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November 7, 2019

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, the Brexit Party is kicking off about the ‘rainbow poppy’

A rainbow poppy has become an issue so thorny that even potential politicians are joining in the debate. Brexit party candidate Nicholas Goulding has stated that the Remembrance Poppy should not be used to promote the LGBT+ community. Goulding is against the rainbow poppy as the symbol, used each year to pay respect to...

November 7, 2019

Evangelical church releases app for children where they can marry LGBT couples

An Evangelical Lutheran Church in New York has released an app for children in which they can create LGBT+ characters and marry them The Metropolitan New York Synod (MNYS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released the app, which features six different games to help children develop an inclusive view of their...

November 7, 2019

‘Non-binary’ has been officially added to the Collins Dictionary

Collins Dictionary has announced that it is recognising the term “non-binary” for the first time. The dictionary’s publishers said they were choosing to recognise the word because of “changes in how people relate to each other and define themselves”, RTÉ reports. Collins have defined non-binary as “relating to a gender or...

November 7, 2019

Scientists have discovered a new strain of HIV for the first time in nearly two decades

Researchers have said “there’s no reason to panic” about the discovery of an “outlier” HIV strain. The subtype is the first to be officially discovered since guidelines for classifying HIV subtypes were published in 2000, and has taken experts several years to pinpoint. The first two examples...

November 7, 2019

More than half of people in India would refuse a life-saving donated organ from an LGBT person

More than half of people in India would refuse to receive, or would feel uncomfortable receiving, a life-saving donated organ from from an LGBT+ person. A survey by the Mumbai-based Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance asked 1,565 respondents across 12 cities in India about their opinions on organ donation. Because of widespread...

November 7, 2019

More than half of people in India would refuse a life-saving donated organ from an LGBT person

November 7, 2019

Fitness coach who outed bisexual actor Alex Diaz apologises to LGBT+ community for his actions

The fitness coach who outed Filipino-Scottish actor Alex Diaz as bisexual last month has apologised to the actor and to the LGBT+ community for his actions. Miguel Lagman Chanco accused Diaz last month of trying to elicit an “indecent proposal” from him in an online post. Chanco posted screenshots of an exchange between...

November 7, 2019

Karamo Brown’s son was sent death threats over Sean Spicer ‘friendship’

Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown said his son was sent death threats in response to his own comments about fellow Dancing With the Stars contestant Sean Spicer. Brown came under heavy criticism after saying he was “excited to sit down… and engage in a respectful conversation” with the former White House...

November 7, 2019

The US government is suing PrEP manufacturer Gilead

The United State government has lodged a patent infringement lawsuit against Gilead Sciences, manufacturer of PrEP pill Truvada. The Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) has accused Gilead of “wilfully and deliberatively” infringing its own patents on the drug, which can prevent HIV transmissions....

November 7, 2019

‘Abusive’ rapper T.I. takes his teenage daughter to the gynaecologist to check her hymen ‘is still intact’

Today in straight madness, T.I. said that he gets his 18-year-old daughter Deyjah’s hymen inspected by a doctor once a year in an attempt to see whether or not she is virgin. The rapper made the astounding claim during an interview about parenting on the Ladies Like Us podcast. When asked whether he’d had the...