Award-winning director wants to see more older lesbians on screen

The director of an award-winning short film about two elderly lesbians has called for more older LGBT+ women as characters on screen. Time & Again was written, produced and directed by Rachel Dax and is currently being shown at film festivals, but has already won the audience award for best short narrative film at...

Megan Rapinoe says her dad ‘probably’ voted for Trump

US lesbian football hero Megan Rapinoe, who has been vocal about her dislike of the US president, has revealed she thinks her dad voted for Donald Trump. She spoke about her family’s confusing political views, which have caused friction between them, in an interview with the Guardian. Rapinoe said the household she...

Man who murdered six gay men in 1994 to be executed this week

A notorious US serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1990s is set to be executed in Florida on Thursday, August 22. Gary Ray Bowles, 57, killed six gay men in 1994. He was known as the “I-95” killer and evaded police for nine months by using stolen identification documents, before finally being caught....

Here are five ways you can support Palestinian queers

The Palestinian Authority has banned LGBT+ groups from carrying out activities in the West Bank. Palestinian Authority (PA) police also issued an official statement on August 18 encouraging members of the public to report on the activities of LGBT+ groups. Palestinian LGBT+ group Al-Qaws says that the PA police statement...

A LGBT church has been vandalised six times in two weeks

The windows of a LGBT+ church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have been smashed with rocks six times in two weeks. According to its website, the “radically inclusive” Metropolitan Community Church of Albuquerque celebrates “all forms of self-expressions, identities and orientations”. Andy Najar, a...

Memorial to gay victims of Nazis found vandalised

A memorial to gay victims of the Nazis and the Holocaust in Berlin’s Tiergarten park has been vandalised. The concrete “Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen” (memorial to homosexuals persecuted under Nazism) was unveiled in 2008 and includes a small opening in which viewers can...