Tag: LGBTI

Is the sign offensive, or nah? Restaurant owners in Italy can’t understand why their unique restroom sign has caused so much controversy. The toilet sign at Tenuta de Camporelle a restaurant within a bed and breakfast in Cavallino had three options: men, women and gay. The women and men’s figure were coloured pink and blued respectively, while the ‘gay’ figure was coloured half pink and half blue. LGBTI groups including, LEA Association - Italy’s leading LGBTI advocacy group – denounced the sign,...

Diaz Bravo was attacked with a broken glass to the face A Chilean events host was savagely assaulted with a broken glass at a pub during a homophobic attack. Patricio Díaz Bravo was allegedly attacked on Sunday by a woman who had been shouting homophobic insults at him. He was attacked at a pub in Puerto Natales in the southern Patagonian region of Chile. LGBTI organization, Movilh, reported that Yerka Torres Ojeda was hurling slurs such as, ‘colipato’ and ‘maricon’, Spanish colloquialisms for...

Try to get through this list without crying for joy Is there anything more heartwarming than grandparents accepting their LGBTI children for exactly who they are? Gay Star News ran a poll earlier this year to ask LGBTI people if they were out to their living grandparents. Surprisingly, 46% of people said they weren’t out, with 44% saying yes and 10% saying some of them. This means that a majority of people do not feel comfortable enough opening up about their sexuality to...

The Australian Psychological Society (APS) has released a guide for how to talk to children about same-sex marriage, as Australians prepare to vote in a postal survey on the issue. The APS is Australia's largest professional organisation for psychologists, with more than 22,000 members. It released the guide last week and has an official position of supporting marriage equality. Dr Susie Burke, a senior psychologist with the APS, told BuzzFeed News the first thing adults should know is that they can...

Catch these queer hidden gems in high quality and at your leisure on gay streaming service Dekkoo Sponsored: Mainstream Hollywood has made some admirable, if sanitized attempts at LGBTI stories over the years. (With, of course, a few notable triumphs). But more often than not, non-heterosexual characters are sidelined – if not obscured altogether. When it comes to the real and raw representations of all things queer on film, independent cinema is where it’s at. As such, my list LGBTI indies I need...

The Dutch know how to get wet and wild Pride in Amsterdam is unique as it is the only parade for LGBTI people on the water. On a beautiful summer day, 80 boats sailed down the canals of the Netherlands capital. Half a million people from around the world on the bankside watched the Canal Parade and have been participating in the week-long festivities. GSN was there in the middle of it all on the W Amsterdam boat, alongside Dutch superstar drag queen...

Joshua and Jeremy live with their kids in Salt Lake City Few would argue that media representation of gay families is lacking. This is despite the fact that a growing number of LGBTI people are having children. One website doing its best to combat this lack of representation is Gays With Kids. A photo it posted to its social media has gone viral and become its most liked posting on Instagram. The photo shows Salt Lake City-based gay dads Joshua and Jeremy,...

The black and brown stripes were for 'the LGBTI majority, which is not Anglo-Saxon'. A proposed Pride Centre in Australia has updated its rainbow logo with two new colours. Brown and black were added to represent LGBTI people of colour. The proposed Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne will be an LGBTI hub to bring the community together in a single space. The Victorian State Government has backed the centre with $15 million in funding. It will be built in the LGBTI-friendly...

An open letter to straight people who need to learn some respect Gay bars are not just for LGBTI people, we all know this, but it is a sanctuary for them. We all know that feeling when we see a drunk straight girl angry she’s not getting any attention or when a straight guy reacts badly to getting hit on. So a gay guy has absolutely nailed how the straights should act when they’re in a gay space, and it essentially comes...

'We do not work for heterosexuals'. LGBTI people from all over the world are looking to India to find love. The International Gay Marriage Bureau is an Indian website which is the only one in the world looking to arrange marriages for LGBTI people. Urvi Shah is the CEO of Custom Soul Connection LLP the parent company of International Gay Marriage Bureau. She told Gay Iceland she had originally started the website for Indian people who faced a lot of discrimination because of...

The service will include original LGBT content from Southeast Asia GagaOOLala is Asia’s first streaming service created entirely for the LGBTI community. The service currently has 350 titles and will be to available to subscribers in Southeast Asia. The countries which will have access to the service are; Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The organizers of the Taiwan International Queer Film Festival launched GagaOOLala earlier this and have collated content from around the world. Following in...

Stephen Einhorn: Our brand is all about 'equality, plain and simple' Stephen Einhorn is the name on everyone’s lips and the rings on everyone’s fingers. And for good reason. As a jewellery designer and store owner, Einhorn says it doesn’t matter about your sexuality, race, gender or financial status, ‘every customer deserves respect.’ He opened his self-titled store in 1995, which has become synonymous with high quality, contemporary and creative designs. Since day one, Einhorn said he’s been committed to ensuring everyone feels welcome...

The Hollywood star reportedly said that "a man kissing another man is the greatest acting challenge an actor can ever face." Ben Affleck allegedly once said that kissing another man was “the greatest challenge an actor can ever face”. That’s according to the director of 1997’s Chasing Amy, who says that the Hollywood heartthrob later declared himself a “serious actor” after shooting a same-sex kiss for the US romantic drama. Released in April 1997, the critically-acclaimed flick saw Affleck play a comic...

Congratulations Malta! Malta has decided to make same-sex marriage legal today (12 July). The small southern European island, largely made up of Catholic people, now has one of the leading LGBTI rights laws in the world. The wording in civil ceremonies of ‘you are now husband and wife’ will now be changed to ‘you are now spouses’. There was only one voice of opposition in government, with one politician claiming it was ‘morally unacceptable’. A victory celebration of same-sex couples and LGBTI people is...