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Rest In Power. Gay rights activist Edith Windsor has passed away aged 88, her wife Judith Kasen-Windsor confirmed to the New York Times. Windsor’s Supreme Court case back in 2013 overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, giving same-sex married couples federal recognition in the US for the first time. After her previous wife, Thea Spyer, died she sued the US government after being ordered to pay $363,053 (£224,940) in federal estate tax. They had been together for 44 years and married in Canada...

Linda Harvey, the president of Christian right group Mission: America, is at it again with her absurd statements. This time she’s actually claimed that the rainbow has been “raped” by homosexuals and Christians should therefore trademark it. There’s no misinterpreting her: she wrote this herself in an article for World Net Daily. Harvey seems to hate the fact that the rainbow is an adopted and widely recognized symbol of the LGBT community. Pride Month has clearly upset Harvey, as has “McDonald’s...

One singer said she could not understand why people couldn't accept each other without hate Some of Asia’s top Chinese-speaking singers have come together to record a song for International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT). ‘We Are One’ was recorded by the eight female singers to show their support for LGBTI issues. Tanya Chua is the Singapore singer-songwriter who produced the song. She brought together the singers from across Asia to record the song. ‘We were born equal, one body, one...

37-year-old Xavier Jugelé was part of the response team called to the scene of the Bataclan massacre in 2015. The policeman killed in Thursday’s night’s attack by a gunman in Paris was a proud gay rights activist with a civil partner, it has emerged. Tributes have been flooding in for Xavier Jugelé, 37, who was killed by a gunman on the Champs-Élysées on Thursday night in what French authorities are treating as a terror attack. Jugelé, who was a member of Flag,...

He is receiving massive support during this traumatizing time An activist in France was kidnapped, held captive and violently raped for two days in France. Pictures of Zak Ostmane, an LGBTI rights activist from Algeria, show him to be bloody and bruised in a hospital gown. He is one of the founding members of Shams France, a gay rights organization created in 2014 defending the rights of people born of gender and sexual minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Libya. ‘Last weekend, Zak...

Say hello to our InstaFitty of the week, Casey Conway. We love a gorgeous guy here at GT, but we also love people who use their time to campaign for a good cause – so when a hunky activist like Casey comes along, we can’t help but get a little excited. The former rugby player is one of Australia’s most prominent Indigenous Australian figures championing LGBT+ rights, campaigning for sexual health, and providing a role model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

President-elect Donald Trump appears to have blocked an LGBT campaigner and activist on Twitter – and there could be many more. Robbie Travers, from Edinburgh, Scotland, was shocked to discover he could no longer see Tweets by the 45th president when a notice saying Trump had blocked him appeared. The notice read: “You are blocked from following @realDonaldTrump and seeing @realDonaldTrump’s Tweets.” The bisexual activist did not have a vote in the US election, but has Tweeted and written about disagreeing with...

A former Donald Trump supporter is not happy with the nominee for waving a rainbow flag. The Republican Presidential nominee briefly waved an upside-down ‘LGBT for Trump’ Pride flag at a rally today in Colorado. Though Trump did not speak about the flag-waving or affirm any support for LGBT rights, his comments have upset former Trump supporter and militant Christian activist Theodore Shoebat. Mr Shoebat fumed about Trump “bowing down to the sodomite agenda” in a clip snipped by RightWingWatch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WoxR6rp1c4 He fumed: “In...

A right-wing columnist has claimed that God sent a hurricane to ravage America because of gay people. Hurricane Matthew has left a path of destruction across the Caribbean, killing nine people and displacing thousands from their homes in Haiti. It is heading towards the coast of Florida, sparking warnings of damage. But one columnist for Trump-backing website Shoebat has claimed that the storm was sent by God to disrupt this weekend’s Orlando Pride celebrations. Andrew Bieszad wrote: “Florida is a nice place, but it...