Four Men Arrested in for Alleged Hate-Related Sexual Assault

The FDA has revealed new regulations for blood donations that will make it easier for gay and bisexual men.

The first victim of trans rapist Isla Bryson has said it is “impossible” her attacker is no longer a man.

A former prisoner has told how she went through hell after being forced to share a shower block with violent trans inmates.

Sam Smith has opened up about the hate they received after coming out as non-binary.

How I Met Your Mother star Hilary Duff has opened up about the possibility of revisiting the scrapped Lizzie McGuire reboot. 

Ange Postecoglou has warned Celtic ’s forgotten men they’ll be placed in cold storage if they fail to find a new club during this transfer window.

Amber Glenn performs during the women’s short program at the U.S. figure skating championships in San ., 2023. (AP Photo/Josie Lepe)

The queens brought their fashion expertise on the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15. 

In de week van Pride Amsterdam 2022 zijn er zeker 33 meldingen binnengekomen van anti-lhbti discriminatie of geweld in de stad. Dat meldt burgemeester Femke Halsema na vragen van D66-raadslid Marja Lust.

Nicola Sturgeon faces another trans storm after a decision was made to house one of Scotland’s most violent prisoners in a women’s jail. The Record can reveal that volatile Tiffany Scott - who stalked a 13-year-old girl while known as Andrew Burns - has been rubber-stamped for transfer to a jail that aligns with her chosen gender.

FILE – The Airbnb app icon is displayed on an iPad screen. Airbnbs can be an affordable alternative to hotels, particularly for longer stays, large groups and for people who need a washer and dryer or kitchen. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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Associates Home Loan has renewed its adoption grant for those who are needing financial assistance in the adoption process.

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Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has shared the results of the Facial Feminsation Surgery (FFS) she recently underwent.

The Last of Us has been renewed for a second season at HBO.

Elinor Höke hates going to the doctor’s. The transgender student is registered under her former name, and dreads hearing it shouted across the crowded waiting room at her local clinic in western Germany.

The Food and Drug Administration has reportedly issued a draft guidance today (Friday, Jan. 27) lifting the ban on blood donations by gay men that dates back to the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

P!nk has dropped the cinematic visual for her emotional electro anthem Trustfall.

The German parliament for the first time dedicated its annual Holocaust memorial commemoration on Friday to LGBTQ+ people who were killed or persecuted by the Nazis.

Local entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of Alternative Wealth Partners Kelly Ann Winget and licensed master social worker (LMSW), advocate and mother of two Sarah Matteson have announced their wedding, set to take place June 24, 2023, in Paris, France.

Sarah Pope runs the Victory Institute’s candidate training program

As host of Queer Factor, Stefan Norman, right, relies on a rotating cast of queer comedians and the Butt Gay Improv troop. (Photos by Sam Brand)

The Oak Lawn Investment and Travel Association doesn’t deal with investments and they don’t travel

Cheyenne Jackson was breezy and relaxed when he spoke to us this fall at his home in the L.A. suburb of Granada Hills. Things seemed a lot lighter then — it was just a few weeks before his costar in the Fox sitcom Call Me Kat, beloved gay icon Leslie Jordan, would die suddenly after a medical emergency that preceded a car accident. Jackson was so distraught by his friend’s passing he declined to speak to us for a follow-up interview.

The struggle to find oneself — and one’s chosen family — hits hard in the trailer for “Lonesome,” the latest film from Australian writer-director Craig Boreham, which hits theaters in the U.S. Feb.

A gay-owned restaurant in Chicago had a window shattered by a hammer-wielding man in a suspected homophobic attack last night.Witnesses and police say a man was shouting antigay slurs at a couple in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood afternoon and followed them into the R Public House in the 1500 block of West Jarvis Avenue. The man allegedly turned violent when fellow patrons stood up to the man and told him to leave.“He walked in, started calling them some like antigay slurs, and they were like, ‘Just leave, man, just get out of here,’” bar employee Corey Rolon told local ABC affiliate WLS-TV.

