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February 6, 2020

Rugby clubs in the UK are seeking legal advice over potential loss of earnings from playing against disgraced Israel Folau

British rugby clubs are now seeking legal advice for potential loss of earnings if they pay against Israel Folau, the embattled player sacked for a string of homophobic comments. The sports star caused tremors in the UK after France-based RFL Super League team Catalans Dragons signed him last month. Of the dozen teams in...

February 6, 2020

Protests against LGBT-inclusive education actually strengthened the case for equality, trailblazing teacher claims

Andrew Moffat, teacher and creator of the LGBT-inclusive education programme No Outsiders, has said that last year’s protests outside schools actually strengthened the cause for equality. Moffat began implementing No Outsiders at Parkfield Primary School in Birmingham, where he was assistant head teacher, last year....

February 6, 2020

Gay SNP minister Derek Mackay resigns after bombarding teenage boy with hundreds of inappropriate messages

Scotland’s finance minister Derek Mackay has stepped down after admitting to bombarding a 16-year-old schoolboy with nearly 300 inappropriate messages on social media. In a series of Facebook and Instagram messages sent over a period of six months, Mackay, 42, asked the teen: “Are our chats between us?”...

February 6, 2020

First same-sex couple to marry in Northern Ireland ‘humbled and grateful’ to be making history

A lesbian couple from north Belfast say they are humbled and grateful to be making history next week as two of the first people to have same-sex wedding in Northern Ireland. Waitress Sharni Edwards, 27, and senior care assistant Robyn Peoples, 26, are getting married at a hotel in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, on Tuesday,...

February 6, 2020

Jameela Jamil just came out as queer after immense backlash to her new voguing show

Jameela Jamil has come out as a member of the LGBT+ community in response to criticism over her upcoming role in a new HBO voguing series. On Tuesday HBO announced that the actor, activist, model and presenter Jamil would be sitting on a panel of judges for its new unscripted voguing competition Legendary. Voguing, a...

February 6, 2020

Jameela Jamil just came out as queer after immense backlash to her new voguing show

February 5, 2020

Yorkshire fire service epically hits back at petty homophobes who don’t like the Pride flag

A Yorkshire fire service has spoken out about the flood of anti-gay abuse firefighters received for speaking out for LGBT+ inclusion. South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue revealed that it had received “a load of abuse when we added the rainbow flag to our profile picture” to show solidarity during LGBT+ History...

February 5, 2020

Republicans have filed more than 200 anti-LGBT bills in bid to roll back rights

More than 200 anti-LGBT bills have been filed in state legislatures across the US, as Republicans seek to push back against LGBT+ rights. Recent major state-level efforts across the US have sought to permit anti-LGBT discrimination in adoption and services, to mandate anti-trans discrimination in schools, and to outlaw...

February 5, 2020

Rush Limbaugh, who thinks gay weddings ‘normalise paedophilia’, just received the Medal for Freedom from Trump

Anti-LGBT radio host Rush Limbaugh has been been bestowed with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump. Trump awarded the honour the right-wing Rush Limbaugh Show shock jock, who is known for his extreme views about minorities. Addressing Limbaugh – who recently revealed a cancer diagnosis – during...

February 5, 2020

Ruth Hunt, baroness of our hearts, calls for reforms to same-sex marriage in first speech to House of Lords

Former Stonewall boss Ruth Hunt has called for an end to the “legal distinction” between same-sex and mixed-sex marriage in her maiden speech to the House of Lords. The former LGBT+ charity boss became Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green after her exit from Stonewall last year. She made her first speech to the House...