Tag: homophobia

“So many of the social norms we’ve been taught are rooted in discrimination.” A riveting new short film is taking a gripping and unfiltered look at the effects of masculine ideals on both American culture and the actions and development of men who may be attracted to men. “American Male” is the winner of MTV’s Look Different Creator Competition, which invited up-and-coming filmmakers to create work surrounding the topic of privilege. The powerful film examines the toxic masculinity often pervasive in groups...

A man who says he was beaten up for being gay has shared a image of his injuries. Gay Saskatoon resident Eugene Grosh recounted details of the horrific incident, which happened in the early hours of Saturday morning at a local bar. Mr Grosh said he had gone out with a group of female friends, and had been dancing before going to use the bathroom. He said “hi” to a man inside the bathroom, who accused Mr Grosh of trying to flirt with him. The...

A Polish couple have been sent death threats after their beautiful coming out video went viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGI1DrvZ2w Polish TV presenter and journalist Jakub Hajduk and his partner David, shot the adorable coming out video over 3 days in July at the Baltic Sea. However, the couple were sent abusive messages online. The couple were told to “cut their throats”, whilst other said that they wanted to “send them to the gas chamber.” The couple also received private messages on their Facebook accounts with...

While faith communities are slowly becoming more welcoming of LGBTQ people — in general and within their congregations — many religious groups are still preaching hate, appealing to children through cartoons. It was one such cartoon — a video put out by the Jehovah’s Witnesses telling a young girl how to preach to a classmate with two moms — that inspired a gay YouTube to create his own cartoon about God and gays with a message of love and acceptance. Olly...

Crappy landlords. We’ve all had one or two over the course of our adult lives. It’s just the reality of being a renter. But chances are you’ve never had one quite like Olly McLellan and Scott Cole’s. The couple just went public with their landlord horror story, which includes no shortage of nasty notes, passive aggressive parking insults, illegal trespassing, trash dumps, and harassment all garnished with a healthy serving of homophobia. “His behavior was just shocking because homosexuality and same sex marriage is not unheard of...

It's terrible when homophobia at schools turns into bullying. Some children live in same-sex families and they are happy two have two moms or two dads. Some children being teenages choose the partner to love - some boys choose boys, some girls can choose girls. But society doesn't accept it. As a result bullying at schools becomes typical for modern society, that gradually grows into bullying made by the whole society. You get up and run, and time flies by—but...

French artist and photographer Olivier Ciappa has put together the Imaginary Couples series to tackle homophobia around the world and spread the message "nothing but love." Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has participated to the project supporting same-sex love. She posed alongside Lara Fabian as a same-sex couple . Other straight actors, artists and athletes, including Sicario director Denis Villeneuve and Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée posed as gay couples for Ciappa's project. The series has been displayed all over the world from Europe to...

Unfortunately, today's gays keep their problems to themselves. There are a lot of homophobic people around, who don’t support and understand minorities who have chosen rainbow colors of their life. The same we can observe in this social experiment where one guy played as both gay and straight. He wanted to show the different reactions of different people when confronted with both gays and straight individuals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJbkJcUb1eI It’s a pity that gay people are ignored by the society even in the case of difficult life situations. We...

This seems to be the compelling result of several tests that took place over the course of several years and it has been bound to stir some spirits. This new study has been linked with others that concluded that low levels of education are linked with high levels of prejudice and poor cognitive abilities and this one right now established the link between intelligence and the obvious predisposition towards racism, homophobia and intolerance. Shortly, conservative views are held by...

Famous actor Sir Ian McKellen recently visited an anti-homophobia event at the Macron Stadium that is a home of Bolton Wanderers club. Being an ardent supporter of LGBT, he couldn’t miss this event. He supported Football vs Homophobia campaign 2015, that has been launched earlier in February 2015 in Manchester, at the National Football Museum. Being the veteran gay rights campaigner, Ian helped organize a workshop for local children discussing the topics of sexuality, homophobia and its consequences. After his speech,...

One of them is the Golden Boy of kickboxing, one of the world’s heavyweight champions, the other one has been voted the best soccer player in the world, with over 400 goals scored in his entire career. But that didn’t stop them from becoming man and wife for one day. footazo.com The fortunate event took place in Morocco, where Ronaldo and Hari met during a vacation that brought the famous soccer icon in his buddy’s representative country. Hari posted the spicy...