Category: Around the World
Gold-Medal winning diver Tom Daley says he is making it his mission to ban nations where being LGBTQ+ is punishable by death from competing in the Olympics. Daley, who made the comments while accepting an award for his sporting achievements at the 2021 Attitude Awards, declared he would campaign to have countries that carry the […]
Launched on World Mental Health Day, LGBTQ+ Christians in the United Kingdom are being invited to take part in a vital new research project that will examine the impact of “the increasingly toxic rhetoric around sexuality and gender identity” from within the Church. Aiming to measure how safe “increasingly vulnerable” LGBTQ+ Christians feel, the research […]
A new tell-all memoir has revealed that an openly gay White House staffer working in Melania Trump’s office was reportedly fired due to his “lively” Grindr account. The claims which are made by former White House communications director, press secretary and chief of staff for first lady Melania Trump, Stephanie Grisham in her newly published […]
The Mayor of London says he hopes the community will be the first of many, while kiwi academic asks, “when NZ will get the same?” The United Kingdom has opened its first ‘LGBTQ-affirmative’ retirement facility. Located in the historically gay-friendly London suburb of Vauxhall, Tonic@Bankhouse looks over the River Thames with 19 apartments built and […]
Evan Bialosuknia has made history at Olympia High School in Orlando, Florida, after she became their first trans student to be elected homecoming queen. Elected overwhelmingly by her fellow students, 17-year-old Bialosuknia described the moment as historic and leaving her feeling accepted and with a sense of belonging. “It made me feel like I actually […]
A transgender woman has found herself the victim of what has been described as a premeditated hate crime on her own doorstep in Birmingham, England. The 33-year-old woman, who had previously connected and arranged to meet with the man online, was stabbed in the stomach and leg as she opened her front door. The attacker […]
Graham Norton has been confirmed as the host of a “drag Eurovision” produced by the makers of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Norton who will be presumably sipping his very own kiwi-made wine or pink gin throughout the show as contestants fight to be the “queen of the universe,” will take the helm of a Eurovision-style drag competition […]
More than 60% of Swiss voters have backed marriage equality according to exit polls. Switzerland is on the verge of legalising same-sex marriage in a nationwide referendum held over the weekend. With polls closed, polling agencyGFS Bern have projected voters are going to back same-sex marriage with the measure passing 64% to 36%. Civil unions […]