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November 21, 2019

Gay acrobats perform beautiful and tender talent show dance routine and it will stun you into silence

French audiences were blown away by a TV talent show performance by Guillaume and Arthur, two gay acrobats with a message against homophobia. Guillaume and Arthur performed an incredibly moving dance routine on La France a un incroyable talent (France Has Got Incredible Talent) on Tuesday night. As the two men took the...

November 21, 2019

Anti-trans, anti-gay activist Caroline Farrow blames queer people after being banned from entering the US

Anti-trans, anti-gay and anti-abortion activist and Catholic apologist Caroline Farrow has been banned from entering the US, after her Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) was revoked. While the reason for her ESTA being revoked remains unclear, Farrow wrote a thread on Twitter titled “Beware of LGBT...

November 21, 2019

Restaurant roasts Israel Folau by donating his payment to an LGBT+ charity

Homophobic rugby star Israel Folau and his wife Maria managed to make the lives of LGBT+ youth a little better yesterday, albeit, unknowingly. The duo dined at a vegan restaurant in Australia a couple weeks ago. But the owners decided to pull a fast one on the disgraced sportsperson by donating his payment to a …...

November 20, 2019

A Texas Republican – yes, a Texas Republican – just came out with an infallible argument why Supreme Court must protect LGBT workers

Joe Straus, the former Republican Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, has publicly come out in support of LGBT+ rights protections. The Republican politician, who served until January as one of the most powerful Republican leaders in the GOP-dominated state, penned an article for Newsweek revealing his...

November 20, 2019

Jussie Smollett is suing city of Chicago over claims he staged homophobic and racist attack on himself

Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett has launched legal action against the city of Chicago, seeking damages for “mental anguish” caused by claims he faked a homophobic attack. The actor claimed he was the victim of a homophobic and racist attack in January, which Chicago police officers later have accused him of...

November 20, 2019

Lib Dem manifesto pledges Gender Recognition Act reform, Gender X passports, LGBT+ asylum reforms

The Liberal Democrat manifesto includes high-profile pledges on LGBT+ issues. Released on Wednesday ahead of December’s snap election, the Lib Dem manifesto calls for the completion of long-stalled efforts to reform the Gender Recognition Act to make it easier for trans people to change their legal gender. Liberal...

November 20, 2019

Labour’s Dawn Butler vows to build a world where transphobia is a thing of the past

Labour’s shadow women and equalities secretary, Dawn Butler, is one of the LGBT’s community’s fiercest allies in parliament. She used her platform at the 2019 PinkNews Awards to deliver a powerful and rousing speech in condemnation of the continuing delays to reform of the Gender Recognition Act, declaring:...

November 20, 2019

A newly engaged lesbian rejected by her parents asked Ellen to walk her down the aisle and, well, just watch what happened

Ellen DeGeneres had a big surprise for a lesbian couple after one of their parents refused to walk her down the aisle. DeGeneres flew the newly-engaged couple from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to appear on her show, after one of them sent her a tweet which went viral. “My parents aren’t going to attend my …...

November 20, 2019

Donald Trump’s latest adviser is a right-wing commentator who thinks homosexuality is an ‘abomination’

Donald Trump has appointed a commentator who has raged about the “abomination” of homosexuality to serve on his advisory board. Clarence Mason Weaver was appointed to serve in an advisory position on the president’s re-election campaign as a member of the so-called Black Voices for Trump coalition. The...

November 20, 2019

Pope Francis embraces Muslim leader who thinks being gay is a ‘disease’ hours after condemning persecution of homosexuality

Just hours after comparing the persecution of gay people to Hitler and Nazism, Pope Francis gave a warm hug to a Muslim leader who thinks homosexuality is a disease and that gay people should be executed. The same day (November 15), the Pope gave a speech at the World Congress of the International Association of …...