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January 7, 2020

Trump ‘religious freedom’ commissioner praises Zambia over jailing of two gay men for simply loving one another

Donald Trump’s faith adviser Tony Perkins has praised the decision to oust a US ambassador who condemned an anti-gay law in Zambia. Tony Perkins, who serves on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, spoke out after US ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote was recalled from office. Foote had provoked anger...

January 7, 2020

Woman writes ‘eight powerful signs to catch those gays’ and the bar for homophobia has been set for 2020

Homophobia should never be tolerated, but sometimes, all the LGBT+ community can do is chuckle at the things people say in an attempt to invalidate our, well, existence. On January 3, a woman took to Twitter to provide the world with a helpful guide to detecting whether your boyfriend or husband is gay and it …...

January 7, 2020

Non-binary activist Jamie Windust makes emphatic call for cis people to start showing up for the trans community

Non-binary writer, public speaker and model Jamie Windust has called for cisgender people to show up for the trans community in a TEDxLondonWomen talk. Describing transphobia as being rooted in “fascism and white supremacy”, the 22-year-old’s powerful talk wove their own personal experiences as a...

January 7, 2020

Queer teens flood TikTok with hilariously dark Mike Pence ‘conversion camp’ memes

LGBT+ teens are responding to the hellscape that is modern America in the only way they know how – by roasting senior politicians with TikTok memes. Donald Trump’s impeachment brought us closer to the horrifying possibility that Mike Pence, a man who once argued that LGBT+ discrimination should be legal because...

January 7, 2020

Trans couple Jake and Hannah Graf say expecting their first baby ‘feels like a dream come true’

Transgender couple Jake and Hannah Graf have said that expecting their first baby together “feels like a dream come true”. The trailblazing trans activists and happy couple announced in December that they were expecting their first child via a surrogate due on April 12. Yesterday (January 6), the couple...

January 7, 2020

Nigerian university graduates arrested for simply being gay in heinous Sharia law police raid

Recent graduates from the Bayero University Kano, in northern Nigeria, have been arrested for being gay. Fifteen people were taken into custody during a party by Hisbah, a religious police corps who enforce Sharia law from Islam. Sharia law “criminalises same-sex intimacy between both men and women”. Deputy...

January 7, 2020

Conspiracy theorist claims Michelle Obama is transgender and we’re so very, very tired

Notable far-right conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones has claimed he has evidence that Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States, is transgender. Many consider Jones to be transphobic despite previously having transgender porn open on his phone. Jones released a 12-minute clip which analyses...

January 7, 2020

Stop the clocks, cut off the telephone, because we’ve found the absolute worst catfish in the history of Grindr

“Are you a top or bot?” was once a question that simply asked for a guy’s preferred position, but these days, it’s the go-to way for Grindr guys to filter out robot users. While robots taking over a dating app sounds straight out of a Black Mirror episode, the machines are unlikely to take over...

January 7, 2020

President of Taiwan, who helped legalise same-sex marriage, hit with wave of homophobic fake news ahead of election

The president of Taiwan, who led the country to legalising same-sex marriage, has been battling a wave of homophobic fake news in the lead up to the country’s presidential and legislative elections. On May 17 2019, coinciding with International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Taiwan became the first...

January 7, 2020

Social workers cleared after mum tortured her eight-year-old son to death because she thought he was gay

Paramedics arrived to the house to find the eight-year-old boy not breathing. His skull was cracked, three ribs broken and his skin bruised and burned. Two of his teeth were missing, BB pellets punctured his lungs and groin and he was found naked in his bedroom. He died just two days later. All because his …...