Category: Around the World
The UK Home Office has lost its bid to deport Kenneth Macharia, who fears homophobic persecution if he were to return to Kenya. A gay Kenyan man has won a five-year-old legal battle to stay in the United Kingdom, with his lawyer successfully arguing that he would face grave danger if he was forced to […]
New Zealand is sending nine LGBT athletes to the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. With records set to be smashed in less than five days’ time at the Tokyo Olympics, the event itself will break one with the largest inclusion of LGBT athletes in the history of the games. OutSports reports that more than 135 LGBT […]
Three people have been arrested and are now facing child cruelty charges in the United States following video footage being circulated online of the trio abusing a 12-year-old boy for doing “gay s**t.” Charged with cruelty to children by the Atlanta Police Department, 18-year-old Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo, 19-year-old Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer, and 35-year-old Brittney Monique […]
Former Olympian and reality television star, Caitlyn Jenner has been met with heckling and transphobic abuse while attending the Conservative Political Action Conference. Jenner who is currently running as a conservative candidate in California’s recall election against Democratic governor Gavin Newsom appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas. During the conference, it […]
The parents of a child who was bullied for being gay at a school in Long Island City, New York, are now suing the principal and staff after they allegedly suggested that the boy had brought the homophobic bullying on himself. According to the New York Post Parents, Jason Cianciotto and his husband who have filed […]
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 […]