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August 28, 2019

Down syndrome drag collective banned from performing over ‘serious ethical concerns’

A drag collective featuring queens and kings with Down syndrome has been barred from performing at a venue in Michigan due to ‘serious ethical concerns’. Drag Syndrome were due to perform at an ArtPrize Project 1 venue, organised by DisArt, but the group were forced to pull out after venue owner Peter Meijer...

August 28, 2019

Fox & Friends rips into Taylor Swift over vehement support of LGBT+ rights

A commentator on Fox & Friends has hit out at Taylor Swift, accusing her of “virtue signalling” over her public call for an LGBT+ non-discrimination law. The Fox News programme, believed to be Donald Trump’s favourite TV show, took aim at Swift on Tuesday, August 27, after she used her platform at the...

August 28, 2019

Bisexual The Bachelor star hits out at straight people faking same-sex romance for attention

Megan Marx, the openly bisexual former contestant on The Bachelor Australia, has criticised reality TV for “teaching” people to use same-sex romance for publicity. Marx found love on The Bachelor Australia in 2016 by giving up on the guy at the heart of the show and running off with another female contestant,...

August 28, 2019

Trump administration issues lukewarm response to Taylor Swift’s rousing call for equality at VMAs

August 28, 2019

LGBT people ‘don’t feel safe in Birmingham, especially since Brexit’, police say

Police in Birmingham have warned that some LGBT+ people don’t feel safe in parts of the city. As Birmingham’s Gay Village faces the threat of a proposed residential development, the West Midlands Police hate crime coordinator has warned that the city is already falling short on safe spaces for LGBT+ people....

August 28, 2019

Victim of ‘homophobic’ abuse on Manchester bus: ‘It happens regularly and often’

The man who was subjected to an anti-gay tirade on a bus after Manchester Pride has spoken about the abuse, saying that it is not an isolated incident. Christopher Burton, 48, was travelling home from Manchester Pride on Saturday, August 24. Fellow bus passengers filmed an older woman verbally abusing him with vile...

August 27, 2019

This is why some lesbians don’t want Pete Buttigieg to be president

Lesbian political activists in the US are divided over whether they want Pete Buttigieg for president or whether they want a woman, according to Politico. Buttigieg, 37, the openly gay mayor of South Bend in Indiana, has attracted widespread LGBT+ support in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. But...

August 27, 2019

Dave Chappelle makes fun of transgender people, again, in Netflix special

US comedian Dave Chappelle has made fun of transgender people in his new stand-up special on Netflix, ‘Sticks & Stones’. In the hour-long special, released August 26, Chappelle also said he doesn’t believe the people who say Michael Jackson molested them and defends controversial comedians Kevin Hart...

August 27, 2019

Watch this drag queen try to give BA hundreds of ‘stop deportations’ letters

A drag queen from activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants went to British Airways’ headquarters every day for a month trying to deliver letters calling for the airline to stop deportations. The 100 letters form part of LGSMigrants’ campaign, #DearBA, which is demanding British Airways end its...

August 27, 2019

A bakery in Russia – yes, Russia – has been fined for hanging ‘no gays’ sign outside

A bakery in Russia has been fined for hanging a sign outside that banned LGBT+ people from entering. The Ipakov Brothers bakery in the city of Kemerovo, Siberia, hung a wooden sign that read “no gays” when it opened in February. Speaking to the 360tv.ru news website, owner Anton Ipatov said the sign did not …...