Category: Around the World
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 […]
Alexis Arquette was a trail-blazing actress of our generation: featuring in the likes of ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘Of Mice and Men’, ‘The Wedding Singer’ and ‘Bride of Chucky’ before transitioning. She knew that transitioning would reduce the number of roles available to her, but it didn’t stop her working and going for roles that didn’t demean and […]
In an interview with the UK’s Evening Standard, Ian McKellen got thinking about masculinity and declared that gay men are more masculine than straight men. “I think gay men are more masculine than straight men,” McKellen said. “Because, guess what? They love other men!” “So when bully boys say: “Faggot!” you say, ‘That’s right, I’m with […]
Nicholas Chamberlain has become the first openly gay Church of England bishop after publicly declaring his sexuality and relationships status. Following a threat to be outed by a Sunday newspaper, Chamberlain made the announcement, although says that his sexuality has never been an overt secret. “It was not my decision to make a big thing […]