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September 18, 2019

Woman arrested after loud sex with girlfriend mistaken for a fight

Loud sex with her girlfriend led to a queer woman allegedly shooting a security guard and being arrested in Maryland, US. US police responded to reports of a fight inside a hotel room in Towson, but it turned out it was just Alison Daughtrey, 34, and her girlfriend making love, the couple claim. Two clerks …...

September 18, 2019

A Baptist church is making history with its first transgender pastor

A Baptist church in Ohio has a new transgender pastor. Erica Saunders led her first service at the Peace Community Church in Oberlin, Ohio, on September 8. In a statement, Saunders said she is “grateful for the gospel witness provided by Peace Community Church”. “With God’s help, together we can follow the example of...

September 18, 2019

Bisexual women seven times as likely to get high per day than straight women, study finds

Bisexual women are seven times as likely to get high per day than straight women, according to a new study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. It’s thought to be the first study on the relationship between medical marijuana laws, marijuana use and marijuana use disorder for gay and bisexual...

September 18, 2019

A 100-year-old man living with HIV shares his secret to a long and happy life

Today is National HIV Ageing Awareness Day, celebrated to show that more people than ever before are living longer with HIV. And the oldest documented person living with HIV has shared his secret to a long and happy life – drinking a cup of lemon tea before going to bed. While medical professionals say his …...

September 18, 2019

Gay Christian comes out ‘to make the church a kinder place for LGBT people’

A LGBT+ inclusive church has shared the touching story of one of its members who came out to “make the church a kinder place for LGBT+ people”. Grace is a member of Church From Scratch (CFS), a “radically inclusive” Baptist church in Southend which says it offers “a community of welcome,...

September 18, 2019

US news networks have stopped talking about LGBT issues under Donald Trump, analysis shows

US TV news networks are spending much less time talking about LGBT+ issues since Donald Trump took office. An analysis of a decade’s worth of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News coverage by The GDELT Project shows the flatlining focus on LGBT+ issues on all three networks coinciding with the 2016 election, when Trump began to...

September 18, 2019

Irish student ‘terrified’ to come out as it would ‘destroy’ his homophobic family

A desperate 18-year-old living in Ireland said he is “terrified” to come out as gay while his grandparents are alive because it would “destroy” them. The closeted teen wrote to a national newspaper seeking advice as the situation is tearing him apart – and his anonymous letter reveals a lot...

September 18, 2019

Madonna’s Madame X world tour is officially underway. Here’s what happened in the opening night

Madonna, the queen of pop, kicked off her Madame X Tour by keeping her fans waiting for nearly two hours in New York. But she delivered a voracious setlist that blended back-catalogue hits with new material from the number one album, Madame X. Her ninth chart-topper, it gave her more hits than any female artist …...

September 18, 2019

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is ‘like an eff-you to all the bigots’

September 18, 2019

The powerful and eye-opening diaries of the first gay trans man diagnosed with AIDS

The diaries of Lou Sullivan, the first known gay trans man diagnosed with AIDS, are being published 18 years after his death. Sullivan, who was born in Milwaukee in 1951, started keeping a diary at the age of 10 and continued for the next three decades until his death. He died as a result of … Continued The post The...