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September 11, 2019

Football boss says he’d stop games for racist chants but not homophobic ones

The president of the French Football Federation (FFF) has said he would stop a football game because of racist chants, but he is “totally against” stopping one because of homophobic chants. This season, the FFF introduced new rules allowing referees to interrupt games if homophobic incidents occurred. According...

September 11, 2019

Stephen King thinks It Chapter Two’s shock queer twist is ‘genius’

Bestselling author Stephen King has thrown his support behind the decision to add a queer subplot to It Chapter Two, even though it is a departure from his book. WARNING: This rest of this article contains spoilers to It Chapter Two. The sequel to It confirms the long-held fan theory that a major character — Richie …...

September 11, 2019

A gay student who fatally stabbed a classmate after years of bullying has been jailed for 14 years

Abel Cedeno, who came out as gay after stabbing his high school classmate to death in 2017, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Now aged 20, Cedeno fatally stabbed 15-year-old Matthew McCree and seriously injured Ariane Laboy, 16, during a fight at their high school, the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife...

September 11, 2019

Lil Nas X gives us all a lesson in humility over Kevin Hart’s comments on his sexuality

Lil Nas X continues to be the LGBT+ hero we need but don’t deserve. The ‘Old Town Road’ rapper said he’s “not mad” at Kevin Hart, after the comedian repeatedly interrupted him during a conversation about his sexuality. Hart suffered a fierce backlash after butting into Lil Nas X while he...

September 11, 2019

Indian city encouraged trans people to apply for police force. Instead of being given jobs, they were outed

Forty young transgender folk in Chhattisgarh, a state in central India, left their jobs and homes when the local government announced a recruitment drive for trans police officers. Many of the applicants had previously been harassed or tortured by the police – but the promise of work, respect and escaping the fate of many...

September 11, 2019

Husband and wife file for annulment after both coming out as gay

A newly-wed husband and wife have filed for an annulment shortly after getting married as they realised they are both gay. Jo Turner, 30, and Scott Turner-Smith, 25, assumed they were both straight when they wed 13 months ago, but it turns out that’s not the case. The husband and wife have now come out …...

September 11, 2019

Piers Morgan is seriously triggered by a gender-neutral penguin, says he now identifies as a ‘two-spirit penguin’

Piers Morgan has had an extreme reaction to an aquarium’s announcement that a penguin is being raised gender-neutral, saying that he identifies as “a two spirit penguin”. Sea Life aquarist Charlotte Barcus told Sky News that the fact that gender “isn’t an issue to penguins” is the point,...

September 11, 2019

Mexico is now the world’s second-deadliest country for trans people

Mexico is now the world’s second most deadly country for transgender people after Brazil, but most murders go unsolved and unpunished. A new study by Mexican LGBT+ rights organisation Letra Ese has shown that, between 2013 and 2016, at least 473 LGBT+ people have been killed in the country, and 261 of these were...

September 11, 2019

Stephen Port’s ex-drug dealer given life sentence for murdering James Bond actor

The ex-drug dealer of serial killer Stephen Port was given a life sentence with at least 31 years behind bars for murdering a former Bond actor. Gerald Matovu, 26, hooked up with Eric Michels, 54, via Grindr in August last year. He used a syringe to administer a lethal dose of the drug GHB at … Continued The post...

September 11, 2019

Married dad of two says he ‘chose’ straight lifestyle despite knowing he’s gay

A 42-year-old man who married a woman to have a straight lifestyle, even though he knew he was gay, is now seeking advice after falling in love with a man he met online. The anonymous father of two wrote to The Washington Blade‘s advice column saying the affair has him “in a mess”. He admits …...