Category: Around the World
Qatar continues to face global condemnation from LGBTQ+ rights groups for their treatment of LGBTQ+ people ahead of the nation hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup. According to a new Human Rights Watch report, security police in Qatar has continued to arrest and harass individuals because of their sexuality and gender identity, with victims telling […]
LGBTQ+ icon Leslie Jordan has reportedly passed away at the age of 67. The Comedian-actor, best known for appearing in Will & Grace and American Horror Story, reportedly passed away while driving in Hollywood. Jordan, who suffered a medical emergency, crashed his BMW into the side of a building, according to reports from local police […]
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 […]