Category: Around the World
Xulhaz Mannan, Editor of Bangladesh’s only GLBT magazine, Roopbaan, was found hacked to death in his Dhaka flat. On top of being the first editor of a GLBT magazine in the sexually conservative country, Mannan was also a top gay rights activist and worked at the US development agency USAid. He launched Roopbaan in 2014 in an […]
North Carolina Democrats have filed a bill with aims to reverse the state’s anti-GLBT law, HB2. This follows a string of boycotts and lost investment ventures in the state in response to Governor McCrory refusing to veto the damaging bill which encourages discrimination against GLBT people. House Bill 946, sponsored by Darren Jackson, Graig Meyer, Susi Hamilton, and […]
Youtube sensation and self named Liberal Redneck has perfectly explained gender neutral bathroom panic in a colourful new video. Otherwise known as Traw Crowder, he explains why the conservative defence of protecting children is ridiculous and defends trans people’s right to use bathrooms aligning when the gender they identify as. The video was posted in […]
The brand new web series Quite Frankly is a coming-of-age gay story unlike anything we’ve ever seen before and might just be the world’s first gay stoner comedy. Centred around the life of Frank Hankins, an early twenty-something millennial who moves to Sydney from New Zealand and starts coming to terms with his sexuality, Quite Frankly […]
The gay New Zealand man who defrauded his employer and the Queensland taxpayer for almost 17 million dollars still owes the government 8.5 million under a court order to recover proceeds of crime. All of his lavish possessions were sold at a fraction of their value in an attempt to recorder this money, which included the […]
According to the UK’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport access to pornography is encouraging young people to experiment with anal intercourse. Consultation documents from the Department report that over exposure to pornography can have a number of detrimental effects on young people, most surprising of all being that it encourages young people to have anal sex before they […]
Colombia’s constitutional court has ruled in favour of marriage equality overnight after its national parliament first rejected it in 2013. The favourable ruling came about after five delays since the case was brought to the Constitutional Court in August last year, making Colombia the fourth Latin American country to embrace marriage equality. Interior Minister Juan Fernand Cristo confirmed in May […]
After 27 seasons and over a decade of hints and suggestions, Waylon Smithers has finally revealed his sexuality on The Simpsons. The episode has been applauded for its understated and delicate handling of Smithers’ coming out. His affection for his employer, Mr Burns, has been one of The Simpsons’ longest-running plot devices. However, in an episode aired in the US this week, […]