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October 13, 2019

Trans community’s ability to vote threatened by Boris Johnson’s voter ID plans

The UK prime minister Boris Johnson will tomorrow (October 14) unveil voter ID proposals to make showing photo ID compulsory in order to vote. The controversial voter ID plans, part of a raft of new measures expected to be announced in a Queens Speech, are supposedly an attempt to tackle electoral fraud but critics say...

October 13, 2019

The Pope just made Cardinal Newman a saint – but was he actually gay?

Cardinal John Henry Newman was today (October 13) declared a saint by the Roman Catholic church in a service at the Vatican led by the Pope and attended by Prince Charles. Tens of thousands of people went to the open-air ceremony in Rome. Newman, England’s most famous Catholic convert who died in Birmingham in 1890,...

October 13, 2019

Gay man’s teeth removed after homophobic attack left them ‘beyond repair’

A gay man in Wisconsin told police that a homophobic attack by three men, who beat him so severely he had to have all his teeth removed, taunted him for his sexuality before beating him up. The man, who has not been named, had to have all of his teeth removed by doctors because his … Continued The post Gay...

October 13, 2019

Thousands call for Piers Morgan to be fired by Good Morning Britain for ‘dehumanising’ trans people

More than 6,000 people are calling for Piers Morgan to be removed as anchor of Good Morning Britain for his “dehumanisation” of transgender people. Morgan spreads “dangerous misinformation” about trans people as part of an “insidious agenda” that reduces LGBT+ people to a “mere...

October 12, 2019

Daphne Dorman, the trans comedian in Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, has reportedly died by suicide

Comedian Daphne Dorman, the trans woman who was referenced in Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, has reportedly died by suicide. Dorman, who lived in San Francisco, wrote a “goodbye” note on Facebook in the early hours of Friday morning (October 11). Hours later, Becky Kugler, who identified herself as...

October 12, 2019

RuPaul’s Drag Race star Scaredy Kat protests with Extinction Rebellion

The second queen to leave RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has joined the Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in London to protest climate change. Scaredy Kat, who at 20 was the youngest queen to ever appear on RuPaul’s Drag Race, was pictured posing for photos and talking to activists, who are camped out in central London...

October 12, 2019

‘Grandma’s joining’: Jane Fonda arrested at climate-change protest

Gay icon Jane Fonda has been arrested in Washington, DC, at a climate-change protest. The 81-year-old was among 16 people arrested outside the US Capitol building for unlawfully protesting. She was handcuffed and taken away by police on 11 October. Fonda, who starred alongside Dolly Parton in the 1980 hit movie 9 to 5,...

October 12, 2019

Man who hurled homophobic abuse at nine-year-old boy facing jail

A Scottish man who assaulted a nine-year-old boy and shouted homophobic abuse at him is facing time in prison. Craig Stoddon appeared at a court in Scotland last week and admitted to swearing at the child and hitting him. Stodden shouted homophobic names at the boy and told him to get “the fuck out” of …...

October 12, 2019

‘We knew it was right’: England cricketers Sciver and Brunt announce engagement

Two England cricketers who play for England’s national cricket team announced their engagement on October 11 – National Coming Out Day. Natalie Sciver, 27, and Katherine Brunt, 34, got together after the England women’s cricket team won the World Cup in 2017. The couple had already been living together – in a...

October 11, 2019

Presbyterian Church ousts long-serving church elder after he got married to a man

An elder within Ireland’s Presbyterian Church has been ejected from his post after an anonymous “complaint” about his same-sex marriage. An unidentified person raided the Facebook page of Steven Smyrl to download family photos of him with his husband Roy Stanley, before sending them to church leaders....