Category: Around the World

Jan 23
LGBT+ Page Disappears From White House Website

Just hours after President Donald J Trump was sworn in, the LGBT+ page on the White House page disappeared. Initially, typing in whitehouse.gov/lgbt would take you to a page detailing the administration’s work that was LGBT+-related, including a blog and community engagement. Instead of merely replacing the text for Trump’s policies, the page has been […]

Jan 20
Dancers Protest Mike Pence Outside His House

As reported recently, a queer dance party was being organised by LGBT+ activist groups WERK for Peace and DisruptJ20 outside Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s house. Hundreds of people showed up, with around 1,100 people RSVPing attending to the Facebook event. Highlights included a man in denim short shorts (WERK for Peace organiser, Firas Nasr) climbing […]

Jan 20
UK to Get Its Own LGBT+ TV Channel

Starting this February, Latest LGBT+ TV will start airing queer-specific programming for the Greater Brighton area – and worldwide, globally.   Latest LGBT + TV Coming soon! Support us: http://thelatest.co.uk/lgbt-tv/ #brighton #lgbt #transgender #equality #voice #supportus A photo posted by LatestBrighton (@latestbrighton) on Jan 12, 2017 at 4:58pm PST Sophie Cook, the Head of Latest […]

Jan 20
Troye Sivan’s New Music Video Features LGBT+ Activists

Troye Sivan has just released his new music video: HEAVEN. From his Blue Neighbourhood album, HEAVEN’s video is entirely in black-in-white, interspersing shots of Sivan, in a denim jacket and jeans, nuzzling against a faceless guy, in the rain, and various pieces of historic LGBT+ footage. The footage includes early Pride parades, mainly from the […]

Jan 19
Pride Toronto Blocks Police From Marching

Following last year’s Pride parade in Toronto, voters at the annual general meeting chose to go with the demands made by Black Lives Matter Toronto. Black Lives Matter Toronto interrupted the parade last July with a half-hour sit-in and then only moved after Pride Toronto agreed to their list of nine demands. Apparently to some, […]

Jan 19
Will & Grace is Returning!

You may have heard the rumours that were circulating when Leslie Jordan (who played recurring character Beverly Leslie) said that our favourite gay ’90s sitcom was returning to our screens. And you may have felt your heart sink when you saw Debra Messing shoot them down on Twitter shortly after. But it turns out Jordan was […]

Jan 18
Dance Your Butt Off for Mike Pence

WERK for Peace and DisruptJ20, two activism groups, are planning a dance party at the Vice President-elect’s house in Chevy Chase as a protest against his homophobic and transphobic viewpoints. WERK for Peace was created after the Pulse Nightclub shooting “using dance to promote peace” and DisruptJ20 is a group who are, according to their […]

Jan 18
Chelsea Manning to be Freed

In one of his last acts, President Obama will be commuting the rest of Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence. Instead of being released in 2045, Manning will leave the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on 17 May. Manning had already made two suicide attempts in regards to the prison’s handling of her gender dysphoria – […]