Category: Around the World
Legendary singer Barry Manilow has spoken publicly for the first time about being gay, and broken his silence on his nearly 40-year relationship with manager Garry Kief. For decades Barry Manilow gave the world timeless hits, while keeping his own life a total secret. Now at 73 years old, and after one of the longest and […]
A work-in-progress edit of the documentary PRIDE? screened at the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival in March to great reception, but in order to get it finished and reach a wider audience, a crowdfunding campaign has been launched. The UK film is an exploration of what Pride means in a world of increased visibility and acceptance […]
A heartwarming photo of a YouTube star and his military boyfriend posing for prom has gone viral. Underwear model/vlogger Max Emerson and his boyfriend Andrés Camilo shared an adorable photo on Instagram of themselves recreating the classic prom pose. Camilo, a member of the National Guard who wasn’t out during his training, is shown wrapping his arms […]
In collaboration with The Equality Campaign, Airbnb has just launched the powerful Until We All Belong campaign. The campaign plans to make Airbnb’s support of marriage equality well-known and requests Australians to commit to wearing a ring, with ‘Until We All Belong’ engraved on the interior, until same-sex marriage is recognised in Australia. Airbnb is involved in advocacy for […]
Acrush is the latest ‘boy band’ making female fans swoon across the world, however this group isn’t your typical pop sensation — all five members are androgynous, assigned female at birth, but identify as genderless. The group, made up of Lu Keran, An Junxi, Peng Xichen, Min Junqian and Lin Fan, is quickly rising to fame in […]
A Russian newspaper is claiming that it has evidence proving at least three men were killed as a result of what is being called a ‘prophylactic sweep’ in Chechnya. The paper says that more than 100 people have been detained and three men killed. It claims that some of those detained include well-known local television […]
Gilbert Baker, creator of the iconic rainbow flag which is now a international icon symbolising gay rights, has died at the age of 65. Baker was born in Kansas City and served in the United States Army for two years, from 1970 – 1972. He was stationed in San Francisco when he first joined the […]
A new study done by GLAAD called Accelerating Acceptance has revealed that significantly more millennials identify as LGBT+ in comparison to older generations. The report, conducted online in conjunction with Harris Poll, surveyed 2,037 U.S. adults aged 18+, and found that young people are significantly more likely to embrace a label outside of the heterosexual, cisgender […]