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October 3, 2019

Munroe Bergdorf shares powerful message of inclusivity for Black History Month

British model and activist Munroe Bergdorf has shared a powerful message of inclusivity for Black History Month. The 32-year-old, who has walked runways at London and New York fashion weeks, urged people to be inclusive of “all black stories, including the contributions of black British LGBTQIA figures”....

October 3, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Non-binary Drag Race UK star wants to go head-to-head with Piers Morgan

Drag Race UK queen Divina de Campo read Piers Morgan for filth over his continued refusal to respect non-binary people and their pronouns. Morgan, who hosts ITV’s Good Morning Britain, has in recent weeks waged a continuing attack on the non-binary community, taking particular umbrage with gender-neutral pronouns....

October 3, 2019

It’s October 3rd… So here’s 10 totally fetch reasons Mean Girls is still a queer classic

What’s the date today, Mean Girls fans? “It’s October 3rd.” With the RuPaul’s Drag Race UK premier falling on the same day as Mean Girls Day, queer energy is truly at its apex right now. 2004 was a weird time. People wore Juicy Couture tracksuits, called friends on Motorola flip-phones and...

October 3, 2019

The emotional moment a gay hockey player was voted homecoming king

A hockey player, once terrified to come out as gay in fear of what classmates would think, was crowned homecoming king by his school in Illinois. Anthony Arnoni, an East Leyden High-School senior, was elected for the royal title by his fellow students. The 17-year-old shared his experiences of coming out in a touching...

October 3, 2019

Hillary Clinton compares staying with Bill to being the parent of a transgender child

Hillary Clinton has described her decision to stay married to Bill Clinton after he was unfaithful as “gutsy”, and likened the experience to parenting a transgender child. Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 after having an affair White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In the wake of the revelations the...

October 3, 2019

Christian doctor fired for refusing to call a transgender woman ‘she’ loses tribunal

After being sacked for refusing to call a trans woman by her pronouns, a Christian doctor has lost an employment tribunal. Dr. David Mackereth, a disability claim accessor, claimed he was fired after saying he wold not call “any six foot tall bearded man, ‘madam'” during an “abstract...

October 3, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Visage wants Boris Johnson to ‘sashay away’

Drag Race linchpin and RuPaul’s right hand woman Michelle Visage has passed her judgement on prime minister Boris Johnson—and it isn’t 10s across the board. Between the arrival of Drag Race UK and her turn on Strictly Come Dancing, 2019 has been a stellar year for Visage, a self-described anglophile. “I...

October 2, 2019

Yet even more Christian extremists are complaining about gender-inclusive dolls because apparently there’s nothing else to do

To the surprise of no one, the anti-LGBT+ evangelical group One Million Moms is not happy about Mattel’s new gender-inclusive dolls. Last week the toy manufacturer launched the gender non-conforming ‘Creatable World’ dolls which come with short hair and a longer wig, as well as various “masculine” and...

October 2, 2019

A Russian iPhone user is suing Apple for ‘turning him gay’. Yes, really

A Russian man is suing Apple and asking for $15,000 in damages because he says his iPhone “manipulatively” turned him gay. According to The Moscow Times, the plaintiff has been identified as D. Razumilov and he said that he downloaded a cryptocurrency payment app onto his iPhone in 2017. But this summer he says...

October 2, 2019

Dad’s refusal to remove tattoo of trans daughter’s deadname sparks furious debate

A man who is refusing to remove a tattoo of his trans daughters deadname has sparked debate on whether he is in the wrong. The dad posted the story on the sub-Reddit ‘Am I the A**hole?’ which describes itself as “a place to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that’s been …...