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January 21, 2020

Tool company dismisses critics as ‘snowflakes’ after mocking gay builders

A tool company that sent a Facebook post mocking gay builders has claimed that its critics are “snowflakes.” The ‘comedy’ post to the Toolfolks Facebook page had said: “One of our customers left his tool bag in the shop this week. We can’t work out who it was. “Took some images of...

January 20, 2020

Award-winning ‘homophobe’ Margaret Court returns to Australian Open for tennis anniversary

Australia’s 2018 Homophobe of the Year Margaret Court has made her return to the Australian Open to mark the anniversary of her tennis accomplishments. The women’s tennis player will be commemorated at the tennis tournament in Melbourne next Monday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her 1970 quadruple Grand...

January 20, 2020

Elizabeth Warren hits out at Donald Trump for putting ‘homophobic and racist’ judges in power

Elizabeth Warren has unleashed an attack on Donald Trump’s nomination of anti-LGBT judges. The Democratic Senator and presidential hopeful called out the number of fundamentalist judicial candidates being rushed into posts by the Trump administration. Speaking at a forum in Iowa on Sunday ahead of the state’s...

January 20, 2020

This is how Martin Luther King Jr felt about gay people, according to iconic civil rights campaigner Bayard Rustin

On Martin Luther King Jr Day, we take a look at queer civil rights hero Bayard Rustin’s reflection on the movement’s stance on homosexuality. Often considered the intellectual godfather of the US civil rights movement, Rustin was a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr and organised the 1963 March on Washington;...

January 20, 2020

Dancing on Ice’s Matt Evers hints at possibility of a ‘showmance’ between he and Ian ’H’ Watkins

Dancing with Ice regular Matt Evers isn’t ruling out the possibility of a ‘showmance’ with his skating partner, Steps star Ian ‘H’ Watkins. After wowing audiences with their stunning routines on the ice, many have been wondering if the show’s first-ever same-sex partnership has the...

January 20, 2020

Belgian coffee ad is a tender coming of age lesbian love story and we’re not crying, you’re crying

A Belgian coffee ad that manages to tell a beautiful and tender coming of age lesbian love story in just 40 seconds has gone viral on Twitter. The ad by Dutch coffee company Douwe Egberts is titled ‘Something to Share’, and has the vast majority of queer Twitter in tears. It begins with two teenage …...

January 20, 2020

Labour’s Jess Phillips doubles down on support for trans women during fiery Mumsnet interview

Labour leadership candidate Jess Phillips attracted virtual heckles during a Q&A on Mumsnet – after she expressed her support for trans rights and said that working class communities don’t care about “gender critical” issues. The website, which is popular with parents and anti-transgender...

January 20, 2020

Queer Israelis must battle ‘institutionalised homophobia’ to receive basic benefits when their partners die

Married LGBT+ Israelis are faced with “suspicion and mistrust” from state authorities when they try to access spousal benefits after their partners die, activists warn. Same-sex marriages are not performed in Israel, but the law does recognise same-sex marriages performed in other countries. As of 2008,...

January 20, 2020

Baga Chipz, Sum Ting Wong and Derrick Barry weigh in on the DragCon UK ‘pandemonium’

At DragCon UK, PinkNews spoke to Sum Ting Wong, Baga Chipz, Gothy Kendoll, Derrick Barry, Laila McQueen and Jodie Harsh about the queues, the fans, and how they were left running on “pure adrenaline” by the end of the day. Being a drag queen looks exhausting. As you walk around RuPaul’s DragCon UK – a...

January 20, 2020

Royal College of GPs launch trailblazing new scheme to help doctors improve their care of queer patients

The UK’s Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has launched a pioneering scheme to improve the quality of care doctors provide LGBT+ patients. Societal stigmas against queer people can be deadly. Within healthcare, discrimination against LGBT+ people leads to some feeling reluctant to raise concerns or not...