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January 4, 2020

Rose McGowan told to grow hair longer so men would want her and we are so, so tired of this

Charmed actor Rose McGowan has revealed that she was told to grow her hair longer or else it would cost her acting jobs and make her less desirable to men. Imagine how tired we are of this casual misogyny. The 46-year-old, who spearheaded the campaign against justice against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, spoke...

January 4, 2020

Activists slam judge who set bail for man charged with strangling trans teen to death

Activists are “profoundly disappointed” that a judge has granted bail to a man who is charged with strangling a trans teen to death with her own hair extension. 25-year-old David Bogdanov is facing a charge of second-degree murder for allegedly killing Nikki Kuhnhausen, 17, after he learned that she was trans,...

January 4, 2020

Todrick Hall reveals advice Taylor Swift and RuPaul gave after allegations of not paying workers

Singer, choreographer and esteemed name-dropper Todrick Hall said he turned to his close friends Taylor Swift and RuPaul when faced with a series of unedifying allegations. Hall addressed a number of allegations made in 2019, in which collaborators claimed that they hadn’t been paid for working on his projects....

January 4, 2020

James Corden has been cast in a Netflix lesbian love story, and the internet isn’t happy about it

A film adaptation of the lesbian musical The Prom is coming to Netflix in 2020, but it is already receiving criticism online because it will star James Corden. The Tony-nominated Broadway show The Prom revolves around a lesbian high school student who is denied permission to bring a female date to prom. Although Netflix...

January 4, 2020

Monty Python star Terry Gilliam claims he’s a ‘black lesbian in transition’ in feeble attempt to defend white male privilege

Monty Python star Terry Gilliam has announced that he is a “black lesbian in transition” in a feeble attempt to prove that white men are the real victims. The 79-year-old, who directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail in 1975 and helped write 1979’s Life of Brian, was supposed to be publicising his new...

January 4, 2020

United Methodist Church announces plan to split over LGBT rights

The United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States, has announced a plan to split over LGBT+ rights. At the United Methodist Church general conference in February 2019, about 53 percent of delegates to the conference voted in favour of what members call the “Traditional...

January 4, 2020

US linguists select singular ‘they’ as word of the decade

Linguists from the American Dialect Society have announced that the singular pronoun “they”, used by people who identify outside of the binary of male and female, is their word of the decade. The organisation also separately selected “(my) pronouns” as its word of the year for 2019, which was...

January 3, 2020

Republican politician introduces law to ban trans athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identity

A Republican lawmaker in Tennessee has introduced a bill which would prevent trans athletes in schools from playing on teams that match their gender identity. Tennessee Representative Bruce Griffey has introduced the bill. If passed, trans students who participate in team sport would have to play as the wrong gender in the...

January 3, 2020

John Barrowman claims he had to lie about his sexuality to get a mortgage with his husband

John Barrowman has revealed that he and his husband lied about their sexuality in order to get a mortgage. Barrowman said on today’s episode (January 3) of Loose Women that he deliberately hid his sexuality from his bank when applying for the mortgage as he was afraid he would be asked to take a HIV …...

January 3, 2020

A man has been arrested for beating a gay guy to death on Christmas Day in front of his husband

A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a gay man in the early hours of Christmas Day in New York. 18-year-old Abu Conteh has been arrested and charged with murder and gang assault after video footage showed him and a group of other men attacking Juan Fresnada, ABC News reports. …...