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September 23, 2019

Couple throws watermelon into hippo’s mouth in ‘worst gender reveal’ ever

Straight people are back at it… again. After much-despised classics such as ‘gender reveal bomb causes 47,000 acre wildfire‘, ‘gender reveal fog from car doing doughnuts leads to four arrests‘, and ‘gender reveal lasagne that costs $139.99′ comes an absolute hippopota-mess. In...

September 23, 2019

LGBT Muslims to launch first-ever Pride festival

Europe’s biggest charity supporting LGBT+ Muslims is crowdfunding to create its debut Pride festival, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK. The Pride event, which will provide a safe space for LGBT+ Muslims, is being organised by volunteer-led charity Imaan. The charity needs to raise £5,000 for...

September 23, 2019

Pete Buttigieg walks back ‘grumpy’ criticism of LGBT media

Pete Buttigieg has walked back his claim that LGBT media outlets attack him for being the “wrong kind of gay”. The out Democratic presidential hopeful had come under fire after claiming on September 18: “I can’t even read the LGBT media anymore, because it’s all, ‘he’s too gay, not gay enough, wrong kind of...

September 23, 2019

Republican governor says it’s legal to discriminate against gay people

The Republican governor of Arizona has ruled out protecting gay people from discrimination, claiming there are too many laws. Governor Doug Ducey dismissed calls to extend the state’s civil rights laws – which prohibit discrimination based on race, sex, colour, national origin, and religion – to also...

September 23, 2019

Man ‘confesses’ to murder of Russian LGBT activist Yelena Grigoryeva – but her loved ones aren’t convinced

The friends of Yelena Grigoryeva, who was murdered in July, are reportedly in doubt over whether a supposed confession from an arrested suspect is genuine. Grigoryev was found dead in a street near her apartment in St Petersburg earlier this year. She was reportedly stabbed at least eight times and had strangulation marks...

September 23, 2019

One in five bisexual people have been sexually assaulted at work, study finds

One in five bisexual people have been sexually assaulted at work, according to recent research. The findings – taken from a May 2019 report titled Sexual harassment of LGBT people in the workplace – also revealed that bisexual employees are notably less likely to be out at work than their gay or lesbian colleagues. Nearly...

September 23, 2019

Mum of Britain’s ‘youngest transgender toddler’ beams with pride: ‘She’s been set free’

September 23, 2019

Sam Smith shares pictures of themself unapologetically living their best life – and people love it

Sam Smith showed the world exactly how much they’re affected by the haters who can’t deal with their pronouns – and the answer is not one bit. The ‘Stay With Me’ singer, 27, recently announced that they wanted to go by they/them pronouns six months after coming out as non-binary. They were...

September 23, 2019

Do we need Bi Visibility Day? Yes, of course we do!

On the 20th Bi Visibility Day, and after the first Bi Pride, Laura Russell, director of campaigns, policy and research at Stonewall reflects on why we still need Bi Visibility Day. It’s the 20th Bi Visibility Day, and sometimes it feels like we’re making great progress. We’re getting to a stage where there are a …...

September 23, 2019

‘Anti-gay’ rugby star Israel Folau to play for country where homosexuality is illegal

After being sacked from Australia’s rugby team for anti-LGBT comments, Israel Folau will instead play for Tonga, where it’s illegal to be gay. The player was sacked by Rugby Australia and the New South Wales Waratahs in May over social media posts telling gay people that “hell awaits” them, and has...