Category: Around the World
Notable DC comic character and feminist icon Wonder Woman is officially bisexual according to writer, Greg Rucka. “Are we saying Diana has been in love and had relationships with other women?” he told Comicosity. “As Nicola and I approach it, the answer is obviously yes.” The subject of debate for decades, Wonder Woman’s sexuality has […]
Article: Sydney Star Observer Australian HIV advocates are celebrating the news that scientists working on a cure for HIV infection in the UK have had a massive breakthrough in their research after a 44 year old male patient in the study showed no signs of HIV after treatment. Fifty patients are part of the trial […]
Image: Facebook After six and a half years, Akersten has left his job as editor of SameSame.com.au and moved on as digital and social media manager of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. As his former team, we at express wish him the best of luck!
Image and story: AP A cultural Massimadi festival in Haiti has been cancelled after threats were made to members of the organising foundation. Massimadi, a portmanteau of massissi and madivine (pejoratively referring to gays and lesbians in Creole), is a word used to describe the Afro-Carribean LGBT+ community. The festival itself was launched in 2009 […]
Image: The Fight Mag Sex toy manufacturers, Perfect Fit, have teamed up with trans gender porn star, Buck Angel, to create the world’s first FTM specific pleasure toy. The “Buck-Off” is the first pleasure product created specifically for female-to-male trans people. Using up-to-the-minute technology, as well as Angel’s own personal vision on how a sex toy […]
Last week, Out magazine released their latest feature story on Milo Yiannopoulos, a member of the ‘alt-right’ and recently banned from Twitter after inciting hate speech in regards to Leslie Jones, Ghostbusters star. What followed was frankly, a shit-storm. Members of the LGBT+ media have erupted in disagreement of the publishing of this story, saying […]
Image: The Australian The Australian has recently published a cartoon by Bill Leaks depicting goose-stepping Nazi soldiers in rainbow-coloured uniform. The caption underneath reads “Waffen-SSM”: a play on the Waffen-SS, who were an armed faction of Hitler’s SS responsible for running the concentration and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, and same-sex marriage (SSM). It is obvious […]
Image: ABC News Diversity was the name of the game at the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards. With recognition being given to celebrities of a variety of ethnicities, queer talent and stories were also big winners! Following the recent controversy surrounding an excess of white nominees and winners during the Academy Awards, television proved it is the medium of diversity with […]