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March 3, 2020

Indonesia doubles down on move to ban homosexuality and send ‘offenders’ to ‘rehab’ clinics

Indonesia is proposing legislation that would force LGBT+ people into treatment to “cure” their sexuality or gender identity. The “Family Resilience Bill” would force LGBT+ people into government-sanctioned “rehabilitation centres”, which would give religiously-based...

March 2, 2020

Eye-opening new study reveals why gay men are so stressed

Gay and bisexual men face “unique, status-based competitive pressures” that can put a major strain on their mental health, a new study has revealed. The five-year study was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and is the most rigorous study yet into the effects of stressors within the...

March 2, 2020

Mike Pence says he’s ‘proud’ of his abysmal handling of Indiana’s HIV crisis

Mike Pence has defended his role in the HIV outbreak that occurred under his watch as Indiana governor, saying that he is “proud” of the work he did. In 2014-15 the state of Indiana experienced “the largest concentrated outbreak of HIV ever documented in the United States.” Most the cases were...

March 2, 2020

Lady Gaga just confirmed the title and release date of her anticipated new album

Lady Gaga has confirmed fan theories that the title of her highly anticipated new album will be Chromatica, and it’ll be out on April 10. Until now the album had been tentatively titled LG6, but eagle-eyed fans spied the word in tiny letters on a promotional poster which Gaga used as her Twitter banner. The album...

March 2, 2020

Queer couples stage kiss-in protest in shopping mall after security banned two gay men from holding hands

Unfurling a sprawling LGBT+ Pride flag, protesters packed a shopping mall in Mexico on Sunday after security staff banned a gay couple from kissing and holding hands. “Love is love!” the demonstrators chanted as they walked by luxury fashion stores and coffee house chains, kissing one another and waving flags...

March 2, 2020

There are now more people in the Church of England who support same-sex marriage than oppose it

More people in the Church of England now support same-sex marriage than oppose it, a groundbreaking new poll has found. The YouGov poll, which was commissioned by the Ozanne Foundation and was conducted over the last two weeks, found that 48 per cent of Church of England members believe same-sex marriage is right, while...

March 2, 2020

Bill Weld’s classy message to Pete Buttigieg is one of many reasons Republicans need to dump Donald Trump

Bill Weld, the Republican challenging Donald Trump for his party’s presidential nomination, sent a classy message of congratulations to Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg announced on March 1 the he was dropping out of the race for the White House, telling supporters: “The truth is that the path has narrowed to a...

March 2, 2020

LGBT+ filmmakers boycott Israeli film festival in solidarity with queer Palestinians

More than 100 filmmakers and film artists have signed a pledge to boycott a queer film festival in Tel Aviv, Israel, in “solidarity” with the LGBT+ community in Palestine. The bloc of more than 130 figures in the film industry – at least 100 of which being LGBT+ – have vowed to snub the Tel …...

March 2, 2020

Malaysian rock band releases ‘extremist anthem’ encouraging the death of gay people – and it’s still available on YouTube

Malaysian rock band Bunkface has come under fire for releasing a song which includes the lyric “go die LGBT”. The song is titled “Akhir Zaman”, which means “the end of times”, according to QueerLapis.com, and includes the lyric “LGBT pergi mampus”, which translates as either...

March 2, 2020

Gay TV star would’ve been ‘first in line’ to change his sexuality after relentless homophobic bullying

Gay Irish television presenter Darren Kennedy has said that he would have been “first in line” to change his sexuality when he was growing up due to homophobic bullying. Kennedy said he often faced taunts for being gay from his classmates before he even knew he was gay. “Being gay was really tough when I...