Tag: homophobic

The Danish Football Association is working with the Players Association, Amnesty International Denmark, LGBT Denmark, and Danish Football Fan Clubs for an anti-homophobic campaign. The goal is to fight homophobia in sports across the country. The campaign includes players wearing rainbow armbands and shoe laces, and appearing in rainbow face paint on bus posters. Members of pro teams also marched in Copenhagen Pride in August, with the hashtag #FootballForAll being a rallying cry. Mathias “Zanka” Jørgensen, FC Copenhagen captain, said, “Homophobia is...

"Are those two gays kissing?" Two local gay men were attacked last month in Ireland by a group of men who objected to them kissing in public, the Irish Sun reports. Gary Daly, 32, was on a date with the other victim, 20, at a Sligo pub when he heard another patron shout, “Are those two gays kissing?” “A guy started demanding we leave the bar, but we refused and said ‘we have the same rights as anyone else to be here,'”...

Ibtisam Ahmed of the University of Nottingham confronts the British Empire’s continuing Colonial legacy of anti-LGBT laws. In a landmark ruling, India’s Supreme Court has confirmed an individual’s right to privacy – including sexual orientation – under the country’s constitution. The ruling on August 24 offers new hope for the LGBTQ+ community in India, still living under the homophobic legacy of the British Empire which criminalised same-sex relationships. A formal judgement on the law, known as Section 377, is still pending...

Don’t mess with Oliver Queen… Arrow star Stephen Amell popped along to the 39th annual Pride parade in Vancouver, Canada over the weekend with his model wife, enjoying all the LGBT+ festivities the celebration had to offer. He marked his big day by posting out a lovely photograph – to his 5.4 million Facebook fans no less – of them on one of the city’s rainbow crossings, which were laid down especially for the event. However, such is the internet that within...

"That’s why they go home to watch batty man programmes." A gay man stood up to homophobe who threatened him with a knife on a London bus. Daniel Simmonds was travelling on a bus last Friday evening (June 23). When he heard the unidentified man making a series of anti-gay comments. Daniel began to document the tirade by recording a video. “It is not all right to be gay. It is all right to be lesbian? It is not all right!”, the...

Coworkers started a rumour that Pearl and another male employee were engaged in a relationship. A man has won a settlement against his former employer for homophobic discrimination. The best part is, the guy isn’t even gay. James Pearl, 55, used to work as a sanitation worker in Los Angeles. His lawyer alleges that Pearl was subjected to “insults, criticisms, demeaning comments, suggestive remarks, offensive posters, cartoons … concerning his alleged sexual orientation” while he was a City employee. Coworkers also...

A gay couple has been brutally attacked by a gang of nine while walking home. Matthew Seward and his partner Laurence Cerrone were beaten and kicked by the youths, aged 15 to 21, on Sunday. Seward was left needing stitches after the unprovoked assault on the men in Whitchurch, in west England, which also saw one the group take his phone while he was on the ground. Police are treating the attack as a hate crime. Seward had been helping his mother on...

A farmer from Michigan is suing the city of East Lansing, Michigan after he was banned from selling produce in a farmer’s market because of a homophobic Facebook post. Stephen Tennes is a farmer on the outskirts of East Lansing and also rents his land out for weddings. His farm quickly became a popular location for the joyous celebrations, but in December the farmer announced that he would only permit heterosexual marriages on his premises. Writing on Facebook, Tennes said that he...

Police have arrested six men, including two 14-year-old boys A gay couple was attacked for holding hands in the Netherlands. Jasper Vernes-Sewratan and his husband, Ronnie Sewratan-Vernes were on their way home from a party at Luxor Live, in their hometown Arnhem early on Sunday (2 April). The couple were walking hand in hand when they were attacked by a group of men. Ronnie lost four front teeth, as well as part of a fifth one, and suffered a severed lip. His partner suffered...

‘The goldfish was not depicted, nor given features or movements, which were homosexual in nature,’ cereal brand says A Kellogg’s ad featuring a forgetful goldfish was accused of vilifying the gay community. The Sultana Bran ad, which aired in Australia, shows father and daughter having breakfast. The girls asks her dad whether it’s true goldfish have a three-second memory. It then cuts to the goldfish, who swims in his bowl and discovered ‘Sultana Bran’s got more fibre than two slices of wholemeal toast’,...

A Representative from the US state of Iowa has claimed that it is not possible to say anything about gays without it being a gay slur. Republican Ralph Watts made the comments at an event in Urbandale at the weekend. Watts was asked by a constituent about his former Democratic challenger Bryce Smith, and why he had referred to him as “red rider”. He claimed he didn’t know it was a slur, saying: “Anything you say anymore about a gay is a...

"I’ll fight for anyone who is misunderstood and misrepresented by the idiots out there." Elton John insists rapper Eminem is not homophobic, despite numerous anti-gay and anti-trans lyrics in . “I’m always a supporter of the people that are getting trashed. For me Eminem was never homophobic,” John told Beats 1. “I’ll fight for anyone who is misunderstood and misrepresented by the idiots out there.” The two chart-toppers famously sang “Stan” together on the 2001 Grammys, and John says he was “floored”...

'From today, saying a gay person made a pass at you will no longer be an acceptable, legal excuse for murder.' Pop star Troye Sivan and his mom are celebrating the end of the archaic ‘gay panic defence’ law in Queensland. Sivan and his mom Laurelle post a video congratulating Catholic Priest Father Paul Kelly who fought for years to have ‘gay panic’ abolished in the northern Australian state. The ‘gay panic’ legal defence allowed men charged with murder to have their...

RIP Julia Derbyshire A 16-year-old was repeatedly bullied online over her sexuality before she killed herself, her father has said. Julia Derbyshire was 12 years old when she said to her friend: ‘I’m not sure yet but I think I like girls.’ Her ‘friend’ then spread her feelings around school, and Julia was subjected to vile bullying. Four years later she hanged herself. Adrian Derbyshire, 42, has released photos of his daughter on a ventilator in hospital to raise awareness of playground and online bullying. ‘She...