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March 1, 2020

World Rugby forum agrees on ‘performance differences between men and women’

A World Rugby forum on transgender players in the sport has reached agreement on the “physiological basis of performance differences between men and women.” The organisation announced last week that it would be hosting a forum in London where participants would discuss current policies around transgender...

March 1, 2020

Politician who thinks being LGBT is a ‘choice’ banned from running for Tory leadership

A politician who said he believes that being LGBT+ is a “choice” has been banned from running for leader of the Canadian Conservative party. Until this year Richard Décarie, who served as deputy chief of staff to Stephen Harper when he was leader of the opposition in the 2000s, was a little-known Tory...

March 1, 2020

Trump-themed coffee shop encouraging customers to bring guns opens next door to LGBT bar

A Donald Trump-themed coffee shop, complete with replica oval office and wall of guns, has opened up in Florida next door to an LGBT+ bar. Conservative Grounds in Largo, Florida, was created by Cliff Gephart and John Tatum and held its soft opening on Saturday, February 29. According to its website: “Conservative...

March 1, 2020

Brazilian dancer makes history as first openly trans woman at Carnival to take the prestigious role of ‘godmother of the drummers’

A dancer in Brazil has made history as the first known trans woman to star as “godmother of the drummers” in Sao Paulo’s Carnival parade. Camila Prins shattered taboos to lead the parade, fulfilling a dream she’d had for almost three decades. Last Saturday, Prins led the drum section of a top samba...

March 1, 2020

Lesbians share passionate kiss to protest homophobic preacher at Pride

Multiple lesbian couples protested a homophobic preacher with love by kissing in front of him at the Pride parade in Auckland, New Zealand. Phillip Blair is an anti-LGBT+, anti-abortion American preacher who runs Torch of Christ ministries. He made international headlines last year when he was filmed shouting at a man in a...

March 1, 2020

Lesbians share passionate kiss to protest homophobic preacher at Pride

March 1, 2020

No prosecution for men who allegedly hurled tirade of anti-gay abuse at lesbian couple on Ryanair flight

A group of men who reportedly hurled anti-LGBT+ abuse at a lesbian couple on a Ryanair flight will not be prosecuted, police have said. In June 2019, Laura Muldoon tweeted a picture of the group on her Ryanair flight from Stansted airport to Seville, and said that they had launched a homophobic tirade and her …...

February 29, 2020

Gay South African soccer player: ‘My sexuality has robbed me of my career’

South African soccer player Phuti Lekoloane has revealed that coming out as gay in 2015 almost put an end to his career. The 28-year-old said gay players in South Africa face significant challenges when working at a professional level in soccer. “I risked everything to live my truth, but I wouldn’t advise anyone to...

February 29, 2020

YouTuber Hannah Hart reveals heartbreaking reason her dad is choosing not to come to her wedding

Lesbian YouTuber Hannah Hart has made a video explaining why her father has chosen not to attend her wedding. Hart is set to marry her fiancée Ella Mielniczenko in Spring 2020, and decided to make the video so she could be “comfortable posting all the happy wedding content again”, and because she has...

February 29, 2020

LGBT student group hosts legal name change clinic because the process can be ’emotionally intimidating’

The LGBT+ student association at the University of Minnesota Law School, OutLaw, will host a legal name change clinic next month to help trans students tackle the “emotionally intimidating” process. If a trans or non-binary person has an incorrect name or gender marker on their official identification, it can...