Tag: lgbt

Orange is the New Black: This Netflix original series has been pushing boundaries and breaking glass ceilings since its air date in 2013. This sapphic prison tale follows Piper Chapman, a wide-eyed bisexual woman, and the story of her incarceration in an all-women’s state penitentiary.  Along the way we are introduced to a plethora of unique characters, all belonging to different races, sexual orientations, and backgrounds. Along with representing multiple distinct queer characters, this series was also the first mainstream...

Yes, this actually happened and the said event took place in Orlando International Airport, where Shadi Petovski, a writer working for an entertainment company located in L.A., was searched and detained, just enough to cause her to lose the flight. The reason for this action undertaken by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), was in fact “an anomaly”, like Shadi Petovski herself put it on her Tweet account. It later turned out that the anomaly in question was the nature-given...

Being able to control every aspect of your life and having the right to intimacy and freedom of choice is still an alien concept for many countries, as strange as it may seem. Yes, we are long pass the time when we were burning witches on a stake, but it seems like we still have a long way to go. Being gay is a matter of strong public interest in many countries and while some already accepted the phenomenon,...

On February 19th of 1942, two months and twelve days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 112,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps all across the U.S.A.  Among them was a five year old George Takei and his family.  They remained in the camp for three years until they were released at the end of World War II.  20 years later, Takei skyrocketed to fame after being cast as Lieutenant Sulu in Star Trek.  But what many people...

The Kentucky clerk is still on a roll, in and out of jail and continuing her campaign against same sex marriages. Kim Davis, who made headlines when she refused to issue marriage licenses to couples of the same sex and who ended up a jail bird for her actions is now in for a boomerang surprise in her own backyard. ‘Dear Kim Davis, The fact that you can’t sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means we’ve already...

The newly elected Mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, has taken the media by storm in the past few weeks when he imposed anti gay orders within the city. The latter first stirred a controversy when he mandates to officially withdraw books from primary schools and nurseries depicting homosexuality and disability, thus, provoking fury among the LGBT community. For a second time in a few days, he constructed another order that aggravates the tension towards the LGBT community when he recently...

You've had an opportunity to read and even to watch our first part of Top 10 Lesbian YouTube Couples of 2015. Now we are going to share with you our second part of this list. A lot of people get inspired by these cheerful and cute girl couple who are ready to show their love and relationship for millions of YouTube followers. Are you ready to meet 5 more lesbian couples from YouTube? So, let's start! 5.) Kaelyn and Lucy Kaelyn and...

The Kentucky clerk may still be in jail, but the story is far from over. As you may know, she was incarcerated for contempt to the Supreme Court last Thursday, after she publicly refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. A lot of people came out and let their opinion be heard, either supporting or accusing Davis and now she found a helping hand in the most unlikely of places: Madonna’s gay brother Christopher Ciccone. He stepped out and...

Transgenders belong to 1% of the world's population and yet, every 72 hours, one transgender is beaten up, harassed and even tortured to death. This year has become an epidemic of fatal violence towards transgender community, bringing its fatality rate higher than ever. Why are transgenders being murdered? With the growing LGBTQ visibility in the mainstream media this year, more people feel the urge to come out, thus, opening up doors to meet someone and build personal relationships that generates the foundation...

Sometimes, the best or most interesting kind of news is when a kid behaves like an adult. Well, this was the case on the ninth of August, during the yearly Pride celebrations. The celebrations took place in Madison, in the state of Wisconsin. This was a parade which is quite known due to the number of people present. But some of them were homophobic to the parade. Everything was going well, until a boy decided that enough was with...

When countries are beginning to change their old-fashion laws regarding marriage, we can begin to celebrate how far we’ve come as a society. This news is representative of what the people of Ireland have been demanding. What’s even more interesting is that it took a change in the country’s constitution for it to happen. Shortly after the United States Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage in June 2015, Ireland’s President, Michael Higgins, signed a similar amendment allowing for equal...

The Manchester Pride festival is one of the largest LGBT events throughout the year and it gets a lot of attention, both positive and negative. However, this year things took a turn for the better as none other than Ian Mckellen showed up to support this movement with his unparalleled charisma and his British charm. As expected, his presence was not something to go unnoticed, and the Chief Executive of the annually festival, Mark Fletcher saluted the actor’s initiative:...

Not everything the law says should be taken for granted. At least this is what Kim Davis, a county clerk from Kentucky, chose to consider, when, following the legalization of the gay marriages, went and filed a petition to the Supreme court, stating that she wants to be empowered to refuse gay marriages, should she chose to. Little that she knew, she was going to marry a young couple, belonging to the exact category that she so ardently refused...

Making the news for the third time this week, Ellen Page tells straight Hollywood actors that it’s “not brave to play gay”. Just recently she took part in the first LGBT pride event in Jamaica, despite the fact that there were warnings of anti-gay protestors that could turn the parade violent at any moment. This also comes on the heels of her lively confrontation with Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over his position on workplace protections for gay employees. Via: belle-jar.com But, according...