Category: Around the World
Maxi Shield, one of Sydney’s beloved drag queens and community leaders, is the star of a new video convincing gay men to get tested for HIV, and other STIs, more often. LGBT+ health organization ACON created the video to coincide with the New South Wales’ HIV Testing Week. The video follows Shield’s highly-camp journey through a sexual […]
Instagram is celebrating LGBT+ Pride Month with features including new stickers for Stories, created by LGBT+ artists from the Instagram community, and a rainbow brush editing tool. The stickers were created by artists Carra Sykes, Andy Simmonds, Cute Brute, José Antonio Roda, and Josh McKenna and contain an eye with the iris transformed into the […]
Article written by Jess Jones. Starobserver.com Real exchanges from Grindr are at the centre of a powerful new campaign to increase awareness of HIV stigma and its effects on the LGBTI community. An initiative of the HIV Foundation Queensland in partnership with Queensland Positive People (QPP), the Real Conversations of Grindr campaign started as […]
Article written by Jess Jones, Starobserver.com The UK-based escort and performer Kayden Gray made the inspiring video to come out about his status. A gay porn star has opened up about being HIV-positive in a YouTube video. UK-based escort and performer Kayden Gray made the inspiring video to come out about his status, Pink News has […]
Nike has released a preview of its latest BETRUE collection, which will be available 1 June on NikeLab.com, to commemorate LGBT+ Pride Month. Every June, rainbow parades explode across the globe in honour of LGBT+ Pride Month, which has been celebrated since the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York. Nike, who in February launched a special EQUALITY initiative, […]
Article written by Jess Jones. Starobserver.com Ireland appears on the verge of electing its first openly gay prime minister. Leading candidate Leo Varadkar would also be the country’s first Asian leader, and at 38 the youngest person to lead Ireland, NBC News reported. “I honestly don’t think in 1981 when I first got elected that I […]
A gay man from North Carolina was recently detained after a flight from New York to Raleigh-Durham airport, when a flight attendant reported him for allegedly touching his son inappropriately during the flight. Henry Amador-Batten, a 52-year-old foster father, was flying with 5-year-old son, Benjamin. They were on their way home having come from Puerto […]
Article written by Jess Jones, Starobserver.com Icecream icons Ben & Jerry’s announced this week they won’t be allowing customers at its 26 Australian stores to order two scoops of the same flavour. The ban is to bring more attention the need for marriage equality. “Imagine heading down to your local scoop shop to order your favourite […]