Tag: LGBTQ

How did all these stars get into a Brazil Pride video? Probably from just listening to the artist tell Brazil's LGBTQ story. “This project is more necessary than ever before, as Brazil's the country with the highest LGBTQ+ murder rate in the world and there are no laws criminalizing hate crimes against LGBTQ+ people in Brazil,” Yann said in a press release. (ontopmag.com) The artist's new single IGUAL which means Equal, has cameos by the likes of Britney Spears, Boy George,...

GLAAD has released its annual report on LGBTQ representation on TV called Where We Are. The report states that in the 2017-2018 tv season, there are 58 out of 901 regular LGBTQ characters on broadcast networks, cable TV, and streaming services. While that 6.4% may seem small, it is actually the highest percentage that GLAAD has ever reported in the 22 years that the organization has been researching this info. Plus, they also counted an addition 28 reoccurring LGBTQ characters. The rise...

Warning: Spoilers below concerning the latest episode of The Walking Dead!! Jordan Woods-Robinson said goodbye to his character Eric and his fans after the character died on the show The Walking Dead. Woods-Robinson both reflected on his time with the character in two videos that he tweeted out before the character’s death and afterwards as a part of the show’s regular talk back called The Talking Dead. “I had a question from Chris Hardwick a couple of nights ago, which is...

The sacredness and personal experience that IS coming out our even, living in the closet, is the one plight that is shared with the entire LGBTQIA community. Regardless of the journey we have each taken, we our bound together as an extended family because of the fears and dangers that we live through leading up to and even after we have spoken our truth as LGBTQIA community. Today's youth is growing up in a time when coming out or leading...

The liberal redneck is at it again. Trae Crowder found himself becoming internet famous last year after he made video about the transgender bathroom bill controversy. Since then, Crowder and his two writing partners, Drew Morgan and Corey Forrester, have been creating more videos, appearing on tv shows, and even writing their own book. And now the three liberal rednecks are at it again, but this time to discuss another section of LGBTQ people. Gay guys… and nude ones at that. That’s right,...

A New York State heath teacher was suspended with pay after parents complained that their seventh-grade students were given information about transgender issues. “The parents have concerns, and they are mine as well,” Superintendent Vince Canini said Tuesday. He also added that, “We have never had this issue before. We may have to make some policy changes because of it.” The “issue” at hand concerns handouts that were given to students. All students, between seventh and tenth grade, received a 42-paged...

Early last month, we shared that Thor Ragnorak will introduce the first gay character to the Marvel Cinematic universe. That said, we were also not too pleased that the character is an alien that looks like the thing from Fantastic Four. But, it seems that not all hope is lost as the movie will also star a second LGBTQ character, and this one is a bigger supporting role. Actress Tessa Thompson, who will be playing Valkyrie in the film, shared on twitter...

After Egypt and Indonesia, it seems that Burundi is the next country to ramp up its hunt against gay men. Burundi police announced on October 6th, that they were enforcing a tough hunt on gay people and that they already had “several” incarcerated. These “several” LGBTQ people are currently being imprisoned in the African state of Burundi and asked to pay hefty bribes. If they don’t, they face even more fines, beatings, and potentially two years in prison. “The reason is just...

200 people gathered to participate in Soweto Pride in South Africa. The Pride parade marched through sections like Meadowlands and Dobsonville in Soweto before eventually settling at Dorothy Nyembe Park, a subsection of Johannesburg in the country of South Africa, to protest the increasing hate crimes against LGBTQ people. Going along with that goal, the theme of this year’s march was “Reclaiming Our Right To Organize.” The reason for that theme was not only because of the increase in crimes targeting gay...

This quick ad on twitter is going viral. The ad by New Zealand LGBTQ organization Rainbow Youth focuses on people using the word gay as a replacement for negative terms. The idea is to combat this constant use of the word gay to sub-out other words like stupid, sad, disappointing, etc. The ad, which you can find below, has already been viewed 200,000 times and shared 3,000 times through different accounts. Watch what they’re all talking about down below: https://twitter.com/RainbowYOUTH/status/914699564766105606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstinctmagazine.com%2Fpost%2Fviral-twitter-ad-tackles-ever-stupid-phrase-so-gay https://twitter.com/RainbowYOUTH/status/914700424548143105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstinctmagazine.com%2Fpost%2Fviral-twitter-ad-tackles-ever-stupid-phrase-so-gay

Earlier today, the Philippines’s House of Representatives approved a bill that will protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. The vote for House Bill Number 4982 or an Act Prohibiting Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity or Expression, aka SOGIE, was unanimous with a 197 to 0 count at its third and final reading. The now House passed bill, which was co-written by transgender Representative Geraldine Roman last year, hopes to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination by penalizing those...

The Blue Neighbourhood singer joins a star-studded cast for the 2018 film. Move over, Harry Styles. There’s a new heartthrob musician making the jump to film. Troye Sivan has just joined the cast of Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased, a “coming-of-age and “coming-out drama” based on a memoir about gay conversion therapy. In the original book, Garrard Conley’s Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family, Conley describes the situation he faced after being outed in his freshman year of...

A young gay couple say they were relaxing in the pool at a local beach resort when a staff member harassed them. The 17-year-old and 18-year-old say they were recently “intimidated” by a lifeguard at the Lido Arcobaleno beach resort in Caserta, in the Campania region of southwestern Italy, after sharing a brief hug in the water. “We were in the pool like everyone else,” one of the teens told Repubblica. “While we were in the water, like everyone else present,...

Ark Encounter, a fundamentalist Christian theme park that boasts a “life-size Noah’s Ark,” will light that ark up every night with a rainbow as a way to “take back” that symbol from LGBTQ people. Normally, when a building is lit up in rainbow colors, the owners of the building are trying to express support for LGBTQ people. The White House was lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate Obergefell v. Hodges, which ended state-level bans on people of the same...