Security staff suspended after claims man was beaten unconscious by five bouncers outside club in Gay Village

The ‘Save Women’s Sports’ Bill is seeking to ban Trans athletes from single-sex sports by amending Australia’s Sex Discrimination act. Essentially, the bill means that no legal action can be taken against women’s sports clubs for excluding Trans persons. The new legislation was proposed by Senator Claire Chandler and backed by Scott Morrison, the Australian […]

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Elton John endured a terrifying in-flight ordeal when his private jet encountered a hydraulic failure at 10,000 feet and was forced to make an emergency landing.The “Rocket Man” singer was on his way to New York from the UK when trouble hit. About an hour into the journey, the pilot was forced to turn around near the coast of southern Ireland.To make a bad situation much worse, 80 mph winds made the emergency landing a harrowing ordeal. The plane had to abort landing twice as firefighters from six local stations and ambulance crews waited on the Farnborough Airport tarmac.“The terrible weather and epic gusts made it almost impossible to land.

If you haven’t been paying close attention to the situation in Ukraine, now would be a good time to start.This week, Russian troops started moving into the eastern region of the country, claiming the area is “independent” and, therefore, theirs for the taking. The Ukrainian government is now preparing for an emergency, calling up military reservists and urging any of its citizens in Russia to immediately evacuate.

David Cicilline of Rhode Island in 2016, according to the Federal Election Commission.Taub, 33, has been imprisoned after he was convicted of defrauding political donors a few years ago.In a recent unearthed documents from the FEC first reported by The Providence Journal, U.S. officials say Taub sent a direct message to a Twitter account known to be used by Russian intelligence, Guccifer 2.0.“Can you get a list of Republican donors for me. I am running for office myself,” Taub asked the account.

Apple is currently testing a new Siri that would be less gendered and voiced by a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

A Florida lawmaker has withdrawn an amendment to the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill that prohibits discussions about LGBTQ+ topics in school. The amendment would have required teachers and school officials to ‘out’ students to their parents within six weeks after having discovered they are LGBTQ+. The controversial measure was proposed by State Rep. Joe […]

The Florida House held a contentious debate on the dangerously anti-LGBTQ “Don’t Say Gay” bill Tuesday afternoon, and despite numerous reports, one of the bill’s core tenets – outing LGBTQ+ children to parents – remains intact.

Related: Trump’s messy week just got worse and it’s only TuesdayHowever, Trump, in an interview on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, said Putin’s recognition of the breakaway was “smart” and “pretty savvy.”“I went in yesterday, and there was a television screen,” said Trump, “and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”“I said, ‘How smart is that?’ He’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper.

The Feminist Society of NUIG, along with a number of other local women’s rights groups, are organising a Reclaim the Night march against gender-based violence, commencing tonight in Eyre Square, Galway, at 7.30pm. This comes after the growing mobilisation around men’s violence against women since the murder of Ashling Murphy and the multiple other attacks […]

Nearly one in four LGBT+ sex crime victims were attacked by people trying to ‘convert or punish’ them, a study has found.Some 23.5% said they were assaulted in a bid to force them to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.That rose to about a third if the victim was asexual, non-binary or transgender, LGBT+ anti-abuse charity Galop found.The 18 to 24 age group reported the highest level of attacks, the poll of 1,020 people aged 16 and over reported.The findings mirror claims made to the charity’s front-line staff of family members or others raping victims or arranging for third parties to do it, in attempts to ‘correct their sexuality’.Chilling CCTV shows solicitor injecting his blood into food at Sainsbury'sSolicitor injected food at Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose with his own bloodStudent, 21, 'dropped off dead at hospital after taking Uber home on night out'The government has vowed to introduce a legislative ban on the ‘abhorrent practice’ of conversion therapy, with a consultation closing on February 4.But Galop boss Leni Morris said the new research demonstrates the need for a ban on so-called conversion therapy ‘without delay’.‘This is happening to LGBT+ people of all cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds right now in the UK,’ she added.Jayne Ozanne, an ex-government aide who survived 20 years of conversion therapy, called the findings ‘shocking’.She urged No.10 to ban the therapy with ‘no exceptions, no loopholes’, saying: ‘It is an act of evil’.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.For more stories like this, check our news page.Not convinced? Find out more »

Spencer.The role has landed Stewart, who is bisexual and engaged to the screenwriter Dylan Meyer,  with a heap of award nominations. This includes a ‘Best Actress’ nod at the forthcoming Academy Awards.

