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April 8, 2022

Star Wars studio cast trans actress Talisa Garcia in epic new series

Talisa Garcia has become the first out trans actress to be cast by Disney in a Lucasfilm production. The Baptiste star has been cast in the upcoming Willow series, which will see her star alongside Warwick Davies as he reprises his role from the 1980s fantasy hit. It’s the first non-Star Wars-related production...

April 8, 2022

Sajid Javid accused of ‘regressive attempt to roll back’ trans rights after NHS intervention

Health secretary Sajid Javid has reportedly “welcomed” guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) explaining how trans women can lawfully be excluded from female-only spaces. The EHRC issued new guidance on Monday (4 April), stating that single-sex spaces including hospital wards, lavatories,...

April 8, 2022

Real-life quidditch is the queerest sport of all – and is ready to forget about you-know-who

Real-life quidditch – the sport that sprung from JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books – has long championed LGBT+ inclusion. Now, its community is queerer than ever. To this day, the list of team sports that are mixed gender, acknowledge trans and non-binary identities and actively encourage people to play as who they are is...

April 8, 2022

Life-saving HIV drugs arrive in Ukraine as war threatens to turn clock back on epidemic

The World Health Organisation is getting life-saving antiretroviral drugs to people living with HIV in Ukraine. According to the WHO, there are around 260,000 people living with HIV in Ukraine, half of whom – including 2700 children – are on life-saving antiretroviral treatment. Working with the United States President’s...

April 8, 2022

Drag Race ups the stakes for season 14 finale – and honey, we’re all gagged

RuPaul’s Drag Race keeps getting bigger and better, and that includes the prize money. Season 14 is officially making herstory, as it’s been confirmed that the upcoming winner will bag the show’s highest-ever cash prize – $150,000 (£114,000). It pays to be a winner, baby! For those who don’t...

April 7, 2022

LGBT+ authors dominate list of America’s most-banned books – again

LGBT+ authors have dominated a list of most-banned books in the United States, a study by PEN America has found. PEN America tracked bans involving titles by 874 different authors in school libraries and classrooms in the United States from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. The most-banned book was Gender Queer: A Memoir,...

April 7, 2022

Republican lawmaker’s ‘ugly’ anti-LGBT+ bill paves the way for child marriage in Tennessee

A Republican bill to make common law marriage legal in Tennessee, United States, could allow for cases of child marriage to occur, opponents say. The bill, which was sponsored by state representative Tom Leatherwood along with 23 other Republicans, would see common law marriage – a legally recognise marriage between people...

April 7, 2022

Kentucky governor vetoes cruel trans sports ban – but the fight isn’t over

Kentucky Democratic governor Andy Beshear has vetoed a trans sports ban passed by lawmakers – but it still stands a chance of becoming law. The bill that would have banned trans students from competing in women’s and girls’ sports in public and private schools in Kentucky. In a veto letter signed Wednesday (6 April),...

April 7, 2022

Boris Johnson warned trans conversion therapy U-turn ‘pushing Wales closer to independence’

It’s “downright undemocratic” for Boris Johnson to unilaterally strip trans people in Wales of conversion therapy protections, an advocacy group has said. The prime minister has faced widespread backlash from LGBT+ groups and MPs since he decided to exclude trans people from the government’s...

April 7, 2022

Rapper Kidd Creole guilty of manslaughter after stabbing homeless man he ‘thought was gay’

Rapper Kidd Creole has been found guilty of manslaughter after an attack on a homeless man in Manhattan, New York, who he “thought was gay”. Creole – real name Nathaniel Glover – was found guilty of fatally stabbing John Jolly, 55, in Manhattan on 1 August 2017. Jolly allegedly asked him “What’s...