Tag: LGBTQ community

Retired bobsledder Simon Dunn thinks that it’s “selfish” for the LGBTQ community to expect athletes to come out of the closet. Though the Australian became the first gay man to represent his country in the Olympics, he still feels homophobia has the potential stamp out the careers of promising LGBTQ athletes — despite the fact that diver Tom Daley, rugby player Keegan Hirst, and freeskiier Gus Kenworthy managed to come out of the closest quite unscathed. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVvN5HBgkIn/ Talking to the London Evening...

Cities across the globe have added a touch of LGBTQ visibility and pride by painting rainbow crosswalks on their streets. They are often temporary, put down to coincide with Pride, before being painted over and returned to their original, bland look. Some cities have decided to take a bigger stand in showing they stand with the LGBTQ community by making their pride crosswalks permanent. As we recently reported, the city of Lethbridge, in Canada, is getting both a permanent transgender pride...

Fasten your seat belts and prepare for takeoff. This June, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world will gather in Madrid, Spain to celebrate the spirit of the international LGBTQ community during the World Pride 2017 event. But this isn’t just any Pride event. World Pride breaks down more than just barriers of sex, gender and sexual orientation. It brings people together from varying cultural, religious, political, ethnic and racial groups, celebrating the myriad differences found within the LGBTQ...

Angela Merkel is pressuring Russian President Vladimir Putin to investigate and put a stop to reported abuses of the LGBTQ community in Chechnya. The German chancellor, visiting Russia for the first time in two years, said she raised the issue with Putin, along with other human rights issues, during a meeting. In a joint press conference with Putin in Sochi held afterward, she made clear that Germany is taking the reports seriously and urges Russia, of which Chechnya is a...

Orlando Love – Remembering Our Angels, will honor the lives of the 49 lives taken the year before at Pulse nightclub Orlando will be hosting a one-year anniversary tribute concert dedicated to Pulse victims and survivors. The performance, titled Orlando Love – Remembering Our Angels, will honor the lives of the 49 lives taken the year before at Pulse nightclub. The Orlando Gay Chorus, Orlando Voices United Choir,The Voice star Sisaundra Lewis, violinist Jose Luis Navarro will all perform. ‘Queen of Merengue’ Olga...

The Trump Administration’s attempt to completely erase the LGBTQ community rages on. First, the White House deleted the LGBT rights page from its official website. Then it axed the White House Office of AIDS Policy. Then it announced massive cuts to the HIV/AIDS research budget. Now, it wants to eliminate LGBTQ citizens from the 2020 census. Every 10 years, the federal government conducts the U.S. Census to determine the number of people living in the country. They also record things...

Dear President Elect Trump, First off, congratulations on winning the 2016 Presidential Election. Your campaign has changed history and will be a chapter in history books in the future. I am an openly gay high school basketball coach and social studies teacher from Yonkers, NY. Over the last 18 months I have followed your campaign closely and often protested its tone. The rhetoric has made so many communities feel less then supported. The LGBTQ community, African-Americans, Latinos, Women and Muslims have...

'I think it was probably the first time people had seen a drag show in their life,' said the organiser. Morehead, Kentucky, just held its first ever Pride celebration over the weekend but the person responsible for putting the city on the map wasn’t in the crowd. Rowan County clerk Kim Davis gained international attention in August 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on the basis of her religion. It was an act of defiance against the Supreme Court’s June 2015 marriage equality ruling. She was...

Hey there, fellas! This has been one hell of a week, with plenty of news for every taste and some have had quite a success, benefitting from widespread attention all over the world. We know many of you are addicted to our news platform and no wonder. We are doing our best to keep you posted on the latest events worldwide, because we care about you, our reader and we care about the LGBTQ community. So, since we know not...

Attendees and watchers of the Brazilian GQ awards must have been stunned when 2 of the sexiest men in the film industry kissed. Bruno Gagliasso(best known for roles in Passione and Sinha Moca) locked lips with actor/writer Joao de Vicente Castro (best known for A Noite da Virada and A Molher do Prefeito). Both are well known for playing macho roles. In the message following his tweet of the picture, Bruno, who is a well-known LGBTQ supporter, explains that this...