Category: Around the World
Even though the Trump administration has been systematically stripping trans students of their rights, New York City has taken a stand and issued an guidance saying that teachers must refer to students by their preferred pronouns. By preferred pronouns, the guidance says that it goes beyond the normal binary ‘he’ or she’ and to include […]
In a new commercial for Coca-Cola’s Taste the Feeling campaign, a young woman is shown admiring a handsome boy hired to clean their home swimming pool. Little does she know, her brother is upstairs enjoying the same view from his own window. The advert features a 50’s-style soundtrack and plays on classic Americana imagery. After the siblings longingly […]
Popularly known as sweet and innocent, pop princess Ariana Grande has released her latest video for Everyday ft. Future, and has an important message to share with viewers. Throughout the music video, we witness multiple displays of affection happening in broad daylight – which is usually enough to make most people uncomfortable, yet she has taken […]
Most of the subjects’ faces are hidden or concealed, but it does not detract from new documentary Mr Gay Syria‘s significance in telling an LGBT+ story we do not hear enough. Focusing on two men, Hussein and Mahmoud, gay men who have fled from their homeland Syria to Turkey, Mr Gay Syria follows the establishment of the […]
Because you weren’t excited enough as it was for Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, it has just been announced that LeFou, Gaston’s sidekick, is indeed gay – well, he is going to be for this remake at least. LeFou, who will be played by Josh Gad, “is somebody who on one day wants […]
Article: Star Observer South Australia is beginning a new trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV. Victoria’s Alfred Health and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) have partnered with SA Health and local clinics to deliver the trial, which starts in April. Professor Steve Wesselingh from SAHMRI says PrEP is an […]
The United Nations is sending Vitit Muntarbhorn, a human rights expert, to assess LGBT+-friendliness in Argentina. This is the first type of inspection the UN has ever done, with the investigation focusing on what kinds of violence and discrimination are being experienced by Argentinean LGBT+ people. Muntarbhorn says, “the visit will allow me to identify […]
A Trinidadian man, Jason Jones, has filed a suit at the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago that challenges Sections 13 and 16 of the Sexual Offences Act. These two sections criminalise sexual acts between two adults of the same sex, and serious indecency, regardless of consent. In his lawsuit, Jones says the “very existence […]