Category: Around the World
Just a few weeks into 2021 at least 10 anti-transgender bills have been introduced across seven different states by Republican lawmakers. According to reports, the majority of the Republican-sponsored bills target gender-affirming healthcare and trans youth, including redefining “child abuse” to include parents who support their trans kids. While other bills aim to see the […]
Celebrating five decades of Cadbury’s Creme Egg – The confectionary giant has released a new campaign in the UK, paying tribute to all the different ways to enjoy the popular treat: Including a gay kiss! The ad which includes multiple techniques of ingestion from licking out the middle to baking it into Easter brownies also […]
James Furlong, David Wails, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, were “executed” in a park in the city of Reading last year in what prosecutors say was a “violent jihad.” The man accused of murdering three gay men in a park in south England last June was carrying out an act of religious jihad, prosecutors at his sentencing hearing […]
Uniformed police will continue to join future Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parades. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have voted to allow police to continue to participate in future parades. The vote was held at the organisation’s annual general meeting and a motion to ban both the New South Wales police and […]
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Pete Buttigieg to be the United States next transportation secretary in a historic appointment. Pending confirmation from the US Senate, former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana is set to become the United States next Transportation Secretary and in doing so the country’s first-ever gay man to hold a position in […]
Gay males in long term monogamous relationships will now be able to donate blood regardless of sexual activity in the UK but not in NZ. Blood donation rules for gay and bisexual men are being relaxed across the United Kingdom, hours after New Zealand changed its own. There will now be a lift on […]
John Mandt Jr, a lawmaker in the US state of West Virginia, has been re-elected despite his earlier resignation this year for allegedly saying “silly faggots, and dicks are for chicks!” 57-year-old John Mandt Jr withdrew after he reportedly commented on a Facebook group chat called “The Right Stuff,” (which included conservative state lawmakers and […]
A US teen has found himself being supported by over 200,000 people after he was suspended from his Texas school for wearing nail polish. 17-year-old Trevor Wilkinson, a senior at Clyde High School in Clyde, Texas, found himself at the centre of controversy after he returned from Thanksgiving break with his nails painted. Despite the school […]