Tag: LGBTQ

"This decision is mine alone." During a press conference held today, Milo Yiannopoulos announced his resignation from Breitbart News. Yiannopoulos was the editor of Breitbart Tech and was one of the site’s most popular writers. In a statement, Yiannopoulos said he would be wrong “to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important reporting, so today I am resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately. This decision is mine alone.” https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/834124012678676485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Breitbart followed with a statement on Yiannopoulos’ decision: https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/834130391304925184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Breaking ties with Breitbart...

Love has no labels Kiss cams have been a part of football matches for decades. Now the Advertising Council, an American non-profit organization and the brains behind Public Service Announcements, have put a new spin on them for their Love Has No Labels campaign. Filmed at the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando two weeks ago, the new clip celebrates love in all its diversity. And the first couple is already indication that this kiss cam doesn’t discriminate. The heart lands on a guy...

Showing the LGBTQ community some love in the advertising game has become mainstream in recent years, marking a new era of public consciousness and mirroring advancements in the struggle for equality. With a new administration in the U.S. whose attitudes towards that struggle are murky at best, companies that choose to feature queer themes do so at the risk of antagonizing the government. For that reason, they should be applauded even more when they do the right thing and celebrate diversity. Here’s...

The Stonewall Inn is considered to be the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement and as equality is once again under attack it is only fitting that it should once again be home to what looks to be a massive protest. An LGBT Solidarity rally on Saturday from 2-4 P.M. has been organized by New York Councilman Corey Johnson, with the express purpose of protesting the policies of the Trump administration. “Join us in front of the Stonewall Inn as...

A Queerty reader has directed us to a video of a teen expressing his severe homophobia, and we feel it deserves to be seen. We must warn you that he uses highly offensive language, and if you’re sensitive to hate speech, you may want to move on. While antigay hostility on high school campuses (or anywhere else for that matter) isn’t much by the way of news, the willingness of bigots to wear their ignorance on their sleeves has become noticeably more...

An executive order from President Donald Trump opening up discrimination against the LGBTQ community on the basis of religious belief is expected sometime this week, possibly as soon as today. Several sources spoke with LGBTQ Nation on the condition of anonymity who have told us that the order will allow for discrimination in a number of areas, including employment, social services, business, and adoption. From what we’ve heard, the executive order could be far-reaching, and could include: making taxpayer funds available...

What is behind the risky behaviors of LGBTQ teens in America? Research has confirmed that the LGBTQ community may have high rates of mental health conditions. Mental health illnesses can be due to prejudice, stigma, rejection, fear, abuse, threats, assault, low self-esteem, harassment, or other circumstances. The National Alliance of Mental Illness notes that LGBTQ individuals are 3 times more likely to develop a mental health condition. Mental health conditions or illnesses can include depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, self-harm...

Same-sex couples could begin to marry in Guernsey as soon as the summer, it has been announced. The Employment and Social Security Committee Vice President Shane Langlois said the UK Privy Council announced that Royal Assent has been given to the law first introduced back in 2015. The measure will now go to the States for final approval before it will come into effect. Despite Langlois saying that it is expected it will do so in the summer, he said before a...

The Benham Brothers are back and they’re really, really upset, you guys. After Gov. Pat McCrory lost the race for governor in North Carolina last month, state lawmakers have decided to repeal the hugely unpopular anti-LGBTQ law that they believe led to McCrory’s defeat. HB2 was passed during a special session back in March and voided all LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances across the entire state, thus making it legal to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Now that the bill has been repealed,...

Those looking for good news in the last few weeks of 2016 may want to set their alarm clocks to snooze for another twenty-three days. A sweeping new study by the National Alliance on Mental Illness indicates that people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender are three times as likely to suffer from certain mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Here’s a chart provided by Mentalhelp breaking down the data: While collecting data, researchers conducted interviews with members of...

Prince Harry and pop superstar Rihanna have taken HIV tests to mark World AIDS Day. The pair met locals on the island of Barbados, following a celebration of the island’s 50th anniversary of independence. Prince Harry joked that taking the test would be painful, squirming as the nurse went to prick his finger. It was the second time that Harry had taken a test in public in five months in an attempt to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus. The last time Prince...

Just how bad is David Clarke, currently being considered for Donald Trump’s cabinet? Oh, boy, he’s really, really bad. Like, even bad by the standards of The Donald administration, and that’s saying something considering the monsters he’s handing power over to. Here are a few of Clarke’s greatest hits: After a gunman attacked the Pulse nightclub in the worst American mass shooting, Clarke said that gun control was a “distraction” from more important issues like Hillary Clinton‘s emails. Yup, the mass murder...

Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry is a lot of things. A husband. A father. A pro-gun, anti-choice Tea Partier. A climate change denier. An Obamacare hater. A Trump lover. And, naturally, a homophobe. In 2010, Landry supported a constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. In 2012, he went on a bizarre campaign to get rid of the LGBTQ Studies minor available at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. And just this year he refused to sign off on contracts...

In a time of great uncertainty, for the LGBTQ community, and in a sense, the entire world, President Obama just did something absolutely beautiful. Today, he gave his final Presidential Medals of Freedom to 21 recipients including Diana Ross, Tom Hanks, Melinda Gates, Robert De Niro and Ellen DeGeneres. Take a look at his remarks before giving the medal — the highest civilian honor in America — to Ellen: “It’s easy to forget now,” the president says, “when we’ve come so far,...