Breaking down Japan's latest ruling on same-sex marriage

Sex Education star Patricia Allison has revealed that she won’t be returning to the hit series for season 4.

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resigned as leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party and therefore will be replaced as prime minister, leaves a largely negative record on LGBTQ+ rights.He has supported marriage equality but not embraced transgender rights, and written articles with homophobic and racist slurs that he claimed were satirical. And gay members of his government have accused him of creating an “atmosphere of hostility” toward LGBTQ+ people.Johnson announced his departure Thursday in the wake of scandals over ethics violations throughout his administration and the resignations of about 60 members of his government.

In a win for LGBTQ+ rights Tuesday, July 5, a High Court judge in Antigua and Barbuda ruled the Caribbean nation’s criminalization of same-sex sexual activity unconstitutional. Judge Marissa Robertson struck down Sections 12 and 15 of the Sexual Offenses Act of 1995, on the basis that the sections violated rights to liberty, protection of […]

The queens competing on the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under have been unveiled.

Gay City News. “I am concerned about my position within the diocese and school. The tones of the speakers were strident at times and I cannot tell if I would be accepted. I am homosexual and plan on marrying my boyfriend eventually, and after being told all day that I have to live church doctrine I feel wounded and unwanted,” Butler wrote.

A Caribbean court has deemed a colonial-era gay sex ban to be unconstitutional.

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Gay penguin dads Diego and Zorro have welcomed their first-ever little one! The same-sex pair are located in Bournemouth Oceanarium, with baby Ponyo hatching just in time for the local Pride festival taking place this weekend. These proud parents became surrogates after zookeeper Kat Nicola trialled them with a dummy egg. They were then given […]

All five Republican candidates for Michigan governor debated Thursday night just over a month before the Republican primary and they had plenty to say about the LGBTQ+ community.The hourlong sold-out event covered topics including drag queens, marriage equality, and God. There was a cash bar available for attendees, Michigan Advance reports.The Brighter Michigan PAC, a right-wing political action committee, sponsored the debate.Several Republican gubernatorial candidates called for the United States Supreme Court to reopen the door to state-level bans on marriage equality allowed under the landmark 2015 ruling in Obergefell v.

As a gay college wrestler turned political hopeful, Justice Horn isn’t one to shy away from a tough fight.After a vandalism incident this weekend, it’s clear that Horn’s fight to make his community a more accepting space is far from over.Today I learned that my campaign banner was defaced with a homophobic slur here in Kansas City.I’ll admit, this one hurt because like so many us of who experience this, this word is used to harm us. Either way, I’m not going to back down and I’m going to hold my head high.

We won’t pretend to know what Orlando Bloom has on tap for the summer, but he’s clearly prepared for any last-minute pool party invites.The 45-year-old English actor and father of two recently gave fans a glimpse into his gym routine, and while workout posts can sometimes veer into cringey waters, this one’s smooth sailing.It could be the fact that Bloom paired his video slide show with this inspiring caption: “I broke my back when I was 19 and they said I’d never walk again”. Or maybe it’s his determined ab rolling grunts.Either way, folks are approving:  A post shared by Orlando Bloom (@orlandobloom)“Oh, well, excuse us! Somebody is walking,” observed comedian Chelsea Handler.Words couldn’t express designer Jeremy Scott’s reaction, who opted for fire and hearts-on-fire emojis.But musician Sarah Hudson said it best when she replied: “Whoa daddy whoa!” The insight… the wisdom.This isn’t the first time Bloom has captured the Internet’s thirst.

FORMER Love Island star Amber Gill has broken her silence on her sexuality after saying she's done with men. The ITV2 dating show contestant - who rose to fame in 2019 when she won alongside Greg O'Shea - addressed tweets she made this week saying she would "never date a man again".

