for typifying the failures of the criminal justice system for trans women of colour. (Facebook/Polanco family attorney) Officers swung open the iron doors of the cell of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco and called her name. They believed the Latinx trans woman was simply asleep while in solitary confinement. She was

Spongebob Squarepants was confirmed to be queer by Nickelodeon. (Nickelodeon) SpongeBob SquarePants’ sexuality has entered the 2020 chat and it seems everyone desperately needed a distraction from the indelible horrors of coronavirus as thousands of Twitter users came to celebrate the yellow square’s coming out party. Nickelodeon tweeted Saturday night celebratory Pride Month tweet with

Takaya Honda and Matt Wilson play David and Aaron in Neighbours. (Channel 5) Neighbours star Takaya Honda, who plays David Tanaka in the soap, has spoken about his character’s trailblazing storyline of becoming a foster parent in a same-sex relationship. Tanaka’s character David married Aaron Brennan in 2018, making them the first couple to have a

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) Joe Biden spearheaded a blistering backlash against the Trump administration that on Friday (June 12) “cruelly” erased precious healthcare protections for trans patients less than two weeks into Pride Month. The Department of Health and Human Services finalised a rule that effectively means gender identity

Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue. (Netflix) Only the coolest cats and kittens get the chance to appear on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, and it seems the queen of them all, Carole Baskin, might be appearing on the contest. ITV bosses of the British reality TV series are apparently desperate for Baskin

Hungarian trans couple Tamara Csillag and Elvira Angyal. (Tamara Csillag/ Facebook) A Hungarian trans couple have described their life in limbo, after the country’s government passed a cruel and devastating law to legally erase them. Evaluations of Hungarian trans people’s applications to have their gender or name changed have been withheld since 2018, a ban

The Republican Party platform urges the “reversal” of marriage equality in the United States. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) Donald Trump’s Republican Party has decided to leave its 2016 platform unchanged for the 2020 elections, meaning its official opposition to same-sex marriage will remain. The vote to leave the party’s platform unchanged by the Republican National Committee means

Gay men in Ghana are being hunted down through dating apps like Grindr (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty) Gay men in Ghana are being targeted on Grindr by catfishing conmen who “steal, abuse and blackmail” them, an African LGBT+ group has warned. Sex between men is illegal in Ghana and punishable by up three years in prison, so

JK Rowling is coming under fire after she published a rambling essay defending her anti-trans views, but Harry Potter fans are a little confused by one of her comments. Trans people’s right to use the correct bathroom has long been a sticking point for anti-trans activists, many of whom believe that public toilets should be

Emma Watson restored the eroding hopes of Harry Potter fans Wednesday night (June 10) when she shattered her dayslong silence towards JK Rowling and her tirade of anti-trans tweets. While the British author of the beloved children’s series issued a meandering essay that nobody asked for on her opinions towards trans rights – many based

A trans EastEnders actor has said JK Rowling is “invalidating the identity of people who look up to her” – but said she should only apologise if she actually means it. Riley Carter, who played Kyle Slater on the BBC soap, made his comments during an appearance on Loose Women yesterday (June 9). Carter told

Pride festivals and marches have been cancelled due to COVID-19, but new UK digital billboard campaign Pride Inside is set to put LGBT+ people front and centre. While LGBT+ people can’t go out and march for equality and celebrate their identities this year, Pride Inside – a campaign dreamed up by drag star Ginger Johnson

A Black Lives Matter protest in Washington DC. (GettyYasin Ozturk) A leading LGBT+ rights organisation has said that the Black Lives Matter movement must do more for murdered Black trans women. Widespread protests against ongoing police brutality in the wake of the murder of George Floyd have spread across America. But the Human Rights Campaign

Jonathan Van Ness (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic) and JK Rowling (Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage) Jonathan Van Ness has slammed JK Rowling over her recent anti-trans Twitter comments. The Queer Eye star criticised Rowling’s views on trans people and the timing of her comments as people around the world focus their energies on the Black Lives Matter movement. “Trans

JK Rowling left LGBT+ Harry Potter fans heartbroken with a string of anti-trans tweets – but the signs were there all along. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Severus Snape, a cisgender male character, is depicted wearing a dress. The moment, which occurs in both the 1999 book and its corresponding 2004 film,

Merritt Corrigan. (WPA Intelligence/ Twitter) A new member of Donald Trump’s administration previously said that America is in the clutches of a “homo-empire” that pushes a “tyrannical LGBT+agenda”. Merritt Corrigan was recently appointed by Trump as deputy White House liaison at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), America’s foreign aid agency. The new Trump

Jonathan Ross has built a storied career from jokes that earn him as much praise as they do scrutiny. (Ian Gavan/Getty Images) In 2008, British talk show Jonathan Ross host was known for two things: His plump pay-cheque and sometimes lewd language. While the TV presenter provided the grist for critics of the BBC when

Trevi Moran came out as trans in a touching YouTube vlog. (Screen capture via YouTube) Trevi Moran, an American recording artist who shot to fame on the British X Factor, came out as trans in a poignant YouTube video Friday (June 6). Moran, 21, made the announcement to her 1.44 million YouTube subscribers in a video

Madonna at London’s Black Lives Matter protest, June 6. (Twitter) Madonna showed up to a Black Lives Matter march on crutches to protest racism, chanting “No justice, no peace” in central London. The pop star and longtime LGBT+ ally, on crutches because of a recent knee injury, was reportedly at the June 6 Black Lives

Justice Smith posted photos of him with boyfriend Nicholas L Ashe after chanting ‘Black Trans Lives Matter’ at a New Orleans protest. (Instagram) Jurassic World actor Justice Smith has come out as queer by sharing photos of him and his boyfriend in solidarity with Black Trans Lives Matter. Smith, 24, shared the powerful statement on

Donald Trump inexplicably entered the arena to the Village People at a rally in India in February 2020. (Getty) Village People lead singer Victor Willis has told US president Donald Trump to stop playing their music at his rallies. This is a marked change of tune from the band, who in February 2020 said they

In 2016, after a long fight from LGBT+ activists, gay sex was finally made legal in the Central American country of Belize. That change would never have happened without the tireless campaigning of Caleb Orozco. As executive director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM), Orozco filed a case with the country’s Supreme Court in

Protesters gather for a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Paris, France, on June 2. (Pierre Suu/Getty Images) Police officers in France have been caught privately sharing hundreds of racist, sexist and homophobic messages. The messages were shared in a private Facebook group, which is made up of more than 8,000 police officers, gendarmes (paramilitary police)