Cypress Ramos was found dead in Texas, making her at least the third trans or gender non-conforming person to be killed in America in 2022.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear an appeal from a Colorado web designer who objects to providing services for same-sex marriages, returning the justices to a battleground in the culture wars pitting claims of religious freedom against laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The court last considered the clash in 2018, when a similar dispute between a Colorado baker and a gay couple failed to yield a definitive ruling. The precise question the justices agreed to decide in the new case is “whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.” The court will hear the case, 303 Creative LLC v.

The Australian singer-songwriter will be joining a new HBO series titled The Idol which is set to star The Weekend and Lily-Rose Depp.

A pair of queer siblings have been found guilty of “complicity with illegal armed formations” in a local court in Chechnya – charges that have been described as “fabricated” by Human Rights groups. Salekh Magamadov (21) and Ismail Isaev (19) were sentenced Tuesday, 22 February, for smuggling goods to an alleged Chechen militant, although it’s […]

Stonewall has released its Top 100 Employers List in celebration of those bringing LGBTQ+ inclusion to the forefront of the workplace.

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Two brothers who fled Chechnya’s anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown have been given lengthy prison sentences for alleged “illegal” activities.

Instagram page this week.The clip has amassed more than 50,000 views since it was posted on Twitter by Patriot Takes, a group that says its mission is to "expose the far-right disinformation machine.""This is like, very disturbing to me... like, the Black History and then the LGBT stuff," Schmidt says to a store employee folding clothes in the video."It's really disturbing to me. Like, why don't they have like white history month and like, why don't they celebrate straight pride? You know? Why aren't they more inclusive?"“It’s disturbing, man.

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A Republican legislator withdrew a controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill amendment that would have seen students forcibly outed by schools.

Good morning. Today we’ll look at New York State’s surge in the newly legalized world of online sports betting (and how bettors used ‘Twosday’ to play the numbers). Also, Mayor Eric Adams is criticized for some appointments.

A local Chechen court on Tuesday jailed queer siblings Salekh Magamadov (21) and Ismail Isaev (19) to almost a decade behind bars after finding them guilty of “complicity with illegal armed formations”.The siblings had first come to the notice of authorities in 2019 after an officer found an LGBTQI Pride flag on Ismail’s phone. Chechen authorities had detained Salekh and Ismail last year, after the siblings tried to flee persecution. “Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev must be immediately and unconditionally released,” said Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, in a statement released prior to the sentencing.

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GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced its Dorian Award nominations for the best in movies.  Netflix and Neon dominate the nominations this year.

The L.A. Pride Parade, canceled for the past two years, is returning and taking a new route in the community where the event started.

In 2014, as Uganda was promulgating a law that made some homosexual behavior punishable by life in prison, a councilman from the Bronx traveled to the country and hailed its “godly” governance. “Gay marriage is not accepted in this country,” the councilman, Fernando Cabrera, said approvingly, sitting among palm trees in a video posted to YouTube. “Why? Because the Christians have assumed the place of decision-making for the nation.

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KCBD reports. Her body was found February 12.A security camera recorded Allen Montemayor, 32, entering the storage unit that day with another person and coming out alone. Police tracked him down and saw that he had blood on his legs, and they arrested him.He said he had come out of a restroom and saw that Ramos had set a fire.

Wilson Chapman editorThe Los Angeles Pride Parade will take place on Jun. 12 in Hollywood, nonprofit organizers Christopher Street West announced on Tuesday.With the return of an in-person parade this year, LA Pride will be making a move from West Hollywood, which has hosted the event for the majority of its decades-run, to Hollywood, the site of the very first protest organized by Christopher Street West in 1970.

A federal jury found last week that a Black transgender woman who was wrongly arrested in 2015 in Atlanta on bogus cocaine charges and jailed for more than five months is due $1.5 million. Judge William Ray II said on Thursday, two days after the jury’s verdict, that Ju’Zema Goldring, who was arrested by two Atlanta police officers, deserved “some semblance of justice” for what occurred. The officers, Vladimir Henry and Juan Restrepo, had sliced open her stress ball and claimed to have found cocaine inside, when, in fact, it was only “the interior contents of a stress ball,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S.

The Florida House is currently debating the dangerous “Don’t Say Gay” bill that could require schools to out LGBTQ children to their parents, and bans certain “instruction” on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Now that the White House has been properly deep-cleaned, disinfected, and saged after the last administration, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden has tapped openly gay Los Angeles-based designer Mark D. Sikes to help redecorate the East Wing.Related: Conservatives are PISSED at Dr. Jill Biden… but they don’t actually seem to know whyOver the weekend, FLOTUS’s office issued a statement about the selection: “As is customary with previous First Ladies, Dr.