With the beginning of July came the start of a new era in Switzerland, as the country saw its first legally recognised same-sex marriages performed. Legislation from December of 2020 finally came into effect on July 1, after slightly over 64% of Swiss voters opted to legalise marriage for all in a September 2021 referendum.  […]

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survey by NHK. Our own neighbors where we live have always been open and welcoming, too.Yet Machi and I still don't have the right to get married in Japan. We got married in Oregon in 2015, even though we knew that the marriage certificate would have no standing in Japan.

Former AFL coach Dani Laidley has revealed that she battled years of “fear, shame and embarassment”, but now was “absolutely at peace” after coming out and being a role model for the transgender community. Laidely opened up about her struggles with gender dysphoria for most of her life during her chat on radio in the Triple M commentary box last month. “You live in fear and shame and embarrassment for years and then to come out like it did, it’s been really tough on my family, but now, to a person, it’s been great. They accept me for who I am, the person I am now, and hopefully there’s a lot of life to live,” said Laidley. The former North Melbourne player and coach explained her diagnosis to listeners.

Lady Gaga was a gay anthem.Reports from as early as the 17th century record the existence of bars and clubs that catered to openly gay people in several European locations, including London and Cannes. Meanwhile, in America, the New Orleans Cafe Lafitte in Exile gay bar, situated in the city’s French Quarter is said to date back to 1933 and claims to be the oldest operating LGBTQ+ venue in the country.

Maybelle Blair walked into a sporting goods store in her early 90s with a mission: to try on a pair of spikes. The salesman suggested that she meant to ask for sneakers. But Blair, a former pitcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, insisted on baseball cleats.

Naman Ramachandran Months after BBC director general Tim Davie said there was “no evidence of complaints,” the BBC has revealed that there were in fact six complaints against DJ Tim Westwood.The 64-year-old Westwood presented shows on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra between 1994 and 2013. In April, a joint investigation conducted by the BBC and the Guardian brought to light the accounts of seven Black women who alleged sexual touching and sexual misconduct by Westwood between 1992 and 2017.

The BBC has received six complaints against disgraced DJ Tim Westwood over alleged bullying and sexual misconduct, including a historical one that was referred to the police, revealed just months after Director General Tim Davie said he had “seen no evidence of complaints” against Westwood.

Good morning. We’re covering Russia’s victory in a key eastern city, Japan’s devastating heat wave and Pakistan’s debate over transgender rights. Russia seizes Lysychansk Ukraine’s military said Sunday that it had withdrawn from the key eastern city of Lysychansk, the last city in Luhansk Province still held by Ukraine.

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London Pride, wearing denim shorts, a black top and a colourful kimono with a rainbow flag trim at the bottom. Dame Kelly completed the look with sunglasses and a black cross-body bag which also featured a rainbow stripe down the middle. Addressing the crowd, Dame Kelly insisted she would never live ‘behind that curtain’ again.She explained: ‘For those that don’t know me, I am an honorary colonel with the Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment, I am a Dame Commander of The British Empire, I am the first British woman in the history of the Olympic Games to win two gold medals at the same games, I am mixed race and I am also a gay woman.‘For 34 years I have never been able to say those words until two weeks ago due to the fear of judgment and retribution that was instilled in me since the age of 18 because the laws in the military and being in the public eye didn’t allow me to do it.’She thanked fans for their support since coming out, adding: ‘All I can definitely say now is I’m 52, I’m never going to live behind that curtain again.’The sportswoman was joined by Alison Hammond and Phillip Schofield, who both wore white T-shirts with the ITV logo in rainbow colours. Dame Kelly had publicly come out as gay just two weeks beforehand, having felt she had to hide her sexuality for 34 years for fear of persecution.She revealed that she had first realised she was gay at the age of 17 in 1988 when she kissed a female comrade while was a soldier in the Women’s Royal Army Corps.The sports star revealed that she kept her sexuality hidden for fear of being persecuted as same-sex relationships were banned in the force, but it was the pandemic that spurred her on that it was finally time to be her ‘real self’ after having breakdowns

