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February 28, 2020

Transgender voters may be unable to vote in this year’s presidential election

More than 250,000 transgender voters could be unable to vote in this year’s presidential election in the United States, new research has cautioned. There are approximately 378,000 eligible transgender voters in the United States who do not have up-to-date identification which accurately represents their gender...

February 28, 2020

Michael Cashman and Baroness Barker double down on trans support after toxic debate in House of Lords

Michael Cashman and Baroness Barker have spoken out in support of the transgender community after a House of Lords debate saw anti-trans views aired in Britain’s upper chamber. In an hour-long debate this week, Lord Blencathra, a Conservative peer, demanded the government stand up to the “small, militant,...

February 28, 2020

Sam Smith is scared of returning to Europe after coronavirus outbreak

British singer Sam Smith has admitted they’re scared to return to Europe because of coronavirus – and has also accidentally revealed that an Australian tour is in the works. Smith is in Australia, where they’re due to give a headline performance at Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras over the weekend. But...

February 28, 2020

Strictly Come Dancing judge doesn’t want a same-sex couple if it’s ‘just to get headlines’

Strictly Come Dancing judge Brunio Tonioli said the long-running show need to be “careful” about casting its first-ever same-sex couple. Tonioli, who has been a judge on the show since its inception in 2004, warned against introducing same-sex couples as a stunt. “We would have to be very careful because...

February 28, 2020

To the surprise of literally nobody, Russia has censored the queer character in Disney’s Onward

Disney and Pixar enthusiasts hoping to pack Russian theatres to watch Onward may notice a minor difference in viewing. A single word difference, to be exact. Russian distributors appear to have censored the film’s queer character, which would have been the first LGBT+ character in a movie by the beloved animation...

February 28, 2020

Lil Nas X goes XXX for steamy new Calvin Klein campaign and the thirst is well and truly real

Lil Nas X is hot in quite a few senses of the word. Not only has the CEO of the yeehaw gay agenda lassoed awards and seen fans scrambled for the release of his “Rodeo (Remix)”, but he’s now officially ascended to the status of a Calvin Klein underwear pin-up boy. In other words, call …...

February 28, 2020

RuPaul opens up about ‘tumultuous and traumatic’ childhood as he gears up for Drag Race season 12

Drag Race icon RuPaul speaks candidly about his difficult early years in a new series of online lectures. RuPaul opens up about the “shame, trauma, and hard emotions that many people carry with them” during his new series of online lectures for Masterclass. The 16-part series is billed as “an intimate...

February 28, 2020

Washington becomes tenth state to ban ‘gay panic’ murder defence. Only 40 more to go

Washington has just become the tenth US state to ban the ‘gay panic’ murder defence, passing the measure in honour of Nikki Kuhnhausen, a transgender teen who was killed last year. The controversial ‘gay panic defence’ justifies violence against LGBT+ people by claiming that discovering a victim’s sexuality or...

February 28, 2020

Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham marries his partner in fairytale wedding ceremony

Former Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham has married his partner Luke Rutherford in a beautiful, fairytale wedding ceremony. Mitcham, who retired from professional diving in 2016, told Australia’s Daily Telegraph that he was crying “for basically the entire ceremony”, according to Outsports. “The whole...

February 28, 2020