Day: May 11, 2020

May 11
Turkish Children Forbidden to Draw Rainbows – “it turns children into gays”

Turkish officials, led by President Recep Erdogan, have banned children from drawing a rainbow and hanging pictures on window panes as it is considered a worldwide LGBT+ conspiracy. At the end of March, the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art invited children who are now unable to attend school due to COVID-19 quarantine to draw a […]

May 11
Government Funded Foster Agency Facing Legal Battle For LGBT+ Discrimination In USA

A lesbian couple in the U.S state of South Carolina are heading to court to fight policy that enables discrimination against same-sex couples seeking to foster children. Brandy Welch and Eden Rogers were told that they failed to meet the criteria by a government-funded adoption agency simply because they are a lesbian couple. Using ‘religious […]

May 11
LEAVING LEVEL 3 HOTTIE: GAEL JACOB

To celebrate the countdown to Level 2, express has teamed up with Modus Vivendi to bring you a Hottie a day! French model Gael Jacob gives us some simple skincare regime tips. French model Gael Jacob loves showing off his Eiffel Tower! It’s hanging on the wall behind him – see? When’s he’s not self-isolating at […]

May 11
Book Review: The Velvet Rage

Daniel Devenney takes a look at early 21st Century gay literature, Alan Downs’ The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World, and discovers how quickly times have changed. “The experience of being a gay man in the twenty-first century is different from that of any other minority, sexual […]