Joyful pictures show gay and lesbian couples tying the knot in Switzerland, where same-sex marriage officially became legal from today.The weddings took place nine months after the country voted in favour of same-sex unions on September 26 last year.More than 64% of Swiss voters backed the ‘Marriage for All’ law during a nationwide referendum.  Same-sex couples will also be able to convert their registered partnership into marriage from today.They can also apply for joint adoption of children and to inherit a partner’s pension when they die.One of the first couples to tie the knot on Friday morning, Laure and Aline, revealed how they had spent 21 years waiting for this day to arrive.Laure told Euronews: ‘We sent out the invitations at the last minute.‘Our family will be there, and some friends too.‘It’s very exciting and we are happy to be able to represent marriage for all.’The couple, both native to Geneva, became registered partners in 2014.They later had a son, now four, carried by Laure during a medically-assisted pregnancy.But Aline faced a long wait to be recognised as the boy’s other parent.‘I’m the biological mother so Aline had no rights in relation to him,’ Laure said.‘So then you have to wait until the child has lived together with you as the couple for a year.‘And then you have to go through the adoption process, and that takes about two years.’Now they finally are both legally recognised as the boy’s mothers, she said.Luca Morreale and Stefano Perfetti were also among the couples who attended a registry office in Zurich today to convert their registered partnership into marriage.

a lot of new sex toy companies and small businesses that are inherently queer- and trans-friendly, such as New York Toy Collective, Cute Little Fuckers, Wet for Her, Honey Play Box, and even on Etsy like Fantasticocks, Form Function LLC, MaMa Leather, and Twisted Mountain Toys! Because a lot of toys literally can be enjoyed by all bodies with a little imagination!Just a heads-up: Some of these toys use binarist and cis-gendered language in their product descriptions that some folks may not identify with (which, boo! but hopefully one day that changes). For more info and insight on all types of dysphoria (including body dysphoria), check out Eli Erlick's video "You Don't Need Dysphoria to Be Trans." For more sex toys and products from queer-owned shops, check out this 2021 Pride Month sex toy post and this roundup of queer-owned sex shops!We hope that this is only one of many LGBTQ+ specific sex toy posts to come in the future, and that this helps prompt the creation of more products designed specifically for trans people and their pleasure in the future.

Queers are famously creative, and the community boasts a rich history of fascinating art and literature. This is what made the task of shortlisting seven necessary queer reads so difficult, but below is a selection of some of GCN’s favourites. From authors that proudly parade their queerness, to others that deal with the theme in […]

Former President Donald Trump trotted out his greatest hits of disparaging rebukes on Thursday against ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, whose testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol provided bombshell after bombshell.Calling her a “whack job” and repeatedly claiming he “hardly knew her,” Trump accused Hutchinson of fabricating every single part of her sworn testimony.Hutchinson, a former top White House aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, spoke Tuesday about the behind-the-scenes chaos of the West Wing on and around January 6.

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In 2022, Heartstopper arrived on Netflix, and everything changed.It was an absolute gift for LGBTQ+ teens and young people, centering around two teenage boys who figure out their feelings for each other, without any death, disaster or gratuitous cruelty.For LGBTQ+ people who had grown up before, positive representation of same-sex couples were rare – but they did exist, and they were vital.As Pride month comes to a close, Metro.co.uk are catching up with LGBTQ+ people about the on-screen romances that meant everything to them growing up.We’ve had Skins’ Emily and Naomi, Six Feet Under’s Keith and David, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Willow and Tara.Today we speak to The Only Way Is Essex star Demi Sims, who came out as bisexual at 19 and has been open, honest and unapologetic about her sexuality since.Demi has offered brilliant bisexual representation as fans watched her date and fall in love with girls on reality TV, including on Celebs Go Dating and Eating With My Ex.Demi, 25, didn’t have Heartstopper as a closeted teenager, but she did have something else: Santana and Brittany in Glee.They began as friends, moving on to friends with benefits before starting a proper romantic relationship before, finally, getting married in a double same-sex wedding alongside Kurt and Blaine.The marriage episode aired in February 2015 – before same-sex marriage was even legal in the United States.Demi found it ‘so important’ to find a show where ‘love is love no matter what gender’Reality star Demi discovered Glee when she was ‘so young’, and was entranced by the way it portrayed same-sex couples and LGBTQ+ characters, particularly Santana and Brittany.‘When I was a teenager and I wasn’t out yet, watching that was like the first gay,

