Day: June 18, 2025

Anne Isabella Coombes, a 67-year-old trans woman, swam topless at the Cornwall County Masters swim meet to protest being forced by Swim England to compete against cisgender men in an “open” category. Despite previously competing in the female category in 2022 and 2023, Coombes was reclassified and placed into the new open division, introduced in […]

Donald Trump has refused to contact Minnesota Governor Tim Walz following the weekend assassination of pro‑LGBTQ+ House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, allegedly by a man identified as a Trump supporter. Instead, Trump dismissed Walz as “whacked out” and said calling him would “waste time.” “I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked […]

In a controversial Pride Month interview, gay Trump ally and Kennedy Centre President Richard Grenell claimed that gay people have “largely achieved equality” in the U.S. and suggested that “normal gays” vote Republican. “I think that we have largely achieved equality in this country for gays and lesbians,” Grenell told Politico’s Dasha Burns. “The gay […]

The British Library will posthumously reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader pass, more than a century after it was revoked due to his conviction for homosexuality — a move hailed as a symbolic gesture of apology and recognition of injustice. The late gay poet and playwright was banned from what was then the British Museum Reading Room […]

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the 21-year-old transgender daughter of Elon Musk and Justine Wilson, made a bold and unapologetic drag debut at “SAVE HER,” an immigrant legal defence fundraiser hosted in Los Angeles on 13 June. Performing under her drag persona Vivllainous, Wilson lit up the stage with an empowering message of identity, solidarity, and resistance. […]