Category: Around the World
Image: Charlotte Observer North Carolina passed House Bill 2 (HB 2), or the “bathroom bill” as it’s more commonly known, back in March, where people are made to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate. This was in response to Charlotte City Council’s expanding on its non-discrimination ordinances to include sexuality, […]
Source: Mail on Sunday Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, has come out as gay in an interview with Mail on Sunday. Mountbatten has broken ground as the first member of the British royal family to come out as gay. Formally married to Penelope Thompson with whom he has three children, Mountbatten […]
Article: Sydney Star Observer Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has presented the legislation to parliament which would allow a public vote to go ahead on February 11 next year asking the Australian public if they approve of the legalisation of same-sex marriage. When introducing the bill to parliament today he said it was “parliament committed to […]
Image: Reuters Qiu Bai, a media student at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, has lodged a suit against China’s Ministry of Education over the use of textbooks that describe homosexuality as a mental disorder, and a curable disease. Even though homosexuality was delisted as a mental disorder in 2001, and being gay in China is […]
A few days ago, tens of thousands of people marched in an anti-LGBT+ parade in the Celaya, Mexico. Organised by Frente Nacional por la Familia (National Front for Family), the demonstration was to oppose the proposed federal law to make same-sex marriage legal. Currently, ten states (Campeche, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Jalisco, Mexico City, Michoacán, Morelos, […]
Five days ago, Chelsea Manning began a hunger strike “until [she was] given minimum standards of dignity, respect, and humanity”. This was down to how the prison was not addressing her gender dysphoria, such as her having to have short hair, in accordance with the male grooming standards. This flew in the face of her […]
Whoopi Goldberg has recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her new show, Strut – a show about Slay Model Management, an agency dedicated to serving transgender models exclusively. During her interview, she addresses why asking about a transperson’s junk is a no-no: “it would be like meeting someone and saying […]
The author of the book that inspired the Julia Roberts movie, and made us all contract a bad case of wanderlust, Elizabeth Gilbert, has announced her relationship with fellow writer, Rayya Elias. It was not necessarily a case of magically finding that she was attracted to another female, but rather, figuring out that “she’s my […]