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March 16, 2020

Disney+ won’t show the Love, Simon spinoff, but it will let you watch this 90s film with a grown woman kissing an 11-year-old boy

Disney+ ditched the Love, Simon TV series for being too “adult”, but has decided it’s fine to platform a 90s film featuring a kiss between an 11-year-old boy and a 31-year-old woman. A scene from the 1994 film Blank Check has gone viral after it was shared on TikTok, showing the film’s 11-year-old...

March 16, 2020

Christian blogger doesn’t wash her hands, claims trans people and abortion are worse than coronavirus

A Christian ‘mommy blogger’ is urging her followers not to fear the coronavirus because trans people and abortion are “much more destructive” to our culture. Lori Alexander is the writer behind The Transformed Wife, a blog teaching women “to be sober, love and obey their husbands, love their...

March 15, 2020

Catholic college responds to trans man coming out with ‘brilliant’ show of love and support

A trans man who came out while attending a Catholic college received “brilliant” support, despite what many see as a conflict between religion and transgender identities. Ben Hodge, 20, didn’t feel able to come out as a trans man at school – despite coming out as non-binary at 14 and using they/them...

March 15, 2020

Katy Perry, Madonna and Cheryl have all fallen for the same fake coronavirus quarantine video

Katy Perry, Madonna and Cheryl have all fallen victim to the same fake. Katy Perry was first when, at 12.07am this morning, she shared a viral tweet of a video of people standing on balconies with the caption: “A whole neighbourhood in Italy is singing ‘Roar’ by Katy Perry while they’re on lockdown and...

March 15, 2020

A very queer and very vibrant art scene is thriving across Mexico

Unlike Puerto Vallarta, Chiapas is a less familiar state among tourists travelling to Mexico but San Cristóbal de las Casas is the perfect location to discover Chiapa’s natural beauty, vegetarian Mexican food and a thriving LGBT+ arts scene. Nature every LGBT+ traveller needs to see in Mexico: El Cañón del Sumidero. This...

March 15, 2020

Gay poet vows to write an endless poem about love until the day he dies, because ‘love is the only way to survive’

Gay poet and astrologer Alex Dimitrov is writing an endless poem called Love, one tweet at a time, continued “every day for the rest of however long he lives”. Dimitrov is an American poet living in New York City, and is one half of the Twitter sensation Astro Poets. Originally, the endless poem wasn’t...

March 15, 2020

These trans exes went on national TV to air their dirty laundry and help queer kids being ‘vilified’

Asifa Lahore is Britain’s first Muslim drag queen, a trans woman, and one of the most prominent queer Asians in the country. Claudia Lahore is a make-up artist, jewellery designer, fellow drag performer and Asifa’s ex. The once-couple recently went on the BBC Three show Eating With My Ex to, as Claudia puts it, “air...

March 15, 2020

White supremacists protest Drag Queen Story Hour with stickers saying gay people are child molesters

An LGBT+ community centre has filed a police report after white supremacists plastered it with anti-LGBT+ stickers, apparently to protest Drag Queen Story Hour events. One sticker put on the North Carolina centre says that gay people are “one third of child molesters”. Another says: “LGBT+…so oppressed they...

March 15, 2020

World’s best mum is ‘incredibly proud’ of her trans son, who she homeschools after he faced relentless transphobic bullying

The mum of a transgender teenager has spoken out about the relentless bullying her trans son faced at school and how it led to her homeschooling him. Maggie – not her real name – now homeschools her son, because the bullying he faced from his peers for being trans was so bad that he kept … Continued The post...

March 15, 2020

Elton John “overjoyed” that HIV drug PrEP will finally be rolled out across England after years of fighting by campaigners

British star Elton John is “overjoyed” that the government will roll out HIV-prevention drug PrEP across England, after years of fighting by sexual-health campaigners. The drug – a pill, taken daily, that stops the virus taking hold in people who have been exposed to it – will be available across England on the...