(CNN) -- In what could be the first of many major pieces of hardware for him this award season, Brendan Fraser picked up best actor for his role in film festival darling "The Whale" at Sunday's Critics Choice Awards.Fraser had some mighty competition for the award, including Golden Globe winners Austin Butler, star of "Elvis," and Colin Farrell, who starred in "The Banshees of Inisherin."Tom Cruise ("Top Gun: Maverick"), Paul Mescal ("Aftersun") and Bill Nighy ("Living") were also nominated.Ultimately, the organization -- made of up more than 600 media critics and entertainment journalists -- picked Fraser, whose turn as a reclusive, obese teacher named Charlie in the Darren Aronofsky film has turned heads since its standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival. "It was Herman Melville who once wrote that there are only five critics in America -- the rest are asleep.

GEMMA Collins has given fans an update on her mystery aching foot that left her unable to walk - sparking rumours that she is 'cursed'. Ever since the GC , 41, arrived home from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with fiancé Rami Hawash, she has been in excruciating pain. Recently the star invited a personal trainer, physiotherapist and spiritual healer to her home to ease her discomfort.

As a result of an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Boise on January 10, an Idaho man has been charged with a hate crime.A 31-year-old man named Matthew Alan Lehigh is accused of driving his car at two people in Boise on October 12 last year in an attempt to cause bodily harm to the two people because of their sexual orientation.Boise Police apprehended Lehigh, and state charges were filed against him by the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, according to a justice department statement announcing the indictment.Lehigh was arrested in October and charged with three counts of aggravated assault and one count of malicious injury to property. He also faced an additional felony arson charge after he allegedly admitted to police he had committed multiple crimes against the LGBTQ+ community in Boise, including burning Pride flags and vandalism to The Community Center, an LGBTQ+ safe space.He faced a felony arson charge for allegedly burning a Pride flag of a gay married couple in Boise’s North End.

A troubling new crime is making its way into communities of gay men in the U.K. who engage in drug use with sex.

This story was originally published by Global Press Journal.CHIAPAS, MEXICO — When Thomas Chiu Palomeque saw on social media that there was a shortage of hormone-replacement testosterone in Mexico City, he prayed that it wouldn’t affect his home state of Chiapas. Chiu Palomeque, who lives in the municipality of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, had recently begun taking testosterone to help transition from female, the sex he was assigned at birth, to male.“One day, I wrote to all my friends that there aren’t any hormones left at the pharmacy downtown,” he says.

A school board meeting in Idaho to consider an LGBTQ-supportive policy devolved into chaos Monday night after a state senator threatened board members with litigation.The Caldwell School Board presented a draft of the policy for public comment. It uses language from the Idaho School Boards Association and is one of 22 policies under consideration, Idaho Ed News reports.

Paula Vogel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning lesbian playwright, warns that a Florida school district's decision to cancel a production of one of her plays is a slippery slope to dangerous censorship.Students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, a Jacksonville area magnet school, say they are experiencing anti-LGBTQ+ censorship ten months after Florida's Parental Rights in Education — also known as the "don't say gay" law — passed.As the school's theater troupe prepared to put on Paula Vogel's acclaimed 2015 play Indecent Duval County Public Schools board members blocked the performance, calling it "not age appropriate."The play deals with the fallout surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, which got shut down on Broadway in 1923 and resulted in the producer and cast members being arrested and convicted on obscenity charges. The performance was deemed obscene at the time because it involved a same-sex relationship."From what we've been told, they say that it's the adult sexual content in the show," 17-year-old Madeline Scotti tells The Advocate.

A U.K. man was found guilty this week of kidnapping and twice raping a queer woman he had lured into his car under false pretenses last April.It took the jury of eight men and four women roughly two hours to convict Yuseab Woldeab, 28, of the charges at Plymouth Crown Court in England, according to  the Plymouth Herald.During the four-day trial, prosecutors alleged Woldeab had been “prowling the streets looking for a victim” before he lured the woman, who was intoxicated, into his car by falsely claiming he was a taxi driver, then taking her to his Plymouth flat, where he raped her vaginally and anally.The unidentified queer woman, who is in her 20s, was able to escape the flat while Woldeab was in the bathroom.“This was a truly horrendous and disturbing crime,” Chris Kinski, senior investigating officer detective for Plymouth’s Sexual Offenses Investigation Team, told reporters outside the courtroom following the verdict.

