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February 11, 2020

Trump administration hands $500,000 of federal funds to anti-LGBT group Hookers for Jesus

The Trump administration is under fire after awarding $500,000 in federal funds to Hookers for Jesus, a religious anti-LGBT group. Reuters revealed that the US Department of Justice has opted to overrule the decision recommended by an independent review in order to strip $1 million in funding from two long-established...

February 11, 2020

Trump administration hands $500,000 of federal funds to anti-LGBT group Hookers for Jesus

February 11, 2020

Derry Girls’ Nicola Coughlan live-tweeting her way through Elton John’s Oscars party is truly all of us

Derry Girls star and flawless LGBT+ ally Nicola Coughlan had the time of her life at Elton John’s Oscars party, and fortunately for us she live-tweeted the whole thing. Coughlan’s stunning ascent from rising Irish star to burgeoning Hollywood royalty was cemented on Sunday, February 9, when she bagged an invite...

February 11, 2020

As Franklin Graham’s UK tour lies in tatters, he really wants you to know he preaches ‘love’, not hate

Anti-LGBT hate preacher Franklin Graham has said he was “surprised” at his tour being cancelled because he preaches “love”, not hate. After weeks of limbo, the preacher’s planned tour of Britain was decimated as venue after venue dropped Graham, citing concerns about his past statements,...

February 11, 2020

Outpouring of love as history is made with first-ever same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland

The first same-sex couple to get married in Northern Ireland after equal marriage finally came to the territory have received an outpouring of love from the public. Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards of Belfast made history when they married today (February 11) at 2pm at the Loughshore Hotel in Carrickfergus. Their historic...

February 11, 2020

Teacher tries to shame young girls by asking if they’re queer in front of their entire class

A mother says she’s been forced to homeschool her daughter after a schoolteacher asked if she was queer in front of her entire class. Jezenia Gambino pulled her preteen daughter out of Northport K-8 in Port St Lucie, Florida, after she was shamed by a teacher. “The rumour was that my daughter and another...

February 11, 2020

Westboro Baptist Church attempts a homophobic protest and it backfires spectacularly

The notoriously homophobic Westboro Baptist Church attempted to pick a fight with an LGBT-inclusive university, but the students were having none of it. The Phelps family church, also known as “the most hated family in America”, held anti-LGBT+ protests at several locations throughout Los Angeles on Monday,...

February 11, 2020

Labour Campaign for Trans Rights launches to challenge transphobic rhetoric within party

A grassroots campaign for trans rights has launched inside the Labour Party, in response to concerns about a growing anti-trans movement within the party. Launching this week, the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights warned that the party has “failed to act as transphobia has gained ground” within Labour, despite...

February 11, 2020

The UK’s first ever Muslim LGBT+ Pride festival is finally happening

LGBT+ Muslim group Imaan has set the date for the UK’s first ever Muslim Pride festival. The event will take place in London on Saturday, April 11, the group announced on social media. Imaan announced: “It’s happening! We’ve set the date for the first EVER Muslim Pride event. Tickets go on sale in two...

February 11, 2020

White supremacist pleads guilty to plotting to bomb a gay bay and a synagogue

A man who describes himself as a white supremacist has pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb a gay bar and a synagogue near his home in Las Vegas. 24-year-old Conor Climo was planning to firebomb a synagogue and shoot customers at a gay bar, and had also planned to carry out an attack on the … Continued The post White...