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February 26, 2020

Wilton Manors mayor and lifelong LGBT activist Justin Flippen dies aged 41

Justin Flippen, the mayor of Florida gayborhood Wilton Manors, has passed away at the age of 41. It was announced on Wednesday that Flippen had died after a heart attack at work. The out Democrat had previously made history as Florida’s first out gay student body president, and again in 2018 by leading a...

February 26, 2020

Four in 10 UK LGBT teachers have experienced homophobia, biphobia or transphobia at work

More than four in 10 LGBT+ teachers in UK schools have personally experienced homophobia, biphobia or transphobia at work, teacher’s union NASUWT has found. The union carried out a poll at its LGBTI teachers’ consultation conference, and also found that 40 percent of LGBT+ teachers had seen homophobia, biphobia...

February 26, 2020

Jussie Smollett vows to ‘fight or die’ as he asserts innocence in fake hate crime case

Jussie Smollett has said he will “fight or die” in order to proclaim his innocence. The embattled former Empire actor appeared in court on Monday to deny fresh charges of disorderly conduct for allegedly staging a fake homophobic and racist attack on himself. Two brothers, Abel and Ola Osundairo, told police...

February 26, 2020

Lesbian speaks out about the heartbreaking process of trying to ‘prove’ your sexuality to the government

A lesbian from Zimbabwe has spoken out about how it took five gruelling years to convince the Home Office that she’s gay and should be granted asylum. Angel fled to the UK five years ago, after police found her naked in bed with another woman and beat the pair of them up. While sex between … Continued The post...

February 26, 2020

Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp clears the air about his character Will’s sexual orientation

Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has addressed speculation that his character Will Byers is LGBT+. Season three of the hit Netflix show introduced Robin (Maya Hawke), its first character confirmed to be queer, but other details in Stranger Things 3 had fans hypothesising that Will could be gay or asexual. In the third...

February 26, 2020

Trans women ‘do not pose a danger to other players’, World Rugby told

Transgender women do not pose a danger to other players in the sport, World Rugby has been told. The comments were made by one of the participants in a groundbreaking forum about the right of trans people to participate the game. Verity Smith, a trans man who continued to play for women’s rugby team Rotherham …...

February 26, 2020

A third gender option could soon be available on all US passports

US citizens who do not identify as male or female may finally be able to have a third gender option on their passports under legislation introduced on Tuesday, February 25. The bill, introduced by democratic California representative Ro Khanna, would allow intersex and non-binary Americans to mark their gender as...

February 26, 2020

Lady Gaga fans are scamming Twitter users to stream Stupid Love for free Starbucks

Starbucks barista Lady Gaga, who occasionally sings, may have her dedicated fans to thank if her new song “Stupid Love” ends up launching to number one Friday. The talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, never the same, k-totally unique popstar declared that February 28 will be a day of...

February 26, 2020

Five Republican lawmakers voted against repealing Maryland’s defunct sodomy law

Maryland’s House has voted to repeal the state’s long-defunct sodomy law, but five Republican lawmakers voted against doing so. The Maryland House of Delegates voted on February 20 to repeal the state’s sodomy law, which punished sex “against the order of nature” with up to ten years in prison. The...

February 26, 2020

Government ‘entirely unclear’ on how it will keep promise to deliver PrEP in England by April, charity warns

The UK’s leading HIV and sexual health charity has questioned the government’s readiness to deliver PrEP in England by April as it has promised. The drug known as PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis) is the most effective protection against HIV transmission. It is provided on the NHS in Scotland and in Wales but is...