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February 2, 2020

Man arrested for strangling and mutilating antiques dealer 40 years his senior who he met on a dating app

A 24-year-old has been arrested for the murder of a 64-year-old man, mutilating and strangling him the same day they met through a dating app. According to the New York Post Alex Scott is accused of murdering antiques dealer Kenneth Savinski in New York on Wednesday, January 29, in what has been described by assistant...

February 2, 2020

Comedian reenacts having sex with his high school bully’s dad in a hilarious revenge fantasy

‘Your mum’ jokes are a staple of playground culture, but one comedian took the jab pretty literally in a sketch that has gone viral on YouTube. Albeit, with a slight twist. Queer comic Nathan Pearson performed ‘Guy f**ks his bully’s dad’ at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre on...

February 2, 2020

Gay lawyer claims he was fired after leaking anti-trans Trump administration emails

A gay lawyer has said he was fired from the US Department of Education (DoE) because he acted as a whistleblower and leaked anti-trans Trump administration emails. Dwayne Bensing was a lawyer for the Office of Civil Rights within the DoE and had worked for the federal government for more than five years. In the …...

February 2, 2020

This guy’s mum and dad both came out in the same week and we need the Hollywood adaptation immediately

James Lubbock had a normal childhood. Filled with sun-splashed holidays, watching his parents play Trivial Pursuit and attending school. But his stock photo-grade life was rattled when his father coming out as gay… and then his mother just days after. Lubbock, the author of Breaking Dad, penned an op-ed...

February 2, 2020

New York state park to be renamed after trans pioneer Marsha P Johnson

A New York state park will be renamed to honour the trans activist Marsha P Johnson, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has said. Cuomo announced that East River State Park in Brooklyn would be renamed at the Human Rights Campaign greater New York gala on Saturday February 1. Johnson, a black trans woman who worked …...

February 2, 2020

Man found guilty of hate crime after repeatedly punching trans woman in the face for using the bathroom

A man has been found guilty of a hate crime after repeatedly punching a trans woman in the face and breaking her jaw, just because she used the correct bathroom. Fred Constanza, 37, from Blackfoot, Idaho, was convicted of a first-degree bias crime, second-degree assault and harassment. Constanza attacked Lauren Jackson...

February 2, 2020

Tanzania governor who created task force to hunt gay people banned from entering US

A high-ranking official in Tanzania who created a task force to hunt down gay people has been banned from entering the US. Paul Makonda is the governor of Tanzania’s most-populated city, Dar es Salaam, and he created the team to round up gay people in 2018. He said he aimed to make Dar es Salaam … Continued The post...

February 1, 2020

Demi Lovato was ‘super nervous’ coming out to her parents

Singer Demi Lovato candidly recounted the moment she came out as sexually fluid to her parents in a radio interview Thursday. The “Sorry Not Sorry” singer, a longtime LGBT+ advocate, revealed in 2017 that she was open to dating women, saying: “That’s how I’ve always felt.” Speaking to SiriusXM host,...

February 1, 2020

This artist drew the Grammy winners as Pokémon trainers and it’s super effective

In what can only be described as the dictionary definition of ‘perfection’, an artist doodled the 2020 Grammy winners as Pokemon trainers. Countless Twitter users did their best Joan Rivers impressions by commenting on the fashion that paraded down the star-studded carpet of the awards. In what can only be...

February 1, 2020

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refuses to meet with LGBT activists in Ukraine

Donald Trump’s anti-LGBT+ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Ukraine this week, but refused to meet with LGBT+ community leaders. Pompeo made the trip to show America’s commitment to defending Ukraine against aggression from Russia, in the middle president’s impeachment trial which centres on his...