The stars are rumoured to be dating. (Getty/Getty) Barry Keoghan was spotted in the crowd at The Eras Tour Singapore, and the way he reacted to Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Nonsense’ outro was nothing less than iconic. The singer-songwriter has been supporting Taylor Swift’s record-breaking tour, with the performers finishing up a seven-show run in Australia before
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The pageant celebrates Thai-national trans women. (Getty) A trans flight attendant has been crowned Miss Tiffany’s Universe 2024 in Pattaya, Thailand. Saruda “Pimai” Panyakham won the coveted title in the beauty pageant on 4 February, which celebrates Thai-national trans women. She was announced as the winner of the 25th Miss Tiffany pageant at the Tiffany
Drag Race Thailand star Bandit has passed away (World of Wonder/Screenshot via YouTube) Tributes have poured in for Drag Race Thailand season two star Bandit Janthawanm, known by the stage name Bandit, who has died aged 38. A fashion designer, Bandit placed fourth on the second series of Drag Race Thailand in 2019 and notably
Nepal has registered its first same-sex marriage. (Getty) An LGBTQ+ couple has finally become the first in Nepal to legally register a same-sex marriage – four months after the country’s landmark Supreme Court ruling. Although the country’s civil code describes marriage as being between a man and a woman, a Supreme Court Justice made an
LGBTQIA+ rights advocacy collective, Yes, We Exist, has called on Meta to address cyber bullying following the suicide of 16-year-old makeup artist Pranshu, who the group claim was “bullied for a week” on the platform ahead of his death. (Instagram/ glamitupwithpranshu) An Indian makeup artist has died by suspected suicide at just 16 after being
Trans teacher Estee Saway (left) and Mike Armando Wilson (right). (Facebook) A Filipino elected official has been accused of formulating the killing of a trans teacher in Abra according to a Police report. Barangay chairman hon. Mike Armando Wilson was reportedly identified by one of the four suspects arrested a few hours after the killing
Sareh (Zahra) Sediqi Hamedani was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for “promoting homosexuality” in October 2021. (YouTube/6rangIran) Two LGBTQ+ activists have been sentenced to death in Iran for “promoting homosexuality”. According to the Kurdish human rights organisation Hengaw, Zahra Sediqi Hamedani, also known as “Sareh”, 31, and Elham Chubdar, 24, were both sentenced
One of the woman’s body parts was found in her killer’s home. (Envato) A man has been arrested for the murder of a trans woman in India, after a piece of her body was found in his home. Warning: this story contains graphic content. Zoya Kinnar, a trans woman in the city of Indore, India,
Politician, activist and spokesperson Jimmy Sham’s appeal for same-sex marriage has been rejected. (Getty Images) A legal bid by LGBTQ+ activist Jimmy Sham to have overseas same-sex marriages recognised in Hong Kong has been rejected in court. Sham married his partner in New York in 2013 and has been fighting to have his marriage recognised
The trans woman is only able to be a legal parent to one of her two daughters. (Getty) A trans woman in Japan has been blocked by a court from being her own biological child’s legal parent. According to Japan Times, the anonymous trans woman had frozen her sperm before beginning medical transition, and used
A school counsellor at a Hwa Chong Institution school in Singapore made a presentation containing bigoted claims about the LGBTQ+ community. (Reddit/DAvengingAngels) A Singaporean school counsellor was suspended from giving lessons after alleging gay people have “intestinal worms” and other discriminatory claims during a presentation. The presentation by a Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) staffer drew
Trans pilot Adam Harry. (Instagram/ pilotadamharry) Adam Harry, who hopes to become India’s first trans commercial pilot, is fighting for justice after being declared “unfit” to fly because of his medical transition. Harry told the BBC that he has been flying since before coming out, and that initially his family was funding his studies at
Pride in Seoul, South Korea. (ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images) One of South Korea’s top courts dismissed a landmark lawsuit that sought to bolster LGBT+ rights by enshrining equal access to healthcare benefits. The Seoul Administrative Court on Friday (7 January) shrugged off the suit brought forward by So Seong-wook, 30, against the country’s National Health Insurance Service
The Sri Lankan government has been accused of forcing abusive anal and vaginal virginity “tests” on LGBT+ people in an attempt to prove homosexual conduct. According to a shocking Human Rights Watch report, at least seven people have been forced into the “cruel, inhuman, and degrading” physical examinations since 2017. Together with the non-profit Equal
Reem Sharif, the first trans police officer in Pakistan, is fighting to change the prejudices that previously held her back (Twitter/@zofeen28) After enduring death threats, slurs and sexual harassment, Pakistan’s first transgender police officer is using her experience to help others as a trans victim support officer. Reem Sharif has gone from victim to protector
The couple were accused of entering into a same-sex marriage, which is a crime in Pakistan (Envato Elements) A court in Pakistan has ordered the formation of a medical board to do a ‘gender test’ on a trans man who is accused of changing his gender to marry a woman. The couple have now been
Volunteers carry sacks of rice on March 20, 2020 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines (Ezra Acayan/Getty) The LGBT+ community in the Philippines has been recruited to distribute coronavirus relief after packages reportedly went missing in the hands of corrupt officials. Mayor Sara Duterte of Davao City in the southern Philippines noticed a “recurring problem”