Category: Around the World
In a world that traditionally does not do well with LGBT+ figures, Atlanta rapper iLoveMakonnen (real name Makonnen Sheran) has come out as gay on his Twitter. He then summarised his tweets and captioned “thank you for letting me be myself.❤” on his Instagram. Thank you for letting me be myself.❤ A photo posted […]
Just hours after President Donald J Trump was sworn in, the LGBT+ page on the White House page disappeared. Initially, typing in whitehouse.gov/lgbt would take you to a page detailing the administration’s work that was LGBT+-related, including a blog and community engagement. Instead of merely replacing the text for Trump’s policies, the page has been […]
As reported recently, a queer dance party was being organised by LGBT+ activist groups WERK for Peace and DisruptJ20 outside Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s house. Hundreds of people showed up, with around 1,100 people RSVPing attending to the Facebook event. Highlights included a man in denim short shorts (WERK for Peace organiser, Firas Nasr) climbing […]
Starting this February, Latest LGBT+ TV will start airing queer-specific programming for the Greater Brighton area – and worldwide, globally. Latest LGBT + TV Coming soon! Support us: http://thelatest.co.uk/lgbt-tv/ #brighton #lgbt #transgender #equality #voice #supportus A photo posted by LatestBrighton (@latestbrighton) on Jan 12, 2017 at 4:58pm PST Sophie Cook, the Head of Latest […]
Troye Sivan has just released his new music video: HEAVEN. From his Blue Neighbourhood album, HEAVEN’s video is entirely in black-in-white, interspersing shots of Sivan, in a denim jacket and jeans, nuzzling against a faceless guy, in the rain, and various pieces of historic LGBT+ footage. The footage includes early Pride parades, mainly from the […]
Following last year’s Pride parade in Toronto, voters at the annual general meeting chose to go with the demands made by Black Lives Matter Toronto. Black Lives Matter Toronto interrupted the parade last July with a half-hour sit-in and then only moved after Pride Toronto agreed to their list of nine demands. Apparently to some, […]
You may have heard the rumours that were circulating when Leslie Jordan (who played recurring character Beverly Leslie) said that our favourite gay ’90s sitcom was returning to our screens. And you may have felt your heart sink when you saw Debra Messing shoot them down on Twitter shortly after. But it turns out Jordan was […]
WERK for Peace and DisruptJ20, two activism groups, are planning a dance party at the Vice President-elect’s house in Chevy Chase as a protest against his homophobic and transphobic viewpoints. WERK for Peace was created after the Pulse Nightclub shooting “using dance to promote peace” and DisruptJ20 is a group who are, according to their […]