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January 16, 2020

Ryan Murphy, creator of pretty much everything gay on TV, to be honoured for inspiring LGBT youth

Prolific TV creator Ryan Murphy is to be honoured with a GLAAD Award. The TV creator has championed LGBT+ representation for years across his many TV shows – which include Pose, American Crime Story, American Horror Story and The Politician. His works from Glee to The Normal Heart have hoovered up GLAAD Awards over the...

January 16, 2020

Trans masculine person who gave birth will make history by being named as child’s dad on birth certificate

Illinois is updating its birth certificate system to affirm transgender parents, after a trans masculine person who gave birth asked to be officially recognised as the dad of their child. A trans couple made the request to the Illinois Department of Public Health after learning that the person who gave birth is...

January 16, 2020

Twitter apologises for allowing ads to be targeted at homophobes and neo-Nazis

Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be directly targeted at transphobes and homophobes. The social media giant issued an apology after a BBC investigation revealed that it was possible to micro-target adverts to users the site had flagged as “white supremacists”, “homophobes”,...

January 16, 2020

Trans woman awarded £9,000 in Debenhams sex-discrimination settlement after being refused Christmas job

Debenhams has settled a sex-discrimination case with a trans woman for £9,000. Debenhams settled without admitting liability. Ava Moore, who had applied for a Christmas job at the multinational retailer in 2018, did not get the job after the company found out she was transgender. Moore, who is from County Down in Northern...

January 16, 2020

New HIV transmissions for gay and bisexual men in the UK drop 73 per cent in four years

New transmissions of HIV for gay and bisexual men in England have dropped by an estimated 73 per cent since 2014, but a charity has warned that progress is slowing. A report by Public Health England (PHE) released today showed that the number of new transmissions for men who have sex with men fell from an …...

January 16, 2020

Senator of a town called Snowflake blames snowflakes for unsuccessful bid to ban homosexuality from schools

A senator of the actual town of Snowflake, Arizona, is now blaming liberal snowflakes for “tainting” her bill to ban the word homosexuality in schools. Sylvia Allen was forced to backtrack on Senate Bill 1082, a bill that attacked the state’s sex education laws with a proposal to remove all mention of LGBT+...

January 16, 2020

Judge dismisses ‘former’ gay pastor’s lawsuit against Vimeo for banning traumatising conversion videos

A ‘former’ homosexual and California pastor has has $75,000 lawsuit against the video platform Vimeo thrown out after it banned his sermons on conversion therapy. Pastor James Domen claims he spent three years as a gay man before changing his mind “because of his desire to pursue his faith in...

January 16, 2020

Patrick Stewart shares tender kiss with Ian McKellen and maybe, just maybe, love is real

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart kissed each-other on the red carpet for Star Trek: Picard and the power of their loving friendship has resorted our strength. The famously best pals greeted one another with a kiss as they arrived at the screening at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London. Dozens of cameras clicked to...

January 16, 2020

Pro-Brexit, anti-abortion and ‘homophobic’ politician thinks two women kissing is pornography

A Coventry councillor has publicly said he thinks two women kissing is “pornography”, and that teaching LGBT+ issues in schools is the same as teaching children “how to be promiscuous”. Glenn Williams is an anti-LGBT+, anti-trans, pro-Trump, pro-Brexit, anti-abortion, “xenophobic“,...

January 16, 2020

Stop the clocks, cut off the telephone, because Sandi Toksvig just quit the Great British Bake Off

Great British Bake Off presenter Sandi Toksvig is, well, off the show to focus on other projects, she announced on Twitter today. The political activist and comedian presented the cooking show since it carted off to Channel 4 from the BBC, bringing a close to her three-yearslong stint in the iconic tent. Toksvig, 61, said...