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Ten protestors were arrested and dragged into police vans Russian police rounded up LGBTI activists protesting the persecution of gay men in Chechnya. Activists staged a dramatic demonstration in St Petersburg, painting their faces with fake blood and pretending to be dead on the road. The activists also draped rainbow and Chechen flags over their bodies, reports the Independent. A group of ten protestors were arrested near the Anichkov Palace in the centre of Russia’s second biggest city. https://twitter.com/merr1k/status/858976425117921280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gaystarnews.com%2Farticle%2Frussian-police-arrest-activists-st-petersburg-protesting-gay-concentration-camps-chechnya%2F Russian police in full riot gear...

Earlier this month, we reported that the LA Pride parade has been officially cancelled to make way for a march protesting Donald Trump. Now we’ve learned NYC Pride will also be shaking up its routine to include resistance groups at the very front of the parade. “I’m extremely proud of the people who came out to raise their voices about this,” says Ken Kidd, the lead organizer who fought tirelessly to get the resistance groups into a highly visible position in...

SILVER LAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) - Hundreds of LGBT members and supporters held a peaceful protest in Silver Lake Saturday, marking the 50th anniversary of the first major gay rights demonstration in the U.S. On this night in 1967, hundreds of LGBT members gathered outside the Black Cat Tavern. Their peaceful demonstration followed the arrest of same-sex couples and incidents of police brutality at the bar on New Year's Eve. Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell explained what happened. "There were about...

Crowds gather for the Women’s Mach in downtown Los Angeles. California is losing its chill — another major protest against Trump is on its way. The demonstration is being planned to coincide with Los Angeles Pride and the National Pride March in Washington D.C., so mark your calendar for June 11 and prepare to get loud. (But by all means stay loud until then, also.) At the rate things are going, Donald Trump’s presidency will go down as the dawn of...

Ellen Page spent the weekend not taking any crap, thank you very much. A new video shows her confronting a crazy street preacher somewhere in DC. At first, the preacher rants about demons, while Ellen simply nods in annoyance. In the background, a woman screams at someone else — what a fun little gathering! — and then Ellen’s had enough. “You’re wrong,” she says. “Look, we’re not going to get anywhere and you’re doing to believe this your whole life. I feel for you...

Police officers in Uganda strap on some kinky boots for a very different march. If a gay man were to wear high heels and other female clothing in Kampala, Uganda, they would very likely be attacked. So it was unusual to see dozens of male police officers doing just that to raise awareness of gender violence. In a sort of beautiful display of gender fluidity, the policemen walked in heels through the streets of the capital city as part of a 16-day...

The couple hope it sends the message that “love persists.” An intimate moment captured by a photographer at an anti-Trump protest in New York City has a lot of people emotional. The photographer, Hennessy Vandheur, was in the swaths of protesters along 5th Avenue on Wednesday night when he turned to see two women kissing, he told BuzzFeed News. Vandeur said he was struck by the love shared between these two amid heated anti-Trump remarks. “I noticed everyone was protesting something,” he said. “It...

Steven Grand (and his ample singlet-clad bulge) took on anti-gay "Christian" protesters on Halloween night in West Hollywood. https://www.instagram.com/p/BMQK4mEgmXd/ We think we know who won this battle. Source

Thousands of people took to the streets of Mexico yesterday to protest against marriage equality. Tens of thousands marched through Mexico City to protest President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposed constitutional amendment which would establish marriage equality nationwide. Mexico City’s mayor’s office counted 80,000 people at the march, but organisers counted 250,000 people. Currently 10 states in Mexico have marriage equality, including Mexico City, but protestors are fighting against same-sex marriage being rolled out across the entire country. This means that anyone wishing to...

These two men decided to show who they really are sharing a kiss in protest of neo-Nazis who hurled homophobic slurs at them during marchers. The group of far-right protestants, Hogar Social Madrid, went through the central part of Madrid speaking out against the welcoming of refugees on Saturday 21th of May. https://twitter.com/VaDiversa/status/734701722774441984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw During these marchers gay couple - David Fernández and his date, Gregor Eister, were looking for a place to buy some drink when they unintentionally got caught up in the protest. David said: “We stood in the...

Lately, North Carolina was the center of attention, in a negative way, due to the anti-LGBT laws that the state has passed. Many celebrities bullied the state of Carolina by either canceling their shows there, or just speaking against the inhuman laws. Next to participate at the protest is Survivor contestant, Neil Gottlieb. What he did is very imaginative. Gottlieb placed a rainbow house on the state's tallest mountain. He also wrote a letter to NC Governor Pat McCrory attaching the photos with...

'I Stand in Solidarity With All My LGBT Friends to Repeal This Extremely Discriminatory Bill' Canadian rock singer and song-writer Bryan Adams has just canceled his concert in Mississippi scheduled for April 14 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. He made his decision over the US state's new Anti-Gay 'Religious Freedom' Law that was passed one week ago. According to this law it allows religious groups and some private businesses to refuse service to gay couples. "I find it incomprehensible that LGBT citizens are being...

A Methodist minister has cast himself out into the cold to show his support LGBT people, vowing to sleep in a tent outside his Michigan home for 175 days to protest his church’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBT members. Rev. Michael Tupper, pastor of Parchment United Methodist Church in Parchment, Michigan, first engaged with LGBT issues six years ago when his daughter Sarah came out to him as a lesbian. But his entry into outright pro-LGBT...

Sexual education in schools has always been a hot topic and parents have been divided over the matter. Some say that kids should be kept away from this subject, other believe that it will help them later on. The subject is still debatable and, until now, it is settled that parents can choose whether their child participates in sexual education classes or not. The main factor that influences such decisions are religious in nature and many families believe that...