Category: Around the World
Scott Johnson’s murder in 1988 was originally dismissed by police as a suicide, now the truth has been revealed. A man who pleaded guilty to a 1988 murder of a gay American man in Sydney has disclosed during his sentencing hearing that he himself is gay. Scott White was sentenced to 12 years and seven […]
New legislation that would see Romanian schools banned from using any materials that “promote” being LGBTQ+ has been approved by the nation’s Senate and could soon become law. Following success in the Senate, the bill will now be debated in Romania’s Lower House has been sold as a measure to prevent “child abuse” and has […]
The Prime Minister of Norway has made a formal apologised to the nation’s rainbow community for the historical persecution of gay men. Marking the 50th-anniversary of the repeal of section 213 of the penal code, which criminalised sexual relations between men, the nation’s Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, apologised to the community for the stigmatisation […]
Benedict Cumberbatch has spoken out about the censorship of LGBTQ+ characters in film and television. Cumberbatch made the comments after reports that Saudi Arabia had asked Disney to censor an LGBT+ character from the Doctor Strange sequel in which Cumberbatch plays Dr Stephen Strange. Speaking with Metro.co.uk, Cumberbatch said that he was “emotional” about Saudi Arabia’s […]
A new study out of Australia has shown that the majority of female athletes have no issue with trans women competing in women’s sports. The study, which was conducted by Monash University, highlighted that only 24% of women believed that “trans athletes have an unfair advantage when they play on a female sport team.” However, in […]
References to a gay relationship in the third instalment of the Fantastic Beasts movie have been cut in China to appease the nation’s strict censors. According to Variety, Warner Bros studios agreed to cut around six seconds of dialogue from the Chinese-release version of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – dialogue specifically relating to […]
Legislation that would have seen transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports banned in the state of Kansas has been stopped at the final hurdle thanks to the state’s Governor. Governor Laura Kelly vetoed Senate Bill 160 (SB 160) on Friday the 15th of April after the legislation was approved 74-39 in the state House […]
LGBTQ+ activists are praising South African courts after sentencing two men to life in prison for the hate crime rape of a 19-year-old lesbian woman in 2020. The sentence was handed down by the Atteridgeville Regional Court of Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday the 12th of April, with 30-year-old Getwin Moloto and 35-year-old Lebohang Makola […]