Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi and J Mase III are holding their fourth iteration of their #TransphobiaIsASin Campaign. (Instagram/@jmaseiii) A group of activists invite social media to join their campaign to ‘disrupt the religious violence trans people experience every day’. Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi and J Mase III edited the Black Trans Prayer Book to dismantle
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Cardi B attends the 2021 American Music Awards Red Carpet Roll-Out on 19 November 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Cardi B said she felt “extremely suicidal” and like a ‘burden to her family’ after a YouTuber pushed allegedly false claims about her. The “WAP” artist took to the witness stand on Thursday (13 January)
Phillip Schofield has made a joking jab against Boris Johnson. (Getty Images) British prime minister Boris Johnson should swap Number 10 for Dancing of Ice to “fill extra time”, Phillip Schofield has said. As the coronavirus engulfed and battered Britain, government officials were asked to a “bring your own booze” for bash in the backyard
Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness and season six star Angel Flores. (Getty/Roy Rochlin/Instagram) Queer Eye‘s Jonathan Van Ness has melted the heart of fans after revealing he’s become close friends with beloved contestant Angel Flores following her appearance on season six of the Netflix show. The transgender powerlifter had been struggling to find herself and
Ansel Pierce. (TikTok) Euphoria returned with a bang this week, as fans were once again treated to several scenes featuring full-frontal male nudity. Yep, the premiere episode saw three different penises grace our screens, including one attached to a character now forever known as “toilet guy” Actor Ansel Pierce made a short but memorable appearance during the
A flag bearer waves a Chelsea FC flag with the LGBT+ Progress flag design. (Clive Rose/Getty Images) Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said the “Chelsea rent boy” chant is a homophobic hate crime and not “harmless banter”. For decades, fans of teams playing against football titan Chelsea FC have lobbed the cruel chant from
Sarah Palin visits “Extra” at Universal Studios Hollywood on 4 December 2015 in Universal City, California. (Getty/Noel Vasquez) Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin went on a bizarre rant accusing “liberals” of trying to “pound” sex in people’s minds. Palin, who once rapped Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” in a pink and purple bear suit on
Tourists visit the Ancient Acropolis archeological site in Athens on 1 July 2021. (Louisa Gouliamaki/X07402/AFP via Getty) Greece’s culture ministry has launched an investigation following the release of a short film showing two men having sex at the ancient Acropolis in Athens. The 36-minute film, entitled “Departhenon” or “Xeparthenon” in some reports, was released in
Neve Campbell is returning for Scream 5. (YouTube) The much-anticipated Scream 5 is finally being released in cinemas this week. It’s been 10 years since the last instalment in Wes Craven’s iconic film franchise and fans are getting ready to return to Woodsboro. Ahead of its release on 14 January, you might want to re-visit
Maya Angelou in 2008. (WireImage/ Jemal Countess) Poet and civil rights titan Maya Angelou, who passed away in 2014, will become the first-ever Black woman on a US quarter. Angelou’s coin went into circulation on Monday (10 January), and is the first in US Mint’s American Women Quarters programme, which will also honour queer astronaut
Tucker Carlson reacted to a report that claimed a nurse recovered from COVID thanks to a large dose of Viagra. (Screen capture via Fox News/Getty Images) Tucker Carlson has begun pushing Vigara as a remedy for coronavirus, because why not at this point. Carlson, known for trumpeting theatrically conservative conspiracy theories, has spent much of
Tatum de Roeck, a queer woman, was diagnosed with breast cancer at 35. (PinkNews) Cancer care desperately needs to be more inclusive, an LGBT+ survivor has said, because “your life is in someone’s hands… and what if those hands are homophobic?” Tatum de Roeck is a yoga teacher who was diagnosed with breast cancer at
Protestor holds ‘Trans Lives Matter’ placard during protest in Warsaw, 2018. (Getty/Maciej Luczniewski) Within the first week of 2022, seven US states have proposed nine bills that would roll back the rights of trans and non-binary youth. These proposed bills will negatively impact trans and non-binary youths’ right to privacy, restrict their ability to take
Police officers during Birmingham Pride. (Jim Wood / Barcroft Media via Getty Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) A Birmingham police officer is recovering after being injured in an alleged homophobic assault. The officer was responding to reports of a fight on Hurst Street, in Birmingham’s Gay Village, when she was hurt at around
Adelaide United’s Josh Cavallo follows the play during the Australian A-League football match between Perth Glory and Adelaide United in Perth on November 20, 2021. (Photo by TREVOR COLLENS/AFP via Getty Images) Josh Cavallo’s team, Adelaide United, has asked police to investigate death threats made against the footballer. Since coming out as gay last October,