overturned Roe v. Wade, said the justices should revisit Lawrence v. Texas, the ruling that invalidated state antisodomy laws across the nation; Obergefell v.

While the Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is already catastrophic in its effects on reproductive rights and the equal treatment of women in this country, it has also led to speculation that the court’s conservative supermajority is just getting started in rolling back fundamental rights.

As for understanding that I was gay, it wasn’t really something that I figured out until my late teens, but then looking back at my childhood it all made sense, and I realized that I had actually had crushes on many of my best friends. However, I had girlfriends throughout high school, felt that I was in love with them, and had a great sex life.Even occasionally after I began dating men, I continued to sleep with women off and on, and while definitely gay, I am someone for whom sex is an expression of affection and love.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t just an expert on climate change, she also has a keen eye for strategic international politics.On Thursday morning, the antigay lawmaker said the United States should stop supplying Ukraine with weapons and pull out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), effectively handing Russian President Vladimir Putin a win in his war on the eastern European nation.“The American people do not want war with Russia,” Greene wrote on Twitter, “but NATO and our own foolish leaders are dragging us into one.”Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene says global warming “healthy” as “people die in the cold”She added: “A war that no one will win.

The Carnival Magic cruise ship One passenger who witness the fight told Fox News Digital the melee broke out shortly before 2 a.m. on the fifth floor where a casino and dance club are located.

Hannah Bardell said she had faced threats in Scotland simply because she was a lesbian.Speaking during a debate on 50 years of Pride in the UK, the Livingston MP told the Commons of the hostile reaction she had received in public.READ MORE: Angela Crawley to lead Pride debate in CommonsBardell was highlighting how in 71 countries around the world people can stil be persecuted in law for being gay.She said she is an “openly proud lesbian” but that is still illegal to be LGBTQ in 71 countriesShe said: “I am illegal in 71 countries. And in 11 of those countries the death penalty still exists for same-sex consensual activities.”Conservative MP Kieran Mullan said her remarks highlighted the “extreme circumstances” that people go through in other countries, He added: “But one of the tests I think we often ask ourselves is: would every gay person in this place on a late night out surrounded by drunk crowds of people feel confident to hold the hand of their partner?”“I’m not sure they would actually.

"There was an instance when of my colleagues stated that they felt being gay was a choice. I spoke up and said that it was not a choice, why would I choose to have a more difficult life.

Fire Island is a unique movie adaptation of the beloved Jane Austen novel, "Pride and Prejudice". This masterpiece not only depicts the humour and honesty that queer culture brings along, but is also an extremely important film because it has queer Asian actors in leading roles.

June 29, 2022An earlier tweet revealed he’d been watching the show P-Valley.“Yea p valley lost me. They need a super gay advisory on movies like they got for everything else.

In 2022, Heartstopper arrived on Netflix, and everything changed.It was an absolute gift for the LGBTQ+ community, as two teenage boys figured out their feelings for each other without any death, disaster or gratuitous cruelty, which are still all too prevalent in same-sex storylines.For LGBTQ+ people who had grown up before Heartstopper, positive representations of same-sex couples in the media were few and far between – but they did exist, and they were just as important.As Pride month comes to a close, Metro.co.uk are catching up with LGBTQ+ people about the on-screen romances that impacted them growing up.We’ve had Emily and Naomi from Skins, Tara and Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and now we’re diving into another trailblazing couple: David and Keith, from Six Feet Under.Their journey was far from the wholesome, hope-filled relationship enjoyed by Charlie and Nick in Heartstopper, but for LGBTQ+ people growing up in the early 2000’s, it was everything.Adam found Keith and David at a ‘pivotal time’ in his life, and was drawn to their ‘rich and complicated‘ relationshipFor Adam, seeing a gay relationship on a mainstream TV show, where each character dealt with their own personal strife but still found a way to make a relationship work, meant everything.While he ‘always knew’ he was gay, as a teenager Adam had ‘a lot of questions that needed answers.

