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June 29, 2022

Democrats propose ‘Trans Bill of Rights’ to ensure trans Americans can live ‘full and happy lives’

House Democrats have introduced a “Transgender Bill of Rights” to ensure trans Americans are protected on a federal level. Coinciding with the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising on Tuesday (28 June), five Democrats are hoping to codify into law a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that found a landmark civil...

June 29, 2022

Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke to star in Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘new Brokeback Mountain’

Actors Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke are to star in an upcoming short film being tipped as the “new Brokeback Mountain”. Critically-acclaimed director Pedro Almodóvar revealed details of his new Western project in an interview with IndieWire, with Pascal and Hawke taking on the role of gay, middle-aged...

June 29, 2022

Gay couple’s lives changed forever by a single email: ‘Would you adopt this child?’

A gay couple got news that they’d been approved for adoption – and that social workers had already found them a son. Both Adam and Daniyal have always known they wanted to have children one day. They first considered adoption when they were in their late twenties, but they ultimately decided to put it off, …...

June 29, 2022

Halifax bank invites bigots raging against inclusive pronoun badges to close their accounts

Halifax has come out swinging for the LGBTQ+ community and invited anyone angry at the bank’s new pronoun staff badges to close their account. The company shared an image of a badge belonging to an employee named Gemma with the pronouns “she/her/hers” in a post on Twitter Tuesday (28 June). The post, which comes days...

June 29, 2022

Villagers rally around gay couple targeted by homophobes in moving display of solidarity

Dozens of villagers rallied around a gay couple after they were sent vile homophobic abuse. Nathan Jones and Daniel Cooper have been targeted with disgusting homophobic abuse and threats ever since they bought their local Post Office in New Longton, Lancashire in January. Even the simple act of handing a Pride flag over...

June 29, 2022

Huge protest at Downing Street demands Tory government stop attacking LGBTQ+ rights

LGBTQ+ rights protesters, including Labour MP Kate Osborne and Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall, flocked to Downing Street for a protest in place of the government’s cancelled LGBTQ+ conference. Activists flocked to London for a protest in place of the Tory government’s flagship Safe To Be Me: A Global Equalities...

June 29, 2022

Chris Pratt says he ‘never’ went to anti-LGBTQ+ megachurch Hillsong

Chris Pratt has denied ever being part of Hillsong Church, three years after Elliot Page called him out. In 2019, Elliott Page said that Chris Pratt should address his “infamously anti-LGBTQ+ church”, widely understood to be a reference to megachurch Hillsong, founded by anti-gay marriage pastor Brian Houston....

June 29, 2022

‘Reprehensible’ Tory MP says women have no ‘absolute right to bodily autonomy’ in abortion debate

Tory MP Danny Kruger has said he doesn’t agree women have “an absolute right to bodily autonomy” during a debate on abortion. The MP for Devizes in Wiltshire said on Tuesday (28 June) that he doesn’t agree that women’s autonomy is absolute “in the case of abortion” because of the...

June 29, 2022

Tory minister Nadine Dorries instructs sports chiefs to start excluding trans women

Digital, culture, media and sport secretary Nadine Dorries has told British sports bosses they must take swimming’s lead and limit women’s sports to “people born of the female sex”. Dorries told representatives from football, cricket, rugby, tennis, athletics and other sports Tuesday afternoon (28...

June 29, 2022

Proud Boys who targeted LGBTQ+ story time met with ‘human shield’ of LGBTQ+ love

A gang of alleged Proud Boys were met by a fierce “human shield” of LGBTQ+ advocates when they targeted a Pride Month library event. A Pride Month Family Storytime event in a Texas library was beset by anti-LGBTQ+ protesters, many wearing Trump merch and religious insignias, on Saturday (25 June). Suspected members of the...