The former Disney actor announced the news. (Getty) Congratulations are in order! Bridgit Mender has become a mum to an adopted child, she recently announced. The former Disney actor took to X (formerly Twitter) on 20 February to announce the happy news, revealing that she had actually adopted the toddler back in Christmas 2022 after
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The Cuban government has urged citizens to vote ‘yes’ on a broad legislative package, which would improve LGBTQ+ and women’s rights in the country. (Getty) Cuba’s government has urged citizens to approve a new LGBTQ+ friendly legislative package that would introduce same-sex marriage and allow queer couples to adopt children. Cuba is holding a referendum on
The poster for Forbidden Love in Heaven. (Ran Yinxiao_ A simple film about a gay couple who adopt a homeless child, Forbidden Love in Heaven has become something almost unthinkable for LGBT+ filmmakers and moviegoers in China: a hit. In a nation where acceptance of same-sex couples is progressing at a less-than-glacial rate, Chinese filmmakers have
Leon Wenham explained that he wrote You, Me and Lots and Lots of Love because he never saw his family reflected in books he would read to his five-year-old son (Instagram) A Black, gay dad has written his own story book after being disappointed by the lack of diversity in traditional tales. Leon Wenham explained that
The Christian foster agency was found to have acted unlawfully in excluding LGBT+ parents (Envato Elements) A Christian fostering agency in England discriminated against LGBT+ people by asking potential carer to “refrain from homosexual behaviour”, a damning Ofsted report has found. According to the education watchdog, Sunderland-based Cornerstone North East Fostering Service would only recruit
Trans performers rally for LGBT+ rights in Bankok. (Getty/Lillian Suwanrumpha) Thailand is set to become the first southeast Again country to legalise same-sex unions and allow queer couples to adopt – but will not introduce full marriage equality. Same-sex couples could have their love recognised under a new bill approved by the Thai government Wednesday
Peter Sheward and his father, Peter Sheward Snr, who died of prostate cancer in 2017. (Supplied) Father’s Day will always be special for Peter Sheward-Himpson, a gay man who never dreamed he could have a child. But it is also a reminder of the father he’s lost, and the grandfather his son will never have.
Takaya Honda and Matt Wilson play David and Aaron in Neighbours. (Channel 5) Neighbours star Takaya Honda, who plays David Tanaka in the soap, has spoken about his character’s trailblazing storyline of becoming a foster parent in a same-sex relationship. Tanaka’s character David married Aaron Brennan in 2018, making them the first couple to have a
On the day Thomas Anderson found out he was going to be a father, he nearly fainted. He’d known from a young age that he wanted children in his future, but as a gay man he thought it was “impossible” for him. And when he entered his 30s as a single gay man, it felt