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October 22, 2019

It’s 2019 and for some reason same-sex marriage is still being ‘debated’ on live TV

As thousands celebrated that same-sex marriage has become a reality in Northern Ireland, a Christian lobby group head expressed her fury at the news on This Morning today. Andrea Williams, director of Christian Concern and founder of the Christian Legal Centre, appeared on the ITV daytime show to debate the country’s...

October 22, 2019

This is the only place left in the British Isles without same-sex marriage

Homophobes fleeing the introduction of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland have just one place left in the British Isles they can go. Same-sex marriage has now been made legal in England and Wales (2013), Scotland (2014), the Republic of Ireland (2015), the Isle of Man (2016), Guernsey (2017), Jersey (2018), Alderney...

October 22, 2019

The important reason Elizabeth Warren is demanding special treatment for transgender asylum seekers

Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has called on the Trump administration to protect transgender asylum seekers, who allegedly suffer “rampant” abuse while in detention. Along with her fellow senator Tammy Baldwin, the first out LGBT+ person elected to the US Senate, Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter urging...

October 22, 2019

This is what Justin Trudeau winning a second term as Canada’s prime minister means for the LGBT community

Justin Trudeau has won a second term as Canada’s prime minister and the country’s LGBT+ community have breathed a “sigh of relief”. The win for the Liberal Party has kept Trudeau’s opponent Andrew Scheer, who is against marriage equality, out of the top seat at Parliament Hill. Trudeau,...

October 22, 2019

Harry Styles keeps his clothes cryogenically frozen in a vault. Yes, really

Harry Styles keeps his past outfits frozen in a secret vault somewhere in London. The archive, which is at an undisclosed location, has round-the-clock surveillance and Styles’ clothes can be checked on using an iPad video link. News of this somewhat extra storage solution comes via Styles’ fashion designer,...

October 22, 2019

Gay musical theatre teacher says she was sacked from Christian school for going to Pride

A gay musical theatre teacher has alleged that she was forced out of her job at a Christian school after administrators found out she attended a Pride event. Monica Toro Lisciandro, a teacher at Covenant Christian School in Palm Bay, Florida, says she was called into a meeting unexpectedly on October 2 and quizzed about...

October 22, 2019

Football players chant ‘sickening’ homophobic slurs at male cheerleader. He’s just 14-years-old

High school football players allegedly shouted homophobic slurs at a male cheerleader, aged just 14. The incident on October 18 at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, California, saw the teen targeted with homophobic chants from varsity football players, who branded him a “fag” for being part of the cheerleading...

October 22, 2019

Family Guy won’t be phasing out jokes about gay people anytime soon, according to Peter Griffin

Family Guy has made clear that it will not stop making jokes about gay people. The show’s October 20 episode ‘Disney’s The Reboot’ featured a gag about Peter’s sexuality, followed by a scene in which a character asks: “I thought I read you guys were phasing out gay jokes?” Peter...

October 22, 2019

This UK doctor thinks asking patients about their orientation or gender identity is ‘laughable’ and ‘offensive’

The Women and Equalities Committee has published a report on “unacceptable inequality” in LGBT+ healthcare, and recommended that asking patients about their sexual orientation and gender identity should be made mandatory. The committee said the monitoring of sexual orientation and gender identity by the NHS and...

October 22, 2019

The first all-women spacewalk was interrupted by a call from Donald Trump who thought women had never walked in space before

The first all-women spacewalk took place on Friday, but it was interrupted by a phone call from Donald Trump who thought that women had never walked in space. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch went outside the International Space Station, on October 18, for the first spacewalk by women without a man alongside...