Three LGBTQ+ activists in Ecuador are facing persecution after speaking out against the #ConMisHijosNoTeMetas movement. The movement, translated as “don’t mess with my children”, has been gathering momentum across Latin America following the introduction of a so-called “progressive gender ideology” into the education curriculum in neighbouring Peru last year. The activists […]
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A Malaysian newspaper has ‘helpfully’ put together a list of pointers for identifying potential gay and lesbian people. The article in Sinar Harian featured bullet points of signs people are LGBT. Let’s take a look: Gay men are apparently easy to identify because of their love of beards, wearing tight clothes […]
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Gay Olympian Adam Rippon was all smiles in photos posted to Twitter on Saturday as he posed with fellow gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy. Okay so their jumpers are pretty foul but the rest of it is wonderful. Gus tweeted: ‘We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it’ and he certainly got […]
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The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang lists 13 out athletes – more than ever before Featuring athletes across the competition’s different sports, this year’s Winter Olympics hosted in South Korea, also includes a number of out male athletes for the first time. A list of LGBTQ Olympians was compiled by the sporting […]
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Stars, global icons and top music talent lead 2018 NatWest British LGBT Awards shortlist The shortlist for the 2018 NatWest British LGBT Awards was announced today, marking the countdown to the biggest annual event in Britain’s gay calendar. A string of global LGBT+ icons and allies, including OutNews Global publisher Linda […]
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Instead, the opening fashion show featured many androgynous, nonbinary and genderfluid models wearing masculine-of-centre, or ‘traditionally male’ styled clothing. Indie clothing label Krammer & Stoudt featured nonbinary and genderfluid models including Rain Dove and nonbinary-identifying model Terra Juano or “TJ”, as well as Madison Paige, Arta Gjonbalaj, and Merika Palmiste. RAIN DOVE “There is this evolution happening […]
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PM to mark 100 years since the vote was extended to women for the first time The PM will address invited guests exactly 100 years after the Representation of the People Act was passed, kicking off a year-long series of events and exhibitions commemorating the women and men who fought to […]
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Isn’t it time we ‘cut the crap’ and started to treat each other with the respect we all deserve? “Did you see what that guy just did?”, my friend Emma exclaimed as we stood in the queue for the cinema. She continued to recount in disbelief, how a gay guy stood […]
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I never forgot: This is what LGBT Moroccans face every day Of all the things I could’ve been arrested for in my 26 years, the expression of my homosexuality has never been one of them. Yet that is the precise risk I ran going to Morocco with my partner this month. […]
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Chris Hoyle’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age play, The Newspaper Boy, returns to Manchester’s 53Two Presented as part of Queer Contact 2018, Manchester’s foremost queer arts festival, the reimagined production includes an all-star cast: Samantha Siddall (Shameless), Karen Henthorn (Coronation Street), Sam Retford (Hollyoaks, Ackley Bridge), Hollie-Jay Bowes (Hollyoaks), and introducing Daniel Maley in the lead […]
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