Category: News
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has joined Ted Cruz in the race to seek the Republican party nomination for the US Presidency. Rand Paul is a freshman Senator who won his Kentucky Senate seat in 2010 with the backing of the far right tea party. He is the son of congressman Ron Paul who himself sought […]
A petition calling for the reinstatement of HBO’s gay series Looking has reached 60,000 signatures so far. Looking was praised as being as a landmark television series which explored the lives of a group of gay men living in San Francisco. However after less than stellar ratings, HBO made the decision not to give the […]
Miley Cyrus decided to to “stir some shit up” when she was angered by Tom Cotton’s CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer, in which he raised the controversial issue of gay rights. Cyrus tweeted the phone number of Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton after taking offence at the comments he made about the gay community. Speaking to CNN’s […]
Kiwis and South Sydney Rabbitohs player Issac Luke is currently being investigated by the NRL for a homophobic slur used on the player’s instagram Friday night. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that South Sydney confirmed Luke was responsible for the comment posted on his official Instagram account on Saturday. The comment came after Luke made […]
Trans rights activist and lawyer Kelly Ellis has been successful in having the ‘Tranny-saurus’ cards that until recently were being sold at Whangarei Warehouse removed. The ‘tranny-saurus’ cards which include an image of a lipstick wearing dinosaur and the words “Oh look! A tranny-saurus!” was spotted recently at Whangarei Warehouse and brought to the attention of trans […]
The US state of Arkansas has joined Indiana in passing a new law allowing for discrimination against GLBT people. The bill known as HB1228 passed through the Republican-dominated house of representatives despise fierce Democratic opposition, with the bill already being passed by the Republican controlled senate, it will likely go into effect within the week. HB1228 […]
Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40 and his fellow male inmate Marc Goodwin, 31, both convicted murders, have tied the knot in the children’s play alcove at their prison’s visitor centre The Daily Mirror reports that Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40 and his fellow male inmate Marc Goodwin, 31, became Britain’s first same sex couple to marry behind bars. They […]
A number of big name Australian corporations, including Qantas have signed an open letter calling for marriage equality in Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that organisations including Qantas, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SBS and Football Federation Australia have signed an open letter that argues same-sex marriage is not just “the only truly fair option” but “a sound […]