Category: News
A senior Trump administration staffer at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been linked to online posts and comments promoting racist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBTQ+ views — including describing queer people as “freaks” and asylum seekers as “scum”. Eric Lendrum, a speechwriter at DHS since March 2025, has previously contributed to right-wing platforms and hosted […]
Activists in Orlando have defiantly re-coloured the rainbow crosswalk outside the former Pulse nightclub after it was removed under a directive from the Trump administration and enforced by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The memorial crossing, originally created to honour the 49 victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting—the deadliest mass shooting in US history—was scrubbed […]
US President Donald Trump has issued a stark threat to strip federal funding from California school districts that refuse to enforce his administration’s strict transgender policies—escalating a politically charged battle with the state over trans inclusion in school sports. On Thursday, 21 August, Trump posted to his Truth Social platform: “Any California school district that […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has followed through on his ongoing campaign to erase LGBTQ+ visibility from public spaces, with state officials painting over the rainbow crosswalk at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub memorial under the cover of night. According to News 6, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) removed the crosswalk late Wednesday. The rainbow tribute, installed […]
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis, has ordered the removal of a Pride-themed pedestrian crossing in Delray Beach, warning it will take matters into its own hands “by any appropriate method necessary” if the city does not comply. DeSantis, who has led a crusade against what he brands […]
LGBTQ+ people are facing growing levels of violence, harassment and exclusion following the UK Supreme Court’s controversial ruling on gender, according to a stark new report by advocacy group TransActual. The report — Trans segregation in practice: Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling — was released on Tuesday (19 August) and gathers […]
History-making transgender New Zealand darts player Victoria Monaghan says her career has been left “in tatters” after the World Darts Federation (WDF) introduced new eligibility rules banning trans women from competing in women’s tournaments. The WDF, which governs amateur darts worldwide, voted last month to restrict women’s and girls’ ranking events to players “recorded female […]
Nearly a decade after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is once again in the spotlight — this time for asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the ruling that legalized marriage equality nationwide. But while Davis presents herself as a defender of “traditional […]