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September 13, 2019

The Shiny Shrimps director Cédric Le Gallo: ‘Masculine gay guys can be really disturbed by trans people’

The Shiny Shrimps are the worst waterpolo team in the world and they’ve been given a homophobic swimming champion as a coach to get them to the Gay Games. This is the premise of new comedy The Shiny Shrimps, based on the real-life story of co-writer and co-director Cédric Le Gallo’s experience in the Shiny...

September 13, 2019

This is why New York City is urgently lifting its ban on gay conversion therapy

New York City is set to repeal its ban on gay conversion therapy in a bid to avoid a negative Supreme Court challenge. The city council is taking steps to overturn the 2017 ban amid fears that a lawsuit filed by a conservative Christian group against the measure could be taken up by the Supreme … Continued The post...

September 13, 2019

This is what it’s like to tell your mum you’ve been raped

I can’t imagine what it must be like for a parent hearing your child was raped. I told my mum in an e-mail. I wasn’t ready, but some not very nice people had found out things in my past that they could exploit and threatened to tell the world. Linked with these were the two … Continued The post This is what...

September 13, 2019

Parents of non-binary student shot by police are suing for wrongful death

The parents of non-binary, intersex student Scout Schultz, who was shot dead by campus police in 2017, are suing the school and the officer for wrongful death. Schultz, a fourth-year student and president of Georgia Teach’s LGBT+ society, was killed on the night of September 16 2017 during what their family says was...

September 13, 2019

SNL comedian gives the absolute worst apology for anti-gay slurs

Saturday Night Live‘s new cast member Shane Gillis gave the worst ‘apology’ to those accusing him of racism, sexism and homophobia. Gillis, 31, made the offensive comments in a 2018 episode of his podcast, Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast. He tried to delete a particularly offensive episode from the...

September 13, 2019

Exposing trans people to conversion therapy ‘doubles the odds of a suicide attempt’

Transgender ‘conversion therapy’ has been proven to cause serious psychological harm to those who undergo it, according to the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry. A study published on Wednesday, September 11, shows that efforts to change a transgender person’s gender identity are strongly associated with suicidal...

September 13, 2019

Chicken shop employees say they were almost fired for lip-syncing to Hannah Montana

A former Chick-fil-A employee almost got fired for lip-syncing to Hannah Montana’s ‘Nobody’s Perfect’ and the internet can’t control itself. Blake Foster, a 23-year-old singer, originally posted the clip on his Instagram in 2017. But after re-uploading it to his TikTok, it’s now trending...

September 13, 2019

Police chief apologises for bizarre and offensive ‘anal sex’ comments

A Canadian police chief has apologised for comments he made about anal sex in a bizarre interview, in which he was supposed to be discussing how to keep the LGBT+ community safe. Eric Girt is chief of police for Hamilton, Ontario, where a Pride event turned violent in June this year after it was crashed …...

September 13, 2019

Two gay dads say they’re scared their children could grow up ‘thinking they’re circus freaks’

A gay couple has said they fear that their children could grow up to think they’re “circus freaks”. Two gay fathers Rich and Lewis spoke out having faced negative reactions from other parents at their son’s nursery school. Their son is now starting primary school, where the couple said they had been...

September 13, 2019

Man reveals the shocking abuse he receives on Grindr for being deaf

A deaf man was told he was “special needs” by a guy on Grindr, and the exchange has gone viral on Twitter. Hayden Smith, of Indiana, US, posted a screenshot of the conversation which quickly tallied more than 4,500 likes in two days. But numbers aside, what the chat has done is incite a much-needed …...