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August 12, 2019

Real Salt Lake football coach Mike Petke sacked over homophobic slurs

Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake has sacked its head coach Mike Petke for using anti-gay slurs. The club terminated Petke’s contract after he reportedly screamed homophobic slurs at a referee during the team’s July 24 Leagues Cup match against Mexican team Tigres. Real Salt Lake coach repeatedly used...

August 12, 2019

Halsey shuts down troll who blamed Miley Cyrus breakup on her sexuality

Halsey has fired back at a troll who blamed Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s break-up on the “Wrecking Ball” singer’s pansexuality. Cyrus and Hemsworth confirmed on Saturday (August 10) that they are to split after less than a year of marriage. One Twitter troll had a perverse reaction to the news,...

August 12, 2019

Police seek vandal who sprayed ‘KILL THE GAY’ on New York building

The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is looking for a man who allegedly sprayed anti-gay graffiti onto the side of a building. The NYPD task force put out a plea for help finding the man who is believe to have scrawled the message “KILL THE GAY AWAY” on the side of a …...

August 12, 2019

Gay couple flee Russia after authorities threaten to take away adopted sons

A gay couple have reportedly been forced to flee Russia with their adopted sons after breaking the “anti-gay propaganda law” by letting their children know that they are married. Andrei Vaganov and Evgeny Erofeyev have been raising their two sons, now 12 and 14, for nearly a decade. The children were adopted by Vaganov...

August 12, 2019

Gavin Grimm: Trans man wins four-year battle against school policy

Transgender man Gavin Grimm has claimed a decisive victory in his battle against a policy at his former school that forced him to use female toilets. Grimm, now 20, has spent the past four years of his life embroiled in the legal battle with Gloucester School Board in Virginia over its 2014 policy stipulating that …...

August 12, 2019

Gentleman Jack star: ‘People want to see themselves represented on screen’

The star of BBC’s Gentleman Jack, Sophie Rundle, has described the ‘massive response’ she’s had from viewers after portraying a lesbian relationship on TV. The historical drama is based on the coded diaries of 17th century heiress Anne Lister, who is played by Suranne Jones. Rundle plays the...

August 12, 2019

Ian McKellen congratulates gay couple who got engaged at Perthshire Pride

Legendary actor Ian McKellen congratulated a couple on their engagement at Perthshire Pride at the weekend. McKellen led Perthshire’s first-ever Pride parade on Saturday (August 10), making it his second such march this year after Pride in London. At the event, couple Danny Mitchell, 22, and Josh Ogilvie, 20,...

August 12, 2019

Trump administration takes up ‘civil rights’ complaint from anti-LGBT group

The Trump administration has launched a “civil rights” probe over a trans-inclusive policy at Connecticut high schools, after a complaint filed by anti-LGBT campaigners. The US Department of Education confirmed in a letter dated August 7 that it had taken up a complaint, which was filed by anti-LGBT lobbying...

August 12, 2019

Straight Pride plans blocked by California city officials

The city of Modesto, California has refused permission for a ‘Straight Pride’ event. On Friday (August 9), Modesto city council rejected a request from a group calling itself the National Straight Pride Coalition to hold a rally on August 24. The council noted that the group had no liability insurance and could...

August 12, 2019

Activists call for more religious LGBT characters as EastEnders debuts lesbian Muslim

Campaigners, including Vicky Beeching, are urging TV bosses to increase the representation of religious LGBT+ characters on our screens. Their calls follow reports that soap EastEnders is set to introduce a lesbian Muslim for the first time. According to the The Sun, character Iqra Ahmed (Priya Davdra) will come out as gay...