Tag: homophobia

Costa Rican citizens are still celebrating the surprise presidential win of gay marriage supporter Carlos Alvarado Quesada. Many were surprised when the novelist and former labor minister won, because most were expecting his opponent, Fabricio Alvarado Munoz, to come out victorious. This is because Fabricio Alvarado won the initial round of voting back in February. That said, many are now saying that Fabricio Alvarado’s loss (with only 39% of the population’s support) is due to his aggressive campaigning. Fabricio Alvarado came on...

Do you think having an out gay footballer will help young LGBTI people? An Australian comedian who shared his story of having sex with a closeted footballer says its time one came out of the closet publicly. In his own words, Joel Creasey is ‘Australia’s 7th most famous gay man’ and he shared the story of his sexual exploits in his 2017 book, Tasty. Creasey slept with a footballer from the Australian Football League (AFL). AFL is a football code in invented...

100,000 people have signed a petition calling on Commonwealth countries to roll back their anti-gay laws. More than one billion people live in Commonwealth countries with colonial-era gay sex laws. Many Commonwealth countries continue to enforce penal codes that were first introduced under the British Empire, and never repealed. They include 10 years imprisonment and hard labour in Jamaica, 14 years in Kenya, 20 years plus flogging in Malaysia, and 25 years in Trinidad and Tobago. Homosexuality is punishable by death in member...

Ricky Martin's seemingly idea gay life - exemplified by his iconic spread in Architectural Digest in which he, his husband Jwan Yosef, and their two adorable sons appear as the epitome of aspirational gaydom - comes with a past of self-doubt and internalized homophobia. On the outside, when Martin rose to fame in the late 90's, he was Livin' la Vida Loca. But on the inside Martin was suffering from the pressures of an industry that had not yet...

"All of a sudden I felt something hit my face, and then my head hit against the locker." A Oklahoma teen says a classmate smashed his face into a locker because he was gay. Cell-phone video captured the gruesome incident, which happened in full view of classmates at Highland West High School. “All of a sudden I felt something hit my face, and then my head hit against the locker,” says the victim, a seventh-grader named Blake. He sclaims the boy...

Although there are thousands of people out there who view openly gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy as a hero and an all-around good guy, unfortunately, there are those who don't. Some of them are, of course, the rampant internet trolls that we have all had to deal with from time to time, except the ones that Gus is dealing with as of recent just prove how alive homophobia is in 2018. He screenshotted several comments left on his YouTube page that...

An Oklahoma gay man has been sentenced to life behind bars without parole over a vile racist murder. Stanley Vernon Majors, 63, had been found guilty of first-degree murder, malicious intimidation and harassment earlier this month over the killing of his neighbour Khalid Jabara, 37. The killing took place in 2016, with Majors using his husband’s legally-bought gun to open fire on Mr Jabara as he left his Tulsa home to collect mail. Majors’ attorneys, who had sought an insanity plea, told...

One mother shared the disheartening story of her 11-year-old son losing a friend because he’s gay. Lori Duron acted as a guest writer for the Huffington Post and shared the story of her 11-year-old son C.J. Lori shared that her son C.J. used to have a best friend named Allie. Together, the kids bonded over make-up and talking about cute boys. But things changed after Allie’s parents got mad at her reading Lori’s blog, which discusses gender non-conformity, and attended his birthday...

We love straight allies! A straight guy just clapped back against another straight guy’s casual homophobia about gay teachers in the best possible way. Twitter user ClapGod replied to a tweet from another Twitter user Steve Adams. Adams, who is a vocal Trump supporter, wrote: ‘As a straight male, how would u feel about your child having a homosexual school teacher?! Who their around 8hrs of the day!’ Then this is where the magic happens. ClapGod quote tweeted: If a gay teacher can teach my...

Watchdog group Grupo Gay de Bahia reports a 30% increase in homicides attributed to homophobia or anti-gay violence. A new report indicates that anti-LGBT violence has reached a record high in Brazil. According to Grupo Gay de Bahia reported, there were 387 homicides attributed to homophobia or anti-gay violence in 2017, a staggering 30% increase from the 327 reported in 2016. (The report also listed 58 suicides in the same time period.) Brazil is often seen as one of the most gay-friendly...

Friends is one of those shows that is almost always on TV, a familiar 90’s sitcom is just like a comfort food that you can always turn to. It is probably one of the most known series, and that is the reasons that millions of fans were thrilled when it was announced that it would be coming to Netflix. However, excitement quickly died down when people began to binge watch the show and found that it was more problematic than they...

Here’s a new twist on a classic — another gay couple is claiming they were booted by their Uber driver after sharing an innocent kiss, but this time it was on a freeway! Randall Magill, 28, and Jose Chavez, 26, a recently-engaged Houston couple, were on their way home from celebrating on New Year’s Eve when they suddenly found themselves on the shoulder of the Southwest Freeway, according to a report from KPRC-TV. They claim that after their driver observed a...

A New York State heath teacher was suspended with pay after parents complained that their seventh-grade students were given information about transgender issues. “The parents have concerns, and they are mine as well,” Superintendent Vince Canini said Tuesday. He also added that, “We have never had this issue before. We may have to make some policy changes because of it.” The “issue” at hand concerns handouts that were given to students. All students, between seventh and tenth grade, received a 42-paged...

Award-Winning documentary "No Dress Code Required" will open theatrically in New York City this coming Friday, November 3 with a national release to follow. Directed by Cristina Herrera Borquez, the film won best documentary at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and was an official selection of both the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and Outfest, LA's annual gay film fest. The doc follows the story of Victor and Fernando, who run a beauty salon in Baja California, Mexico. For many...