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March 26, 2020

Lesbian sexually assaulted by man who told her he would ‘fix the gay’, police say

A man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a lesbian woman, and police said he told her that he would “fix the gay”. According to Deseret News, Adam Quinn Atwood, 34, was arrested on Wednesday March 26 and police in Salt Lake City, Utah, are investigating the sexual assault as a possible hate crime. He...

March 26, 2020

Homophobic evangelicals take a break from lying about gay people to spread coronavirus misinformation

An anti-LGBT+ hate group has taken a short break from spreading lies about queer people to spread dangerous misinformation about coronavirus. Bryan Fischer is the host of Focal Point, an American Family Radio (AFR) radio show by the American Family Association (AFA), a hate group committed to “combating the...

March 26, 2020

Lesbian mums say son was forced to attend anti-gay sermons if he wanted to play basketball

A lesbian couple is suing a middle school gym teacher, alleging that he would only allow their son to play basketball if he attended anti-gay sermons. The mums filed a federal lawsuit in the in the Eastern District of Tennessee against Knox County, Tennessee, and West Valley Middle School gym teacher Chuck Comer on March...

March 26, 2020

If you’re desperately looking for a silver lining to lockdown, Tom Daley is doing shirtless home workouts

It’s been about 800 years since the world went into lockdown over the coronavirus, and everyone is very bored by now – including Tom Daley, apparently. By now, you’re probably at the stage of self-isolation where you spend your days staring out the window and occasionally wonder if you should shower. But there...

March 26, 2020

Trailblazing gay basketball star Jason Collins and his partner are battling coronavirus

Former NBA star and LGBT+ activist Jason Collins has revealed that he and his partner have both tested positive for coronavirus. The former Brooklyn Nets player, who made history in 2013 when he came out as gay, revealed on social media that he and partner Brunson Green have been infected. Jason Collins believes he got...

March 26, 2020

This Catholic priest’s take on sex and sexuality is so refreshing it might just take your mind off COVID-19

A Catholic priest in Detroit is defying his archdiocese by allowing LGBT+ people to join him in mass after the coronavirus pandemic has ended. The Detroit Archdiocese has temporarily suspended public mass due to coronavirus fears, but church officials have mandated that Dignity/Detroit, a support group for LGBT+ Catholics,...

March 26, 2020

Ku Klux Klan handing out hateful propaganda inside free bags of candy. The police say there’s nothing they can do

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been distributing leaflets inside bags of candy in Virginia, according to local police. Police in Chesterfield County, Virginia, told the Chesterfield Observer received five phone calls about flyers from the horrific hate group being left outside homes between March 17 and 19. The flyers...

March 26, 2020

Police release CCTV images in hunt for a homophobe who viciously punched a gay man in the face

Police have released CCTV images of two men they are searching for in connection with a homophobic attack earlier this month. The attack occurred at around 7.25pm on March 7 on Queens Road in the town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England. The victim was a man in his 20s who was subjected to homophobic abuse …...

March 26, 2020

Gay dancer trapped at home with homophobic Christian parents who think he has an ‘evil disease’

A young, gay dancer has described how, because of the coronavirus lockdown, he is trapped at home with his homophobic Christian parents who believe he has an “evil disease”. Sam, 23, told the BBC that the coronavirus pandemic meant the tour he was performing on was suddenly cancelled and he was forced to return...

March 26, 2020

UK Black Pride warns coronavirus will adversely affect queer people of colour as annual festival is postponed

UK Black Pride has been indefinitely postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has seen the UK go into lockdown. The event, which is Europe’s largest celebration for LGBT+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American descent, has been postponed for the safety and wellbeing of...