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October 26, 2019

Lawyer who announced the launch of the anti-trans LGB Alliance is thrown under the bus by her law firm

The lawyer who announced the launch of the “LGB Alliance”, which has been branded anti-trans, has been thrown under the bus by her own law firm. Lawyer Allison Bailey of Garden Court Chambers, who describes herself as “gender critical”, wrote a tweet on Tuesday (October 22) announcing the launch of...

October 26, 2019

School district votes to fire gay teacher after he comes out to students

A teacher at a Texas high school has said he was targeted to be fired because he came out as gay to his students, but the school is denying it. Dr. Josh Hamilton taught professional communications and college readiness at Grapevine High School for three years, and also coached its competitive speech team. According to...

October 26, 2019

New Zealand’s gay ambassador to South Korea just made history by visiting Blue House with his husband

The gay New Zealand ambassador to South Korea has made history as the first foreign diplomat to visit Blue House with a same-sex partner. Blue House is the official residence of President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and his wife Kim Jung-sook, and ambassador Philip Turner visited with his husband Hiroshi Ikeda to attend a...

October 26, 2019

Journalist comes out to police chief in Chechnya who oversees the ‘gay purge’

A journalist came out as gay to a police chief in Chechnya, who is allegedly responsible for the torture and murder of LGBT+ people and oversees the country’s “gay purge”. Reporter James Longman, who works for ABC’s Nightline, had been investigating the “gay purge” in Chechnya, a...

October 26, 2019

Pete Buttigieg responds to anti-gay rant by county official who called him a ‘queer running for president’

Pete Buttigieg has reponded to a Tennessee county official who said it was “about as ugly as you can get” that there was a “queer running for president”. Commissioner for Sevier County, Warren Hurst, made the comments at a county commission meeting on October 21 and added that he thought there were...

October 25, 2019

Tinder has 50 gender options but transgender people are being banned for their gender identity

Tinder “only caters to cis people” and its attempts to be inclusive of the trans community are “virtue signalling”, say trans folks who’ve been banned from the dating app. Despite having more than 50 gender options, and nine sexualities, trans people told PinkNews that Tinder condones...

October 25, 2019

Four words that sum up Grindr’s biggest problem

“Where are you from” may sound like an innocent question to ask on Grindr, but for queer people of colour (QPOC) it’s an exhausting, racist refrain. Mufseen, a queer man of Asian descent, is one of countless men who’ve been asked the dreaded question. After an unnamed man messaged him “where r...

October 25, 2019

Judge overrules jury who tried to stop transphobic dad from forcing trans daughter to live as a boy

A judge in Dallas has overruled the jury in a custody case where a transphobic dad Jeffrey Younger is attempting to gain custody of his seven-year-old trans daughter and force her to live as a boy. The parents, Anne Georgulas and Jeffrey Younger, had joint custody of their seven-year-old twins, one of whom is trans....

October 25, 2019

Someone put Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s scorching takedown of Mark Zuckerberg on PornHub because of course

A video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grilling Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly filed on PornHub under “Public humiliation: Femdom”. The Democratic lawmaker dug her political heel into Zuckerberg’s throat on Wednesday, October 23, during a House of Representatives financial services committee hearing....

October 25, 2019

Tati Westbrook talks about being ‘stabbed in the back’ following James Charles drama

The epic showdown between YouTube beauty guru’s James Charles and Tati Westbrook kept the internet on the edge of their seats earlier this year. But mentions of the clash have been scarce since they called a ceasefire on any further takedowns. Until now. Speaking to E! at the launch of her new beauty line, Tati …...