Category: Around the World
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 […]
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 […]