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Donald Trump Jr, son of Donald Trump, speaks during a Republican National Committee Rally at Dalton Regional Airport 4 January, 2021 in Dalton, Georgia. (Getty/ Alex Wong) Donald Trump Jr has claimed his dad should not have been permanently suspended from Twitter because he hasn’t “killed homosexuals”. The lame duck US president’s @RealDonaldTrump account was
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Former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla) As a stunned America reacted to the violent storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump white supremacist mob, just one thing was certain – Richard Grenell would lie about it all. Ripping pages straight out of the Donald Trump playbook, Grenell continued to spew wily
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House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Win McNamee/Getty) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has cited pressuring pharmaceutical giant Gilead to bring down the cost of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, as one of her biggest achievements in her first term in Congress. The New York congressperson reflected on her career after her January 2019 nomination in a Twitter video. “During committee
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Transgender people and their supporters march during London’s second Trans Pride in September, 2020. (WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Gender dysphoria can be a hard one to explain to cisgender people. How do you understand something that you don’t experience? While cisgender people understanding dysphoria may not be the most pressing issue facing trans and
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Trans politician Addison Perry-Franks. (Facebook) Addison Perry-Franks, a talented filmmaker and steadfast trans Texan Democrat who sought a career in politics to combat transphobia, has died. She was 39. Her wife, Lacey Franks, confirmed her death in a Facebook post 1 January. “The love of my life has passed away today,” she wrote. “I don’t
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Kelly Loeffler. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Voters in Georgia were targeted with a blitz of anti-trans adverts before the crucial Senate run-off elections, which could shift the balance of power in the US Senate from Republican to Democrat. There has been record-level turnout for the two crucial run-off elections, state election officials
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Aaron Schock has faced backlash after sharing photos of himself holidaying in Brazil with other influencers as coronavirus cases surge. (Instagram) Aaron Schock is facing backlash once again after he shared photos of himself holidaying in Brazil as coronavirus case numbers surge in the United States. The disgraced former Republican congressman, who came out as
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The Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, DC. (Getty/ The Washington Post/ Marvin Joseph) A woman has pleaded guilty to threatening to bomb a Catholic school, killing children, teachers and nuns, because it supports its LGBT+ alumni. In May 2019, sister Mary Berchmans, president emerita of Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, DC, announced in
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Queer people in all 50 states now have equal protection from domestic violence under the law. (Envato Elements) Queer victims of domestic violence are finally protected by law in all 50 states after a historic court ruling in North Carolina. North Carolina had been the only state that did not offer equal protection to queer
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George Santos attended a Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve Party with Rudy Giuliani and the Trump family, with not a mask in sight. (@Santos4Congress/Twitter) Gay Trump supporter George Santos hit out at the New York Times for citing an Instagram post showing him maskless at the Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve party, after his fiancé was subsequently fired.
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Things got, er, odd in the first trailer for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. (Screen captures via Twitter) Drag queens, start your engines – the official trailer for the long-awaited second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK dropped Sunday evening (3 January) and yup, we are absolutely gagging for it. Immediately sparking hope that maybe 2021
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NikkieTutorials, real name Nikkie de Jage. (Screen capture via YouTube) YouTuber NikkieTutorials has opened up about her experience of 2020 which saw her blackmailed into coming out publicly as trans as well as being robbed. The makeup guru, known off-screen as Nikkie de Jager, revealed she was trans in a YouTube video published in January
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Jeffrey Sanker (R) poses backstage at Jeffrey Sanker’s White Party on April 25, 2015 in Palm Springs, California. (Chelsea Lauren/WireImage) One of the US’s top gay circuit party organisers has fielded intense criticism for holding a New Year’s Eve bash in Mexico, leapfrogging over a state’s coronavirus restrictions to do so even as cases nationwide
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Video footage showed the moment a cruise sank as rescue boats scrambled to save passengers from drowning. (Screen captures via Twitter/@fitnessgayz) As Mexico’s coronavirus caseloads soar, a queer party boat packed with some 60 people sank to the depths of the ocean Friday afternoon (31 December). Startling mobile phone footage uploaded to social media showed
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Jonathan Van Ness and Mark Peacock. (Instagram/@jvn) Jonathan Van Ness has opened up about his relationship with Mark Peacock after the pair quietly married in 2020. Taking to Instagram Saturday afternoon (2 January), the Queer Eye star shared adorable photographs of them together, his “favourite moments” of last year, he said. They ranged from re-enacting
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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
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Stornoway Harbour, Western Isles. (Getty/ Tim Graham) Councillors in the Western Isles, off the coast of Scotland, have rejected LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education in favour of Roman Catholic teaching. The Western Isles council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, overwhelmingly voted this month in favour Roman Catholic teaching materials to be used in lessons on relationships,
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