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Man injured in suspected homophobic machete attack in London

A man has been hospitalised after a violent machete attack in south-east London, which police believe may have had homophobic motives. The victim was assaulted outside a Sainsbury’s supermarket on Surrey Quays Road, Southwark at 3.12pm on Tuesday (July 23). A man struck his leg with a machete, causing serious...
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30,000 sign petition in support of ‘anti-gay’ children

More than 30,000 people have signed a petition in support of two ten-year-olds who were suspended from school after asking to be excused from a Pride month LGBT+ lesson. Kaysey and Farrell, both from Christian families, attend a school in Croydon, South London. They were suspended for five days. The two Year 5 students...
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Three US Presidential hopefuls add pronouns to their bios

Elizabeth Warren, the 70-year-old Massachusetts senator, has become the latest Presidential hopeful to add her gender pronouns to her social-media bios. Two other candidates – Julián Castro, the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and New York mayor Bill de Blasio – also have their pronouns in their Twitter bios. “U.S....
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Florida City Council candidate: ‘To hell with gay pride’

A Floridian City Council candidate is openly campaigning from an anti-LGBT+ standpoint, saying: “It makes me more popular as a leader.” Chico Cromartie is running for District 7 in the city of St Petersburg, Florida, where he believes the LGBT+ community is thriving at the expense of the black community....
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New PM Boris Johnson urged to apologise for ‘bum boys’ slur

LGBT+ campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to start his time as Prime Minister by finally issuing an apology for his history of anti-LGBT remarks. As Johnson claimed victory in the Conservative leadership election, the LGBT+ Conservatives group joined calls for him to finally apologise for comments from the 1990s,...