Tag: LGBTQ

The amendment was put forward by around 50 members of the governing La République en Marche. An amendment which will protect LGBTQ asylum seekers, if they originate from countries that persecute LGBTQ people has been unanimously passed by the French parliament’s lower house, the Assemblée nationale. Currently under French law, asylum seekers can be deported from the country, even if they appeal, if their country of origin is on a designated safe list. The amendment was tabled by the La République en...

A student group at the Universiti Sains Malaysia recently launched a contest to come up with ideas on how to make LGBTQ people heterosexual. As part of the Back to Fitrah forum held at the school, the contest included students making posters in a bid to ‘help’ LGBTQ students who have “disorders in sexual orientation return to their natural instincts.” A 21-year-old student at the university named Ernest Mah is only open about his sexuality with a few people. “I have to...

Juice FM has been granted a licence by Northern Ireland, and will be solely dedicated to the LGBTQ community. When it launches, the station is expected to have an audience of 33,000. However, we do have a bit of a wait before Juice FM starts airing, as it could take up to two years before the station puts out its first broadcast. A spokesman for Juice FM told The Belfast Telegraph: “LGBT people come from all walks of life and it...

Christian campaigner Linda Harvey branded gay sex "dead-end" and "degrading". A US radio host has claimed that God makes children gay as "punishment" for abortions. Linda Harvey, a columnist for far-right Christian website World Net Daily, made the comments during a speech at the Bringing America Back to Life Convention this week, the New Civil Rights Movement reports. In the speech, Harvey, who has previously urged rparents to reject their gay children and attempt to 'cure' them, said that God was 'corrupting'...

As gay marriage is now legal across all 50 states of America, it seems that the next issue that LGBTQ couples are fighting for is the right to parent. We’ve already talked about the growing struggle between right wing politicians, LGBTQ couples, and adoption agencies in Georgia (with tv/movie creatives also getting involved), and now it seems a similar struggle is surfacing in Pennsylvania. The trouble started when a lesbian couple went to an orientation meeting for a foster/adoption agency. Magan...

My name is Ahmed* and I’m 18-years-old. I’ve lived in Iraq my entire life. For the first 14 years of my life, my family was everything to me. Although they’re very strict, I loved them very much. But when I came out as a transgender man four years ago, my life changed for the worse. There was hardly a day when I wasn’t verbally abused, beaten, or locked up by someone in my family after I came out. I started running away...

Last week saw one of Emmerdale’s most beloved couples, Robert and Aaron, reunite after a heartbreaking split back in 2017. While soaps haven’t always blessed our screens with the best queer representation, Aaron and Robert are challenging same-sex relationships being used a diversity-tick box by becoming so much more than background characters. The airtime Danny Miller (Aaron) and Ryan Hawley (Robert) have been given to let their relationship blossom and flower, to then crash and burn, only to be reunited again...

It must be love, love looove. With gay romance Call Me By Your Name scoring major nominations at the Academy Awards, and upcoming film Love, Simon set to be one of the biggest rom-coms of the year with a gay lead character, there’s so much same-sex lovey dovey action on our screens right now. What’s more, LGBTQ representation on television has gained so much ground in recent years, with same-sex couples popping up in our favourite major series. So to celebrate the...

The Winter Olympic games have a total of 15 out and proud members of the LGBTQ community competing for the gold, and so far, the numbers we've pulled in have been very impressive. A total of seven medals have been won by four of our LGBTQ athletes this time around, including two gold, two silver and three bronze. Here is a look at who won what so far (and congratulations to all who have competed and represented for our community!) Eric Radford:...

Over 300 people in Orange City, Iowa have signed a petition calling for a local library to get rid of any books with LGBTQ themes. A Board of Trustees for the public library met on Tuesday and heard the arguments of Reverand Sacha Walicord of Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church. Walicord led the argument in front of a crow of over 100 people that the library was “pushing an agenda”. The reverend called for the books to either be banned or labelled and...

This new viral Russian ad campaign will be the perfect antidote for those of you who have woken up each day over the past year thinking "Ugh, if only I could live in Russia!" While it is obviously the land of dreams, this video, suspected to be financed by the Putin campaign according to the New York Daily News, highlights one of the country's teeny-tiny little quirk - the government and many Russian citizens are soul-crushingly homophobic. The video...

A Massachusetts teacher was allegedly fired for supporting LGBTQ students. Cory Grant was a head teacher for upper elementary students in fourth through sixth grade at the Harborlight Montessori School. After working at the school for three years, he was fired in June 2017. He then filed a complaint this past Monday with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Grant’s reasoning for the complaint is that he thinks he was fired for his support of LGBTQ students. While he worked at the school,...

The Ignorance Is Laughable! PUH-LEASE! If you aren’t aware, it is illegal to be gay in Malaysia. Yes, they have a homophobic rhetoric which carries a maximum sentence of twenty years. I’m eagerly awaiting the day when just simply being LGBTQ is not punishable by giving up a part of your life. Jeez! Well, if you’re curious: Malaysia is one step closer to flooding their jails with their gay community. One of their top newspapers, Sinar Harian, is advising how...

LGBTQ actors might soon be suffering because of sexual molesters. As a reaction to the many sexual assault claims popping out of Hollywood, movie studios are considering the return of morality clauses. Moral clauses were big in the 1920s. They allowed movie studios to place strict limitations on the personal lives of actors. This was enacted so studios could maintain their reputations and prevent actors from getting into big scandals or crime cases. These clauses often protected studios and filmmakers “if the...