Category: Around the World
Spain’s newly crowned World Cup champions have set queer social media alight after videos showed players kissing each other, embracing and becoming unusually affectionate with the trophy during their victory celebrations. For the record, none of the 26 players in Spain’s World Cup-winning squad has publicly identified as gay or bisexual. That has not stopped […]
Fears are growing that Gabon could reverse one of Africa’s most significant LGBTQ+ rights advances by reintroducing criminal penalties for consensual same-sex relationships and public advocacy. The Central African country decriminalised same-sex intimacy in 2020, overturning a provision introduced only a year earlier that classified sexual relations between people of the same sex as an […]
A 21-year-old man suspected of carrying out a deadly vehicle and stabbing attack near Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations has been shot dead during a police operation. Berlin police had earlier issued a public appeal for information about Abdul B., warning people not to approach him because he was believed to be armed and […]
A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to remove 16 transgender service members from a lawsuit challenging the Air Force’s decision to revoke their previously approved early retirements. Judge Elaine D. Kaplan of the United States Court of Federal Claims denied the Justice Department’s partial motion to dismiss on Wednesday, 22 July, allowing […]
Berlin police have identified a suspect following an apparent vehicle attack near the city’s Pride celebrations that killed one person and injured at least 16 others. The man, who had not been arrested by Sunday morning, is known to police as a member of Berlin’s “Islamist scene”, according to a police spokesperson. However, investigators stressed […]
Four men have each received an effective 15-year prison sentence for using fake Grindr profiles to lure, kidnap and rob victims across South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. The Durban Regional Court sentenced Khumdulani Ngubane, Nkanyiso Ndebele, Celimpilo Nkomo and Mzwemvelo Ngubane on Wednesday, 15 July, following a series of attacks in Ballito, Umhlanga and Durban North […]
Transgender civil servants could effectively be required to disclose their identity to managers when arranging access to suitable workplace toilets, according to leaked Cabinet Office guidance. The internal document reportedly says trans employees “may not use facilities of [their] affirmed gender which are designated as single-sex”. Instead, they would be expected to use mixed-sex or […]
Tensions inside the Big Brother house are escalating as Drag Race star Salina EsTitties faces possible eviction amid a growing controversy over comments made by fellow contestant Kamuela “Kamu” Kirk. The first weeks of Big Brother season 28 have already delivered fractured alliances, betrayals and heated confrontations. Heading into the season’s second eviction, Jason De […]