Category: Around the World
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 […]
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 […]
142 artists, led by Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff, have signed an open letter to Texan legislators, in which they say the creative community is watching whether anti-LGBT+ bills will pass into law. The two bills that have been specified are Texas Senate Bill 6 and House Bill 1362. They would require teachers to ‘out’ LGBT+ […]
Article: Star Observer Teachers in NSW public schools have been banned from educating their students about gender theory after an independent review of the state’s sex education resources. According to a report in The Australian, teachers will now no longer be encouraged to ‘de-gender’ their language and will no longer be able to teach students that […]
Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country, has just gone and released a government-sanctioned video that basically encourages gay Muslims that they should go on the ‘straight’ path. The video is entirely in Malay, and was posted by Syed Azmi, whom Malay Mail Online classes as a ‘social activist’. The video compares sexuality with horse racing, saying that […]
After being introduced to Valentina Sampaio’s work by her assistant, French Vogue‘s editor in chief, Emmanuelle Alt, was hooked. Alt always intended for the March 2017 issue to feature a trans model on Vogue‘s cover, and the honours have gone to a model who, as Alt describes in her editorial, “[has] beauty striking enough to stun on […]
Besides taking out ‘Album of the Year’ and ‘Song of the Year’, Adele also performed a tribute to George Michael at the Grammys, singing his song ‘Fastlove’. The song, itself about casual sex, is never overtly-sexual, but hinted at the singer’s homosexuality. It is not one of Michael’s most well-known songs, having been released after […]
Zagreb Pride has just protested in the centre of Zagreb, Croatia in response to an attack on an LGBT+ party in a night club on the weekend. The event, called ‘Love is and Remains Stronger than Hate’, was streamed live on the Zagreb Pride Facebook page. Several thousand people tuned in to watch. The attack was […]