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
Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss. (NurPhoto via Getty/ David Cliff) British equalities minister Liz Truss has faced fresh criticism for failing to set up a new LGBT+ advisory panel some nine months after scrapping it. Anneliese Dodds, Labour Party MP and shadow equalities minister, expressed her frustration at the government’s sluggish attitude to
Josh Cavallo of Adelaide United. (Jonathan DiMaggio/Getty Images) Josh Cavallo, the pathbreaking gay professional top-flight men’s footballer, has been subjected to homophobic abuse during a match. The Adelaide United player, 22, was roped into Saturday’s (8 January) Adelaide United’s draw against Melbourne Victory in Australia’s A-League. Cavallo, who came out in October, said there were
Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider. (Twitter/ Jeopardy!) Reigning Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider has once again made history as the first woman to ever surpass $1 million in earnings. Schneider, the affable wiseacre and engineering manager from Dayton, Ohio, already has sufficient bragging rights from her nearly two-month-long streak on the syndicated game show. She is already
Members of the Canadian Forces salute. (Brent Just/Getty Images) Canada’s armed forces are to ditch gendered uniforms and allow service members to choose the get-up “most comfortable” to them. The Department of National Defence is to bring in genderless uniforms for Canadian Armed Forces troops, according to a memo obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, a news
Jack Green. (Kent Police) A teenager just 16 years old plunged a knife into a woman’s chest in a startling biphobic attack in Canterbury, England. In a crime that the victim says “scarred” her for life, Jack Green met student Megan Murphy and her friends at a Direct Pizza in Northgate during the early hours
Paris Jackson attends amfAR Gala Los Angeles 2021. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Queer musician, model and actor Paris Jackson has declared that she “wants to be a Marvel hero – or a supervillain”. Speaking to Variety Jackson, who stars in the new Hulu coming-of-age movie Sex Appeal, revealed that she’s a lifelong Marvel fan, and would love to
Nikita Dragun attends the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on 26 January 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty) Trans YouTuber and beauty influencer Nikita Dragun is part of the cast of new Netflix reality soap series Hype House. Hype House is a reality series that gives an inside look
Drag Race season 14 star Maddy Morphosis responds to controversial casting backlash. (YouTube/WOWPresents) The cast of Drag Race season 14 have defended the show’s first straight, cis male contestant, Maddy Morphosis. News that the Arkansas queen would be competing in season 14 sparked fierce debate about people from outside the queer community entering drag spaces.
Harvey Parker. (Met Police) Police have confirmed that a body recovered from the River Thames this week is missing student Harvey Parker. Having been missing for three weeks, this week the Met Police were contacted by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) about the discovery of a body in the River Thames, which was later recovered
Adele, Dua Lipa, Katy Perry and Elton John are among the music tickets you can buy for 2022. If you’ve got the January blues and want to book something to look forward to in 2022, then why not buy some music tickets for amazing US tours? Nothing beats a live gig and there’s plenty of
Harvey Parker. (Met Police) Police searching for Harvey Parker, who was last seen outside London’s Heaven nightclub on 17 December, have discovered a body in the River Thames. While the body has not formally been identified as the 20-year-old student, their family have issued a statement addressing the discovery. They said: “We are so very
Intersex Justice activists protest non-consensual surgeries on intersex people. (Twitter/ IntersexJustice) A California bill aiming to outlaw forced and unnecessary genital surgeries on intersex children has been pulled. California state senator Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, has been working for three years to try to ban the “corrective surgeries”. His bill, SB225, would have
Amarey Lej (L) and Duval Princess. (Facebook/TransGiot) A Black trans woman was shot dead on New Year’s Day, while a second was found dead in suspicious circumstances a day later. Amariey Lej (spelled Amarey in some reports), a 20-year-old dancer and youth artist apprentice, was found with a fatal gunshot wound by police in Wilkinsburg,
Kate Winslet played Mary Anning in Ammonite. (Natural History Museum Picture Library and YouTube/ BFI) Fossil hunter Mary Anning, portrayed by Kate Winslet in the film Ammonite, will finally be honoured with a statue in her hometown of Lyme Regis. Until recently, Anning, born in 1799, was almost forgotten by history despite being a pioneering
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