Category: News
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, […]
A Republican candidate for governor of Colorado has come under fire after delivering a disturbing anti-LGBTQ+ tirade, accusing queer people of being “in rebellion against nature” and infiltrating government institutions to impose their “beliefs.” Speaking at a GOP forum hosted by the Christian nationalist Truth & Liberty Coalition, state Senator Mark Baisley attacked the historic […]
The UK’s first out non-binary barrister, Oscar Davies, says the recent Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces is being widely misinterpreted — with potentially harmful consequences for trans and non-binary people. Speaking to PinkNews, the Garden Court Chambers barrister and legal influencer addressed confusion surrounding the court’s ruling in FWS v Scottish Ministers. That judgment, […]