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April 6, 2022

Lego Star Wars game gives Oscar Isaac and John Boyega’s characters the happy gay ending they deserve

A new Lego Star Wars game appears to give Finn and Poe Dameron the happy queer ending fans have longed for. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has seemingly confirmed the ‘FinnPoe’ ship – a romance between John Boyega’s stormtrooper-turned-rebel character Finn and X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, played by Oscar...

April 6, 2022

Ukrainian trans people struggling to access vital healthcare: ‘We need medication and hormones’

A trans woman in Ukraine has said the community is struggling to access essential healthcare as the Russian war rages on. Anastasiia, director of Cohort NGO, an organisation for transgender people in Ukraine, has chosen to remain in the country – though many trans people have had that choice taken away from them, and are...

April 6, 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene gave her definition of a woman and it backfired spectacularly

Relentlessly transphobic far-right conspiracy theorist and sometimes congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been met with ridicule and condemnation after defining women as the “weaker sex”. In a video being widely shared on social media, Greene can be heard saying: “We came from Adam’s rib. God created...

April 6, 2022

Florida and Texas hit with travel bans by furious LA officials over toxic anti-LGBT+ attacks

April 6, 2022

White House’s Jen Psaki schools Fox News reporter on ‘hateful’ Don’t Say Gay law

Press secretary Jen Psaki shut down a Fox News reporter’s questions about LGBT+ education ‘before kindergarten’. Fox News reporter Peter Doocy brought up the controversial legislation, which was signed into law by Florida governor Ron DeSantis last month, during a White House press conference on Monday (4...

April 6, 2022

Two men jailed for life for raping teenage lesbian in brutal act of ‘hatred’

Two men have been handed life sentences after raping a lesbian teenager in South Africa. Getwin Moloto, 30, and Lebohang Makola, 35, from Pretoria were sentenced in court on Tuesday (5 April) following the attack that took place on 16 December, 2020. According to North Gauteng regional spokesperson for the director of...

April 6, 2022

The Tories’ LGBT+ conference was an egotistic sham. It was doomed to fail from the start

The Tories’ LGBT+ rights conference has finally been cancelled, and in the end, it went out with a whimper rather than a bang. The event, described by the government as the “first-ever global LGBT conference”, was doomed to fail right from the get go – but few could have predicted just how badly it would...

April 6, 2022

Queer bar explodes into terrifying ‘fireball’ after ‘arsonist’ douses it in gasoline

Two people at an LGBT+ bar in New York were injured when a suspected arsonist doused the floor in gasoline and set it on fire. The incident happened at Rash Bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on Sunday night (3 April), just before a “queer POC-centric nightlife event” was about to start. According to eye-witness reports, at...

April 6, 2022

Leading UK medical bodies tell government: Trans conversion therapy must end, without delay

The UK’s leading medical bodies have further discredited the prime minister’s attempt to ban LGB conversion therapy, but not trans conversion therapy. The British Medical Association (BMA), the UK Council for Psychotherapy and Royal College of Psychiatrists, among others, have all urged the government to extend...

April 6, 2022

UK gender pay gap data reveals companies paying women up to 63 per cent less

The latest UK gender pay gap data has been published, with women earning 90 pence for every man-made pound. The gap between the median pay of men and women shrunk compared to last year’s: from 10.2 per cent to 9.8 per cent. One of the worst figures came from Swiss airline EasyJet, where women’s median …...