Category: Around the World
The Prime Ministers of Hungary and Poland have been welcomed to Slovenia by defiant LGBTQ+ activists to protest their backwards steps in LGBTQ+ rights. Following a recent stand-off between Hungary (which recently passed a bill to ban LGBTQ+ discussions on social media), and supporters, Poland and Slovenia with other member nations of the EU around […]
Three suspects have been arrested by Spain’s National Police Force following the death of Samuel Luiz, by a homophobic and hate-filled mob of more than a dozen people. The 24-year-old nursing assistant described as a loving man who always wanted to make people laugh was the victim of a homophobic hate crime outside a nightclub […]
The BBC has issued an official apology following its repeated broadcasting of homophobic comments via their Arabic news channel in 2020. According to reports, the BBC Arabic service aired homophobic slurs on BBC Trending, a daily programme that reaches approximately 42 million people across the Arab world and online in the UK. the slurs included blaming […]
Disappearing from social media during filming, Victoria Scone is rumoured to be the first queen to ever be cast on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Welsh hyper queen Victoria Scone is allegedly about to make ‘herstory’ as the first cis gender female competitor to ever appear on any season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Along with 11 other […]
Human rights activists and European leaders are growing increasingly concerned about Hungary’s anti LGBT stance. European Union leaders including Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel say they will double down on efforts to fight LGBT discrimination in a sign of growing concern over Hungary’s anti LGBT crackdown. The country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has campaigned in […]
Pose Star, Angelica Ross has highlighted her disappointment in U.S President Joe Biden, and Vice-President Kamala Harris, accusing the administration of “doing the bare minimum.” Ross’ comments which were made during an interview with PinkNews follow her previous endorsement of Biden just prior to the 2020 Presidential election when she urged the rainbow community to […]
Video: Watch the moment he utters the words ‘I’m gay’ publicly for the first time. Las Vegas Raiders player Carl Nassib has become the very first active NFL player to come out as gay. Nassib made the announcement on Instagram saying he felt he was now comfortable enough to come out publicly although he wasn’t, […]
Two men have been sentenced for consensual sex by a military court in South Korea that insists the consensual activity “bordered on rape.” According to reports from The Guardian, the two men were given a six-month suspended prison sentence, after being found guilty of “indecency”. Despite same-sex sexual activity being legal in South Korea, this […]