Category: News
Officials within the US Department of Justice (DoJ) are reportedly discussing proposals to restrict transgender people’s right to own firearms, a move that would dramatically escalate the Trump administration’s stance on trans rights and Second Amendment protections. The proposal follows a tragic mass shooting at a church school in Minneapolis, where a shooter identified as […]
Moviegoers in China have reported that a same-sex couple featured in the horror film Together has been digitally altered in the Chinese release to appear heterosexual. According to Bloomberg News, the scene in question originally featured a same-sex wedding between two men — but in the Chinese version, one of the men’s faces was reportedly […]
An Orlando café owner is taking a bold stand against Florida’s crackdown on rainbow crosswalks — transforming her private carpark into a vibrant protest celebrating LGBTQ+ pride and other marginalised communities. Trina Gregory, owner of the popular eatery Se7en Bites, recently hosted an event called “Parking Space for Pride — A Rainbow Connection,” where 49 […]
The bodies of three transgender women have been discovered riddled with bullets on the roadside in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, in what activists are calling a brutal escalation in the violence faced by the country’s transgender community. The victims were found on Sunday, 21 September in the Memon Goth area of Karachi. According to police […]
Long Beach Pride, the organisation behind the Southern California city’s annual Pride celebrations, has shared disturbing images of anti-LGBTQ+ graffiti discovered outside its headquarters on Saturday. The hateful slurs and violent messages were scrawled across a city utility box located on the footpath directly in front of the group’s office. The graffiti included homophobic and […]
Green MP Benjamin Doyle has delivered a blistering final speech in Parliament, describing it as “the colonisers’ house” built on systems of “exclusion and control”, as they stepped down after just 10 months in office. Doyle (they/them), one of the shortest-serving MPs in New Zealand’s history, resigned earlier this month following intense scrutiny over resurfaced […]
Oliver Hall sits down with Jessielee Pearce, Advocacy & Activism Executive at LUSH Australia & New Zealand, to discuss a collaboration with Gender Minorities Aotearoa that champions a brighter future for trans whānau. As Advocacy & Activism Executive for LUSH in Aotearoa and Australia, Jessielee Pearce (Ngāpuhi, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Hine) leads campaigns that uplift grassroots […]
As Reform UK — the right-wing, anti-immigration party led by Nigel Farage — gains traction in UK-wide and Welsh polls, questions are intensifying around the party’s views on LGBTQ+ rights. A recent YouGov and ITV Wales poll shows Reform surging ahead in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament), with support rising by four points to 29 per cent, pulling nearly level with Plaid Cymru. Labour, […]