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The senior Queensland Police constable is aiming to raise awareness of the high level of domestic violence in the LGBT+ community by speaking of his own experience. A senior police officer from the Australian state of Queensland has decided to speak out on same-sex domestic violence in an effort to encourage more LGBT survivors to […]
The study finds “dudebros” are less supportive of LGBT+ rights and express their masculinity in “entitled, obnoxious, and toxic ways.” A surprising new study has found that older people are more supportive of LGBT+ communities than millennial men. Published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy, the study conducted by sociologist Dr Meredith G.F Worthen from the […]
A worldwide LGBTQIA+ Pride event has announced the first wave of speakers and artists appearing at the online event on June 27. They include Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica – which recently legalised equal marriage – Prime Ministers of Norway Erna Solberg and Luxembourg Xavier Bettel, and Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of India. All were approached by […]
Widely considered as one of the best footballers in the world, Neymar has had a homophobic complaint made against him after he called his mother’s bisexual boyfriend a “little fag.” The coverage of the complaint follows the leaking of an audio recording of a private conversation between Neymar and several of his friends which were […]
LGBT+ rights groups have raised concerns around recently appointed White House liaison, Merritt Corrigan who has a long history of homophobic statements. The new member of Donald Trump’s administration who previously said that the United States is in the clutches of a “homo-empire” that pushes a “tyrannical LGBT+agenda,” is now the deputy White House liaison […]
Several of Aotearoa’s rainbow organisations have spoken out about the lack of specific funding dedicated to rainbow communities in the 2020 Rebuilding Together Budget. Representing a large body of advocates for the queer, gender diverse, takatāpui & (VSC)/intersex communities*, the Youth Sector Rainbow Collective (YSRC) comprises several organisations including RainbowYOUTH, InsideOUT Kōaro, Waikato Queer Youth, […]
In February EU parliamentarians Abir Al-Sahlani and Fredrick Federley led a group who sent questions to the European Commission on so-called “LGBTQ-free” zones in Poland. The questions were whether the Commission agreed that these zones violate EU law, what funds it will use to remove the zones and how the Commission thinks that this type […]
United States President Donald Trump has been told to stop playing songs by the Village People at his rallies by the band’s lead singer Victor Willis. Willis’ demands were made via his Facebook page, where the singer confirmed that the Presidents comments and actions around the Black Lives Matter protests broke the camels back. “If […]