Category: Around the World
Anne Isabella Coombes, a 67-year-old trans woman, swam topless at the Cornwall County Masters swim meet to protest being forced by Swim England to compete against cisgender men in an “open” category. Despite previously competing in the female category in 2022 and 2023, Coombes was reclassified and placed into the new open division, introduced in […]
Donald Trump has refused to contact Minnesota Governor Tim Walz following the weekend assassination of pro‑LGBTQ+ House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, allegedly by a man identified as a Trump supporter. Instead, Trump dismissed Walz as “whacked out” and said calling him would “waste time.” “I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked […]
In a controversial Pride Month interview, gay Trump ally and Kennedy Centre President Richard Grenell claimed that gay people have “largely achieved equality” in the U.S. and suggested that “normal gays” vote Republican. “I think that we have largely achieved equality in this country for gays and lesbians,” Grenell told Politico’s Dasha Burns. “The gay […]
The British Library will posthumously reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader pass, more than a century after it was revoked due to his conviction for homosexuality — a move hailed as a symbolic gesture of apology and recognition of injustice. The late gay poet and playwright was banned from what was then the British Museum Reading Room […]
A Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has come under fire after being filmed vandalising an LGBTQ+ exhibition in the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s parliament. Footage circulating online shows far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun aggressively tearing down rainbow-themed displays from easels and stomping on them until none were left standing. When questioned by […]
In a landmark moment for LGBTQIA+ advocacy, U.S. civil rights organisation Lambda Legal has announced the creation of a record-breaking $285 million legal fighting fund, aimed at protecting and advancing queer rights amid increasing conservative efforts to roll them back. The campaign, titled “Unstoppable Future”, is now believed to be the largest fundraising initiative in […]
A group tied to the controversial “conversion therapy” movement gathered last week on the steps of the California State Capitol in Sacramento to rally against what they call the “LGBTQ lifestyle,” advocating instead for a religious path to “healing” through Christianity. The rally, held by members of the Changed Movement, was timed to coincide with […]
U.S. Representative Sarah McBride has said she won’t allow herself to be “martyred” as the country’s first openly transgender member of Congress, even as she acknowledges that her life is in danger due to escalating anti-trans rhetoric. Speaking at the premiere of A State of Firsts, a documentary chronicling her groundbreaking election, the Delaware Democrat […]