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December 4, 2019

Tories vow venue security review after years of campaigning led by mum of gay Manchester bombing victim

The mother of a gay man who lost his life during a terrorist attack in Manchester, England, has welcomed British prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge to force venues to ramp up security. Panic and mayhem seized crowds of Ariana Grande fans during a gig in 2017 after a suicide bombing killed 22 people and wounded...

December 4, 2019

HIV-preventing drug PrEP to be made available for free to uninsured people in the US

HIV-preventing PrEP drugs are to be made available for free to people without insurance in the US, under a pioneering new federal scheme. The Department of Health and Human Services launched a national scheme to promote the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis, which can prevent HIV infection, by at-risk groups. As part of the...

December 4, 2019

Disgraced sports star Israel Folau reaches settlement with Rugby Australia after sacking for homophobic rants

Rugby Australia has issued an apology for “any harm caused” to disgraced rugby star Israel Folau as part a settlement over his sacking for anti-gay comments. The former Australian rugby star reached an undisclosed settlement with Rugby Australia and the New South Wales Waratahs on Wednesday, bringing to an end...

December 3, 2019

Coldplay’s Chris Martin claimed he was ‘very homophobic’ and ‘worried he was gay’ while discovering his sexuality

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has admitted that he was “very homophobic” when questioning his sexuality as a young teen at an all-boys’ boarding school. Martin, who is straight, told Rolling Stone that he had “a rough time” fitting in at school and faced a “terrible turmoil” as he...

December 3, 2019

Youth worker made homeless at Christmas launches new campaign to give struggling queer black people somewhere to celebrate

Christmas can be a particularly difficult time for LGBT+ people, as youth worker Tanya Compas knows all too well. Compas, 27, was made homeless last Christmas after becoming estranged from their biological family. They’ve now created a crowdfunder to bring together other black LGBT+ youths who are struggling over the...

December 3, 2019

If you thought gender reveals were bad, these NFL fans managed to take toxic masculinity to a whole new level

This year has undoubtedly been the year of the gender reveal party, but the question remains, with the new decade ahead, what will succeed it? The straights are putting their thinking caps on, however, as a father and who appears to be his father-in-law have come up with something dubbed “worse than a gender...

December 3, 2019

Ireland to simplify process for transgender 16- and 17-year-olds to change legal gender

The process by which trans 16- and 17-year-olds change their legal gender in Ireland will be simplified, after a review found that the current requirements are “too onerous”. New legislation will remove the requirement for 16- and 17-year-olds to go through a court process and have their gender certified by two...

December 3, 2019

Teaching assistant accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy claims she was trying to turn him straight

A disgraced teaching assistant who has been accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy may have been trying to turn him straight. Tedria Fluellen made sexual advances towards the 16-year-old boy and told him: “You don’t have to be gay,” KHOU 11 reports. The boy was a student at Worthington High School in Houston, Texas,...

December 3, 2019

Teenage white supremacist sentenced to 16 months for covering city in racist, homophobic graffiti

A teenage white supremacist has been sentenced to 16 months in a young offender institution after covering the Welsh city of Cardiff in racist and homophobic Nazi graffiti last year. Elliott Richards-Good, 18, was a member of the alt-right white supremacist group System Resistance Network (SRN). Nazi graffiti started...

December 3, 2019

Gay couple show that romance is everywhere by having their engagement photo shoot in Target

A gay couple’s engagement photos have gone viral after they staged them in an unusual location – the aisles of their favourite shop, Target. Aaron Damron and Tony DiPasqua from Erie, Pennsylvania, had no interest in a typical engagement shoot. When they met up with photographer Erica Whiting to discuss...