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One brave teen decided to take the plunge live on national TV on Tuesday night. Coming out to friends and family can be one of the hardest decisions LGBT people ever have to face, but one 16-year-old boy has provided a welcome source of inspiration for others after deciding to take the plunge live on national television. Eighty 16 to 22-year-olds were been invited to share their views as part of BBC Newsbeat’s Generation Misunderstood? programme, which aired on the BBC...

It’s more than you’d expect… While LGBT+ people have won some significant rights in recent years, there’s still much to be done – especially if you take Gallup’s polling data into consideration. The company have been asking American citizens if they think same-sex relations between two consenting adults should be legal or not be legal since the 1970s. The Washington Post recently unearthed the data and found that a fifth of Americans (23%) still believe gay relations should be illegal. As you can...

As part of Alternative Family Week 2017, Gay Times invited actor Charlie Condou to read Olly Pike’s internationally successful LGBT+ story Prince Henry – a gay family fairytale. The King and Queen think it’s time for their son to choose someone to marry and spend his life with, but are they surprised by who he chooses? “Charlie is part of an alternative family, he has a husband, a son and a daughter and he is a positive role model for so...

16 million barcodes have been issued to Australian voters, and one citizen found the hidden word. Australia’s equal marriage postal vote is underway, but the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has been forced to apologise after one voter noticed a hidden word on his friend’s form. Around 16 million survey cards were sent out to voters, each with a unique barcode. However, one citizen took to Twitter to reveal that one of the many unique barcodes spelt out the word “BUMSEX”. Despite...

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the state of Michigan, for allowing adoption services to refuse same-sex couples. Michigan pays private agencies to provide child welfare services, providing children with foster care and looking to find them foster and adoptive families. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is allowing these services to turn away homes for the children on the grounds of religious objections, because the prospective parents are gay. Despite Michigan having 13,000 children in...

The 'Too Good at Goodbyes' singer has spoken out after anti-gay skywriting was spotted in Sydney over the weekend, Sam Smith has urged Australians to back equal marriage as the country begins to cast ballots in a non-binding postal vote on the issue of LGBT+ equality. The ‘Too Good at Goodbyes’ singer lent his voice to the campaign for equality Down Under after skywriting encouraging Australians to vote against same-sex marriage was spotted over Sydney on Sunday morning (September 17). Sam, who...

Take part in our quick five-minute survey and you could win a year's supply of Attitude! When it comes to going on holiday, it’s a sad fact that LGBT people can often face problems that straight folks don’t even consider. From hotels booking you and your partner into a twin room to simply feeling self-conscious when rubbing sun cream into your other half’s back, it’s the little things that often force LGBT people to change their behaviour on holiday – and...

"The man tried to attack us several times, spat in our faces and shouted that he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and he would kill us." A group of five LGBT Syrian refugees say they were thrown out of a Zara store in Amsterdam after enduring a homophobic attack by another customer. One member of the group, Tarek Almolki, told Dutch newspaper Het Parool that security staff at the clothing retailer looked the other way when a man in...

You go, Max! If you’re looking for the most adorable argument in favour of marriage equality, this is probably it. As Australians prepare to take part in a postal vote on the issue of same-sex marriage, anti-gay propaganda has been circulated around the country and “scaremongering” adverts have aired on TV. Priests have reportedly called for ‘all gay people to be shot‘, while an Australian MP has recently told LGBT+ people to “grow a spine” and “stop being delicate little flowers” in...

Someone needs to tell Bobby Drake’s parents that love is love. Over the past two years, X-Men member Iceman has come out as gay to his team and friends in the Marvel Comics series, dividing fans on whether it was the right storyline for him considering his string of romances with female heroes beforehand. But most LGBT+ fans were happy to see him become Marvel’s first comic book series with a gay lead – and Iceman #5 sees him tackle a...

Terry Miller is the Tom of Finland store's U.S. ambassador, and the super sexy husband to LGBT author and activist Dan Savage. You've probably seen some of his sexy Instagram snaps in the past, but this one takes the cake! https://www.instagram.com/p/BYRr_RcgNSU/ We're surprised there's not more fog on that mirror! https://www.instagram.com/p/BYY8bMkg5xm/ Unffffff!

We are continue to introduce you the most important LGBT events around the Globe that are going to be held this September. Have a look at LGBT Pride calendar about upcoming LGBT events of September 2017 below. EUROPE PRIDE NORTH AMERICA PRIDE WORLDWIDE PRIDE

The victim tried to calm a group that was spewing homophobic slurs at him and his friends. A gay man suffered a broken jaw at the hands of attackers in Brooklyn in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. The victim, 27, was ordering food with friends at a fast-food restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant when they were approached by a group making anti-gay comments. When he tried to de-escalate the situation, one attacker punched him in the face. The assailant was...

35 films from 20 countries are in competition for the 2017 Iris Prize. The shortlist for the Iris Prize – the world’s biggest LGBT short film prize – has been announced. A total of 35 films from 20 countries are in competition for the 2017 prize, with all of the films being screened together in Cardiff later in the year. Presented annually during the October film festival of the same name in Cardiff, Wales the Iris Prize continues to be the world’s...