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March 4, 2020

Trans man who gave birth is fighting back after court legally declared him his child’s ‘mother’

Trans man Freddy McConnell, who lost the right to be named his child’s father at the High Court last year, will take his case to the Court of Appeal today. McConnell, a journalist who gave birth to his son in 2018, has been fighting a drawn out and highly publicised legal battle seeking the right …...

March 4, 2020

This is how Pete Buttigieg’s dramatic exit from the presidential race impacted Super Tuesday

Joe Biden surged ahead in the Democratic presidential race on Super Tuesday after he gained crucial endorsements from former moderate rivals Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana announced that he was pulling out of the Democratic race on Sunday night and endorsed Biden the next day. The...

March 3, 2020

Yet another trans person dramatically quits The Guardian amid bitter transphobia row

A third transgender person has resigned from The Guardian amid a long and bitter row over the newspaper’s problematic coverage of transgender issues. The woman dramatically announced her resignation in front of colleagues in a packed staff meeting on Tuesday, HuffPost UK understands. It came just hours after The...

March 3, 2020

Virginia just became the 20th state in the US to ban traumatising conversion therapy for vulnerable minors

Virginia has just become the first southern state to ban the widely discredited practise of conversion therapy for minors. So-called ‘conversion therapy’ refers to the dangerous and discredited practise of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. All efforts to do so have been rejected by every...

March 3, 2020

Student president hopeful claimed homophobia allegations were a ‘smear campaign’. Then he found out about the screenshot

A candidate for president of the University of Cambridge student union claims he is victim of a “smear campaign” after he came under fire for using a homophobic slur. In November, when he was the vice president of Magdalene JCR, undergraduate Matt Alderton used the slur “batty boy” on his...

March 3, 2020

Stonewall Riots veteran and pioneer Miss Major just gave Bernie Sanders a crucial endorsement

As centrist candidates suspend campaigns to spur unity, left-leaning Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has received a potent endorsement from Stonewall veteran Miss Major. Sitting in her home surrounded by perfume bottles, polished knick-knacks and unicorn figurines, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy delivered Monday...

March 3, 2020

Trump campaign to hold a rally at a church so homophobic it makes Franklin Graham look like Cher

The Donald Trump campaign is set to host a rally at a church that is so stridently anti-gay that it makes Franklin Graham look soft and cuddly by comparison. The Evangelicals for Trump rally will be held in Solid Rock Church in Ohio and will be hosted by Trump’s spiritual advisor Paula White. It looks …...

March 3, 2020

These religious homophobes think schools teach kids to be gay. So a school chief clapped back in the most iconic of ways

Roiled by rowdy religious leaders questioning why LGBT+ lives and histories should be taught in classrooms, a gay school board member in New Jersey, US, fought back in a rather iconic way. Tension over an ongoing debate over state-mandated LGBT-inclusive curriculum was ratcheted up last Thursday during a Jersey City Board...

March 3, 2020

Saturday Night Live resorts to tired old homophobia just weeks after RuPaul’s history-making appearance

Widely applauded both for its quality and cultural impact, queen of drag RuPaul gracing the Saturday Night Live (SNL) stage was a turning point for the American sketch show. Yet, just weeks later, and it was back to the show’s regularly scheduled homophobic programming, apparently. During the Weekend Update segment...

March 3, 2020

Award-winning homophobe Margaret Court throws her support behind a regime known for torturing queer people

Homophobe and tennis champion Margaret Court is now the honorary consul of the African republic of Burundi, where LGBT+ people have been tortured and queer children are expelled. Court has previously called homosexuality an “abominable sexual practice”, likened gay people to Hitler, claimed lesbian tennis...