Hans Peter Minderhoud and Edward Gal pose with their Silver medals at the 2013 FEI Dressage European Championships in Denmark (Henning Bagger/AFP/Getty) A gay Dutch couple, Edward Gal and Hans Peter Minderhoud, will compete side-by-side in a team dressage event at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Gal and Minderhoud will be representing the Netherlands in the
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Rainbow flag inside the stadium during the UEFA Euro 2020: Round of 16 match between Netherlands and Czech Republic. (Andre Weening/BSR Agency/Getty Images) Volkswagen has claimed that UEFA blocked the company from using rainbow-coloured banners on advertising boards at the Euro 2020 quarter-finals in Russia and Azerbaijan. The auto-maker, a years-long sponsor of the football
Eduardo Leite, one of Brazil’s leading politicians, has come out as gay (Facebook/Eduardo Leite) A Brazilian governor and possible presidential candidate has come out as gay, making waves in a country governed by “proud homophobe” Jair Bolsonaro. Eduardo Leite, the governor of the southern Rio Grande do Sul state, made the announcement in an interview
IKEA has released a new line of loveseats inspired by ten different LGBT+ flags. This includes couch designed after the bisexual flag, trans flag and others. (IKEA Canada) A divisive set of IKEA Pride sofas has sent LGBT+ Twitter into a collective frenzy. IKEA unveiled a collection of 10 “loveseats” inspired by the flags of
The first-ever LGBT+ Pride parade was held in Malawi. (Malawi Human Rights Commission/Twitter) Braving the threat of persecution, dozens of queer people packed the streets of the capital of Malawi for the country’s first-ever Pride parade Saturday (26 June). Organised by the Nyasa Rainbow Alliance, some 50 LGBT+ people marched through the streets of Lilongwe
The village of Kuujjuaq in Quebec, Canada celebrating its first ever Pride (Facebook/Isabelle Dubois) More than five decades since the Stonewall Riots sparked the modern LGBT+ rights movement, new Pride movements and events are still emerging every year. All around the world queer communities are gathering to mark Pride month – some for the first
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has received an outpouring of support from prime minister Jacinda Ardern. Hubbard, 43, became the first openly trans athlete to be selected for the Olympics when she was picked for the New Zealand women’s weightlifting team for Toyko 2020. Ardern offered Hubbard her full support. “All parties here have simply
Elizabeth Rondón. (Twitter) A trans woman was reportedly beaten and brutally dismembered by her friends after going for drinks in an attack that has fuelled fear in Miranda, Venezuela. Elizabeth Rondón, a 33-year-old vegetable seller, was slain Monday morning (13 June) after at least three people beat her, according to activists and witnesses. Loved ones
The equality parade marches through Warsaw on 19 June 2021. (Piotr Lapinski/NurPhoto/Getty) Thousands rallied in Warsaw for the largest Pride parade in central Europe, taking a defiant stand against the rising tide of homophobia in Poland. Marchers gathered amid a sea of rainbow flags for the Warsaw equality parade on Saturday (19 June), with the
Mexico fans at a friendly football match with Honduras on June 12, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage/AFP) Mexico will play its next two World Cup home matches in an empty stadium as punishment for fans’ homophobic chanting, FIFA has announced. All spectators will be banned from the World Cup qualifiers against Jamaica (2 September)
YouTube has been slammed for completely deleting Australian gay comedy channel Ding Dong I’m Gay during Pride month. The gay, sex-positive comedy web series follows Cameron, a gay man who came out six years ago and moved to Sydney, trying to prove to his newly-out cousin that his is “an all-knowing gay guru”. Released last year,
Because of a military ban on gay sex, the two male solders were considered by the court to have “molested” each other by having consensual oral sex. (AFP via Getty/ Jung Yeon-je) A military court in South Korea has prosecuted two male soldiers, insisting that their consensual sex “bordered on rape”. The two men were
The homophobic graffiti pointed towards the LGBT+ venue. (Twitter/ Pantibliss) The legendary Dublin gay bar Pantibar was targeted by homophobic vandals in a “premeditated” attack on Sunday night (13 June). Iconic Irish drag queen Panti Bliss, who owns Pantibar in Dublin’s city centre, shared a photo of the homophobic graffiti on Twitter. She explained that
Footage of the “homophobic cowboy” has quickly spread online (Reddit/u/Goetzilla22) Police arrested a 71-year-old man for an “aggressive and homophobic attack” on a group of people painting a rainbow pedestrian crossing. Video circulated online of what appears to be a Yosemite Sam lookalike angrily interrupting a Pridewalk painting event in Saskatoon, Canada. “You don’t own this f***ing
Fresh Carnival’s new Pride milkshake, with extra sprinkles (Facebook/Fresh Carnival) A restaurant expertly dealt with peak snowflakery after a homophobic troll imploded at the sight of their new Pride-themed milkshake. Fresh Carnival in Saskatchewan, Canada, shared a picture of the new shake on Tuesday (1 June) to celebrate the beginning of Pride month. The delicious
Members of Biarritz Olympique sporting Grindr-sponsored uniforms. (Biarritz Olympique/Grindr/Twitter) Grindr has hooked up with a top rugby team to design a versatile jersey set – all the while making sports more inclusive. The queer dating app announced on its Twitter page Wednesday (26 May) as the new sponsor for French professional rugby club Biarritz Olympique. In
A zoo in Guangzhou, China, has been accused of homophobia after two women were barred from buying a “couples ticket”. In an incident that captures the longstanding discrimination LGBT+ face in the republic, Chimelong Safari Park reportedly refused to recognise a lesbian couple’s relationship. Leslie Song, 29, explained on Weibo, one of China’s most popular
One Million Moms has turned its fire on Etsy (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA/LightRocket/Getty) Lock up your children or Etsy will trick them into buying sex dolls for Father’s Day, so says One Million Moms. Fresh from boycotting Cadbury’s, eHarmony and Oreos, the puritanical campaign group has now declared war on the humble arts and crafts marketplace, Etsy.
