Day: July 20, 2015

A GLBT awards show in Scotland has come under fire for using models wearing Blackface to promote the event. The Icon Awards, an awards ceremony to celebrate the contribution of gay and lesbian people to Scottish life has been caught up in a race row after the organisers used models in black face to promote the […]

Farmers will introduce gender-neutral changing rooms into its stores  in response to an investigation into insensitive treatment of an Auckland Trans Woman. Farmers is set to introduce gender neutral changing rooms into its stores after Auckland woman Mary Haddock-Staniland’s was the victim of transphobic abuse at their Botany branch in June. Ms Haddock-Staniland was trying on shorts […]

A new Human Rights Watch report has slammed Australia’s treatment of GLBT asylum seekers. A new Human Rights Watch report has heavily criticised the Australian government’s approach to dealing with asylum seekers and in particular GLBT asylum seekers. Compiled by the Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Law Centre, the report was put together […]