Blog Posts | OK 2B GAY

January 20, 2020

Caitlyn Jenner makes impassioned plea at Women’s March for trans and cis women to stand together

Caitlyn Jenner has attended the Women’s March, calling for transgender and cisgender women to stand together against bigotry. The former Olympian addressed the crowd at the event in Los Angeles on Saturday. She said: “The time is now. Women in Hollywood and across this nation are energised. It is damn time that...

January 20, 2020

Bernie Sanders thinks being a woman is a ‘problem’ for Elizabeth Warren

Bernie Sanders, while trying to insist that a woman could be elected president of the United States, said that being a woman is a “problem” in a presidential election. Warren has claimed that Sanders told her during a discussion in 2018 that a woman couldn’t win the 2020 election. She told CNN: “I...

January 20, 2020

Same-sex parents can now be named on children’s birth certificates after landmark Indiana court ruling

Married same-sex couples can finally both be listed as parents on their children’s birth certificates, after a legal battle lasting almost three years, an Indiana federal court has ruled. In June 2016, a federal judge ruled that both same-sex parents could be listed on their children’s birth certificate, in a...

January 20, 2020

Non-binary Muslim writer ‘heartbroken’ after queer refugee story is banned from 11 countries

The season finale of Apple TV Plus’ Little America, which spotlights gay Muslim refugees, has been banned across 10 Arabian counties as well as Russia. Titled “The Son”, the episode features actor Haaz Sleiman and Adam Ali as the two leads and explores the true story of a gay Syrian refugee seeking asylum...

January 20, 2020

Mike Pence attended a vile homophobic sermon and the White House streamed the whole thing

Church leaders at an event attended by Mike Pence have claimed that homosexuals are possessed by demons and that animals can’t be gay. Vice president Pence paid a visit on Sunday to the Holy City Church of God in Christ in Memphis, Tennessee, ahead of Martin Luther King Day. The event, streamed live via the …...

January 20, 2020

This is what Martin Luther King told a gay teen who was struggling with his sexuality in 1958

In turbulent times it’s always tempting to look for words of wisdom from history’s great leaders. On Martin Luther King Jr Day, many will be wondering what the legendary activist would think of America if he were alive today. No doubt there’s much he’d celebrate, but we imagine he’d also...

January 20, 2020

Churches clash in bitter row over picture of ‘Christ kissing a boy’ used for ‘sinful’ LGBT conference

Two churches are battling over a “sinful” LGBT+ conference called after a poster was revealed of Jesus kissing a child. Last week, Mid Ulster Pride, in Northern Ireland, celebrated the official launch of its parade to be held in June. During the celebration, Anglican Church of Ireland rector reverend Andrew...

January 20, 2020

Trump ‘had Mar-a-Lago fumigated’ after visit by man dying from AIDS-related illness

Donald Trump got his luxury Mar-a-Lago club fumigated after a visit from Republican fixer Roy Cohn because he had HIV/AIDS, a new book claims. The claim comes from new book The Fixers, which looks into the relationship between Trump and and Cohn, a Republican operative who served as the future leader’s lawyer and...

January 20, 2020

Ian ‘H’ Watkins reveals ominous text from Strictly bosses after history-making Dancing on Ice routine

Ian ‘H’ Watkins, fresh from gliding into the history books as half of the first same-sex couple on Dancing on Ice, has revealed the rattling message Strictly Come Dancing bosses sent him. The 43-year-old singer lefts judges and viewers stunned after his first performance with Matt Evers on the show. As much as rival dance...

January 20, 2020

Trans woman who attempted to die by suicide after starring on Love Island spinoff show accuses ITV of ‘neglect’

An intersex trans model who featured on the Love Island spinoff Survival of the Fittest is accusing ITV of “neglect” after a barrage of public abuse “ripped [her] life apart” and left her suicidal. Tia Latham, 29, said she was “treated like a freak show” by ITV and left without adequate...