Tag: lesbian

After a married same-sex couple was denied housing at a local retirement community, they brought the case to court. On Wednesday, the court dismissed their lawsuit. Mary Walsh and Beverly Nance have been together for almost forty years. They were finally able to get married in 2009, and eventually began looking for a retirement community that would suit their needs in their advanced years. In 2016, they toured Friendship Village in their town of Sunset Hills, Missouri. They had friends there...

It's called the 'contact effect' A new study found if you know someone who’s gay or lesbian, you’re more likely to support marriage equality. You’re also more likely to support LGBTI causes in general. It’s a phenomenon known as the ‘contact effect’. Daniel DellaPosta is an assistant professor of sociology at Pennsylvania State University. He said coming out as gay or lesbian and being open about it can accelerate an attitude change about issues affecting the LGBTI community. He analyzed data from the General...

Roncalli High School, a Catholic high school in Indianapolis recently made media attention after placing a long-standing an popular guidance counselor, Shelly Fitzgerald, on administrative leave. Her crime? Being married to a woman. Jennifer McCormick, Indiana's Superintendent of Instruction, was not pleased with Roncalli High School's decision, as the school enrolled 350 students through a voucher program, which is about $1.5 million in tax dollars. McCormick reasoning is that any school receiving public funds should not exclude anyone, Fox 59...

New data from the UK shows same-sex couples are more likely to marry later in life than heterosexual couples. Commissioned by the Office of National Statistics in the UK, the study, titled “Being 18 in 2018,” examines different aspects of life for young adults who were born in 2000. The subjects of the study include life expectancy, employment, becoming parents, and getting married, among many topics. While couples are allowed to marry in the UK at the age of 18 without parental...

Netflix has developed an impressively deep catalog of original queer content, from Sense8 to Alex Strangelove. Now the streaming giant has gayed up an old classic as well. Season two of Anne with an E, which is based on Lucy Maude Montgomery’s 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, cleverly reworks the story to feature five LGBTQ characters. That includes portraying one of the main roles, Great Aunt Josephine Barry, as a lesbian. Series creator Moira Walley-Beckett is responsible for the changes and...

Two Ecuadorian judges ruled in favor or marriage equality! The judges from the Family, Women, Children and Adolescents Court ruled in favor of two lesbian couples who had their marriage license applications rejected by the Civil Registry. Both Judges Iliana Vallejo and Ruth Alvarez ruled that the Civil Registry should “immediately” allow the women to get married. The two ruled this way after citing the historic Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling from January that opened the door for same-sex marriage in...

New report finds shocking stats on race-based discrimination Almost two-thirds of black people who identify as LGBT say they face racism from within the LGBT community. According to new research by UK charity Stonewall, 51% of black and minority ethnic LGBT people said they have faced discrimination based on their race from within the queer community. This number jumps to 61% when broken down to just black people. The research is based on YouGov polling of over 5,000 LGBT people. Ruth Hunt, Chief Executive...

Other patrons witness the discrimination When a couple at a restaurant openly discriminates against their lesbian waitress, other patrons decide they’re not having it. This is exactly the scenario a recent episode of ABC’s What Would You Do? series posed. Inspired by a real-life event where a lesbian server received no tip due to her pride tattoo, the segment asks whether or not bystanders would intervene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfBktuMXV00 Both the couple discriminating and the waitress are played by actors. For the waitress, it’s an especially...

An LGBTQ church in the Philippines’ Quezon city held several gay weddings earlier today. The weddings, which were merely ceremonial as gay marriage is still illegal in the country, were held by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Straight (LGBTS) Christian Church at 8 am, according to Efe which also has video and photos of the event. The Church holds this mass wedding every year to give LGBTQ citizens the opportunity to at least participate in the wedding ritual. While the Philippines...

E3, one of the biggest annual video gaming conferences in the world, has just ended and one of the biggest moments happened to be a gay one. That said, one streaming service didn’t want its viewers to see it. During Playstation’s press conference on Monday, fans were shown a clip of The Last of Us Part II. The sequel video game, developed by Naughty Dog, follows Ellie after a time skip from the first game. Then, the trailer for the game...

People are not happy about the last minute decision LGBTI people across India are reeling that Love, Simon has been delayed ‘indefinitely’. The popular gay coming of age movie was a worldwide hit. Its Indian release date was supposed to be 1 June. But people reported that when they tried to book tickets to previously announced screening times, they were no longer available. It is understood the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) banned Love, Simon because of the film’s gay content. Regardless of...

A loved-up lesbian couple from Bartlett, Tennessee got a sweet surprise on Friday 25 May when they discovered that they had both planned to propose to one another on the exact same day. While visiting Memphis Zoo and Aquarium in the pair’s home state, Becky McCabe posed for a picture with her then-girlfriend Jessa Gillaspie before getting down on one knee and popping the question. Shocked, Gillaspie started jumping around before rummaging in her bag and pulling out a ring box...

Deadpool 2 is officially coming out this weekend and reviews of the film are now dropping. One of the talking points about the film is the inclusion of LGTBQ superheroes. Not only do we have the bisexual character Shatterstar in the film, but it seems we also have a lesbian couple as well. The first Deadpool film introduced us to teenage X-man Negasonic Teenage Warhead (played by Brianna Hildebrand). Now, this sequel is introducing us to her girlfriend. Early in the...