Hacia el final de la Marcha del Orgullo por la Libertad de Riga-Kiev en Letonia, el 19 de junio, vi a un hombre musculoso con una cabeza de unicornio asomarse por la ventana de un segundo piso y saludar con efusividad a quienes desfilaban abajo. En su camiseta amarilla y azul se leía la palabra “Kiev”.

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Beloved by the queer community,  Kim Cattrall has joined the inclusive cast of Peacock’s Queer as Folk reboot, playing a “martini-soaked, high-society Southern debutante “who has roots in a poverty-stricken trailer park. The Sex and the City actress plays the adoptive mother of queer characters Brodie (Devin Way) and Julian (Ryan O’Connell) in Queer as Folk. The character was written specifically with Cattrall in mind. Canadian writer and director Stephen Dunn said that he wanted Cattrall to play Brenda before he knew what And Just Like That… (sequel to Sex and the City) was, praising her for her acting skills and immediate engagement in taking this role on. One of Cattrall’s on-screen sons, O’Connell added that viewers should get ready because the “last four episodes of the show are insane” where her storyline takes a “really fun turn.” Cattrall took part in her first non-binary love scene in the Queer as Folk reboot and used an intimacy coach to help during the filming of these scenes. Dunn applauded her ability to be open throughout the dialogue on LGBT+ issues and relationships, stating that she was “so dialled into the character’s learning curve around queerness”. “She’s been such an ally, she really understands the queer community in this way, and she understood how her character strangely fit into this queer family.

Roe v. Wade might just be the tip of the iceberg of this hellhole…

A gay Connecticut Supreme Court Justice has called Clarence Thomas’ recent statements advocating for the reversal of federally-recognized same-sex marriage rights “hypocritical” due to the justice’s failure to not call for the repeal of a similar ruling allowing interracial marriage.Andrew McDonald, a senior associate justice for Connecticut’s high court, blasted Thomas for suggesting — in a concurring opinion as part of a recent abortion-rights case —  that the nation’s highest court should re-examine all cases dealing with “substantive due process” rights, referring to rights that have been conferred or recognized by courts, but are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution.Among the “substantive due process” cases that Thomas said should be reconsidered by the court include the court’s 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut ruling, which allowed married couples to buy and use contraception without government interference, the 2003 Lawrence v.

Even after half a dozen attacks on the rainbow flag, one Michigan neighborhood is showing that our community won’t back down to violence.Video out of Lansing, Michigan early Tuesday morning shows a man dousing a Pride flag in gasoline before lighting it on fire — and judging from the flash, nearly taking himself with it.The Pride flag display has been set up alongside the American flag around the sign between Lansing proper and the Eastside Lansing neighborhoods since Pride month began.Related: Arsonist sets Pride flag ablaze and burns down multiple homes in the processThis isn’t the first time this Pride display has been targeted. This month alone, it’s reported that Pride flags around the sign have been vandalized or stolen at least five times.In one such incident, a man actually sawed through a steel lock just to steal one of the flags.Ryan Kost, a board member of Lansing’s Eastside Neighborhood Organization, said the community won’t be giving up any time soon.“I think there’s a lot of disappointment that is going around,” he said.

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It’s been less than a week since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and some conservative leaders are already positioning themselves for what could come next.In his concurring opinion with the Friday ruling to undo federal abortion rights, Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should now reconsider rulings that protect same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships, and contraception.Thomas mentioned a few of the high court’s past rulings, including Obergefell v.