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March 12, 2020

Former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning rushed to hospital after suicide attempt in jail

Former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is in hospital after attempting to die by suicide, according to her lawyers. Manning tried to kill herself on Wednesday, March 11, while detained in a Virginia jail, and is now recovering in hospital. It’s at least the third time the 32-year-old has tried to kill herself...

March 12, 2020

The next season of Love is Blind won’t include any LGBT couples due to ‘logistical difficulties’

Netflix’s Love is Blind hasn’t been confirmed for a second season yet, but producers has already ruled out the possibility of introducing LGBT+ couples. 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...

March 12, 2020

Coronavirus poses an increased risk to LGBT+ people for three significant reasons, health chiefs say

LGBT+ people are more vulnerable to coronavirus, hundreds of health organisations have said in an open letter urging governments to act. “LGBT+ communities are very familiar with the phenomena of stigma and epidemics. We want to urge people involved with the COVID-19 response to ensure that LGBT+ communities are...

March 11, 2020

Disney CEO shuts down anti-LGBT activist who claims gay characters are costing his company millions

New Disney CEO Bob Chapek has dismissed an anti-LGBT activist’s claims that his company is losing money because it is “promoting LGBT ideology.” During Chapek’s first annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, he was confronted by notorious British anti-LGBT activist Caroline Farrow – who...

March 11, 2020

Transgender man killed in Puerto Rico, then misgendered by police and the media

A transgender man was killed in Puerto Rico, and then misgendered by the police and media after his death. Yampi Méndez Arocho, a 19-year-old transgender man, was killed in Moca, Puerto Rico, on March 5. According to El Nuevo Día, Arocho was shot hours after he was assaulted, and his mother contacted the police. There...

March 11, 2020

Republicans are trying to cut funding to libraries hosting drag queen story hour in yet another homophobic crusade

Republican lawmakers in Minnesota have introduced a bill that would cut all funding for public libraries if they host drag queen story hour events. At drag queen story hour events, people in drag read to children, sometimes from books with LGBT+ themes, to entertain them and expand their understanding of gender...

March 11, 2020

Lesbian denies throwing flaming hand sanitiser at her girlfriend and burning down their apartment building

A lesbian from Connecticut allegedly burned down her apartment building last weekend when she set hand sanitiser on fire and threw it at her girlfriend. Destiny Waite threw the flaming bottle of hand sanitiser at her girlfriend during a domestic altercation, Hartford police said. While most people were rescued from the...

March 11, 2020

There’s a new insect named after Lady Gaga, and we want your stupid bug, bug

Lady Gaga, Mother Monster herself, now has an itsy-bitsy monster named in her honour. The new unique species of treehopper, officially named Kaikaia gaga, was discovered on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, and it’s a true wonder of nature. The bugs ‘sing’ to each other by vibrating plant stems, and sport...

March 11, 2020

Jonathan Van Ness launches scathing attack on gay ex-congressman Aaron Schock – and he doesn’t hold back

Jonathan Van Ness has said that Aaron Schock did “a lot of dumb and stupid s**t” as a congressman and said it’s “hard” to celebrate him coming out as gay. Van Ness, who is best known as the grooming expert on Queer Eye, hit out at Schock in an Instagram post after the Republican came …...

March 11, 2020

Mormon university professor receives death threats after saying gay students would be a ‘blessing’

A professor at a Mormon university has been receiving death threats since he said in a lecture that having openly LGBT+ students was a “blessing”. Jim Brau teaches the finance programme at Brigham Young University (BYU), which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), commonly known as...