Category: News
An unexpected series of Grindr outages in Arizona coincided with the memorial service for conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, leading some social media users to draw tongue-in-cheek conclusions. The memorial, held on Sunday 21 September at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, drew tens of thousands of mourners, following Kirk’s fatal shooting earlier this month during an […]
Officials within the US Department of Justice (DoJ) are reportedly discussing proposals to restrict transgender people’s right to own firearms, a move that would dramatically escalate the Trump administration’s stance on trans rights and Second Amendment protections. The proposal follows a tragic mass shooting at a church school in Minneapolis, where a shooter identified as […]
Moviegoers in China have reported that a same-sex couple featured in the horror film Together has been digitally altered in the Chinese release to appear heterosexual. According to Bloomberg News, the scene in question originally featured a same-sex wedding between two men — but in the Chinese version, one of the men’s faces was reportedly […]
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 […]