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'This is a place we live, it's our home' A gay couple in Wisconsin is being threatened with eviction for flying a rainbow flag outside their home. Kevin Kollman and Merle Malterer have lived at the the Country Oaks Apartments in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, for the past six years. Last Wednesday (27 March), the couple received a note explaining they breached their lease. The note gave them five days to take down their flag — a rainbow American flag. ‘It’s a symbol of...

Just in time for National Coming Out Day, Facebook has added a profile option that allows folks to share and celebrate their personal coming out stories. “Came out” is now available as a life event on Facebook users profiles. “For the LGBTQ community, Facebook is a way for you to come out, celebrate your pride and find support,” Tudor Havriliuc, a vice president at Facebook, told NBC News. “Visibility is so important because it changes hearts and minds about being LGBTQ...

Gamers across the world are going wild for the new Spider-Man game, which was released on Playstation 4 last week—but LGBT+ fans are especially happy, as the game includes rainbow flags. Spidey fans have been tweeting their surprise and joy at seeing the city full of rainbow flags in the new game. Writer Saladin Ahmed, said: “Thinking about all the 12-year-old kids who will be playing this game and seeing this in towns where it’s not safe to put that flag...

The poster states ‘pedophiles are people too’ Yet another flyer is misusing the rainbow flag to promote ‘pedophiles’ rights’ in an increasingly worrying trend. The poster, appeared around Willamette primary school in Oregon last week, features the silhouettes of a man and a child holding hands against a rainbow background. It also states ‘pedophiles are people too’. In a disturbing side note, the rainbow flyer reads that ‘love is love’, a popular LGBTI slogan. A worrying trend is linking pedophilia and homosexuality Internet trolls...

The company has introduced new Pride-themed filters, frames, and stickers Does Facebook’s decision to drop its popular rainbow flag reactions for Pride month have you feeling ? Don’t take it personally and overreact, because the social media giant has actually nixed all custom reactions. “We are no longer doing custom reactions for major holidays or moments in culture,” Facebook spokeswoman Lisa Stratton tells Business Insider. Facebook introduced the Pride option last June to its panel of permanent reactions—”like,” “love,” “sad,” “haha,” “wow,” and...

The famous All Blacks team wants to show its support for the LGBTI community New Zealand’s world famous rugby union team, the All Blacks, shown a massive gesture of support to the LGBTI community. After Australian player, Israel Folau’s comments saying ‘God’s plan’ for people was ‘HELL’, the All Blacks has shown its solidarity with the rainbow community. Firstly the team released a heartwarming video supporting diversity and inclusion in the sport. Using the hashtag #diversityistrength. Standing alongside the women’s rugby team, the...

Chris Sevier previously sued for the right to marry his laptop. A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed last summer against four members of Congress who display rainbow flags outside their offices in Washington, D.C., the Press-Telegram reports. Chris Sevier’s 38-page complaint argued that homosexuality is a religion and that officials who displayed Pride flags were thus violating the constitutional prohibition on government establishment of religion. In his suit, which sought $1 million in damages, Sevier described homosexuality as a...

Reynolds has spoken about regretting preaching against homosexuality as a young Mormon missionary. Dan Reynolds waved the Pride flag at an Imagine Dragons show Saturday, during the Lollapalooza Brazil Festival at Sao Paulo’s Interlagos Racetrack. https://twitter.com/j_spacebreather/status/978041903701774336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newnownext.com%2Fdan-reynolds-shirtless-concert%2F03%2F2018%2F The 30-year-old singer-songwriter has made LGBT rights his cause in recent years: The new documentary Believer charts his journey from young Mormon missionary to rock star to LGBT ally and advocate. Reynolds was raised LDS and, for two years in Omaha, “knocked thousands of doors” telling...

Jake Bain, an openly gay football star at John Burroughs High School, received tons of support from his family, friends and community this morning as Westboro Baptist Church descended onto their town to once again do another homophobic-filled hate protest. Hundreds of people lined the streets to support one of their own, as they waved the rainbow flag and sported a ton of fantastic signs to let him know that they have his back no matter what Westboro or anyone...

The original Mardi Gras was marred by arrests and police brutality against LGBTI people Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) have raised the rainbow flag for the first time ever. The flag will be raised at the Sydney Police Center every day for a week. The rainbow flag will mark the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is one of the world’s biggest LGBTI festivals and an economic boon for Sydney. It...

Last week, we shared with you the news that 20-year-old Ethan Stables was arrested under the suspicion that he was going to attack an LGBTQ pub. This suspicion came directly from Stables who shared on a Hitler appreciate Facebook group that he was going to “walk in with a fucking machete and slaughter every single one of the gay bastards.” Then when Cumbia police apprehended him, Stables was doing reconnaissance right outside the pub. They also found a machete, some sort...

The anti-gay crackdown in Egypt is getting hotter and hotter as each day goes and now Grindr users might want to get off the app if they want to stay safe. Just last week, we shared that Grindr was sharing information on how to stay safe with users in the country of Egypt. But, it looks like the app may be more of a liability than a help now. Apparently, Egyptian police are luring gay men to hotels while using Grindr...

A new national monument is making history by having the rainbow flag permanently flying on federal ground. Last June, then-President Obama officially made the Stonewall Inn, a historic bar in which the start of the Gay Rights movement is attributed (besides the riots in California before it), a national monument. That announcement made not only the bar but the park and area surrounding it federally protected to ensure its preservation for future generations. https://twitter.com/NatlParkService/status/746379928506146816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstinctmagazine.com%2Fpost%2Frainbow-flag-will-permanently-fly-federal-ground A ceremony on October 11, which conveniently both National Coming...

Community leaders issue emergency safety tips, warning LGBTI Egyptians to delete profiles and deny everything if arrested Egyptian LGBTI activists are urging people to delete dating apps as police carry out a spate of arrests. They say 13 people were arrested in just 24 hours as the police round-up suspected LGBTIs. It’s all a response to a rock concert on Saturday where gig-goers flew rainbow flags. The concert was by popular band Mashrou’ Leila, which has an openly gay lead singer. Politicians and...