Category: Around the World
Visitors to New York’s Stonewall National Monument have been leaving transgender Pride flags in defiance of a directive from the Trump administration allowing only the traditional six-stripe rainbow flag to be flown for Pride Month. The monument, which honours the pivotal 1969 Stonewall riots—widely seen as the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement—was designated […]
US Vice President JD Vance has quickly found notoriety on Bluesky, becoming the most blocked user in the platform’s history just days after joining. The 40-year-old Republican made his entrance onto the social media site — a growing alternative to X — by sharing a controversial excerpt from the US Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding […]
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine has added bipartisan weight to new legislation aimed at banning discrimination against LGBTQ+ Americans in federal jury selection. She joins Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire in co-sponsoring the Jury ACCESS Act, marking a renewed effort to close a key civil rights gap. The bill, formally titled the […]
In a bizarre but revealing twist of open-source intelligence, a social media account is using pizza delivery patterns and gay bar foot traffic in Washington, D.C., to forecast Pentagon military activity, including recent strikes in the Middle East. The account, Pentagon Pizza Report (@PenPizzaReport), has gained attention for its unusual yet surprisingly accurate method: tracking […]
Five teenage boys have been sentenced in Perth Children’s Court for a string of violent and premeditated assaults on gay and bisexual men, whom they lured via a fake Grindr profile. The attacks, described by the court as “planned and premeditated,” involved fake online identities used to bait victims with the promise of sex. Once […]
A 35-year-old man from Marion County, Florida, has been arrested following allegations that he threatened to attack a local Pride festival. Michael Wilcox was taken into custody after reportedly posting a violent message online, suggesting plans to disrupt the Pride event held at the Central Florida Fairgrounds on June 14. Wilcox’s alleged post appeared on […]
A groundbreaking move tomorrow sees Lifeblood, Australia’s national blood and plasma service, update its eligibility criteria, enabling gay, bisexual, and trans men who have sex with men (GbMSM) to donate plasma immediately, without undergoing the previous three-month celibacy requirement. From Monday 14 July 2025, PrEP users and GbMSM meeting standard health criteria can donate plasma […]
A federal judge has issued a decisive ruling preventing the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that would deny transgender and non-binary people the right to obtain passports reflecting their correct gender identity. The decision, delivered on 17 June, expands a prior injunction and now applies nationwide, effectively halting the federal government’s attempt to remove […]