Category: News
Users flooded Sina Weibo with the hashtag #IAmGay, prompting the site to reverse its LGBTI ban. Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au Chinese social media site Sina Weibo has reversed its decision to ban LGBTI content. The site yesterday announced it would no longer include LGBTI material in its ban of violent and pornographic content, CNET has reported. Users flooded […]
“I’m not angry because [the painkillers] made me who I am” Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au A British man says he was turned gay by the pain pills he was prescribed for a broken foot. Scott Purdy said he was straight until he started taking the medication Lyrica for pain following the fracture, Pink News has reported. He said […]
Earlier this year the head of the Australian Weightlifting Federation called for her to be banned from the women’s division. Article by Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has withdrawn from competition at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games after an injury yesterday afternoon. After having been a favourite to win the gold, Hubbard […]
More than a year after the first reports of Chechnya’s ‘gay purge’, most of the men taken by authorities have still not been found and are feared to be imprisoned or dead. Article by Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au More than a year after the first reports of gay and bisexual men in Chechnya being tortured in […]
Grindr has said HIV status will no longer be shared with other data as of the app’s next update – whenever that may be – and defended itself, calling the app a “public forum”. Article by Laurence Barber, StarObserver.com.au Gay dating and hookup app Grindr has been sharing sensitive data that includes users’ HIV status […]
Carlos Alvarado wins the presidential election in Costa Rica on a pro–gay rights message against conservative evangelical pastor Fabricio Alvarado Munoz who campaigned against same-sex marriage. “Costa Rica once again delivered a beautiful democratic message” Alvarado, 38, told supporters. My commitment is to a government for everybody, in equality and liberty. There is much more […]
Legislation enacting the change was passed unanimously on 3 April. Men with historical homosexual convictions will shortly be able to apply to have them wiped from their criminal records. Consensual sex between men aged 16 plus was descriminalized in 1986 but convictions for offences before that time remained on record and could appear in criminal […]
Tim Owen fails hopelessly at keeping control of the conversation when chatting with vociferous Melanie Payne about the objectives of her Diverse Care Group in Whangarei. Aucklanders call it Northland, but many LGBT+ folk call it home. When settling in New Zealand sixteen years ago, trans woman Melanie Payne chose Whangarei for its beauty and […]