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January 21, 2020

Trans woman abandons court fight for the right to see her ultra-Orthodox Jewish children

A trans woman has abandoned her legal battle to see her five children, who she hasn’t seen since leaving an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in 2015. The woman, named in legal proceedings as J, left the north Manchester Haredi Jewish community to begin living as a woman. She is now estranged from her wife and five...

January 21, 2020

These queer women documented their first date on TikTok and it’s the love story we need in this dark world

January 21, 2020

Indian man accused of ‘duping’ woman into gender confirmation surgery with promise of marriage

A district court in Chandigarh, India, has begun the trial of a man accused of “forcing” a person to undergo gender confirmation surgery under the promise of marriage. The unnamed complainant, who was assigned male at birth, alleges that Sunil Kumar, 32, forcefully injected female hormones into her, promising...

January 21, 2020

Bisexual reality TV star to undergo seven surgeries to look like her ‘favourite anime doll’

Bisexual reality star Frenchy Morgan has announced her intention to undergo seven aesthetic surgeries to “look like an anime doll”. With her puckered lips and penchant for pink clothing, the Celebrity Big Brother star explained how she’s obsessed with K-Pop, anime and Japanese manga. In a documentary for...

January 21, 2020

Jerusalem will allow homophobic billboards after intervention from Israel’s attorney general

Jerusalem will permit an anti-gay group to put up public billboards after a decision to block them was challenged by Israel’s attorney general. Ahead of the city’s Pride celebrations in June 2019, the city of Jerusalem ordered the removal of the signs put up by conservative Jewish group Hazon. The billboards...

January 21, 2020

Film festival bosses blasted for choosing Jeremy Irons as jury head despite controversial views on same-sex marriage

The Berlin Film Festival has been slammed for selecting British actor Jeremy Irons as president of its international jury despite his past comments on same-sex marriage and sexual harassment. Irons, who is bet known for Brideshead Revisited and for voicing Scar in The Lion King, has become a controversial figure in recent...

January 21, 2020

Bisexual woman ‘kicked out’ of Glasgow queer club over LGB Alliance t-shirt reports incident to the police

The bisexual woman who was asked to leave an LGBT+ club after refusing to hide the ‘LGB Alliance’ slogan on her t-shirt has reported the incident to the police and is considering legal action. In a video posted to Twitter over the weekend, the woman said it was “absolutely ridiculous” that she was...

January 21, 2020

Straight woman cuts contact with her sister because she kept her own baby’s gender a secret. Yes, really

A woman said her sister’s pregnancy was a “hellish nightmare for everyone” because she did not want to reveal her baby’s gender. Wanting to know if she was being unreasonable, the woman posted the story on the subreddit ‘Am I the A**hole’, a community on the social media platform Reddit...

January 21, 2020

Lesbian environmentalist runs for congress in the home state of Mike Pence

A lesbian lawyer who wants to tackle the climate crisis is running for congress in Indiana, the home state of Donald Trump’s notoriously anti-LGBT+ vice president Mike Pence. Sabrina Haake is running for Indiana’s 1st congressional district, which has been Democratic since the 1930s, although most congressional...

January 21, 2020

Democrat politicians want to posthumously pardon iconic gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin

Sixty-seven years ago today, the gay Black civil rights activist Bayard Rustin was arrested in California for having consensual sex with two other men. Now, two Californian politicians are fighting for a posthumous pardon for Rustin, who was jailed for 50 days and forced to register as a sex offender for having consensual...