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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Cleveland, Ohio, the day after the first presidential debate between him and Donald Trump. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Joe Biden condemned Donald Trump for turning a “blind eye” towards the violence inflicted on trans women of colour in a speech at an LGBT+ event. In his pre-recorded comments, which were
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Singer/songwriter Demi Lovato attends the 2018 Billboard Music Awards 2018 at the MGM Grand Resort International on May 20, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo by LISA O’CONNOR / AFP) (Photo credit should read LISA O’CONNOR/AFP/Getty Images) Demi Lovato has managed to convert the relentless, inexpressible rage people feel towards Donald Trump into a song
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Don Lemon and Mary Trump. (Screen capture via Facebook) Mary Trump, the lesbian niece of Donald Trump, tore into the US president’s terrible dancing skills to the delight of CNN anchor Don Lemon. Mary, who recently published a scathing hair plugs-all book on her uncle, managed to compress the levels of horror, confusion and delirium felt
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson is seething after Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s apology for referring to sexuality as “sexual preference”. At her Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday (13 October), conservative Supreme Court nominee insisted she has never discriminated against LGBT+ people based on “sexual preference” after being challenged over her ties to anti-LGBT+
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Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett. (LEAH MILLIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett sparked outrage Tuesday (13 October) by insisting she has never discriminated against LGBT+ people based on “sexual preference”. You know, that vastly dated term long criticised by LGBT+ people as being a discriminatory dogwhistle? On
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Viktoria Basakovskaya was allegedly strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend in Siberia, Russia. (Screen capture via YouTube) A police officer in Novosibirsk, Russia has confessed to killing his missing ex-girlfriend, a 24-year-old trans woman, after leading the charge to find her. The body of Viktoria Basakovskaya was found in the southern village of Burmistrovo and showed
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Andrew Dvash-Banks and Elad Dvash-Banks with their sons Ethan and Aidan (Immigration Equality) An appeals court has upheld the victory of Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks, a gay couple fighting for their baby to get US citizenship despite efforts from the Trump administration. The State Department had refused to grant citizenship to two-year-old Ethan Dvash-Banks, who was
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett attends first day of her Senate confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on October 12, 2020. (ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump’s nominee to replace LGBT+ rights hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, has been accused of cozying up to
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Amy Coney Barrett (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) and Pete Buttigieg (Alexander Tamargo/Getty) Pete Buttigieg has expertly broken down the ominous Supreme Court opening statement from Amy Coney Barrett, calling it “a pathway to judicial activism cloaked in judicial humility”. The gay former presidential hopeful was being interviewed on MSNBC’s AM Joy on Sunday (11 October) when Barrett released
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Saturday Night Live guest host Bill Burr has attracted criticism for opening the show with a tired monologue about Pride Month. The King of Staten Island star, who guest-hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend (October 10), started the night on a not-exactly-original note by moaning about cancel culture and punching down at queer people,
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Milton Hershey school was accused of forcing boys to watch conversion therapy videos (YouTube/Milton Hershey School) A student who claimed an elite school forced him to undergo conversion therapy after he was caught watching gay porn has been ordered to pay $800 of the school’s legal fees. Former student Adam Dobson claimed he was forced
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Untitled drawing, c.1946-1959, Duncan Grant (1885-1978), The Charleston Trust © The Estate of Duncan Grant, licensed by DACS 2020.⁣⁣ More than 400 “lost” paintings depicting gay sex by the British painter Duncan Grant have been discovered under a bed years after they first went missing. Grant was a painter and designer and was famously a
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Charlie Cressey opened up about the moment he was targeted with homophobic abuse while volunteering (Envato Elements) A gay volunteer has opened up about the horrific moment he tried to help an “intoxicated” man, but was met with a torrent of homophobic abuse. Charlie Cressey, from Hove, spoke about his experience as part of Sussex
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Police are investigating conservative commentator Darren Grimes on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred over a horrific “racist” interview with historian David Starkey. Starkey was widely condemned in June when, in an interview with Grimes, he claimed that slavery was not a genocide because “so many damn Blacks” survived. He subsequently resigned or was fired
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Paul Hollywood’s suggestion that rainbow bagels “represent the NHS” led to a number of complaints, the broadcast regulator Ofcom has confirmed. The Great British Bake Off judge was roundly mocked on social media for claiming that the rainbow colours commonly associated with LGBT+ Pride actually symbolised the UK’s National Health Service. “Paul, why rainbow coloured
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A 94-year-old grandmother and lifelong Republican has pledged to vote for Joe Biden in the presidential election, after her gay grandson tearfully explained to her the risk doing otherwise poses to his future, and the safety of the LGBT+ community. After congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Democrats to speak to their Republican-voting loved ones about the
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Pete Buttigieg has revealed how he channeled his “inner Mike Pence” while helping Kamala Harris prepare for the vice-presidential debate. In a strange twist of fate, the gay former presidential candidate has been role-playing as Pence in mock debates with Harris to help her practise. Appearing in an MNBC segment ahead of the big showdown
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper has condemned Trump’s “recklessness” while carrying a deadly disease, pointing out that HIV positive people can be jailed for the same offence. The president remains evasive about when he first tested positive for COVID-19, raising questions about how many people he might have knowingly exposed. The White House has declined to confirm
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Kamala Harris suffered through Mike Pence’s constant interruptions with grace at the vice presidential debate. (CNN) Kamala Harris telling Mike Pence “I’m speaking, Mr Vice President” during Wednesday night’s (October 7) debate has, of course, spawned a legion of memes. The vice presidential debate saw Harris and Pence spar through pandemic-mandated Plexiglass over COVID-19, healthcare
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Ana Brnabic, Prime Minister of Serbia, at the Western Balkans Summit in Poland on 5 July, 2019. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty) Serbia’s first female and first openly gay prime minister Ana Brnabic has won a second term following an election marred by claims of corruption. Prime minister Brnabic, leader of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, was nominated
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Former NFL player Martin Jenkins is the first openly gay man to be nominated California’s highest court (Twitter/@gavinnewsom) Martin Jenkins, the man poised to become the first openly gay justice on the California Supreme Court served on the bench for decades without coming out to most friends and colleagues. Jenkins, 66, was appointed by governor
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Paul Hollywood claimed that rainbow bagels being made on The Great British Bake Off  represented the NHS, and it’s fair to say that queer fans are not impressed. For the technical challenge on Tuesday night’s episode (6 October), bakers were asked to make rainbow coloured bagels. “But why would anybody ever want to eat a rainbow bagel?” we
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This tattooed school teacher hopes his appearance will encourage children to be open-minded (Instagram/@freakyhoody) A school teacher whose entire body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos says he hopes his appearance will help to make children more tolerant and less homophobic. Sylvain Helaine, 35, started getting tattoos at the age of 27 and now
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Paramount film actors Cary Grant (1904 – 1986) and Randolph Scott (1898 – 1987) in front of their new home which looks out over Santa Monica sea front. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty) Candid photos showing Hollywood heartthrobs Cary Grant and Randolph Scott together in their shared home were the result of a studio publicity campaign
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