Category: News
A federal judge has ruled that Oregon must house transgender women in prisons according to their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth. The ruling marks a direct challenge to a policy introduced under Donald Trump and comes as part of a class action lawsuit filed by two transgender women who […]
More than 800 Chinese participants who registered for the 2026 Asia Pride Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, are absent from the event after their entry process stalled amid security and documentation concerns. The 2026 Kaohsiung Asia Pride Games have opened in Taiwan without any competitors from China, despite 834 Chinese participants having registered for the LGBTQ+ […]
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a proposed EU-wide ban on so-called conversion therapy, in a major symbolic win for LGBTQ+ rights across the bloc. The vote took place on 29 April and followed a European Citizens’ Initiative that gathered more than 1.2 million signatures in support of outlawing the practice. The proposal […]
For the first time in three years, proudly Māori and lesbian artist Theia is at home in Aotearoa for New Zealand Music Month. She has just returned from New York after speaking at the United Nations, and is juggling the realities of being an independent musician with side hustles, tours and study. Despite the weight on her shoulders, this wahine has […]
A new study has pushed back on the long-running claim that most transgender children eventually stop identifying as trans, concluding that the evidence often used to support that idea is far weaker and far more inconsistently interpreted than its supporters suggest. The research, titled Desistance: A multimethod review of the literature on gender identity variability […]
A man has been arrested after a major fire destroyed Pink Punters, one of the UK’s best-known LGBTQIA+ nightclubs. Emergency services were called to the Milton Keynes venue at about 2am on 26 April after reports of a serious blaze. Staff and patrons were evacuated from the building, along with nearby residents, as the fire […]
The mother of alleged double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon has been charged with attempting to interfere in the high-profile criminal case over the deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. NSW Police say Coleen Lamarre, 63, was arrested in Balmain in Sydney’s inner west on Wednesday morning and charged with intending to pervert the course of […]
Texas Tech University System has introduced a sweeping new policy targeting the teaching and study of LGBTQ+ topics across its campuses, prompting alarm from students and faculty over academic freedom, viewpoint discrimination and the future of gender-related study. The move was ordered by Chancellor Brandon Creighton in a memo issued on 9 April, directing the […]