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August 17, 2019

Homophobic chants bring football game to a stop

A French football match was brought to a screeching halt on Friday over homophobic songs and chants. The Ligue 2 game between Nancy and Le Mans was temporarily halted by referee Mehdi Mokhtari in the first half after repeated chanting from home supporters at Stade Mercel Picot. Fans had been warned to stop chanting over...

August 17, 2019

Trump administration says it’s legal to fire a person for being transgender

The Trump administration has told the Supreme Court that it is legal to fire a person for being transgender. A brief was filed on Friday August 16 by the Justice Department arguing that transgender workers are not protected by federal civil rights law and can be fired because of their gender identity. Earlier this year,...

August 17, 2019

Nearly 200,000 trans people have been through conversion therapy in the US

Thirteen and a half percent of all transgender people in the US have been through conversion therapy despite major medical organisations calling it ineffective and unethical, research has found. Equating to some 187,923 trans people across all 50 states, the study found that the controversial practice of attempting to...

August 17, 2019

150 A-level students identified as non-binary this year

More than 150 students identified as non-binary when sitting their A-level exams this year, according to two of the UK’s leading exam boards. It’s the first time that the number of non-binary A-level candidates has been publicly shared since exam boards Edexcel and OCR made changes to the the way they classify...

August 17, 2019

This guy’s date made an odd request and it’ll make you want to stay single

There’s nothing like that feeling of going on a good first date. You get that light, airy feeling afterwards, and you can’t stop thinking about seeing them again – until you receive a creepy message that ruins it all. That’s what happened to Eric Dimitratos, who is head of digital at MTV. He shared a …...

August 17, 2019

Songs of Praise will feature same-sex wedding in groundbreaking episode

BBC’s religious show Songs of Praise is set to feature a same-sex wedding in a groundbreaking new episode. The long-running series, which broadcasts hymns sung at churches across the UK, will feature parts of a same-sex wedding service at an inclusive church on Sunday, August 18. The episode will feature the wedding...

August 16, 2019

Pete Buttigieg met a woman who shook hands with Robert Kennedy and it soon got awkward

Pete Buttigieg had an extremely awkward encounter with a woman who previously met the late Robert F. Kennedy. The gay Presidential hopeful was campaigning at the Iowa State Fair when he met the woman, who recalled a previous encounter with Kennedy in 1968. Speaking to Buttigieg on Tuesday (August 13), she said: “I...

August 16, 2019

Police association wrongly implies HIV can be spread by saliva

An Australian police association head is under fire after incorrectly suggesting that HIV can be transmitted by spitting. The incorrect claim from Police Association of New South Wales president Tony King was made in the Australian Daily Telegraph, in an article which conflated AIDS with HIV. In the piece, King called for...

August 16, 2019

This is where you’ll be able to watch the Queer as Folk reboot

The much-rumoured Queer of Folk reboot is reportedly set to launch on a new streaming service. The reboot of the acclaimed gay drama, which was revealed to be in development in 2018, has reportedly found a home on a new NBCUniversal streaming service. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the drama is set to launch on...

August 16, 2019

Gay men arrested in Washington D.C. for cruising ‘reminiscent of Stonewall’

Washington Park Police are facing claims of “discrimination” after allegedly luring gay men into sexual encounters in order to arrest them for sex crimes. In the last year, 26 arrests of men seeking other men for a sexual encounter have been made in Washington DC’s Meridian Hill Park. The 12-acre urban...