Tag: lgbt

The news is so terrible these days it’s almost unbearable. So here’s something nice for you to watch. Ellen surprised a gay college student named Trent Bauer with a big check this week. Bauer was brought to Ellen’s attention by his best friend Stephanie in a letter she wrote praising his work for gay rights. Bauer serves as LGBT Student Coordinator at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania – a position he saw the need for and pushed administrators to create. Said Ellen: “We...

Jared O'Mara referred to gay people as 'fudge packers' and 'poofters'. Labour MP Jared O’Mara has resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee after the politician made homophobic and misogynist comments online. The MP came under fire yesterday (October 23) after it was revealed he had made offensive comments between 2002 and 2004 on a music forum at a time when O’Mara was a local Labour candidate. The posts referred to gay people as “fudge packers” and “poofters” and anal sex as...

Happy early-Halloween! With only a week and a half left till the ever awaited holiday of tricks and treats, there’s one video out that’s looking to use our need be frightened for good. Ask yourselves, what’s really scary? Answer? The fact that there are still countless countries and places in the world where being gay can end up getting you hurt or killed. That’s what award-winning short “PYOTR495” wants you to remember (while also entertaining you and freaking you out at the...

A new lawsuit file against Tesla, claims LGBT discrimination. This is the second in two days, with the first one being over racial harassment. In the past it has been found guilty of sexism. In the new lawsuit, an assembly line worker, Jorge Ferro claims he was taunted and threatened for being gay. Ferro claims he was fired for reporting the issues, and that an HR employee took his badge away and insinuated being gay was a handicap. Telsa has issued a...

The Dancing With The Stars hunk wants the LGBT community to stop tearing itself apart and work towards the bigger picture. Nyle DiMarco has urged members of the LGBT+ community to band together and fight for a better future. In an exclusive interview in the Attitude Awards issue, the Dancing With The Stars hunk, who worked up a sweat this week with Pietro Boselli, wants the LGBT+ community to stop tearing itself apart. Back in 2015, DiMarco came out as sexually fluid...

The posters told LGBT students to "follow your fellow faggots" in committing suicide. Anti-LGBT fliers appeared on the main campus of Cleveland State University on Monday, the same day the school opened a new LGBT student center. The signs featured a figure with its head in a noose, with a caption reading “Follow your fellow faggots.” Also included were various statistics purported to indicate links between suicide and the LGBT community—including that 30% of suicides are LGBT-related and 34% of trans people...

On Saturday, a protest march was held in New York City in solidarity with the LGBT people of Chechnya. It was organised by the grassroots group Voices 4 Chechnya, standing up in peaceful protest against the abduction, torture and killing of Chechen LGBT+ people and demanding humanitarian visas for those that have escaped to Russian safe houses. The group was founded by LGBT+ activist Adam Eli who fronted the protest, marching alongside hundreds of Voices 4 Chechnya supporters, including RuPaul’s Drag...

India is currently deciding whether to go forward with a new proposed plan for a Uniform Civil Code. The idea is to bring together the country’s many different religious groups and create a common public law for them all to follow. The Uniform Civil Code would affect laws around marriage, divorce, inheritance and parenting, and would be a massive overhaul for India’s legal system. India’s Law Commission asked a group of citizens to research and put together a draft for the proposed...

Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign same-sex marriage licenses campaigns against gay marriage ahead of Constitutional vote Kim Davis has taken her anti-gay crusade abroad. Davis is the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling allowing marriage equality nationwide. Davis said she was acting on God’s authority and did five days of jail time for her refusal to sign the marriage licenses. Now Davis is in Romania seeking to persuade...

Indonesian police detained over 50 men in a raid on what has been described as a “gay spa” in Jakarta. Friday night found police holding 51 males and 7 employees. They will be charged under pornography and prostitution laws and some could face up to six years in prison. Four Chinese nationals, a Singaporean, one Thai National, one Malaysian, and one Dutchman, were also presnt, but none of the foreigners would be charged. The arrests are the latest in a...

A victim of Azerbaijan’s reported anti-gay crackdown has come forward to describe the horrendous actions that were used against him. The man – who has only been identified as Xeyal for his own security – was caught up as one of dozens of LGBT+ people detained by authorities in Azerbaijan’s capital city, Baku, last month. The victim claimed that he was detained for nine days and enduring beatings, electrics shocks and other forms of torture before he was finally released. “We were...

The group will visit Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee with a message of equality and dignity. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) will celebrate the start of its 40th season with The Lavender Pen Tour, a series of performances taking place across five Southern states, October 7-15. According to a statement from the organization, their hope is “to take its message and music on the road to promote universal equality and inclusiveness, and the value in...

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A group of LGBT+ students were subjected to homophobic chanting during their school homecoming in Kansas last week. Members of the Gender-Sexuality Alliance Club participated in their annual parade Olathe Northwest High School, but were met with taunts of “Make America straight again” from a small number of the crowd. They were subjected to numerous slurs and dirt being thrown at them, as well as being told to go kill themselves. What’s more, the harassment even spilled onto social media, with a...