Category: Around the World

Jan 23
Bourke Street Rampage Driver Allegedly Stabbed Brother Over His Sexuality

Article: Star Observer The man who drove through Melbourne’s CBD late last week killing at least five people and injuring dozens had allegedly stabbed his brother earlier that day over an altercation about his sexuality. The police had allegedly been chasing Dimitrious “Jimmy” Gargasoulas from Windsor into the city, where he drove through Bourke St […]

Jan 23
iLoveMakonnen Comes Out

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 […]

Jan 23
LGBT+ Page Disappears From White House Website

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 […]

Jan 20
Dancers Protest Mike Pence Outside His House

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 […]

Jan 20
UK to Get Its Own LGBT+ TV Channel

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 […]

Jan 20
Troye Sivan’s New Music Video Features LGBT+ Activists

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 […]

Jan 19
Pride Toronto Blocks Police From Marching

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, […]

Jan 19
Will & Grace is Returning!

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 […]