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March 31, 2020

Girlfriend of murdered journalist Lyra McKee pays moving tribute on what would’ve been her 30th birthday

The girlfriend of Lyra McKee paid a moving tribute to the murdered gay journalist on what would have been her 30th birthday. McKee was shot dead while reporting on riots in Londonderry, April 18, 2019, in the heavily Catholic Creggan neighbourhood. She had recently signed a two-book deal with Faber & Faber, including a...

March 31, 2020

Republican governor just signed two of the most horrifically transphobic bills in American history into law

In the midst of a global pandemic, Republican Idaho governor Brad Little has effectively declared open season on trans people in his state. On Monday, Little signed two laws that campaigners say effectively make trans people second-class citizens by restricting their basic rights. Idaho governor signs horrific anti-trans...

March 31, 2020

Just a really, really long list of cisgender people who’ve come out loudly and proudly for trans equality

March 31 is Trans Day of Visibility, a day to honour and celebrate the trans and non-binary communities around the world. But the perils of increased visibility for transgender and non-binary people are well-documented. Whether that’s the violence trans women of colour experience or transphobic politicians reacting...

March 31, 2020

Anti-LGBT+ pastor and coronavirus conspiracy theorist arrested for continuing to hold services in his megachurch

An anti-LGBT+ pastor has been arrested for violating county orders by continuing to hold church services during the coronavirus pandemic. Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne is a Trump supporter and coronavirus conspiracy theorist, who insists that the pandemic is a globalist plot engineered by the The Rockefeller Foundation to...

March 31, 2020

Donald Trump Jr just compared his dad to Tiger King’s Joe Exotic, a criminal gay polygamist redneck exotic animal breeder

In the ongoing saga of 2020, 42-year-old father Donald Trump Jr describes himself as “general in the meme wars”, and his latest post is Photoshopping his father’s face onto Joe Exotic of the Netflix series Tiger King. Yeah, eject us into the sun, too. As the coronavirus seizes every aspect of modern life,...

March 31, 2020

25 trans and non-binary people who’re happy, visible and making the world a better place

It’s Trans Day of Visibility, and what better way to start the day than by following a bunch of trans and non-binary people! Whether you have trans and non-binary people in your friendship group or not, it’s always a good time to use social media for good and follow – and learn from – trans …...

March 30, 2020

Iraqis accuse religious leader of ‘weaponising’ coronavirus by blaming the pandemic on same-sex marriage

Iraqi Shia political leader Muqtada al-Sadr has been widely criticised online for claiming that the coronavirus pandemic was caused by same-sex marriage. Writing on Twitter on Saturday (March 28), al-Sadr – who is the leader of the Sadrist Movement and the Saraya al-Salam militia, said: “One of the most...

March 30, 2020

University that punishes students for being gay told kids to go to class during coronavirus. Now they’re really ill

An anti-LGBT+ university that told students to return to campus despite coronavirus social distancing guidelines has seen its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Liberty University, which is based in Virginia, found itself in the centre of a media storm last week when it decided to reopen in direct contravention of COVID-19...

March 30, 2020

The guy who founded ‘Twinks for Trump’ held a ‘coronavirus potluck’ to try and deliberately spread COVID-19

March 30, 2020

The guy who founded ‘Twinks for Trump’ held a ‘coronavirus potlock’ to try and deliberately spread COVID-19

While most people are busy self-isolating, “Twinks for Trump” founder Lucian Wintrich held a “coronavirus potluck” party in an effort to spread the virus. Wintrich, who was behind the infamous 2016 “Twinks for Trump” photo exhibition featuring naked men posing in support of the...