Tag: gay people

Jared O'Mara referred to gay people as 'fudge packers' and 'poofters'. Labour MP Jared O’Mara has resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee after the politician made homophobic and misogynist comments online. The MP came under fire yesterday (October 23) after it was revealed he had made offensive comments between 2002 and 2004 on a music forum at a time when O’Mara was a local Labour candidate. The posts referred to gay people as “fudge packers” and “poofters” and anal sex as...

Science teacher Joshua Onduso has been convicted of saying offensive and homophobic words to his Berkshire students at The Reintegration Service for Moorside Community Center. When asked by a pupil what he thought of gay people, Mr Onduso allegedly responded by saying: “Gay people have a disease.” He then pointed to his head and said: “They have something wrong upstairs.” When another student then asked whether he thought gay people were like animals, Mr Onduso nodded and said that he did....

After Egypt and Indonesia, it seems that Burundi is the next country to ramp up its hunt against gay men. Burundi police announced on October 6th, that they were enforcing a tough hunt on gay people and that they already had “several” incarcerated. These “several” LGBTQ people are currently being imprisoned in the African state of Burundi and asked to pay hefty bribes. If they don’t, they face even more fines, beatings, and potentially two years in prison. “The reason is just...

And he thinks the national anthem will be Macklemore's 'Same Love' A Christian minister who has long campaigned against Australia’s LGBTI community has warned marriage equality would lead to seperate citizenships for gay people. Fred Nile is a minister and New South Wales state politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He is also a long-standing opponent of LGBTI people. Since the 1980s he has prayed for rain to stop the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade going ahead. But the announcement that...

It’s been 20 years since Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris, and UK network ITV aired a documentary on Monday night marking this dark anniversary. In one moving scene from the documentary, Elton John explains to Prince Harry how his mother changed attitudes toward gay people and people with AIDS and destroyed stigma by being one of the first high-profile figures to touch someone with AIDS without wearing gloves. “It was considered to be a gay disease....

The former professional rugby player announced his engagement to his 59-year-old fiance earlier this year Sam Stanley has hit back at critics of his relationship. Earlier this year, the former professional rugby player announced his engagement to his long-term partner Laurence Hicks, 59, but some people couldn’t get their head around the couple’s age difference. In a new interview, Sam has revealed that while he expected some judgement, he was stunned by how much of it came from the gay community. Speaking to...

Apparently we're not real A U.S. Pastor has claimed that gay people aren’t real. John MacArthur, a preacher at the Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, revealed his bizarre belief when a church-goer asked whether his sexual orientation could stop him getting into heaven. In response to the 78-year-old man’s question, MacArthur suggested that of course he would get into heaven, because being gay isn’t actually a thing that exists. Mind blown. “No one is gay. If you mean by that, that that’s...

'I'm going to walk in with a f**king machete and slaughter every single one of the gay bastards' Police arrested a teenager after he threatened to go into a British pub with a machete and kill gay people at a Pride event. The teenager, who cannot be named, posted a photo of the machete he bought for £19.99 ($25.40 €22.70), as well as his intentions to use it at the New Empire pub in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria on Friday night...

A new Gallup poll shows that Americans have moved to the left on a number of social issues this year, including acceptance of gay and lesbian relationships. The telephone poll on social issues, which Gallup has performed every year since 2001, shows new high levels of Americans saying that the way other people live is “morally acceptable.” Respondents are more likely now than in any year since 2001 to say they’re fine with birth control, divorce, sex outside of marriage, gay...

The Russian LGBT Network has helped evacuate 40 gay men from Chechnya, where at least four people have been killed in a “gay purge”. Reports last month alleged that more than 100 gay men have been detained in the purge in Chechnya with many feared dead. Gay men are reportedly being beaten, tortured with electricity, and living with no water or food. In a Skype interview with NPR, the Russian LGBT Network communications manager described how her organisation has set up a...

'LGBTIs are also humans' Young gay people are being forced onto the streets, starving and in need of shelter after being denied basic human needs in Kenya. These refugees are from Uganda and say they have been denied medical care and food. However, they are also banned from working legally. If they did return to Uganda, they fear being killed by mob violence or arrested for homosexuality. Last year, interior minister Joseph Nkaissery announced the government’s intentions to close the world’s largest refugee...

Let's hope something similar turns up in Queen Elizabeth II's next speech. King Harald V of Norway has given an incredible speech on accepting LGBTI people. In response to a large influx of refugees in recent months, the monarch decided to call for unity and inclusivity. ‘Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and boys and girls who love each other,’ he said. ‘Norwegians are also immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Somalia and Syria. It is not always easy...

Pence is certainly a good match for Trump when it comes to hateful speech. Mike Pence, Donald Trump's running mate in this year's presidential election, published articles urging employers not to hire gay employees while he was head of the Indiana Policy Review in the 1990s. One such article published during Pence's tenure reads: "Homosexuals are not as a group able-bodied. They are known to carry extremely high rates of disease brought on because of the nature of their sexual practices...