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October 21, 2019

Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 greatest singers of all time has queer Twitter calling shade

Rolling Stone has released a run-down of what it claims are the 100 greatest singers of all time that has been called the “dumbest list ever compiled in the history of lists”. The list, as it is fast becoming known on Twitter, was decided by 179 “experts” who considered qualities such as...

October 21, 2019

Same-sex marriage will become legal in Northern Ireland in just a few hours despite DUP protests

Same-sex marriage will be legalised in Northern Ireland at midnight tonight if a minority of DUP and UUP members are unable to block it. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where abortion and same-sex marriage are not legalised. The province has not had a working government since the Northern Ireland Assembly,...

October 21, 2019

Miley Cyrus thought she ‘had to be gay because all guys were evil’ and the internet is having none of it

Miley Cyrus said that she thought she “had to be gay because all guys were evil” and the internet is having absolutely none of it. The singer, who came out as pansexual in 2015 and as gender-neutral in 2017, revisited the topic of her sexuality in a bizarre Instagram Live video. “There are good men out...

October 21, 2019

Facial recognition software can’t identify trans people, according to science

The facial-recognition technology being developed by big tech companies is unable to identify the correct gender of transgender people, according to a recent study. Computer science researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, found that major artificial-intelligence based facial analysis tools routinely fail to...

October 20, 2019

Gay couple told to get ‘stabbed in the a’ and called ‘b*y boys’ after kissing in London

A gay couple outside a London, England, bus stop were verbally harassed by a pair of women in a car and told to kiss “behind closed doors”. In shocking mobile phone footage from the couple’s friend, Roseanne Musgrove, the couple can be heard off-screen interrogating the women who hurl horrific homophobic...

October 20, 2019

Looks like New Zealand is unlikely to ban conversion therapy anytime soon

Moves to ban conversion therapy – a harmful and widely debunked treatment – in New Zealand have been delayed further this weekend because Government officials are concerned about freedom of religious expression. Also called reparative therapy, medical organisations across the world have widely rejected the treatment as...

October 20, 2019

Lesbian’s skull cracked with an iron bar and her arms dislocated after Ugandan doctor discovers her sexuality

October 20, 2019

Half of the US Democratic candidates in the fourth debate list their pronouns on Twitter

Six out of 12 of the Democratic candidates that qualified for the fourth Democratic debate on Tuesday (October 15) have their pronouns listed on Twitter in solidarity with the trans community. Elizabeth Warren (she/her), Kamala Harris (she/her), Pete Buttigieg (he/him), Julián Castro (he/him/él), Cory Booker (he/him) and...

October 20, 2019

YouTuber Lilly Singh opens up about loving who she wants to love in touching speech

October 20, 2019