An award-winning book about the true story of a same-sex penguin couple raising a chick has been banned by a Florida school district in response to the state’s “don’t say gay” law.The 2005 book And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell was one of three books reportedly removed from the libraries and classrooms of the Lake County School District in central Florida. The other books removed were Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss and In Our Mother’s House by Patricia Polacco. According to Popular Information, the board said the titles were “administratively removed due to content regarding sexual orientation/gender identification prohibited in HB 1557,” otherwise known as the Parental Rights in Education Act — the so-called "don't say gay" law.While the book does not contain any discussion of same-sex sexual relations or instruction, it does tell the real-life story of two male chinstrap penguins who cohabitate and raised a penguin chick together.“At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others,” publisher Simon & Schuster says on its website.

Five people have been detained in Kenya in connection to the murder of LGBTQ+ rights activist Edwin Chiloba. His body was found last week mutilated and stuffed in a metal box.Authorities say they are investigating whether the murder came out of a love triangle involving Chiloba, Voice of America reports.

After allegations came to light accusing conservative activist Matt Schlapp of groping a male staffer on Herschel Walker’s failed senatorial campaign, the former football star’s queer son tore into the conservative political activist, calling out his alleged hypocrisy.“So last night it came out that Matt Schlapp, a big-time conservative who preaches about family values and is married with five children, has been trying to cheat on his wife with men,” Christian Walker, 23, said in a TikTok video on Saturday.A man who worked for the elder Walker’s campaign claims Schlapp made “sustained” and “unwanted” sexual contact with him on October 19, when he was driving Schlapp back from a bar in Atlanta.Schlapp, 55, allegedly groped the staffer’s genitals unwantedly during a car ride and later invited the man to his hotel room. The staffer documented his distress with the situation at the time in recorded videos, NBC News and The Daily Beast, the first outlet to break the news, report.In addition to being the chair of the American Conservative Union, Schlapp also serves as a leader in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

The new queens from the next season of MTV's RuPaul’s Drag Race sat down with GLAAD to discuss the anti-drag sentiment spreading among right-wingers across the country.Speaking with GLAAD’s Anthony Allen Ramos, the new contestants discussed how they experience and fight the relatively new phenomenon spreading across the country that has painted drag queens as somehow dangerous to children and communities.“I don’t know any drag queen who’s trying to hurt nobody. Yeah, there’s different kinds of drag – I know my drag can sometimes be very sexy too, but it’s like I am not trying to hurt [anybody.] People who are swearing by their guns and their bibles are hurting more people than they know,” said Salina EsTitties.Fellow queen Jax explained that drag is a creative outlet of expression.“[Drag] is so many things that we love about ourselves and our life experiences… [we] create these characters to just continue to highlight our own personal journeys.

Four men have been arrested after a woman was physically and verbally assaulted in Birmingham’s Gay Village.

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of a hate-related sexual assault in a popular gay village. Police report that a woman was assaulted and threatened with a knife in the early hours of the morning.

Strathaven Academy is to receive a £5,000 cash injection for a progressive diversity and racial equality project.

A Florida college student is under arrest after he allegedly used the popular instant messaging and social media platform Discord to threaten a mass shooting at Florida State University.Sean Michael Albert, 19, of Winter Park, and a student at Full Sail University was arrested on Tuesday and charged with making an interstate communication to threaten to injure another person. The criminal complaint alleges that on December 16 of last year Albert posted a picture to a Discord server showing an AK-47 with the following text:“600 W College Ave, Tallahassee, FL 32306.

The Florida family accused of beating a gay man so badly last year that it left him blinded appeared in a court this week.Husband and wife Yehven and Inna Makarenkjo, and their son Oleh, remained defiant outside of court on Wednesday after asking the judge overseeing their case to appoint public defenders to represent them. The three family members are accused of breaking into the Pompano Beach home of the unidentified man, who claimed he was having a sexual relationship with Oleh, also known as Alex, last August and attacking him, leaving him blind and with other serious injuries.“The state knows that he’s lying.

The Prime Minister’s special envoy for gender equality has worked in trouble hotspots around the world but is now heading up operations at a Lanarkshire aid HQ.

Drew Adams speaking at a December 2019 press conference outside the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. (Ron Harris/AP Photo)