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August 18, 2019

Royal Marine’s son comes out as gay and his reaction will warm your heart

A former Royal Marine’s recently came out as gay to him, and his reaction on social media had users gushing about his parenting skills. Jack – known only by the Twitter handle @jackp593 online – took to his official account on Friday 16 August to say: “My son told me he was gay last night …...

August 17, 2019

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, right-wing Trump-supporting pastor Franklin Graham slams schools teaching LGBT+ history

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Trump-supporting right-wing pastor Franklin Graham has slammed a new state law which requires schools to teach about LGBT+ history. In January, the state of New Jersey introduced a new law requiring schools to teach about the societal contributions of historical LGBT+ people. Bill...

August 17, 2019

Football writer Nicky Bandini came out as transgender and the timing was… convenient

Renowned sports journalist Nicky Bandini came out as transgender this week. It was everything you’d want, if your job means – as Nicky Bandini’s does – that you need to come out publicly: a national newspaper gave her the space to tell her story, in her own words; it updated her author page to reflect …...

August 17, 2019

Homophobic chants bring football game to a stop

A French football match was brought to a screeching halt on Friday over homophobic songs and chants. The Ligue 2 game between Nancy and Le Mans was temporarily halted by referee Mehdi Mokhtari in the first half after repeated chanting from home supporters at Stade Mercel Picot. Fans had been warned to stop chanting over...

August 17, 2019

Trump administration says it’s legal to fire a person for being transgender

The Trump administration has told the Supreme Court that it is legal to fire a person for being transgender. A brief was filed on Friday August 16 by the Justice Department arguing that transgender workers are not protected by federal civil rights law and can be fired because of their gender identity. Earlier this year,...

August 17, 2019

Nearly 200,000 trans people have been through conversion therapy in the US

Thirteen and a half percent of all transgender people in the US have been through conversion therapy despite major medical organisations calling it ineffective and unethical, research has found. Equating to some 187,923 trans people across all 50 states, the study found that the controversial practice of attempting to...

August 17, 2019

150 A-level students identified as non-binary this year

More than 150 students identified as non-binary when sitting their A-level exams this year, according to two of the UK’s leading exam boards. It’s the first time that the number of non-binary A-level candidates has been publicly shared since exam boards Edexcel and OCR made changes to the the way they classify...

August 17, 2019

This guy’s date made an odd request and it’ll make you want to stay single

There’s nothing like that feeling of going on a good first date. You get that light, airy feeling afterwards, and you can’t stop thinking about seeing them again – until you receive a creepy message that ruins it all. That’s what happened to Eric Dimitratos, who is head of digital at MTV. He shared a …...

August 17, 2019

Songs of Praise will feature same-sex wedding in groundbreaking episode

BBC’s religious show Songs of Praise is set to feature a same-sex wedding in a groundbreaking new episode. The long-running series, which broadcasts hymns sung at churches across the UK, will feature parts of a same-sex wedding service at an inclusive church on Sunday, August 18. The episode will feature the wedding...

August 16, 2019

Pete Buttigieg met a woman who shook hands with Robert Kennedy and it soon got awkward

Pete Buttigieg had an extremely awkward encounter with a woman who previously met the late Robert F. Kennedy. The gay Presidential hopeful was campaigning at the Iowa State Fair when he met the woman, who recalled a previous encounter with Kennedy in 1968. Speaking to Buttigieg on Tuesday (August 13), she said: “I...