Category: News
Thirty LGBTQ+ people have been beaten and robbed before being arrested by Police in Ghana. According to the LGBTQ+ rights group Rightify Ghana, Twenty-nine men and one transgender woman were arrested after a homophobic mob attacked their house party on the 26th of June. Rightify Ghana says the party was violently interrupted when a group […]
Boris Johnson’s most senior LGBTQ+ MP has joined the growing list of MPs deserting the embattled Prime Minister and his Government. Housing minister Stuart Andrew announced his resignation from the UK Government via Twitter, confirming that he would be stepping down from the role he was appointed just six months earlier. “Loyalty and unity are […]
In court, one of the pair pleaded ‘not guilty’ which sends the case to a jury trial. Two men accused of torching Tauranga’s Rainbow Youth building have appeared in court facing a joint charge of arson. Alexander James Burgess, 33, and Zechariah Vincent Phillips, 29 appeared in the Tauranga District Court today accused of deliberately […]
Start your engines Aotearoa, RuPaul’s new queens include NZ-based Spankie Jackzon and Yuri Guaii, plus NZ-born Kween Kong and Aubrey Haive. 10 queens from across Australia and New Zealand with the most charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent have been selected to compete for the glory, title, and bragging rights of being crowned the queen of […]
An openly gay former wrestler running for office in Kansas City says he refuses to back down and will continue his campaign despite homophobic slurs being tagged on his campaign posters. Justice Horn – an openly gay former NCAA wrestler turned Kansas City politician, is running for a seat on the Jackson County Legislature. With […]
Reports out of Iran have confirmed that the middle-eastern country is continuing to execute its citizens for being gay. According to The Human Rights Activists News Agency, the latest act of anti-LGBTQ+ brutality occurred on the 29th of June at Rajai Shahr Prison, where a gay man named Iman Safari-rad was executed under a “sodomy” […]
The investigation follows the school asking parents to deny the existence of same-sex marriage and a transgender student being told ‘God Doesn’t Make Mistakes.’ A Tauranga school is being investigated after a transgender student attempted suicide. The school refused to call the student by their preferred pronouns or name. When the student protested, they were […]
The decision was decided by 71% of the world’s 152-member federation. Nearly all Transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in the female competition after a historic vote at the world championships in Budapest. The world swimming governing body decided by 71% to create a new category for transgender athletes. There is one […]