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January 21, 2020

Theatre producer who married husband in front of Donald Trump says his supporters ‘don’t know what it’s like to be gay’

Producer Richie Jackson, who married his husband Jordan Roth in front of Donald Trump in 2012, has said that those who support the US president “don’t know what it takes to be gay”. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Jackson and Roth opened up about what it was like having Trump and his wife …...

January 21, 2020

Theatre producer who married husband in front of Donald Trump says his supporters ‘don’t know what it’s like to be gay’

January 21, 2020

Wales has banned parents from stopping their children learning about sex, religion and LGBT people

Wales has removed the rights of parents to prevent their children from learning about different types of relationships. Parents have long had the right to withdraw children from relationship and sexuality education (RSE) and religious education (RE), but Welsh education minister Kirsty Williams announced on Tuesday that...

January 21, 2020

Swiss chocolatier who’s against same-sex marriage insists he can’t be homophobic because he has gay employees

The CEO of premium Swiss chocolatier Läderach has defended anti-gay comments about same-sex marriage, saying he can’t be homophobic because he employs gay people. Johannes Läderach, an evangelical Christian and head of Swiss chocolatier Läderach, opposes same-sex marriage and abortion rights and is a member of the...

January 21, 2020

French police filmed brutally beating injured HIV-positive man at yellow vests protest

An investigation has been launched after video footage emerged of a French police officer brutally beating an injured HIV-positive man as he lay pinned to the ground at a yellow vests protest. The incident occurred at an anti-government gilets jaunes (yellow vests) event in Paris on Saturday, January 18, where around 60...

January 21, 2020

Actor Harry Hamlin says playing a gay man in 1982’s Making Love ‘completely ended’ his career

Actor Harry Hamlin has revealed that playing a gay man in the 1982 drama Making Love “completely ended” his film career. Making Love tells the story of a married man who is coming to terms with his sexuality and ends up in a love triangle with his wife and another man. Speaking on the It … Continued The...

January 21, 2020

Actor Harry Hamlin says playing a gay man in 1982’s Making Love ‘completely ended’ his career

January 21, 2020

Northern Ireland’s pro-LGBT church leaders want the right to marry gay couples too

Pro-LGBT+ churches in Northern Ireland have called for the right to marry same-sex couples to be extended to them. Civil weddings between people of the same sex are now legal in Northern Ireland, with the first set to take place on Valentine’s Day. However, the initial bare-bones regulations extended to the region by...

January 21, 2020

Denmark to finally allow gay and bisexual men to give blood – but only after four month abstinence period

Denmark has fallen in line with other countries and is set to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood – but only if they abstain from sex for four months. Like most countries across the world, Denmark banned gay and bisexual men from donating blood for life in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic … Continued The post...

January 21, 2020

Lewis Capaldi’s Love Island ex condemned for using homophobic slur

Lewis Capaldi’s ex-girlfriend and Love Island contestant Paige Turley has come under fire for using a homophobic slur in a social media post. Turley shared a video on Instagram stories last June of herself and her brother Marc holidaying in Dubai. She recorded a video of her brother and captioned it: “Uuuuuft...