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September 9, 2019

Anti-LGBT US secretary of state Mike Pompeo says ‘more rights is not always better’

Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state who once described being gay as a “perversion,” likened fighting for certain human rights to having too many flavours of ice cream. Speaking on Friday (September 6), Pompeo rallied against politicians who “from time to time have framed pet causes as fights for rights to...

September 9, 2019

Milo Yiannopoulos ‘can’t put food on the table’ and might ‘retire from social media entirely’

Milo Yiannopoulos, the former editor of Breitbart and mascot for Boston’s Straight Pride, has complained that he can’t put food on the table as none of his fans are supporting him. The self-described ‘pop star of hate’ has previously said he would “cure” himself of being gay if he could,...

September 9, 2019

A 55-year-old admitted to spray-painting homophobic hate after he was caught on camera

Michael Parsons, 55, was fined after a CCTV camera caught him daubing anti-LGBT+ abuse on a woman’s garage door. Police first arrested Parsons after they received reports of anti-LGBT+ slurs being painted on a garage door in Gateshead, near Newcastle on January 16. Officers identified Parsons from CCTV footage, but...

September 9, 2019

John Bercow standing down as Commons Speaker means parliament loses one of its loudest pro-LGBT voices

House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has announced that he will stand down as Speaker on October 31, or sooner if an election is called before that date. Elected as Buckingham MP in 1997, the Speaker’s wry humour and typical forthright style gained him many fans both in and out of the Commons – but …...

September 9, 2019

Captain Marvel 2 will introduce a familiar gay hero to the MCU, reports say

Captain Marvel 2 is rumoured to be introducing another LGBT+ superhero to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) – one that might already be familiar to comic book fans. After Brazil’s biggest newspaper published an illustration of two gay Marvel characters kissing on its front page, it has emerged that the couple...

September 9, 2019

Lesbian YouTubers Ari Fitz and Jade Fox share their coming out stories

Lesbian YouTubers Ari Fitz and Jade Fox have revealed how they first realised they were queer and what it was like coming out for the first time. In an episode of First Times, a PinkNews original series, they revealed the first time they went on a date, kissed a girl and coming out to their … Continued The post...

September 9, 2019

Anti-LGBT hate crimes have more than doubled in the past five years, new data shows

The rates of hate crimes against LGBT+ people in the west of England have more than doubled in the last five years, new data has shown. The figures were revealed by the BBC documentary series Inside Out West, which airs tonight, via Freedom of Information requests to police. The episode will feature a gay football …...

September 9, 2019

Man jailed for blackmail after threatening to leak nude photos of men he met on Grindr

A man has been jailed for two years after threatening to share intimate photos he had been sent by men he met on Grindr. Leicester Crown Court heard how Mohamed Mohamed, a 22-year-old student, would meet his victims on Grindr before swapping intimate photos with them on WhatsApp. He would then threaten to share the …...

September 9, 2019

Tim Farron compared sexuality to slavery while defending being a Christian politician

Former Liberal Democrats leader Tim Farron suggested that being anti-gay is the modern equivalent of being anti-slavery in a conversation about how Christianity “has always been counter-cultural”. Farron is an evangelical Christian whose views on LGBT+ issues have frequently landed him in hot water. He has been...

September 9, 2019

Woman charged with hate crime after abusing Pride-goer wearing rainbow flag

A 38-year-old woman has been charged with a hate crime public order offence following a homophobic incident at Waltham Forest Pride. The woman, Jamila Choudhury of east London, was charged last week after being arrested on 29 July in connection to the incident. On 28 July, footage posted on Twitter showed a woman wearing a...