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February 4, 2020

Hate preacher Franklin Graham insists his UK tour will go ahead ‘as originally planned’, despite almost every venue cancelling him

US hate preacher Franklin Graham has defiantly claimed his UK tour will go ahead “as originally planned”, even though all but one of the venues has cancelled on him due to his anti-LGBT+ views. The Trump-supporting preacher, who believes gay people are “the enemy” of civilisation and are responsible...

February 3, 2020

Tanzania has banned lube and is forcing men into humiliating anal exams to check for gay sex

Lube has been banned in Tanzania and gay men are routinely forced to undergo humiliating anal examinations in what has been described as a crackdown on the LGBT+ community. The East African country has been urged to end the arbitrary arrests of LGBT+ people and to ban forced anal examinations in a report released today...

February 3, 2020

Alarmist news stories claim the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically engineered to include pieces of HIV… it’s not

The global panic about the Wuhan coronavirus is palpable, so it is perhaps unsurprising that some bizarre stories about the virus’s origins are starting to spread. But one of the most peculiar came in recent days in the form of a scientific paper published by Indian researchers. The paper – which has since been...

February 3, 2020

Jake Shears reveals all about stripping off at Elton John’s stag do after Masked Singer elimination

Jake Shears, lead singer of Scissor Sisters, has revealed that he stripped off all of his clothes at Elton John’s stag do in 2005. The singer made the comments following his appearance on ITV’s The Masked Singer, where judges have to guess what singer is behind a mask. His identity was revealed after he gave...

February 3, 2020

University bans ‘vicars and tarts’ parties to better protect non-binary students

One of Britain’s most prestigious institutions, the University of Oxford, has announced a crackdown on several student parties it has deemed “problematic” in an effort to better support non-binary students. The university’s student union issued guidelines last Saturday around various fancy-dress...

February 3, 2020

Trailblazing transgender dating app automatically corrects transphobic language

Butterfly, a dating app aimed at trans people, automatically censors messages that contain transphobic abuse in an effort to better protect its users. The app features an auto-correct feature which prevents people from sending transphobic abuse to trans users, Metro reports. The app, which was started by David Ronald...

February 3, 2020

Meet the straight, white, cisgender, middle class Tory who wants you to state your pronouns to support trans folk

Plot twist: did you know that a trans ally can be of any political leaning? While anti-trans commentators are often conservative or otherwise perceived to be right-wing, and “identity politics” – including the concept of using the right pronouns for people – are lambasted as a left-wing issue, transgender...

February 3, 2020

Gay men living with HIV have a misconception about their viral load, study finds

A new study has found that more than a quarter of HIV-positive gay and bisexual men have misconceptions about their viral load. The study, which was published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, found that 20 percent of men wrongly thought their viral load was undetectable. Meanwhile, a further 7.5...

February 3, 2020

Dad would rather go to jail than have his son taught ‘it’s OK to be gay’

The first parent to face prosecution for removing a child from primary school over LGBT+ inclusive lessons has said he “would go to jail for this”. Jabar Hussain, 51, removed his nine-year-old son from school last September following a row over the school’s LGBT+ inclusive curriculum. Hussain has been...

February 3, 2020

Donald Trump called journalist with a transgender parent ‘that b*h with the t**y dad’

Donald Trump once called journalist Katy Tur, whose parent is a transgender woman, “that b***h with the t****y dad,” an explosive new book claims. Trump reportedly used misogynistic and transphobic slurs after being interviewed by Katy Tur in the early days of his presidential campaign. During the sit-down,...