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March 17, 2020

Pride in London calls on government to take urgent action on Poland’s ‘LGBT-free’ zones

Pride in London is calling on the foreign secretary Dominic Raab to intervene urgently on the continued violation of LGBT+ rights in Poland. A third of Poland has declared itself to be an official “LGBT-free” zone after more than 100 local municipalities signed a pledge adopting resolutions against “LGBT...

March 17, 2020

Chelsea Manning was stung with massive court fines – but her supporters bailed her out in just two days

Supporters of Chelsea Manning have raised the entire cost of her court fines in just two days, after a judge ordered the activist’s release in prison. In a ruling on Thursday, US district judge Anthony Trenga freed Manning – a former intelligence analyst best known for exposing US war crimes by leaking classified...

March 17, 2020

Russian LGBT+ rights campaigner thinks we should colonise the Moon and Mars to control the spread of coronavirus

Nations across the world have imposed travel restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but does that include the Moon and Mars? In the ongoing saga of COVID-19, a Russian lawyer who specialises in LGBT+ advocacy has recommended we board the nearest rocket and blast off to our friendly interstellar neighbours and...

March 16, 2020

G-A-Y owner Jeremy Joseph launches scathing NSFW attack on Boris Johnson over coronavirus advice

Facing mounting pressure, British prime minister Boris Johnson delivered Monday a stringent set of guidelines to curb the surge of coronavirus cases in the UK, but a leading LGBT+ club owner has castigated the premier as a “c**t”. Johnson’s initial coronavirus plan has been stampeded by the virus. After...

March 16, 2020

Fetish gear boss’ advice for the coronavirus outbreak is more informative and inspiring than what we’ve heard from Donald Trump

A CEO of a fetish gear and underwear brand has become a pacesetter for, well, actually delivering advice on navigating the coronavirus crisis snarling the US that is both informative and accurate. In other words, in every way that US president Donald Trump’s advice has failed to be. Countless mail app inboxes...

March 16, 2020

Winter Party Festival guest, an LGBT+ fundraiser on Miami Beach attended by 10,000 queers, tests positive for coronavirus

A guest at the annual LGBT+ fundraiser Winter Party Festival – packed with more than 10,000 queer attendees – in Florida has tested positive for coronavirus, organisers said Sunday. From March 4 to 10, Miami Beach heaves with parties, bops and a lot of six-packs all in an effort to raise money for local LGBT+ …...

March 16, 2020

No, this Italian mayor hasn’t banned threesomes and orgies to control the spread of coronavirus

It was widely reported last week that an Italian mayor had banned orgies, threesomes and gang bangs to stop the spread of coronavirus, but it turns out it was all a hoax. A photo of an announcement supposedly from the mayor of Bugliano, Italy, was posted on Twitter last week and spread quickly across the …...

March 16, 2020

University fires non-binary bookshop employee for wearing lipstick and ‘expressing their identity’

A non-binary person who worked at a university bookstore has said they were fired in part for wearing brightly coloured lipstick. Stuart Morrison, who uses they/them and he/him pronouns, said that they were told on March 3 that they were being fired from their job at Kennesaw State University (KSU), Georgia, in part for...

March 16, 2020

University fires non-binary bookshop employee for wearing lipstick and ‘expressing their identity’

March 16, 2020

There is ‘no evidence’ this HIV drug protects against coronavirus

One of the world’s largest healthcare product companies Johnson & Johnson said Monday that it found no evidence that its HIV-preventative drug has any effect against the coronavirus. Scientists across the world have scrambled to source a vaccine for the deadly virus which started in the Wuhan province of China....