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A police officer in Kolkata, India, has been arrested for harassing, molesting and using obscene language and gestures towards a transgender rights activist. According to The Times of India, inspector Abhishek Bhattacharya is facing the charges for targeting Ranjita Sinha, a well-known local activist who leads sensitivity training efforts on LGBT+ issues. The outlet reports that
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Joan Bellingham was training to be a nurse when she was admitted to a psychiatric ward for being a lesbian. (1 News) A New Zealand nurse who was repeatedly hospitalised for 12 years and given electroconvulsive therapy more than 200 times has said her fight for justice has been “almost as bad as the abuse”.
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Jojo Siwa and Paris Hilton have completely unique styles—and they couldn’t be more different! Sometimes, though, change is good—which may be why the social media superstars decided to swap styles for the day.  The rainbow and candy loving Jojo, who rose to fame on Dance Moms and now boasts nearly 12 million subscribers on YouTube, took to TikTok and Instagram on
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Billie Day Wakefield was an LGBT+ activist from Bristol. (Supplied) One of Bristol’s most prominent LGBT+ campaigners, Billie Dale Wakefield, has tragically passed away at the age of 78. Described by local leaders and loved ones as a “hero”, Dale Wakefield founded the Bristol Gay Switchboard in 1975, and became one of the founders of
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Ellen DeGeneres during a taping of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (Getty/Brooks Kraft) Amid her “toxic workplace” scandal, Ellen DeGeneres has still managed to find her way on a list of the most admired women in the entire world. Despite blistering backlash after staff accused senior producers of bullying, sexual misconduct and racism on the set
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Police said it was ‘reasonable force’ to shoot Roxanne Moore 16 times. (Getty) Police officers who fired 16 shots at Black trans woman Roxanne Moore used “reasonable force”, says the Pennsylvania district attorney. Moore, 29, remains in hospital, in critical but stable condition, after being fired at by officers on September 13. At a press
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Liz Truss leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on February 13, 2020.(TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty) The Conservative minister for women and equalities, Liz Truss, has been accused by Liberal Democrat peer baroness Liz Barker of hiding details of meetings she had about the Gender Recognition Act. Baroness Barker, who is the LGBT+ spokesperson in
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Michael Cashman. (Screen capture via Parliament Live) Michael Cashman posed a simple question to a Tory government minister: When has a cisgender man ever self-identified as a woman to commit crimes? The response? Silence. Conservative peer Elizabeth Berridge, a junior minister for women, fielded questions from the House of Lords Friday morning (September 25), regarding
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Demi Lovato‘s fans are currently not so confident about her romance with fiancé Max Ehrich.  Just two months since the couple got engaged, signs of possible trouble in paradise are raising eyebrows online. On Thursday, Sept. 24, several tweets emerged pointing out Demi’s sister Dallas Lovato, friends Matthew Scott Montgomery and Max Lea and her makeup artist Jill Powell do not follow Ehrich
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Gay and bisexual men still face outdated restrictions on blood donation. (Pexels) A study has revealed that when a lifetime ban on blood donation for queer men in the US was lifted, there was no “statistically significant” increase in HIV-positive blood. New research has revealed that there was “no increase in HIV incidence or HIV
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Tory MP Crispin Blunt has called for his colleague Liz Truss to be sacked as minister for women and equalities. (Luke Dray/Getty) Tory MP Crispin Blunt has called for Liz Truss, the Conservative minister for women and equalities, to be sacked as she doesn’t have “the empathy for the role”. In an extraordinary move, Blunt
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Jack Osbourne is an open book.  On the newest episode of iHeart Radio’s Pretty Messed Up podcast, titled “You Don’t Know Jack,” hosts AJ McLean and Cheryl Burke asked the reality star OG the tough questions, from his 17-year sobriety to his brief stint on Dancing With the Stars.  In the episode, which premiered Sept. 23, Jack also shared that his two daughters have both
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The red area shows the municipalities in Poland that have signed the ‘LGBT-free’ pledge. (Atlas of Hate) In a narrow vote, councillors in Kraśnik, in eastern Poland, voted Tuesday (22 September) to keep their municipality an “LGBT-free zone” in an open challenge to the scores of European Union pressure to undo such patches of open
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US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been blasted by LGBT+ activists for her rollbacks of trans protections. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Betsy DeVos, the US education secretary, should “butt out” of trans teens’ lives and the sports they play, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont said Monday (21 September). The Democratic party lawmaker and business leader tore
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Dame Jacqueline Wilson poses for a picture at The V&A’s Museum of Childhood in 2014, (Dan Kitwood/Getty) Best-selling children’s author Jacqueline Wilson has described her parents’ reactions when she revealed that she was in a relationship with a woman. Jacqueline Wilson, the author of some of the UK’s best-loved children’s books, including The Story of
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Another Arrowverse show is saying goodbye.  Supergirl will end after its upcoming sixth season, the CW, Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Productions announced on Tuesday. Production will begin later this month and scripts are currently being worked on for the final 20 episodes, which will debut later in 2021.  The series, which began on CBS
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