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New Zealand-born rugby league player Asu Kepaoa could be facing time on the sidelines after being sent off for an alleged homophobic slur during the Newcastle Knights’ New South Wales Cup win over the St George Illawarra Dragons on Friday night. Kepaoa was given his marching orders at the end of the first half of […]
A man in India was allegedly lured through a gay dating app, beaten, stripped and extorted by a seven-member gang, police have said. The 44-year-old, from the Surendranagar district of Gujarat, was allegedly befriended through an app called Polo. When he arrived at an abandoned house behind Surendranagar Medical College, he allegedly found seven men […]
Fox News host Jesse Watters has sparked backlash after joking that fudge was “too gay” for US Vice President JD Vance during a bizarre on-air segment marking National Fudge Day. At the end of an episode of The Five, Watters presented Vance with a pickle cake instead of fudge. “I was gonna do fudge [cake], […]
A man convicted over an assault on a gay couple has been released from custody after successfully appealing his sentence, in a case that has also drawn attention over his alleged links to the Islamic State. Yaqoob Benshabir, 20, whose uncle was Khaled Sharrouf, one of Australia’s most notorious IS members, pleaded guilty over an […]
Police in Idaho say they are unable to charge a man accused of assaulting a gay couple with a hate crime because of a loophole in the state’s law. Pedro Villareal was arrested after reports that he shouted anti-gay slurs at Eric Reed and Juan Olvera outside a restaurant, before allegedly chasing them to nearby […]
Urge Events’ Locker Room party, which was due to take over K Road this weekend, has been postponed, with organisers confirming the NZ Falcons fundraiser will now take place on Saturday 18 July. The annual party, which raises funds for the New Zealand Falcons inclusive rugby team, had originally been scheduled for Saturday 20 June. […]
The West African nation of Niger has become the latest country to introduce harsh legislation criminalising LGBTQ+ people. According to AP, the country’s military junta has confirmed that a new penal code containing provisions targeting LGBTQ+ communities has now come into effect. Under the code, anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or […]
San Francisco police have renewed their appeal to identify “The Doodler”, a serial killer who targeted gay men more than 50 years ago. Investigators believe the killer murdered six gay men between January 1974 and June 1975, and police are now offering a US$250,000 reward for information. Police say the victims were targeted because they […]