Category: Around the World
YOUR EX has a double pas to give away for Sugar, playing as part of the Auckland Live Cabaret Festival. From the company behind Daffodils comes a chaotic, hilarious and gloriously outrageous cabaret about Sugar, a radiantly beautiful gender-fluid twink who discovers there is money to be made from “transactional relationships”. Maybe they watched Pretty […]
Christian pastor Joel Webbon has sparked backlash after claiming that smoking marijuana makes men “spiritually gay” and urging Christian men to embrace tobacco and nicotine as a path back to “masculinity”. In a video posted to X, Webbon links cannabis use to gender stereotypes and repeatedly uses “gay” as an insult. He claims marijuana “makes […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the city of Denton over an upcoming Pride Month event called “Big Gay Swim Day”. The lawsuit seeks to block the 7 June event, which is scheduled to take place as a private rental at the Civic Centre pool in Denton. Paxton’s office claims the […]
Reforms aimed at strengthening protections for LGBTQIA+ people have passed in the New South Wales Parliament following a disturbing rise in performative crimes and targeted attacks against the community. The Crimes Legislation Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2026 passed the Legislative Council last night. The bill expands “post and boast” laws, which target offenders who film […]
Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Yotsanun Wongsawat joined the Bangkok Pride Festival parade on Sunday, as the country continues its campaign to host WorldPride in 2030. Wongsawat led the Pheu Thai Party’s marching group during the annual parade, which this year was held under the theme “Patch the World with Pride”. “Today I’m joining Pride Month […]
The U.S. State of Colorado is moving to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ youth rather than weaken them like has been seen in many other states across the United States. Governor Jared Polis has signed HB26-1322 into law, a measure designed to preserve the state’s longstanding ban on conversion therapy after the U.S. Supreme Court raised […]
An 18-year-old Ohio man has been arrested after allegedly pulling down a transgender woman’s skirt and underwear in front of bystanders at Cedar Point amusement park. According to a police report obtained by the Sandusky Register, the incident took place near the park’s main gate at around 8.30pm on Tuesday, 26 May. The woman told […]
Sir Ian McKellen has joined campaigners in London to protest against the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people across the Commonwealth. The 87-year-old actor and longtime LGBTQ+ rights activist took part in a “Walk of Shame” through the capital on Saturday alongside veteran campaigner Peter Tatchell. The march highlighted the ongoing criminalisation of millions of gay and […]