Self-isolating couples who don’t live together urged to avoid sex to protect from coronavirus
Argentina makes history with first-ever transgender news anchor on prime time’s Televisión Pública
Argentina just reached a major milestone for equality with its first ever transgender news anchor Diana Zurco. This week, the 40-year-old journalist became co-anchor for the primetime news programme Televisión Pública, on the national public broadcasting station. She hopes her visible presence on TV screens across...
Girlfriend wonders if it’s ‘weird’ her boyfriend has group chat to send his guy friends d*ck picks
In some much-needed news to keep our minds of this cursed timeline we live in, a woman is stumped as to why her boyfriend has a group chat with his male friends to swap and critique d*ck pics. On what can only come from a reddit board, a user took to the r/relationship forum to … Continued
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‘Genuine, warm-hearted’ LGBT+ activist tragically passes away due to coronavirus
The boxes towered over Paul Quigley, an LGBT+ activist in London, but he didn’t seem to mind. He reached up high to grab a handful of badges bearing the 17-24-30 National Hate Crime Awareness Week logo and began to count them with a smile, cracking jokes with fellow volunteers all afternoon. But after being rushed...
Trans woman cites rape and abuse in men’s prison. So she’s suing the US government
After her pleas were repeatedly ignored, a trans woman is suing the American federal government after she was raped by two inmates after being housed with men. Tavoy Malcolm, 29, is taking legal action after administrators ignored her request to be housed with female inmates. She was arrested in 2017 for wire and bank...
‘Embarrassed’ husband hurls homophobic abuse at ex for being in a relationship with a woman
Bursting into his estranged wife’s home, an “embarrassed” ex-husband proceeded to launched a salvo of homophobic abuse at her simply for being in a relationship with a woman. Craig Reece, 39, “lost control” when his ex told him she had a girlfriend and sent a wave of homophobic text messages...
Specialist HIV/AIDS hospital may close despite fears of lack of beds for coronavirus patients
As the coronavirus bears down on Britain’s overstretched, underfunded National Health Service, a London hospital lies empty. Many of the beds at Mildmay Mission Hospital are vacant. Referrals have plummeted, bedding remains neatly made and clinicians nevertheless remain alert, readying for an influx of COVID-19...
This Orthodox Jewish school has two weeks to agree to LGBT-inclusive education or face closure
The Department for Education has warned an Orthodox Jewish school that it has two weeks to agree to introduce LGBT-inclusive education or be shut down. Mechinoh, a small independent boys’ school in Salford, Manchester, has repeatedly failed Ofsted inspections for its refusal to meet standards set by the Equality Act....
Marginalised groups are even more vulnerable during coronavirus. Here’s 11 ways you can help trans people during the pandemic
Coronavirus is already highlighting the inequalities in our society. The first moments of pandemic panic – which, in the UK, meant British people panic-buying toilet roll and other essentials – showed the divide: in this case, between those who could afford to stockpile supplies and those who couldn’t. Then,...
