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October 9, 2019

Law professor uses sobering logic and reason before Supreme Court to argue in favour of LGBT employment protections

Supreme Court judges were left speechless by an incredible opening argument from Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan in favour of legal protections for LGBT+ people. The five-hour hearing on October 8 will ultimately determine whether LGBT+ people are entitled to legal protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...

October 9, 2019

A mum is suing her son’s five BDSM boyfriends after he died from silicone genital injections

October 9, 2019

Neighbours’ first trans actress slams Australian prime minister for calling teachers ‘gender whisperers’

Australian actress Georgie Stone has called out prime minister Scott Morrison for comments he made comparing teachers being trained in trans issues to there being “gender whisperers” in schools. Stone, 19, is the first trans actress to star in long-running soap Neighbours and a spokeswoman for mental-health...

October 9, 2019

Queer electro-pop star Shura on survival, that lesbian London bus attack and preparing for doomsday

Queer electro-pop star Shura has spoken to PinkNews about being LGBT+ in 2019, both in the States and the UK, and has said that for queer people “trying to survive” is part of their day-to-day lives. She is very busy. Three years in the making, her second album Forevher was released in August and she set...

October 9, 2019

Bathrooms came up more than 50 times during the Supreme Court’s landmark LGBT rights hearings

On Tuesday October 8, the US Supreme Court heard three landmark cases that will determine the future of LGBT+ rights in America. Two of them, Zarda v. Altitude Express and Bostock v. Clayton County, concerned gay men who were fired because of their sexuality, and the third, Stephens v. Harris Funeral Homes, concerned a...

October 9, 2019

Trans man ‘threatened with axe in hospital ward’ by another patient’s family

Trans Australians actively avoid healthcare out of fear of discrimination and abuse – with one man reportedly threatened with an axe by another patient’s family – a damning study revealed. La Trobe University PhD student Lucie Kerr surveyed 537 trans, non-binary and gender diverse people across Australia on their...

October 9, 2019

Antoni Porowski really, really hates being single: ‘I’m somebody who is pathological co-dependant’

Queer Eye star and full-time heartthrob Antoni Porowski has said he hates being single and alone because he is “pathologically co-dependent”. The food and wine expert, 35, said that rocketing to fame on the Netflix show means that he’s surrounded by people all the time but is left alone in the evenings,...

October 9, 2019

Dancing On Ice reveals first same-sex dance partners before Strictly Come Dancing

Former Steps member Ian ‘H’ Watkins will have a same-sex dance partner on Dancing on Ice, it has been revealed, beating rival show Strictly Come Dancing. Watkins, who is openly gay, reportedly pitched the idea himself after he was cast in the 2020 series and he has now been paired with Dancing on Ice regular...

October 9, 2019

This is what it’s like to be a disabled, disfigured, gay transwoman

Changing Faces activist Mikaela Moody shares her experiences of being disabled, gay and transgender, and the challenges of ‘passing’ as a woman when you have a visible difference. Proud transgender, queer, disfigured woman Mikaela Moody was born with Crouzon syndrome, which affects the shape of her head and...

October 9, 2019