Category: Around the World
Political commentator and comedian Jon Stewart is being praised for his recent interview with the Arkansas attorney general debating her anti-trans laws. Stewart’s interview follows Arkansas’ March 2021 ban on gender-affirming care for minors – a law currently being legally challenged with the trial set to begin this month. The interview with Arkansas attorney general […]
A trans woman living in London says she was asked to “prove” that she was female by a security guard after he followed her into a McDonald’s restroom. 57-year-old Paula Griffin says she was approached by the security guard when she entered a women’s restroom in a McDonald’s restaurant in Peckham, London, on Monday, the […]
Slovakia’s LGBTQ+ community are mourning the loss of two people following a shooting outside an LGBTQ+ venue in what is believed to be a hate crime. Fatally killing two and injuring another, the suspected hate crime occurred in front of Tepláreň, a popular LGBTQ+ bar in Slovakia’s capital city, Bratislava. According to the Associated Press, […]
Files released by the FBI about the Jeffrey Dahmer case have shown how widespread homophobia enabled the serial killer to commit more crimes and also paint his victims in a bad light. Dahmer, who was convicted of murdering 17 males between 1978 and 1991, was finally arrested when Tracy Edwards managed to escape Dahmer’s apartment […]
Social media giant TikTok has been fined in Russia after refusing to delete what sensors describe as “LGBT propaganda.” Russian authorities issued the fine on Tuesday, the 4th of October, for violating Russia’s ‘gay propaganda laws’ prohibiting the promotion of LGBTQ+ content to under-18s. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was accused of “promoting non-traditional values, LGBT, […]
Kim Petras’ collaboration with Sam Smith – Unholy – has also gone to Number 1 in the UK, Ireland, Greece, Canada, Australia and New Zealand! German-born, America-based popstar Kim Petras has made ‘herstory’, thanks to her latest collaboration with Sam Smith ‘Unholy’. The two popstars co-wrote the track that’s lyrics revolve around a man having […]
The man at the centre of a gruesome murder plot has pleaded guilty to the kidnapping of a gay teen he met through Grindr with the intention of murdering and dismembering his body. 21-year-old Chance Seneca from Lafayette, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping in relation to an incident in June 2020. According […]
Political and religious leaders in Zambia are being accused of fueling growing anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments across the nation, leaving many in the rainbow community fearful. Just weeks after Zambia’s Minister of Information and Media, Chushi Kasanda, reinforced the government’s commitment to upholding the country’s laws criminalising homosexuality, another Minister has also reaffirmed his condemnation of the […]