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March 31, 2020

Gay dads in surrogacy battle are petitioning High Court to let them return to Israel amid coronavirus lockdown

Seventeen gay couples locked in a surrogacy battle are petitioning the Israeli High Court to allow them to return home with their babies amid the coronavirus lockdown. The Israeli fathers all went through the surrogacy process in the US or Canada, as surrogacy is not permitted in their home country. Israel has taken some...

March 31, 2020

This is how to be a staunch and unequivocal ally to trans and non-binary youth

For Trans Day of Visibility, The Trevor Project has released its first-ever guide to being an ally to trans and non-binary youth. The Trevor Project is the world’s largest organisation focused on crisis and suicide prevention for LGBT+ youth. The Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Non-binary Youth covers...

March 31, 2020

Jonathan Van Ness reads his children’s book about a non-binary guinea pig for bored kids stuck at home

Jonathan Van Ness did an Instagram live reading yesterday of his new children’s book Peanut Goes for the Gold, which is about a non-binary guinea pig, for children stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Peanut Goes for the Gold, which goes on sale on Tuesday, March 31, is published by Harper Collins and...

March 31, 2020

Batman reboot stars a ‘fabulous’ gay Alfred and a Chinese-American Bruce Wayne

A new Batman adaptation turns the superhero’s butler Alfred into his gay uncle. The new DC Ink Gotham High comic from author Melissa de la Cruz and illustrator Thomas Pitilli puts a Gossip Girl spin on the superhero – turning Bruce Wayne into a rich Hong Kong-American student trying to navigate life at an American...

March 31, 2020

Cardi B wants to free jailed Tiger King star proud ‘gun-toting gay redneck’ Joe Exotic

Cardi B has pledged to start a GoFundMe to raise funds for jailed Tiger King star Joe Exotic, currently serving 22 years in federal prison for, well, two counts of murder-for-hire and 17 other wildlife-related charges. It’s somewhat reassuring that as countless people around the world wear the same stained sweatpants...

March 31, 2020

The makeshift hospital in New York City is being run by none other than anti-LGBT+ preacher Franklin Graham

On Tuesday morning, a makeshift hospital in New York City’s Central Park sprouted as the skyscrapers surrounding it looked on. It was an effort to aid the city’s hospitals on dire straits as the coronavirus pandemic bears down on public health services. Samaritan’s Purse, a relief organisation, stepped...

March 31, 2020

28 times trans and non-binary people made history and did truly incredible things in the last year

March 31, 2020

Tiger King’s Joe Exotic claims he was the victim of a homophobic witch hunt in mammoth $94 million lawsuit

Jailed Tiger King star Joe Exotic has claimed that he has been persecuted for being gay in a sprawling lawsuit against the federal government. The Oklahoma exotic animal keeper is currently serving 22 years in prison for a litany of offences including the illegal trade of wildlife, violations of the Endangered Species Act,...

March 31, 2020

Gay personal trainer epically shuts down guys on Grindr who’re begging to use his gym during coronavirus crisis

A gay personal trainer had some choice words for the guys who are begging him to reopen his gym just for them amid the coronavirus crisis. Ryan Wolman is partner, coach and LGBT+ health advocate at Motus Training Studio in Toronto, Canada. As of March 30, there are 591 positive cases of the virus in … Continued The...

March 31, 2020

Stephen Fry, Jameela Jamil, Nigella Lawson and heaps more share powerful messages of support to the trans community

What do Katherine Ryan, Stephen Fry, Jameela Jamil, Nigella Lawson, Dawn Butler and Matt Lucas all have in common? They all said, at the top of their lungs, trans rights! March 31 is Trans Day of Visibility. Increasingly seen, increasingly defiant of imposed expectations and limitations, trans, non-binary and...