Category: News
Colombian authorities believe an Italian-born scientist was lured to his death through Grindr before being brutally murdered and dismembered in the coastal city of Santa Marta last month. Alessandro Coatti, 38, had been travelling and volunteering across South America following an eight-year tenure as a senior policy officer at the Royal Society of Biology in […]
Trans rights advocates have condemned new interim guidance issued by UK police that confirms trans women in custody may now be subject to strip searches by male officers — a decision that follows a controversial Supreme Court ruling redefining “sex” as biological under the 2010 Equality Act. The interim policy, published by the National Police […]
Craig Young shares his views on public concern over the Family First event featuring controversial activists. Family First has re-emerged with its annual Forum on the Family, a platform traditionally used to connect overseas and New Zealand-based Christian Right activists. This year’s event again includes speakers with a history of promoting anti-LGBTQI+, anti-abortion, and socially […]
Newly released figures show that 95 people were diagnosed with HIV in New Zealand in 2024, continuing a downward trend in new local transmissions, particularly among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, public health experts are urging continued vigilance, citing persistent ethnic inequities and new concerns such as the first perinatal HIV transmissions […]
Trans people and allies staged a bold and deeply symbolic protest outside Downing Street on Sunday (25 May), standing bare-chested to draw attention to the ongoing oppression of the trans community across the UK. The protest, organised by advocacy group STRIVE (Standing for Trans Rights, Inclusion and Visibility Everywhere), was a passionate call for dignity, […]
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed into law a sweeping student rights bill aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ youth from discrimination and forced outings by school staff. The legislation has sparked a strong backlash from conservative lawmakers and parents’ rights advocates. The new law, H.B. 1296, prohibits discrimination against marginalised students, including LGBTQ+ individuals, and lays […]
In a landmark victory for LGBTQ+ families, Italy’s Constitutional Court has ruled that lesbian mothers who conceive children through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) abroad must be legally recognised as parents — a move hailed as “historic” by activists. The decision, announced on Thursday, 22 May, strikes down part of a 2004 law that had prevented […]
Three men have been sentenced to decades in prison for the drugging, robbery, and murder of two gay men they met at New York City bars in 2022. The victims, 25-year-old social worker Julio Ramirez and 33-year-old political consultant John Umberger, were among several men targeted by the group using a lethal cocktail of drugs, […]