Category: Around the World

Feb 22
Milo Yiannopoulos Loses Book Deal and Resigns from Breitbart News

After Simon & Schuster gave Milo Yiannopoulos a controversial US$250,000 book deal, there was uproar on the internet. This came off the back of Out Magazine doing a feature piece on him, where so much vitriol was launched at the author that he turned conservative. In response to Yiannopoulos’s book deal, author Roxanne Gay pulled her […]

Feb 21
Texas Launches ‘I Pee With LGBT’ Campaign

In a further bid to stop Texas going the way of North Carolina and banning trans people from using the gendered bathroom they identify with, the ACLU of Texas and Legacy Community Health have teamed up to create an ad campaign. Senate Bill 6 (SB6) does not apply just to federal employees as it allows […]

Feb 21
South Australia Says ‘Yes’ to Marriage Equality

Article: Star Observer South Australia has passed a motion supporting marriage equality, after a conscience vote moved by the Greens was held in the legislative council. The vote was also supported by Labor, Liberal, and Independent MLCs, with 11 members voting to support marriage equality and six voting against the motion. Co-convenor of the NSW […]

Feb 20
NFL Embraces Diversity in New Video

The NFL in the USA has joined up with the Ad Council and R/GA to create an ad for Love Has No Labels. The video begins, “kiss cams have been a part of sports culture for years. At the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando, they became a part of something bigger.” The first kiss […]

Feb 20
World’s First Trans Gender Doll Launches

Tonner Doll Company, based in Kingston, New York, released the world’s first trans doll at the Toy Fair in Manhattan this weekend. The company usually makes collectibles intended for adults, but decided to create this doll due to its inspirational origin: Jazz Jennings. Jennings was one of the youngest people ever to be documented as […]

Feb 17
Almost 800 Trans Children’s Parents Sign Open Letter

Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a charity focused on getting equal rights for all LGBT+ people, has written a letter to President Trump protesting the lack of action taken by the Justice Department on Title IX. Title IX provides “significant guidance” to school districts in the USA advising schools to allow their students to use gender-segregated […]

Feb 17
Colton Haynes is Engaged

The Teen Wolf and Arrow star is now officially off the market. After a tumultuous coming out to the public last year, Haynes has kept his love life on the extreme down-low, telling Out magazine that he had only been on two dates in the last year. But he has found love, getting engaged to Jeff Leatham, who is a […]

Feb 16
Rainbows Close Down Facebook Page

After news of how Michelle Meyers, One Nation’s candidate for Bateman electorate in Western Australia, compared the LGBT+ campaigning for equal rights to propaganda techniques used by the Soviets and Nazis, her page has been bombarded by rainbows. People had been commenting with all sorts of rainbow emojis, stickers and pictures, even posts that were not […]