Tag: lesbian

"Oregon will not allow a 'Straight Couples Only' sign to be hung in bakeries or other stores." An appeals court has upheld a 2015 decision by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries that fined a bakery $135,000 for refusing to sell a wedding cake to a lesbian couple. Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, had appealed the ruling, claiming making such a cake would violate their religious beliefs. Theirs was the first of several notable public-accommodations...

'What the training is aimed at, is to teach our field officers to appreciate that minorities have rights that should be respected' Police in Uganda got sensitivity training to help protect the rights of LGBTI people, even though it is illegal to be gay there. Uganda is one of the worst countries in the world to be LGBTI, with some lawmakers wanting to introduce a ‘Kill the Gays’ bill. Police have often been the worst perpetrators of violence and persecution of Uganda’s...

The sacredness and personal experience that IS coming out our even, living in the closet, is the one plight that is shared with the entire LGBTQIA community. Regardless of the journey we have each taken, we our bound together as an extended family because of the fears and dangers that we live through leading up to and even after we have spoken our truth as LGBTQIA community. Today's youth is growing up in a time when coming out or leading...

Early last month, we shared that Thor Ragnorak will introduce the first gay character to the Marvel Cinematic universe. That said, we were also not too pleased that the character is an alien that looks like the thing from Fantastic Four. But, it seems that not all hope is lost as the movie will also star a second LGBTQ character, and this one is a bigger supporting role. Actress Tessa Thompson, who will be playing Valkyrie in the film, shared on twitter...

Tajikstan has created a registry of 367 of its LGBT citizens, according to a report by Radio Free Europe. The suggested goal of the effort is to "prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases." RFE became aware of the registry through an article published by the Tajik Prosecutor-General's Office. The article stated that, 319 gay men and 48 lesbians had been included in the registry, after their "affiliation with sexual minorities has been proven." Alarmingly, the journal suggested that the effort to identify...

It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this... A hilarious tweet about a drunk kiss has gone viral. Jake Johnstone is the gay man behind the tale. He explained in his tweet, on a night out he kissed someone he thought was a gay man. It turned out it was actually a lesbian. To add salt to the wound, she had kissed him because she thought he was a lesbian too. https://twitter.com/hijakejohnstone/status/912225883192209408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gaystarnews.com%2Farticle%2Fgay-guy-twink-kiss%2F Johnstone told GSN the entire tale ‘WELL! Me and my...

The debate around marriage equality in Australia gets uglier by the day. Despite warnings from LGBT+ activists that a plebiscite on same-sex marriage would lead to animosity towards the community – which it already has – the country is expected to take part in a postal vote on the issue later this month. Now, a priest at a Greek Orthodox Church in Melbourne has come under fire for allegedly demanding his flock vote no in the marriage equality vote, and later...

For Northern Irish student Ciara Cinnamond, it was an excruciating dilemma. At the same time the 23-year-old was graduating from Queen’s University Belfast this weekend, thousands were marching through the streets to call for same-sex marriage to be legalised. So Ciara, who had her girlfriend in the audience, found a way to do both. As she crossed the stage at the prestigious, gilded Whitla Hall to shake the acting vice-chancellor’s hand, Ciara unfurled a rainbow pride flag about as big as her. The...

Ex-WWE superstar is proud of his lesbian mom Former WWE superstar Dave Bautista has no tolerance for anti-LGBTI bigots. Now an actor who appeared in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, Bautista recently tweeted: ‘Proud son of a lesbian and anyone who has issue with that can suck my balls.’ The tweet from Galaxy’s Drax the Destroyer was in response to a fan who thanked the 38 year old for being a defender of LGBTI equality. ‘Obviously no thanks necessary but I appreciate...

Study asks 1,509 straight people what they think about lesbians Same-sex attraction in women evolved because it’s attractive to men, a bizarre new study found. Entitled ‘The evolution of female same-sex attraction: The male choice hypothesis,’ the study states: ‘A considerable proportion of men desire same-sex attractions in women, and this is one possible reason why many women have such attractions.’ Conducted by Menelaos Apostolou at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, the study asked 1,509 heterosexual people a series of questions...

Brie Grimes, 17, was named prom queen and her girlfriend Lindsey Creel, 18, prom king at their high school in Tallahassee. The couple celebrated their three year anniversary in February after meeting during their first year at Leon High School through friends. Brie said: ‘Prom night was so much fun – we literally danced the night away. ‘We didn’t expect to win considering the people we were up against. ‘We began to get really close and in such a short period of time...

“Policies on sexual minority rights can have a real effect on the mental health of adolescents.” A new study suggests that suicide attempts by lesbian, gay and bisexual teens declined as same-sex marriage became more prevalent in the United States. Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Harvard analyzed data on more than 700,000 public high school students on risky behaviors, including suicidal ideations. Roughly 230,000 identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual—a group four times more likely to attempt suicide. (The study didn’t...

A grandma had the most adorable reaction after her granddaughter came out to her as bisexual. User sunatjexd, real name Suna Huls, posted a picture on Tumblr of her grandma holding a rainbow knitted jumper – a gift for the user after she came out as bisexual to her grandma. A twitter user picked up on the heart-warming picture and tweeted about it. The tweet has since received hundreds of thousands of retweets. Huls told that she was “overwhelmed” by the reaction. “I...

The couple hope it sends the message that “love persists.” An intimate moment captured by a photographer at an anti-Trump protest in New York City has a lot of people emotional. The photographer, Hennessy Vandheur, was in the swaths of protesters along 5th Avenue on Wednesday night when he turned to see two women kissing, he told BuzzFeed News. Vandeur said he was struck by the love shared between these two amid heated anti-Trump remarks. “I noticed everyone was protesting something,” he said. “It...