The Des Moines Register reports. The vote was 55-39, with all but one Republican supporting it and all Democrats opposed. It also states that any student who has suffered harm through a violation of these regulations has grounds to sue.The Senate’s vote on its version of the legislation could come this week.

Three Months cast members Troye Sivan and Javier Muñoz join the film’s director and writer Jared Frieder in conversation with GLAAD's Anthrony Ramos about making the film, the story told, and the continued stigma around HIV.Three Months is described as “a coming-of-age comedy-drama that tells the story of Caleb [Sivan], a South Florida teen who loves his camera, his weed, and his grandmother.”Right before he graduates high school, however, Caleb finds out that he’s been exposed to HIV. The film then follows Caleb in the three months he waits for test results to come back to see if he has HIV or not.

sent a letter to the United Nations claiming that Russian authorities have come up with “kill lists” of Ukrainians to be killed or detained during an invasion of the country.U.S. has intelligence that suggests "there will be an even greater form of brutality because this will not simply be some conventional war between two armies," White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan said on the NBC's Today show Monday morning."It will be a war waged by Russia on the Ukrainian people to repress them, to crush them, to harm them.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In 1973, amid the growing gay rights movement, a band called Lavender Country recorded a country music album that unabashedly explored LGBTQ themes, becoming a landmark that would nonetheless disappear for decades.Led by singer-songwriter Patrick Haggerty, the self-titled album was created by a collective of activists, singers and musicians with ribald songs focused on LGBTQ people, like “Back in the Closet Again” and “Come Out Singing,” as well as an explicit song bashing straight men that has since become a cult favorite.Nearly 50 years later, Lavender Country is back with a sophomore record that connects today’s LGBTQ country musicians to historical roots in activism and social change.Haggerty, now 78, grew up on a tenant dairy farm about 100 miles west of Seattle in the Olympic Peninsula, one of 10 children.

Andrew Adams with his mother Erica Adams Kasper with Lambda Legal attorneys Tara Borelli and Paul Castillo after oral argument in the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. (Courtesy Lambda Legal)

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Since its initial release in 2000, The Sims has been a pioneer for queer inclusivity. In a time when it was rare to see even a passing reference to anything gay in video games, The Sims gave players same-sex romance options—something that wouldn’t become commonplace until over a decade later.But as progressive as this was for its time, there was always one romantic element the game left out: weddings.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an emailed statement. “It should not have taken seven years and a federal jury trial to bring this to light.

A former U.S. Navy sailor sentenced to life in prison for the 1992 anti-gay murder of fellow U.S.

Related: Three injured in brutal anti-gay hate crime in New York City subwayHe said that they knocked him unconscious and kept on beating him while others tried to stop them.“I have a broken nose a shattered eye socket and have to have surgery, I’m full of cuts and bruises,” he wrote on the social media platform. “I didn’t ever think I would go into my home town Manchester where I spend a lot of weekends enjoying myself to be beaten up by bouncers, in a well known gay bar.”  A post shared by Ronan Gordon (@ronanrgordon)A spokesperson for Bloom confirmed that the attack happened that night in a statement posted to social media.“We are aware and deeply shocked by the incident that happened the morning of Saturday 22nd and we are working directly with the police to resolve this,” they said in a statement. “The security staff involved are currently suspended pending investigation so that appropriate measures can be taken.”“We strive to make Bloom nightclub a fun, welcoming and safe environment for all our LGBTQ+ family who visits us.

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Birmingham. Usman Murtza is accused of carrying out the unprovoked assault on John-Paul Kesseler and another man as they held hands together in the city’s Gay Village. Pictures showed Mr Kesseler’s bloodied face following the incident in the early hours of October 10.Mr Kesseler, 38, was hit in the face with a glass bottle, leaving him with a nasty gash above his eye, before both men were struck with a wooden pole. Murtza, 29, has been charged with two counts of assault and possessing an offensive weapon.He is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on January 12.Jealous mum smashed love rival's head on ground for looking at her boyfriendPensioner claims botched surgery has left him unable to shut eyes for nearly three yearsFour-day working week pilot launched in UKA West Midlands Police spokesperson said: ‘No one should have to tolerate hate abuse or hate crimes.‘If you’ve been a victim then we’d urge you to contact us or a support agency so you can get help and we can investigate.’Galop is a national LGBT+ anti-abuse charity who support people who have suffered homophobia, transphobia and other forms of abuse.You can find more about the support available here.If you don’t feel comfortable reporting to police, you can report it to True Vision online here.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.For more stories like this, check our news page.Not convinced? Find out more »