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August 28, 2019

Elsa will not have a girlfriend in Frozen 2

Fans have been campaigning for Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend since the release of Frozen in 2013, but a Disney songwriter has said she won’t have a romantic interest in the sequel. Many in the LGBT+ community saw ‘Let It Go’ as a coming out anthem, and when a trailer released in February showed …...

August 28, 2019

Lebanon has banned activists from re-entering the country after attending a sexuality conference

Activists and academics who attended a gender and sexuality conference in Lebanon have been banned by the government from re-entering the country. The NEDWA conference, organised for the fifth year by the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality, aims to allow activists to share knowledge between countries and develop...

August 28, 2019

Some trans Australians can now change their birth certificate gender without surgery

Transgender people in the Australian state of Victoria will now be able to change the gender on their birth certificates without undergoing gender-confirmation surgery. The birth certificate bill, which passed in the Victorian Upper House on 26-14 on Tuesday 27, August, now just needs royal assent to become law. Victoria...

August 28, 2019

This lesbian wants you to know having a ‘large vulva’ is nothing to be ashamed of

Jess Greenash has a “large vulva” and says her labia is “a lot longer than anybody else’s that I’ve seen”. She struggles to fit into size 10 jeans because, she says: “My flaps are too big.” “I never wear jeans due to the huge discomfort my flaps experience,” the...

August 28, 2019

The Trump administration said it’s legal to fire someone for being gay. Now Republicans are backing it en masse

Fifteen Republican-controlled states and 48 Congressional Republicans have joined the Trump administration in filing Supreme Court briefs arguing that it’s legal for employers to discriminate against LGBT+ people. The US Supreme Court is set to consider the cases of three people who were fired for being LGBT+, with...

August 28, 2019

Activists have won a gruelling battle against an anti-LGBT church

Activists have won a long battle to stop an anti-LGBT+ church operating out of Texas a public school, after protesting every week for more than a year. Celebration Church, which is openly anti-LGBT+, had been renting space at the Austin Independent School District’s (AISD) Mueller Performing Arts Centre for its...

August 28, 2019

Brazil’s culture secretary resigns over Bolsonaro’s ‘censorship of LGBT TV shows’

Brazil’s special secretary of culture, Henrique Medeiros Pires, has stepped down in protest against president Jair Bolsonaro’s censorship of LGBT+ content on TV. Pires announced his resignation to minister of citizenship, Osmar Terra, on Tuesday, August 27. Last week, Bolsonaro halted funding for films with LGBT+...

August 28, 2019

Kellyanne Conway sings ‘You Need to Calm Down’ in response to Taylor Swift. Yes, really

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway has responded to Taylor Swift’s call for LGBT+ equality by singing ‘You Need to Calm Down’. Conway, senior counselor to the president and a frequent Trump surrogate, made the surreal singing rebuke after Swift used her platform at the MTV Video Music Awards to call for the...

August 28, 2019

Every NFL team has gay or bisexual players, retired player claims

Retired National Football League player Ryan O’Callaghan has said he thinks there is “at least one” gay or bisexual player on every NFL team, but that they do not come out for fear of losing sponsorships or even their jobs. O’Callaghan came out as gay in 2017, and is soon to release a book titled …...

August 28, 2019

Yet another major player in the Log Cabin Republicans has resigned over Trump endorsement

The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans has become the latest official to resign in protest at the conservative LGBT+ group’s recent endorsement of Donald Trump. Jerri Ann Henry, a lesbian activist who fought for same-sex marriage in the US, handed in her resignation on Friday, August 23, following...