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The Catholic League have accused Microsoft of ‘exploiting’ Christmas to promote equality. Earlier this month, the technology giant released a festive advert that showcased a range of activists encouraging love and acceptance, including reality star Jazz Jennings, one of the world’s youngest trans role models. It also features seven-year-old Zea Bowling, who went viral when she stood up to a homophobic preacher, and Mona Haydar, a Muslim-American woman who invites people to “ask a Muslim” over coffee and doughnuts. Despite receiving a...

The Equality House has been attacked by thugs who left homophobic graffiti and smashed windows. The Topeka, Kansas-based symbol of LGBT+ equality was established by Planting Peace back in 2013. Sharing its local vicinity with the hideously anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church, the building has been painted with rainbow colours in order to be seen as a celebration of community. A same-sex wedding has taken place at the Equality House, as well as a lemonade stand hoping to advocate for peace. But Planting Peace...

A new report from Lloyds Banking Group has found two thirds of Brits want to see more diversity in advertising. A new report from Lloyds Banking Group has found that less than 1% of people featured in British adverts are LGBT+, but that the British public have an appetite to see more diversity than is currently offered, Research conducted by the group shows that advertisers are still failing to reflect Britain’s diversity, particularly in regards to disabled and LGBT people, and...

Taiwan is poised to become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage. An estimated 250,000 people surrounded Taiwan’s Presidential Office in capital city Taipei on Saturday (December 10) in support of equal marriage, Asia Times reports. https://twitter.com/PinkDotSG/status/807920021540196352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Taiwan is poised to become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage. While the country’s President has been a vocal supporter of equal marriage, the nations push to legalize same-sex unions was galvanised by the death of a gay professor in...

Grab your tissues and check out this video of Lady Gaga dropping off a car load of gifts to the homeless LGBT youth at NYC's Ali Forney Center! Gaga shares: "These children are not just homeless or in need, many of them are trauma survivors,” Gaga explains in a video broadcast on TODAY. "They’ve been rejected in some type of way. My own trauma in my life has helped me to understand the trauma of others." “I love to give things to...

Tim Ramsey founded LGBT charity Just Like Us to help provide to the support he never got at school. My Dad left me a voicemail. He never leaves me voicemails. “Nothing to worry about, but could you just give me a ring.” Instantly worried, I stopped training our volunteers to call home. Dad answered: “I wanted to speak before mum gets home. I opened an anonymous letter threatening to take you and us to court because the charity is operating illegally.” I felt sick....

Homophobic gamers have been 'rage quitting' whenever seeing other players wear FIFA 17's rainbow kit. Football video game FIFA 17 introduced a rainbow kit for gamers to play in support of the LGBT community. However, the kit has sparked backlash from homophobic players who ‘rage quit’ upon seeing people play with the rainbow kit, claiming that EA, the company behind the game, is trying to push a political agenda. The rainbow kit was sparked by Stonewall UK’s Rainbow Laces campaign and has...

President-elect Donald Trump appears to have blocked an LGBT campaigner and activist on Twitter – and there could be many more. Robbie Travers, from Edinburgh, Scotland, was shocked to discover he could no longer see Tweets by the 45th president when a notice saying Trump had blocked him appeared. The notice read: “You are blocked from following @realDonaldTrump and seeing @realDonaldTrump’s Tweets.” The bisexual activist did not have a vote in the US election, but has Tweeted and written about disagreeing with...

Hundreds of LGBT activists marched in the Pride parade in New Delhi today to draw attention to discrimination against India’s LGBT community. Marchers called for a repeal of the law that criminalises homosexual acts. The penal code which criminalises acts was overturned in 2009, but four years later the move was overturned who decided repealing the section which dictates the law should be up to parliament, not judiciary. https://www.instagram.com/p/BNT6O8bDMa9/ Gay sex is punishable by up to 10 years in prison in India. Many in...

A mother reaches out to the Reddit community for advice. Reddit user Stripedpolkadots posted in the LGBT subreddit asking other redditors for advice for dealing with her teenage son who she thinks is gay. “My son is 13 and although he has never told me, I am sure that he is gay,” she posted in the thread. “I would really like to make things easier for him and help him but I have no idea how to approach the subject… I’m...

A candle light vigil to remember Deon Brown is set for 5 p.m. outside the Nashville beauty salon where he used to work at 2225 Murfreesboro Pike. Family and friends including the LGBT community are mourning the death of a 24-year-old man found brutally killed this week on the property of a West Nashville trucking business The body of Deon Brown was discovered about 6:22 a.m. Monday in the lot of Western Express at 7135 Centennial Place. Metro police said Brown, who...

The 49 Flowers Art Project is looking for people who can spare 15 minutes of their time to be a life model. Canadian artist Zachari Logan has an exhibition of his Wreath series of drawings displayed at New Art Projects Gallery in Hackney, London from 18 November to 22 December. This Saturday and Sunday (19-20 November), he will be in the gallery from noon until 5pm for his project 49 Flowers to benefit an Orlando charity helping those affected by the...

After Trump said this week that he wouldn’t appoint a Supreme Court justice to attempt to roll back same-sex marriage, but one of his prospective picks has actually made some pretty disturbing comments. Despite President-elect Trump saying that same-sex marriage is “settled”, he also said he wanted to appoint justices who would challenge the 1973 abortion rights ruling Roe v Wade. One of those conservative judges is William H Pryor Jr, who has in the past suggested that same-sex couples should...

The story of three best friends living in San Francisco and tackling the hopes, fears, and challenges of modern gay men captured the hearts of fans for two seasons. Though the series was given the axe at the end of its sophomore season, HBO thankfully greenlit a film version, giving the creators a rare chance to wrap up loose ends – and the fans a chance to see more of the cast stripped down and sexed up. Now the entire saga...