Tag: anti-gay

Gay adult film stars Michael DelRay and Dante Colle trolled a group of anti-LGBTQ hate preachers at the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, California last week. The homophobic group of Bible-bashers could be heard yelling into a megaphone about eternal damnation and hell at passersby. One of the preachers wore a “TRUST JESUS” t-shirt while the other held a sign that read “Where will you spend eternity?” and “Repent or perish.” Colle tweeted that they asked the religious extremists how...

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski of Belarus is apologizing for a homophobic slur he used Saturday night, during a post-match interview at the UFC on ESPN 4 card in San Antonio, Tex. Arlovski’s remarks came after a dominant win by unanimous decision over former International Fighting League champion American Ben Rothwell (36-12 overall MMA, 6-6 in the UFC), who entered the bout sporting a 13-match win streak. Arlovski (28-18 overall MMA, 17-12 in the UFC) had lost...

Well, just with pride month ending recently, there is a new company that shared their anti-gay remarks and it’s no one else than – Nivea. Reportedly, during a phone meeting with FCB representatives, there was a concept of two men’s hands touching presented to them and one of the Nivea executives rejected it saying: “We don’t do gay at Nivea”. To be even worse, one of the members of the FCB...

During a mass service in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sunday (14 July) afternoon, one of the country’s most famous priests, Father Marcelo Rossi, was shoved off stage by a woman who ran past security and onto the stage with him. The shocking moment happened in front of an estimated crowd of 50,000 people, and was also broadcast on television. According to various Brazilian news outlets, the unnamed woman is 32-years-old and had travelled from Rio de Janeiro with her three-year-old child...

Alan Turing, a crack World War II code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era anti-gay laws, will be the face of Britain’s new £50 note. “Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today,” said Bank of England governor Mark Carney. “As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as a war hero, Alan Turing’s contributions were far-ranging and path-breaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders...

An anti-gay Brazilian priest who is celebrated in the country for his lively sermons was violently pushed from a stage on Sunday while delivering mass in Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo. Shortly before 3 p.m., a woman was able to rush past security and push Father Marcelo Rossi off the stage during a ceremony at the headquarters of Canção Nova. Video footage showed Rossi toppling from the stage as onlookers watched on in horror. The woman appears to be smiling after his...

A controversial US preacher has become the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old power. Steven Anderson, a pastor from Arizona, runs the Faithful Word Baptist church and openly expresses anti-gay and anti-Semitic views. His website claimed that he was due to preach in Dublin on 26 May. However, an online petition calling for Mr Anderson to be banned from Ireland was created in response, and gained 14,000 signatures. Jamaica bans anti-gay preacher Botswana deports Steven Anderson Anderson: "Hell's...

I'm saddened but not surprised. This hateful banner was found hanging over an overpass on an expressway in Northern Ireland, according to Attitude. How annoying that people are still like this. Both the Irish and LGBTQ people have historically been subjected to unfair persecution. Seriously, go read "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift and... pretty much anything I've written on here. It's mostly negative. The banner was discovered on October 19th by Amanda Ferguson. She posted a picture of the...

The tea is hot! Or should we say French fries? One Connecticut McDonalds has thrown some shade at its new neighbor, a Chick-fil-A. Managers at a McDonalds location in Glastonbury, C.T., seemed to put the notoriously anti-gay fast food chain on blast with their latest display, which faces the unopened Chick-fil-A and reads, “We Welcome Everyone.” The general manager of the McDonalds in question told NBC News Connecticut that the sign was just a welcoming gesture. “It just means that everyone is...

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear arguments in the case of Charles Rhines, a South Dakota prisoner who says he was sentenced to death by a homophobic jury. Keep in mind that Rhines is not innocent in the slightest. In 1992, he was caught in the middle of a burglary. Rhines tried to rob a doughnut shop in Rapid City, which was the workplace of 22-year-old Donnican Schaeffer. Rhines ended up stabbing Schaeffer in the abdomen and...

Indian actor Manoj Bajpayee says there needs to be more LGBTQ representation in gay films. Bajpayee was recently in London to participate in the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival (or LIFF), which encompassed three LGBTQ-inclusive films this year titled “Venus,” “My Son is Gay,” and “Bird of Dusk.” In an interview with Reuters, Bajpayee stated that he thinks its time that Bollywood become more inclusive of LGBTQ characters. “There is not enough portrayal or enough films on LGBT rights or LGBT...

Israel Folau faced a storm of criticism last month after saying gay people are headed for ‘Hell’ - but he’s showing no signs of repentance Australian rugby player Israel Folau has posted a video to his social media that demonstrates he has little regret for his comments last month about gay people. At the beginning of April, rugby union player Folau posted a comment on Instagram saying God’s plan for gay people is: ‘HELL.. Unless they repent of their sins and...

The men used the app to coax men into sharing their home addresses so they could barge in and rob them. Last year, four men used Grindr to target gay men to rob them. On Monday, the last two of those men were sentenced to prison time. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Anthony Shelton, 20, and Cameron Ajiduah, 19, were sentenced to 20 and 15 years in prison respectively for charges of home invasion for violently robbing gay men...

Denis Balbir claimed the leaking of his remarks was "particularly malicious." A soccer commentator in France has been suspended for making homophobic remarks in the Europa League quarterfinals. Denis Balbir was reporting for W9 on Thursday’s match between RB Leipzig and Marseille, but it was his unaired post-game comments that caused a backlash: Balbir called RB Leipzig arrogant and referred to them using an anti-gay slur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToJOfqR1hWg His comment did not go out live on the air, but was leaked online. In a...