Defence minister Peter Dutton. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) An Australian cabinet minister has banned his staff from wearing rainbow clothing to support LGBT+ rights because of the so-called “woke agenda”. Defence minister Peter Dutton, of the right-wing Liberal Party, banned his department and serving military personnel from wearing clothing bearing the LGBT+ Pride flag on Friday
Police arrested 62 men for breaching COVID-19 restrictions during a raid on a gay chemsex party at Faros Sauna 2 in Bangkok, Thailand on 22 May 2021. (Envato Elements) Thai police arrested 62 men at a chemsex party in Bangkok, Thailand for breaching the country’s strict COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. The men were arrested by police
In this photo illustration the TikTok logo in App Store seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Video-sharing social networking app TikTok’s algorithm is spreading anti-LGBT+ content, according to an analysis by watchdog Media Matters. The report, published on Tuesday (18 May), found TikTok’s recommendation algorithm –
LGBT+ rights are heavily suppressed in Ghana. (Creative Commons) In further hostility against queer folk in Ghana, 21 people were arrested for meeting at a hotel to discuss LGBT+ rights. The arrests were made on Friday (21 May), after the 16 women and five men met at a hotel for nurses and midwives in the
Israel Folau speaks to the media during a press conference at the Hilton Hotel on 21 May 2021 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images) Disgraced athlete Israel Folau said he has “no regrets” as he announced his comeback to Australian rugby, two years after he was sacked for homophobia. Folau announced he hopes to
Alireza Fazeli-Monfared was killed and beheaded by family after they found out he was gay. (Twitter) Human rights group Amnesty International has called for a full investigation into the brutal “honour killing” of young gay man in Iran. This month, Alireza Fazeli Monfared, 20, who identified as non-binary gay man, was killed and beheaded by
Çağla Akalın. (Exxen/IMDb) Turkey’s media watchdog has issued a fine against a streaming service for airing an interview with trans actor and model Çağla Akalın. The Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), the state agency which regulates and sanctions broadcasts, reprimanded Exxen for showing a programme where Akalın spoke about her life. Akalın’s guest spot
Drag Race Down Under star Art Simone addressed the fan theory that RuPaul didn’t film the new series in person and recorded scenes on a green screen. (World of Wonder) Drag Race star Art Simone has dispelled the rumour that RuPaul never actually stepped foot onto the Down Under set. Views of the latest iteration of
Social media sites are “categorically unsafe” for queer users, the damning report found (Manan VATSYAYANA/AFP/ Getty) Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are all “categorically unsafe” for LGBT+ people, according to a damning new study from GLAAD. GLAAD had originally planned to give grades for each site as part of a new social media safety
Alireza Fazeli-Monfared was reportedly killed and beheaded by family after they found out he was gay. (Twitter) An Iranian gay man was brutally murdered and beheaded by his family in a horrific “honour killing” after they found out he was gay. Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was reportedly murdered by his brother and cousins on Tuesday (4
Trans woman Zashy Zuley del Cid was murdered in the streets of San Miguel, El Salvador (Facebook) El Salvador’s LGBT+ community is mourning the loss of a fearless trans woman and activist who was murdered from a gunshot to the back. Zashy Zuley del Cid was killed in the early hours of 24 April in
Proud Boys at a gun rights rally on 1 May, 2021, in Salem, Oregon. (Getty/ Nathan Howard) The Canadian chapter of the far-right extremist group Proud Boys has dissolved itself, while insisting it was “never a white supremacy group”. In February this year, Proud Boys was officially designated a white supremacist terrorist group in Canada, for their
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