Category: News
Source: Mail on Sunday Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, has come out as gay in an interview with Mail on Sunday. Mountbatten has broken ground as the first member of the British royal family to come out as gay. Formally married to Penelope Thompson with whom he has three children, Mountbatten […]
Good friend, and cover star (the feature image being from our August cover) of express magazine, Patric Seng, has beaten the odds and walked in New York Fashion Week (NYFW). Although initially finding it hard to get an agent to take him seriously, Seng decided to found his own agency, Bintang Models & Management. As a result, […]
Article: Sydney Star Observer Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has presented the legislation to parliament which would allow a public vote to go ahead on February 11 next year asking the Australian public if they approve of the legalisation of same-sex marriage. When introducing the bill to parliament today he said it was “parliament committed to […]
Wigarama wowed audience for another year, showcasing talent from all around New Zealand while raising money for the Cartier Trust, a charitable organisation created by community heroine Karen Ritchie. The Cartier Charitable Trust, formerly the Cartier Bereavement Charitable Trust, was established in the memory of Ritchie’s late friend Courtney Cartier, a drag artist who passed […]
Image: Reuters Qiu Bai, a media student at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, has lodged a suit against China’s Ministry of Education over the use of textbooks that describe homosexuality as a mental disorder, and a curable disease. Even though homosexuality was delisted as a mental disorder in 2001, and being gay in China is […]
Image: stuff.co.nz Taranaki man Nigel Allan Hauauru Nelson has been charged with 33 counts of sexual offences over a twenty year period. According to a report from Radio New Zealand, Nelson was on trail for charges of unlawful sexual connection, sexual exploitation of people under the age of eighteen, indecent assault, and rape. Overseen by […]
A few days ago, tens of thousands of people marched in an anti-LGBT+ parade in the Celaya, Mexico. Organised by Frente Nacional por la Familia (National Front for Family), the demonstration was to oppose the proposed federal law to make same-sex marriage legal. Currently, ten states (Campeche, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Jalisco, Mexico City, Michoacán, Morelos, […]
Five days ago, Chelsea Manning began a hunger strike “until [she was] given minimum standards of dignity, respect, and humanity”. This was down to how the prison was not addressing her gender dysphoria, such as her having to have short hair, in accordance with the male grooming standards. This flew in the face of her […]