Category: Around the World
Global transgender icon Calpernia Adams will be the special guest at Mardi Gras Gender Trailblazers event at the Seymour Centre, Sydney on Saturday 21 Feb 2015 and will also be involved in the festival’s parade and party. Calpernia Addams first rose to international prominence in 1999 after her lover Barry Winchell was beaten to death whilst […]
One of the world’s most iconic jewellery brands, Tiffany & Co’s has featured a gay couple in it’s new advertising campaign. Tiffany & Co’s US campaign titled “Will You?” photographed by German photographer Peter Lindbergh features a gay couple about to marry. This is the first time the 178 year old company has featured a […]
South Dakota has had it’s ban on same sex marriage struck down by a federal court judge. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier issued a summary judgment in favor of the six couples who filed a lawsuit last year in Sioux Falls against the state of South Dakota’s ban on gay […]
“Transparent” has just won the Golden Globe for best TV series, musical or comedy. Transparent, created by Amazon, has taken out the Golden Globe for best best television series in a comedy or musical at the Golden Globe awards currently being held in Los Angeles. Transparent has been a hot with critics and is a comedy on […]
The bizarre new series set to premiere on US cable television later today follows four men who admit they are attracted to other men, but choose to live as ‘heterosexuals’ because of their Mormon faith. Gay rights campaigners have called for a the show to be cancelled because of the show’s promotion of the idea that homosexuality […]
The bad publicity just keeps on coming for Uber. A gay couple were allegedly asked to leave a Uber taxi in London after the driver saw the pair kissing. Corey Watts and his boyfriend Jordan Sloan got into a Uber taxi at Covent Garden in London at 8pm but were thrown out just minutes later […]
The US release of hit 2014 film Pride has removed any references to the film’s gay themes on the DVD cover. Responding to the growing outrage ,CBS Films, resposbile for the film’s distribution has told UK website Pink News, “we’re looking into this now, and our page for the film remains the same as it […]
Michael Sam has told Oprah Winfrey that there are multiple other gay players in the NFL and that they thanked him for coming out before he was picked in the 2014 NFL draft. “A very few reached out to me and pretty much just told me their gratitude and how thankful they were that I […]