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January 22, 2020

Chick-fil-A still wants a permanent UK restaurant despite immense backlash and two branches already closing

Despite immense backlash over its funding of anti-LGBT+ organisations, Chick-fil-A has insisted that it will push forward with opening a “permanent” UK location. The statement comes on the same day that the UK’s only remaining Chick-fil-A shut its doors after facing a fierce public boycott. A second...

January 22, 2020

Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey declares unequivocally that trans women are women and backs self-ID

Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey has told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that trans women are woman and the law should allow trans people to self-identify their gender. “Do you believe trans women are women?” Kuenssberg, the BBC’s political editor, asked Long-Bailey in a January 22...

January 22, 2020

Traumatising conversion therapy for LGBT children has finally been banned in Mormon state Utah

Traumatising conversion therapy is now officially illegal for LGBT+ children in Utah, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS church), commonly known as the Mormon Church, is headquartered. The anti-LGBT+ LDS church dominates politics in Utah and around a third of all Mormons in the US live in the state....

January 22, 2020

Aaron Carter’s response to an artist who called him out for stealing his work is all kinds of problematic

Erstwhile 90s pop singer Aaron Carter has made an enemy of the online art community after he unapologetically used an artist’s work without permission to sell his new line of hoodies. Carter is the younger brother of Backstreet Boys‘ Nick Carter. He began performing at age 7 but became a household name in the...

January 22, 2020

Evangelical pastor who was sacked for coming out as gay in 1980s has been reinstated after 35 years

A pastor who was effectively sacked from his church because he is gay has been reinstated more than 35 years after he left. Ralph Carl Wushke was first ordained into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) in 1978. In 1984, he left, feeling that he was no longer able to keep his sexuality a … Continued The...

January 22, 2020

This non-binary eight-year-old understands identity and acceptance better than most adults

A non-binary second grader at an elementary school in Pennsylvania has explained her thoughts on identity and acceptance, and she’s more insightful than most adults. The eight-year-old, referred to as “R” in an interview with PublicSource to protect her identity, uses she/her pronouns and wants to be a...

January 22, 2020

This guy is living with six brothers and having sex with two of them, yet somehow it isn’t a reality TV show

Sometimes, a series of words all fall together and form a sentence that you can’t help but read over and over again. Words strung together that you thought you’d never see in your lifetime, such as ‘Donald Trump Jr’s book is a New York Times bestseller‘, or ‘a gender reveal party...

January 22, 2020

This guy is living with six brothers and having sex with two of them, yet somehow it isn’t a reality TV show

January 22, 2020

Israel kowtows to Russia’s demands and bans LGBT people from adopting Russian children

Israel and Russia have signed a deal banning LGBT+ people from adopting Russian children, after a decade of negotiations. The agreement, signed on January 22, stipulates that same-sex couples cannot adopt children from Russia. Ze’ev Elkin, Jerusalem affairs minister, met with a senior Russian delegation Wednesday...

January 22, 2020

Mormon university that bans ‘homosexual behaviour’ allows same-sex dancing for the first time

A Mormon university that bans “homosexual behaviour” will allow same-sex couples to dance on its campus for the first time ever. Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church. BYU’s honour code prohibits...