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February 29, 2020

Kentucky senator refuses to resign over ‘homophobic’ comments about ‘evil’ drag queens

Kentucky state senator Phillip Wheeler is refusing to resign after making “homophobic” comments about “evil” drag queens. At a campaign rally for Republican state representative Richard White last weekend, Wheeler held up a photo of the Democratic governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, with a group of...

February 29, 2020

Dad throws trans son a party to celebrate his transition and it’s the light we need in this dark, dark world

A Canadian father of two is leading the way in parenting after he threw his trans son a party to celebrate the start of his testosterone treatment. Dave Scott went viral as his innocent emoji-laden tweets about party preparations captured the hearts of everyone on social media. “So this month my 16yo son started...

February 29, 2020

Sam Smith says it’s okay to ‘trip up’ sometimes over pronouns, they do it too

Sam Smith has said that they are not offended when people “trip up” over their pronouns, as long as they’re making an effort. The non-binary singer is currently in Australia preparing to perform at Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras over the weekend. In an interview with The Project, journalist and Sam...

February 29, 2020

Former conversion therapist who came out as gay: ‘I feel as if I escaped a cult’

A former gay conversion therapist has said that when he came out as gay last year he felt as if he “escaped a cult”. McKrae Game, 51, was the founder of Hope for Wholeness, a faith-based conversion therapy program, but he came out as gay in a Facebook post on 25 August, 2019, which began: … Continued The...

February 28, 2020

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez channels Jesus Christ to make passionate argument about LGBT+ rights that’s impossible to argue with

New York politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has invoked her Christian faith to make a passionate argument for LGBT+ rights. The Democrat ardently defended the rights of the LGBT+ community during a congressional committee hearing yesterday, calling out the “bigotry” of those who use Christianity to...

February 28, 2020

High Court finally decides to hear landmark legal challenge over trans teens’ access to puberty blockers

The UK’s High Court has granted a landmark judicial review into whether young transgender people can give informed consent to puberty blockers. The medication is prescribed to trans teens by specialist gender doctors at the NHS’s gender clinic for under 18s. The legal challenge is an attempt to force trans...

February 28, 2020

The coronavirus crisis is now a threat to Eurovision and that sound you hear is a million gay hearts breaking

Eurovision may need to be held in an online format this year, amid concern about coronavirus from experts. The deadly outbreak, which has killed more than 2,800 people globally and has shut down countries, stranded cruise ships and pummelled the US stock market, is now threatening the Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision is...

February 28, 2020

This is why queer graduates’ identities are their ‘superpowers’

This year’s LGBT Leaders STEM was a vivid array of corporations and community leaders coming together to show queer young people our identities, above all, are our “superpowers”. The Amazon HQ was packed with aspiring STEM hopefuls earlier this month, all eager to hear insight from tech leaders and queer...

February 28, 2020

Maluma stripped off for a Calvin Klein advert and it has the gays feeling some kinda way

Maluma stuck out his tongue and told us all to “deal with it” in his Calvin Klein campaign debut. The Colombian singer stripped down to his Calvins for a new advert that coincided with major water shortages, a sweaty palm pandemic and global Kleenex sellouts. The campaign sees the star delivering an empowering...

February 28, 2020

Trump administration backs photographer who sued an entire city so she doesn’t have to work at same-sex weddings

Trump’s department of justice is backing a photographer who is suing her city because she doesn’t want to photograph same-sex weddings. Chelsey Nelson of Louisville, Kentucky, has filed a lawsuit challenging her city’s Fairness Ordinance, which protects LGBT+ people from discrimination in housing,...