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August 30, 2019

Bristol Rovers football team condemns homophobic chanting by their fans

A UK football team have expressed their “strong disproval” after some of their own fans sang homophobic chants at a game earlier this week. Bristol Rovers fans hurled homophobic insults and chants at Brighton & Hove Albion fans on 27 August. The club condemned the chanting today, 30 August, in a statement....

August 30, 2019

Canadian Conservative leader ducks calls to apologise for bizarrely comparing gay marriage to dogs

Canada’s Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer has refused to apologise over a resurfaced video of anti-gay comments. In a press conference on Thursday, August 29, Scheer insisted his opponents were “hypocrites” for calling on him to apologise for a speech he gave about same-sex marriage in 2005. In the...

August 30, 2019

Superintendent of school which banned Pride t-shirts but allowed Confederate ones says ‘we were wrong’

A school district superintendent in Kentucky has apologised to students who were forced to change clothes when they wore Pride t-shirts to school. Several students from Martin County High School were forced to change out of their pro-LGBT+ t-shirts earlier this week because they were told it violated the school’s...

August 30, 2019

The way these parents protected their kids attending a drag show from fascist protestors is a work of art

Armed with rainbow-panelled umbrellas, parents faced anti-LGBT+, fascist protestors head on at an all-ages drag show in Colorado, US. Mile High Comics hosted a show on 25 August that pulled the attention of Proud Boys, a neo-facist organisation that admits only men as members and promotes political violence. Store owner...

August 30, 2019

It wasn’t just John Travolta… Gigi Hadid also mistook a drag queen for Taylor Swift

In the gift that keeps giving, Gigi Hadid also confused drag queen Jade Jolie for Taylor Swift during the MTV Video Music Awards this week. John Travolta stumbled back into blubbery when he mistook Jolie for Swift and tried to present the RuPaul’s Drag Race star with the video of the year accolade for ‘You...

August 30, 2019

The shocking way newspapers wrote about the now-debunked ‘gay gene’ in 1993

A resurfaced newspaper clipping about the now-debunked ‘gay gene’ has underlined just how much has changed for gay rights. Research published this week confirmed that there is no single gene that causes people to be gay, although genetic factors do hold a significant sway over people’s sexuality. The...

August 30, 2019

EastEnders boss: ‘I’m looking forward to the day when a same-sex kiss receives zero complaints’

Head of continuing drama at the BBC Kate Oates has said that while same-sex romances have become some of the most popular storylines in soaps, she is still “looking forward to the day when a same-sex kiss receives zero complaints”. She told Radio Times: “There are so many obstacles and obstructions...

August 30, 2019

Police are hunting five suspects in an ‘abhorrent’ homophobic ‘pepper spray’ attack in London

The Metropolitan Police has renewed its appeal for information about two “abhorrent” homophobic ‘pepper spray’ attacks in Brixton, south London. CCTV footage of people allegedly associated with the attacks has been released by police in an attempt to identify them. The two incidents, in which four...

August 30, 2019

LGBT families furious over Trump’s new military rule

A new homeland security policy that will restrict the conferral of automatic citizen for some children born abroad to active military members has incited backlash from LGBT+ groups. Previously, all children born to US citizen parents were considered to be “residing in the United States”. Therefore, they would...

August 30, 2019

The host city for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 has been announced

The 2020 Eurovision Song Contest will be held in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, it has been revealed. The city will host the next edition of the contest in May 2020, after bisexual Dutch singer Duncan Laurence claimed the trophy with hit song ‘Arcade’. When and where is the Eurovision Song Contest 2020?...