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March 12, 2020

A folk musician is suing the DMV so he can have a personalised ‘queer’ licence plate. Yes, really

An LGBT+ folk musician joined a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), arguing that its rejection of his personalised “queer” licence plate violates his first amendment rights. Amrit Kohli, a gay computer engineer, folk musician and record producer, has joined forces with four other...

March 12, 2020

A folk musician is suing the DMV so he can have a personalised ‘queer’ licence plate. Yes, really

March 12, 2020

There was zero increase in HIV infections from donated blood after the US relaxed its donor laws

There was zero increase in the number of HIV infections spread through blood transfusions in the United States after a lifetime ban on gay and bisexual male donors was lifted. The claims were made by Dr Eduard Grebe of non-profit transfusion medicine organisation Vitalant yesterday (March 11) at the Conference on...

March 12, 2020

Teenage girl left semi-unconscious and bleeding on the ground after horrific transphobic attack

A 17-year-old girl was was left semi-unconscious and bleeding on the ground after a horrific transphobic attack last week in Spain. According to Cordopolis, Brianna was attacked in Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia, early on Friday morning, March 6. She said her attackers first approached her...

March 12, 2020

Ellen DeGeneres pokes fun at heteronormative dating phenomenon Love is Blind in hilarious skit

Ellen DeGeneres just couldn’t resist poking fun at the painfully straight setup of Netflix’s new dating show, Love is Blind. The dating show everyone’s talking about bills itself as “a social experiment where single men and women look for love and get engaged, all before meeting in person”. They...

March 12, 2020

Murder trial of trans woman allegedly killed by police officers to proceed, but it won’t be classed as a hate crime

The murder trial of a trans woman who was allegedly brutally killed by police will go ahead in El Salvador, but will proceed without a hate crime classification. Camila Díaz Córdova was allegedly detained by three police officers and brutally assaulted in a pickup truck and later thrown out of the moving vehicle, resulting...

March 12, 2020

The C**k Destroyers are teaching inclusive sex education for Netflix and they’re doing a better job than most schools

Netflix has teamed up with The Cock Destroyers to provide some LGBT+ inclusive sex education, and honestly they’re doing a better job than most schools. The streaming giant released a special one-off video with adult film stars Rebecca More and Sophie Anderson – who became breakout gay Twitter stars in 2018,...

March 12, 2020

Police narrow in on suspected killer of gay man found naked at the bottom of a cliff in 1988

Police in Australia have reportedly narrowed in on a “particular individual” in an investigation into the suspected gay hate killing of Scott Johnson in 1988. Johnson’s corpse was found naked at the bottom of a cliff in New South Wales, Australia in 1988. His death was initially ruled a suicide, but a...

March 12, 2020

Serial killer who strangled a trans woman, described as ‘the worst of the worst’, has been sentenced to death

Serial killer Lucky Ward, who strangled a transgender woman to death, has been sentenced to die. The murderer, of Houston, Texas, was handed a death sentence by a jury on Tuesday over the 2010 murders of transgender woman Charlie Rodriguez and homeless woman Reita Long. Lucky Ward convicted for murdering one trans woman,...

March 12, 2020

Christian pastor says only ‘pansies’ wash their hands in bizarre rant over coronavirus

A right-wing pastor has said that only “pansies” wash their hands in response to the coronavirus and said churches that have shut down have “no balls”. There have been many, many bizarre takes from right-wing preachers, pastors and religious figures since the coronavirus started to spread across...