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September 20, 2019

A Russian university threatened a student with expulsion because he had a pink phone case

A student was reportedly nearly expelled from a university in Russia because he was part of a pro-LGBT+ social media group and had a pink phone case. Ural State University of Economics in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, monitors students’ sexual orientations by combing through their social media profiles. College...

September 20, 2019

Trump official Ben Carson thinks trans women are ‘big, hairy men’

Donald Trump’s Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson made anti-transgender remarks in a meeting with staffers, it has been alleged. According to The Washington Post, Carson embarked on an anti-trans tirade during an internal meeting on Tuesday (September 17), claiming that “big, hairy men”...

September 19, 2019

Trans woman says she woke up on a men’s ward after knee surgery

A trans woman who woke up on a men’s hospital ward after surgery is among the many case studies included in a new report on healthcare failings for sexual minority women. “I had knee surgery and woke up on a male ward – clearly they had looked at my face and overruled my notes,” the … Continued The post Trans...

September 19, 2019

Lesbian MP Mhairi Black slams government as ‘a boys’ club that masquerades as a parliament’

SNP MP Mhairi Black has delivered a scathing criticism of Britain’s parliamentary culture, labelling the government “a boys’ club that masquerades as a parliament.” The lesbian MP spoke to Channel 4 journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy for his podcast, Ways to Change the World. Explaining her struggles...

September 19, 2019

Shangela, Frankie Grande and more share throwback photos to show queer youth how ‘it got better’

LGBT+ celebrities including Amber Heard, Frankie Grande and Bobby Berk have shared throwback pictures in a new project to show queer youth that “it gets better”. The It Gets Better Project’s ‘Queerbook’ shows then and now throwback photos of famous queer faces, along with “senior...

September 19, 2019

To the surprise of nobody, users on Mumsnet really don’t like the NHS LGBT+ rainbow badges

The latest outcry from the online parenting forum Mumsnet concerns the NHS’s LGBT+ rainbow badges, which commenters claim are “divisive political symbols”. The rainbow pins were introduced in March, and aim to address the challenges that LGBT+ people often face in accessing healthcare by indicating that...

September 19, 2019

This is why the pickle became a symbol of trans rights

Two years ago, writer Jennifer Finney Boylan was approached after an event she’d been speaking at in Portland and given an enormous jar of pickles. “I made you these pickles,” the woman who’d given Boylan the pickles said, sombrely, “in solidarity”. “How had I missed the fact that...

September 19, 2019

Taylor Swift really doesn’t care if you think she’s cashing in on the queer community

Taylor Swift, in one of her most honest interviews yet, has candidly stated that she doesn’t care about the criticism she faces for “trying to do good things”. When the singer dropped her track ‘Now You Need To Calm Down’ from her album Lover, it fractured the queer community in half. The two...

September 19, 2019

Taylor Swift really doesn’t care if you think she’s cashing in on the queer community

September 19, 2019

Meet the queer pro-gun veteran who’s running for Congress

Janessa Goldbeck, a queer, pro-gun military veteran, is running for Congress after retiring from the marines just six weeks ago. The pro-Second Amendment Democrat is hoping to become the US representative for California’s 53rd congressional district, based in San Diego. Goldbeck previously worked in foreign policy but,...