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August 31, 2019

Third French football game in two weeks interrupted by homophobia

A French league football game between Paris Saint-Germain and Metz was halted by fans with homophobic banners — the third time in two weeks this has happened. Referee Frank Schneider briefly suspended the game on Friday (August 30) when fans in the Metz stands unfurled banners bearing homophobic messages. This comes just...

August 31, 2019

The Queen’s gay cousin says royals ‘don’t talk about’ his marriage to another man

The Queen’s cousin, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, has revealed that the Royal Family don’t discuss his relationship after he married a man last year. Lord Mountbatten, 56, made history in September 2018 when he became the first royal to have a same-sex marriage. The father-of-three separated from his wife in 2011,...

August 31, 2019

Strictly Come Dancing could feature same-sex couples next year

Same-sex couples could compete on Strictly Come Dancing for the first time next year after BBC bosses said they are “completely open” to the idea. The popular reality dance show has previously come under repeated fire over its reluctance to allow same-sex pairings in the contest, although they are increasingly...

August 31, 2019

Doctor prescribes ‘ex-gay’ celebrity’s autobiography to cure patient’s homosexuality

A gay woman in Italy who saw her doctor for a physical condition says she was advised to read a conversion therapy book to address her “homosexual attitudes.” The woman, who is from Verona, Italy, wrote an anonymous letter to MaiMa, an Italian anti-homophobia organisation. She explained that she had visited her...

August 31, 2019

Indian state bans unnecessary ‘normalising’ surgeries on intersex babies

The south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has issued an executive order banning medically unnecessary surgeries on babies whose sex is not clear at birth. The landmark move will protect the estimated 1.7 percent of people born with sex characteristics that differ from social expectations of female or male. Most of these...

August 30, 2019

There’s no such thing as ‘heterophobia’, according to this equal rights group

On the eve of Straight Pride in Boston, a leading LGBT+ rights groups in Massachusetts has said there’s no such thing as “heterophobia”. Boston’s Straight Pride, organised by a group called Super Happy Fun America, is due to be held on 31 August. Robb Johnson, the acting executive director of...

August 30, 2019

A drunken customer knocked out a pub landlady in a homophobic attack

A man punched two landladies and knocked one unconscious after shouting homophobic abuse at them. Nigel James Tomlinson, a married father of three, shouted homophobic abuse and then attacked Melanie and Sue Henning at the Dog and Partridge in Baxenden on October 11. Burnley Crown Court has heard that the couple, who had...

August 30, 2019

These accounts of racial profiling and bias at Manchester Pride are damning

Three queer people of colour have told PinkNews about their experiences of racism at last weekend’s Manchester Pride. These new accounts of racism and racist micro-aggressions follow multiple previous accusations of discrimination and bias at the event. The Pride festival has been slammed after officials failed to...

August 30, 2019

These accounts of racial profiling and bias at Manchester Pride are damning

August 30, 2019

Butch and femme lesbians react to awkward sex questions

We asked butch and femme lesbians to react to readers’ awkward questions about lesbian sex. From soft to stone butch, futch (a mix of femme and butch) and high femme, queer women express their gender in all sorts of glorious ways. We asked Helen and Maria, two femme lesbians, and Ro and Nana, two butch …...