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January 16, 2021

Transhood is the tender documentary humanising gender non-conforming kids at a time when the world is against them

New documentary Transhood is that very rare thing: a piece of media about young trans people that actually platforms young trans people and their lives. Released in October by HBO, the documentary is the culmination of five year’s of filming in Kansas City. Directed by Sharon Liese and executive produced by Kimberly...

January 16, 2021

‘Hero’ LGBT+ activist Ken Jones, who helped fund the original Pride flag, dies after brave cancer battle

Trailblazing LGBT+ activist Ken Jones, who helped fund Gilbert Baker‘s Pride flag, has passed away after a battle with cancer. Jones passed away Thursday (14 January) at the age of 70, having been diagnosed with bladder cancer in September last year. He was a pioneer who pushed for the desegregation of the LGBT+...

January 16, 2021

Ralph Lauren drops sponsorship deal with disgraced golfer Justin Thomas after homophobic slur live on air

Ralph Lauren has terminated its sponsorship deal with disgraced golfer Justin Thomas after he blurted out a homophobic slur at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. The world number three golf star had worn the company’s clothing since he turned pro, reaching number one in the world on two occasions and winning a major...

January 15, 2021

Number of queer TV characters fell in 2020 even though LGBT+ shows ‘dominated the conversation’

The number of queer characters on television dropped slightly in 2020, despite the fact that LGBT+ shows “dominated the conversation”. The findings were released in GLAAD’s latest Where We Are on TV report, released on Thursday (14 January). Of the 773 series regular characters scheduled to appear on...

January 15, 2021

Lying about a person’s sexuality isn’t defamation per se, court rules

Falsely claiming a person is gay can no longer be considered defamation per se because of changing attitudes towards the LGBT+ community, a New York court has ruled. Defamation occurs when a false statement is made that injures a person’s reputation and causes them to suffer damages – but defamation per se is when...

January 15, 2021

Deluge of trans murders shows no sign of stopping in 2021 after fatal shooting of Tyianna Alexander

Tyianna Alexander, a 28-year-old Black trans woman, has been shot and killed in Chicago, as the wave of US trans murders continues into 2021. According to Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Alexander was shot in the early hours of 6 January in Chicago, and her death is the first known violent killing of a trans person …...

January 15, 2021

Oscar-winner Regina King pledges to include non-binary talent in her landmark drive to make film more diverse

Actor and director extraordinaire Regina King has expanded her pledge of ensuring all projects she produces are “50 per cent women” to include non-binary people, too. When King won a Golden Globe Award for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk in 2019, she used her speech to promise all her projects going...

January 15, 2021

The World To Come: Vanessa Kirby leads ‘intense’ lesbian drama about 19th century lovers trapped in controlling marriages

A new trailer for The World To Come gives a first look at Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston as married women having a lesbian affair in the 19th century. Kirby, who played Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of The Crown, stars opposite Katherine Waterston in the film, which follows two women falling in love in...

January 15, 2021

Homosexuality ‘is an inch higher’ than incest, claims homophobic head of Nigerian human rights charity

The head of a prominent human rights charity in Nigeria has claimed that same-sex relations are, morally, an “inch higher than incest”. Emmanuel Onwubiko, the executive director of Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), gave a press conference condemning Amnesty International’s 2021...