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July 7, 2020

Republican congressional candidate bragged about pulling daughter out of university for ‘brainwashing’ after she supported equal marriage

A video has surfaced of a Republican congressional candidate bragging about pulling her daughter out of college because she supported equal marriage. The video appears to show Michelle Steel, who is president of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and a candidate in California’s 48th congressional district, making...

July 7, 2020

Evangelical Christian foster care agency must allow gay parents to sign up as carers, judge rules

A Christian foster care agency has lost a legal challenge after being told it must stop discriminating against gay prospective carers. The Sunderland-based Cornerstone (North East) Adoption and Fostering Service had pursued a legal challenge against schools regulator Ofsted after inspectors criticised its policy of only...

July 7, 2020

CNN anchor Don Lemon cooly lectures Terry Crews over his controversial Black Lives Matter comments

CNN news anchor Don Lemon clashed with actor Terry Crews during an interview on his controversial thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement. Crews, who was previously forced to apologise for saying children with same-sex parents “will be severely malnourished”, faced Lemon for a CNN interview on Monday (July...

July 7, 2020

CNN anchor Don Lemon cooly lectures Terry Crews over his controversial Black Lives Matter comments

July 7, 2020

Bestselling children’s author dropped after throwing her support behind JK Rowling amid ‘transphobia’ row

Bestselling Scottish author Gillian Philip has been let go by her publisher after putting “I stand with JK Rowling” in her Twitter handle. Philip, from Glasgow, backed Harry Potter author JK Rowling – who’s been labelled “transphobic” and “condescending” for her repeated tirades...

July 7, 2020

Homophobic thugs spray-paint swastikas onto Paris gay bars in ‘extremely worrying act of hate’

LGBT+ campaigners have urged people to push back against hatred after two LGBT+ venues in Paris have been defaced with swastikas. Banana Cafe and Cox, two gay venues in the French capital, were targeted with the hateful graffiti over the weekend. The incident at Banana Cafe occurred on Friday afternoon (July 3) while the...

July 7, 2020

Janelle Monáe throws her hat in the ring to play X-Men’s Storm and we would very much like to see it

Janelle Monáe has her sights set on one of the most iconic roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – X-Men‘s Storm. In a new interview with Empire, the star recalled bumping into Black Panther director Ryan Coogler while working on her latest album Dirty Computer in Atlanta. When asked whether she’d spoken to Coogler...

July 7, 2020

50 Cent thinks he must be gay to still find Halle Berry attractive after she said she wanted to play a trans man

After Halle Berry expressed interest in playing a trans man for a future film, 50 Cent is convinced he must be gay for thinking she’s “still beautiful”, proving once again, that being a straight man is truly a curse. Halle Berry weathered intense criticism after clumsily suggesting she was planning to...

July 7, 2020

The ‘Central Park Karen’ who lied about an innocent gay Black man threatening her has been criminally charged by police

Amy Cooper, the white woman who falsely accused a queer Black man of threatening her after he asked her to put her dog on a leash, has been charged with a misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in jail. The Manhattan district attorney’s office announced charges on Monday (6 July) against Amy in a …...

July 7, 2020

Two men jailed under Tunisia’s archaic sodomy laws after refusing torturous, debunked anal probes to ‘check their sexuality’

Two men in Tunisia have been handed two-year prison sentences under the country’s archaic sodomy laws banning gay sex. Human Rights Watch reports that the two men, both aged 26, were arrested on June 3 in Le Kef on suspicion of same-sex sexual conduct. The pair were charged under the country’s archaic penal...