Category: News
The dates for the main events of 2016’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have been announced. While the full programme is yet to be released, some of the dates for Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have been announced and it appears the festival has been shortened to just over two weeks. 2016’s festival […]
A Scottish pride event has banned Drag Queens from participating, in case they are “offensive” to trans people. ‘Free Glasgow Pride’ a pride event set up to counter the main Glasgow Pride, has banned drag queens from performing citing they are ‘offensive’ to some trans people, Pink News reports. A statement from the group claimed: […]
A GLBT awards show in Scotland has come under fire for using models wearing Blackface to promote the event. The Icon Awards, an awards ceremony to celebrate the contribution of gay and lesbian people to Scottish life has been caught up in a race row after the organisers used models in black face to promote the […]
Farmers will introduce gender-neutral changing rooms into its stores in response to an investigation into insensitive treatment of an Auckland Trans Woman. Farmers is set to introduce gender neutral changing rooms into its stores after Auckland woman Mary Haddock-Staniland’s was the victim of transphobic abuse at their Botany branch in June. Ms Haddock-Staniland was trying on shorts […]
A new Human Rights Watch report has slammed Australia’s treatment of GLBT asylum seekers. A new Human Rights Watch report has heavily criticised the Australian government’s approach to dealing with asylum seekers and in particular GLBT asylum seekers. Compiled by the Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Law Centre, the report was put together […]
Caitlyn Jenner gave an emotional speech while accepting the Arthur Ash Courage Award in Los Angeles. Caitlyn Jenner tearfully thanked her family on Wednesday while accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs in Los Angeles. The award is named after legendary tennis player Arthur Ashe who died of AIDS in 1993. When accepting the […]
A Kenyan school has sent home a total of nineteen students after it was alleged by fellow students that they were gay. Nineteen Kenyan students were sent home from school on the suspicion that they were gay. Nine students from St. Mary’s Kibabi Boys High School in Bungoma County have been sent home after being […]
Hundreds of people have taken to Taipei’s streets to call for the legalisation of same-sex marriage. GLBT activists have taken to Taipei’s streets to demand marriage equality in Taiwan. The march was largely peaceful, but ended in some activists throwing water balloons at the headquarters of the ruling party they believe is blocking a proposed amendment to […]