Category: News
A heartwarming photo of a YouTube star and his military boyfriend posing for prom has gone viral. Underwear model/vlogger Max Emerson and his boyfriend Andrés Camilo shared an adorable photo on Instagram of themselves recreating the classic prom pose. Camilo, a member of the National Guard who wasn’t out during his training, is shown wrapping his arms […]
In collaboration with The Equality Campaign, Airbnb has just launched the powerful Until We All Belong campaign. The campaign plans to make Airbnb’s support of marriage equality well-known and requests Australians to commit to wearing a ring, with ‘Until We All Belong’ engraved on the interior, until same-sex marriage is recognised in Australia. Airbnb is involved in advocacy for […]
Acrush is the latest ‘boy band’ making female fans swoon across the world, however this group isn’t your typical pop sensation — all five members are androgynous, assigned female at birth, but identify as genderless. The group, made up of Lu Keran, An Junxi, Peng Xichen, Min Junqian and Lin Fan, is quickly rising to fame in […]
A Russian newspaper is claiming that it has evidence proving at least three men were killed as a result of what is being called a ‘prophylactic sweep’ in Chechnya. The paper says that more than 100 people have been detained and three men killed. It claims that some of those detained include well-known local television […]
All Black team member Lima Sopoaga is facing a formal employment process after he made what has been considered as a ‘homophobic comment’ on Instagram. This has occurred just ten months after the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) announced its launch of a diversity initiative in an attempt to eliminate discrimination both on and off […]
Gilbert Baker, creator of the iconic rainbow flag which is now a international icon symbolising gay rights, has died at the age of 65. Baker was born in Kansas City and served in the United States Army for two years, from 1970 – 1972. He was stationed in San Francisco when he first joined the […]
A new study done by GLAAD called Accelerating Acceptance has revealed that significantly more millennials identify as LGBT+ in comparison to older generations. The report, conducted online in conjunction with Harris Poll, surveyed 2,037 U.S. adults aged 18+, and found that young people are significantly more likely to embrace a label outside of the heterosexual, cisgender […]
Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan will make history tomorrow, Saturday 1 April, as he is honoured at the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Since beginning his career with YouTube videos nearly a decade ago, Sivan has become a powerful voice in promoting equality. Now his work in the LGBT+ community has earned him a spot in history […]