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
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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
JK Rowling attends the premiere of “Finding the Way Home” at Hudson Yards on 11 December 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) Organisers of a New Zealand book festival have dropped a Harry Potter quiz from the event over JK Rowling’s trans views, saying they want the festival to be a “welcoming
Members of the LGBT+ community march in the Pride parade in Durban, South Africa, in 2018. (AFP via Getty/ RAJESH JANTILAL) A suspect has been arrested in connection to a gay man who was left bruised and battered after being stabbed with a bottle in Sasolburg, South Africa. Segakweng Kimora Magoma was allegedly attacked at
Pope Francis. (Getty/ Lisa Maree Williams) Around 700 young people have formally left the Catholic Church in Belgium since the Vatican banned blessings for same-sex couples. Johan Bonny, bishop of Antwerp, told The Tablet that many of their members pulled away from the Catholic Church after the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF) issued its
Boris Johnson at a COVID-19 media briefing in Downing Street. (Stefan Rousseau – WPA Pool/Getty Images) The UK government has cut funding to the UN agency fighting HIV and AIDS by more than 80 per cent in a “shameful” and “maddeningly short-sighted” move. UNAIDS said the UK government had informed the organisation that it will
Justice N Anand Venkatesh ordered himself to attend an LGBT+ education session with a psychologist. (YouTube/ MMBA Madurai Bench – Lawyers Chambers and Envato) A high court judge in India has ordered himself to undergo an education session with a psychologist on same-sex relationships before ruling on a case relating to a lesbian couple. The
Trans man Teddy Cook addressing a New South Wales parliamentary committee (Screenshot: LGBTI Rights Australia) A trans health expert delivered a powerful testimony before ab Australian state parliament, declaring that trans people like him “deserve the dignity of being known”. Teddy Cook was the sole transgender person to address a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry
After being slain, Paula Midge’s home was sent on fire by her alleged killer. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) Paula Migeon, a 50-year-old trans woman, was murdered and her home set on fire to conceal the crime. Firefighters rushed to Migeon’s home in Reims, France on 7 April where they found the apartment ablaze. As the flames razed
A man has described his humiliation after gym staff complained about his Tom of Finland bag. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato) A gay man was left “humiliated” after taking a Tom of Finland bag to a gym in Adelaide, South Australia, only to receive complaints from pearl-clutching gym-goers. Jeff Trahair explained to the Star Observer,
Mean Girls icon Jonathan Bennett and his fiancé Jaymes Vaughan were turned away from their dream wedding venue because they’re gay, the couple has claimed. Bennett, who played heartthrob Aaron Samuels, a jock who knows when 3 October is, opened up about getting engaged in December to The Knot for the magazine’s “Pride and Joy”
Phillip Lühl and his twin daughters in South Africa. (Instagram/@phillipluehl) A top Namibian court rejected Monday (19 April) a gay couple’s plea to return home with their twin daughters, born in South Africa through surrogacy. In a case that threw the republic’s decades-old restrictions on LGBT+ people into question, Phillip Lühl and his husband Guillermo
Amsterdam Pride 2019. (Getty/ Soccrates/ Eric Verhoeven) A man from Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, has been cleared of terrorism charges after he tried to buy an AK-47 online, claiming he “needed it for the gay Pride parade”. The 32-year-old, identified as “Tahsin E”, was arrested on 7 August, 2020, according to DutchNews, after Dutch security service
Nathaniel “SpokGoane” Mbele was stabbed to death on 2 April. (Twitter) A beloved gay man has been stabbed to death in South Africa, prompting an outpouring of grief from the LGBT+ community and desperate calls for hate crime laws to finally be passed. According to MambaOnline, Nathaniel Mbele, known as Spokgoane, was found dead on 2
A gay couple in New Zealand have described being harassed and verbally abused for holding hands as they walked through central Auckland. New Zealand is often hailed as one of the world’s most LGBT-friendly countries, but that’s not what Nicolás Di Julio and his boyfriend experienced on Good Friday (2 April). The couple were walking
Demonstrators lay roses on a rainbow flag as they protest over an alleged crackdown on gay men in Chechnya outside the Russian Embassy in London on 2 June 2017. (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images) Russia’s top documentary film festival has pulled a movie about a gay MMA fighter from Chechnya from
Gay man Sphamandla Khoza was found brutally murdered a short distance from his home (Screenshot/eNCA) A community in South Africa is demanding justice for the brutal murder of a gay man who was stabbed to death and dumped in a ditch near a school. Sphamandla Khoza, 34, was stabbed, beaten and had his throat slit
Members of the Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT for Equality, their flag in the top left, at the St Petersburg LGBT+ Pride. (Igor Russak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) An LGBT+ social media page followed by tens of thousands of queer Russians and allies blocked by authorities has vowed to continue fighting for equality. The Alliance
Two gay men were violently beaten after being lured to an address through a gay dating app. (Envato Elements) A gay man was brutally beaten by thugs with baseball bats after he was lured to an address through a queer dating app. The man, who is in his 50s, told local media that he spent
Grindr on the App Store. (CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images) An elderly man in Australia was lured by a 21-year-old via Grindr and subjected to hours of torture with a “horrifying array of weaponry”. Charlie Michael Edward Caire pleaded guilty at the District Court of South Australia to multiple crimes, including false imprisonment, aggravated blackmail and
Pablo Fracchia never thought it would be possible for him to adopt (Instagram/@pablitofracchia) A single gay man who always wanted to be a father has found the family of his dreams after adopting a baby girl who’d been left at the hospital. Growing up in deeply conservative Argentina in the 1990s, Pablo Fracchia never thought
Mildred Loic, also known as Shakiro, one of the trans women currently held in jail (Facebook/ Shakiro) Two trans women in the central African country of Cameroon are facing five years in prison on charges of “attempted homosexuality”. Mildred Loic and Moute Rolland were arrested for wearing women’s clothes in the country’s largest city, Douala,
Alex Kofi Donko. (YouTube) A community centre for a fledgling LGBT+ rights group in Ghana gutted by a brutal raid has now launched a defiant fundraiser to regroup and rebuild. LGBT+ Rights Ghana, one of the country’s top queer campaign groups, opened its office and safe space earlier this year in an event attended by
Far-right extremists clash with riot police at a Pride parade in Lublin, eastern Poland, in 2019. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty) A leaked letter has revealed Poland’s plans to replace the Istanbul Convention on violence against women with an international treaty banning abortion and same-sex marriage. It’s understood that the Polish justice ministry is preparing an alternative treaty
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