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August 26, 2019

More details revealed about Neighbours’ first trans character and storyline

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August 26, 2019

Boyfriend charged over murder of 16th trans woman to be killed in US so far this year

Police investigating the murder of Tracy Single, the 16th trans woman of colour killed in the US this year, have arrested a man she had been dating. Joshua Dominic Bourgeois was arrested Friday, August 23, on suspicion of Single’s murder, according to ABC News. The 25-year-old became a suspect after investigators...

August 26, 2019

There’s a petition to give Marsha P Johnson her own national holiday

A group of activists in the US have launched a petition calling on the Senate to make Marsha P Johnson’s birthday a national holiday. Johnson was a tireless activist and participated in the 1969 Stonewall riots against police. She fought throughout her life for trans rights and for the rights of people of colour within...

August 26, 2019

Hate crime probe launched after trans women forcibly removed from bar

Police have launched a hate crime investigation after a video appeared to show a group of trans women being forcibly removed by security from a Los Angeles restaurant and bar. A viral video posted online shows the trans women being physically dragged out of Las Perlas in East 6th Street on Friday, August 23. One …...

August 26, 2019

Passengers shut down woman’s vile ‘homophobic’ rant on bus

A man travelling home from Manchester Pride was defended by a fellow bus passenger after being subjected to a shocking anti-gay tirade. The unnamed Pride-goer was proudly telling passengers about his day when the abuse began. “The man was talking to people about how he had put a red bow on a policeman, which raises...

August 26, 2019

Guy jealously tells ‘flirty’ barista his girlfriend is spoken for. The barista is gay

Feeling jealousy in a relationship isn’t an unusual phenomenon – but there’s a difference between feeling it and acting on it. This has been proven in spectacular fashion by a jealous Reddit-user, who unfortunately thought that warning a barista to stop flirting with his girlfriend was a good idea. The twist? The...

August 26, 2019

Loved-up gay and bi teens more likely to use drugs than straight counterparts

A new study has found that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) teens are more likely to take drugs and drink alcohol than their straight counterparts. The latest research also found that both straight and LGB adolescents who had not been in love had “significantly lower odds” for substance abuse when compared to...

August 26, 2019

Coronation Street actor has hilarious response to anti-LGBT protestors at Manchester Pride

Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton had the best reaction to anti-LGBT+ protestors at Manchester Pride on Saturday, August 24. Instead of ignoring the small group of protestors – who were standing in the crowd holding up signs with anti-LGBT+ messages – Cotton jumped off his float, approached the group and waved his...

August 26, 2019

Three men indicted for attempted ‘honour killing’ of a gay teenager

Three men have been indicted in Israel for the attempted honour killing of a gay teenager. The 16-year-old gay teenager was stabbed outside the Beit Dror gay youth hostel in Tel Aviv last month, IsraelNationalNews.com reports. The teenager told emergency services that he had been stabbed by his older brother and that he...

August 26, 2019

Fashion designer and boyfriend beaten in ‘homophobic’ attack

A Quebec fashion designer has said that he and his boyfriend were left bloodied and beaten in an alleged homophobic assault in Quebec, Canada, on Friday, August 23. Markantoine Lynch-Boisvert said that he and his partner Alex James Taboureau were walking out of a Bar Le Jazz in the municipality of La Malbaie when a …...