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Participants hold placards and banners during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2015 parade. (Getty/ TORU YAMANAKA/AFP) A district court in Japan has ruled that blocking same-sex marriage is “unconstitutional”, in a historic victory for the country’s LGBT+ community. Although the country’s constitution currently defines marriage as based on “the mutual consent of both sexes”, the court

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). (Getty) The British government on Tuesday (16 March) effectively doubled crucial funding to its national rollout of pre-exposure prophylaxis, otherwise known as PrEP. Health ministers have injected a thumping financial boost to the routine commissioning of the daily drug, the most effective protection against HIV transmission. The public health grant, used to fund local authority health

Trans Republican and Trump supporter Blaire White was subjected to disgusting hate by a fellow conservative during a “painful to watch” panel discussion. White, an American YouTuber with over 942,000 subscribers, appeared on a conservative panel discussion to talk about the “radical left”. She was joined on the panel by fellow YouTuber and organisational psychologist

Liam Cooper, the first openly bisexual participant of Married at First Sight Australia. (Screen capture via Nine Network) Married at First Sight Australia fans have expressed their alarm and “disgust” at star Liam Cooper being outed as bisexual during Monday night’s (15 March) episode. The show sees total strangers get hitched after relationships experts pair

A man identified by social media sleuths as police officer Rick Fitzgerald attending a Proud Boys event. (Facebook) A police officer in Fresno, California, has been placed on paid administrative leave after being photographed attending a Proud Boys protest Sunday (14 March). Rick Fitzgerald allegedly attended the demonstration organised by the far-right nationalist group which

Kathryn Hahn stole the show in WandaVision. (Disney) Kathryn Hahn has said she had “no hesitation” when she was asked to sing her iconic WandaVision theme tune “Agatha All Along”. Hahn plays Agnes in the hit Disney+ series, a suspicious neighbour to Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany). Fans were, if not surprised, the certainly

Beyoncé accepts the Best R&B Performance award for ‘Black Parade’ onstage during the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. (Getty Images for The Recording Academy/ Kevin Winter) Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Beyoncé all made history on Sunday (14 March) at the 63rd Grammys. Gaga and Grande took home the award for Best Pop Duo Performance, becoming

Andrea Jenkins vice president of the Minneapolis City Council spoke to community members at “The Path Forward” meeting at Powderhorn Park, a meeting between Minneapolis City Council and community members. (Photo by Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images) Andrea Jenkins, the first Black openly trans woman to hold office in the US, talked about the

A man has been charged with battering a transgender woman with a skateboard (Envato Elements) A California man who allegedly beat a transgender woman with his skateboard has been charged with a hate crime. 23-year-old Costa Mesa resident Johnny Santos Moreno appeared in court on Thursday (11 March). He was charged with felony counts of

A school in Texas has called in counsellors and issued a formal apology after a teacher read an “inappropriate” storybook about a transgender child. Parents were outraged after it emerged that fourth-graders at Forest Trail Elementary in Austin, Texas had been read Call Me Max by Stonewall Award-winning author Kyle Lukoff. The sweet illustrated book tells

Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, at a press conference in February (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/ Getty) Hungary’s top court has thrown out Viktor Orbán’s attempt to implement a retroactive ban on trans people’s gender identity being recognised in official documents. Launched last year, the devastating law known as Section 33 legally erases trans people by forcing

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have introduced a bill that would allow cisgender students to sue a school if they are ‘forced’ to share school facilities with trans students. Jason Zachary, a Republican congressman from Knoxville, introduced House Bill 1233 at the same time Mike Ball, a Republican senator from Riceville, introduced its sister bill in

Boris Johnson. (AFP via Getty/ RICHARD POHLE/POOL) Boris Johnson has apologised to the three members of the government’s LGBT+ Advisory Panel who quit this week over inaction on conversion therapy and a “hostile environment” for LGBT+ people. Jayne Ozanne was the first to quit the LGBT+ Advisory Panel on Wednesday (10 March), and was followed

Queer as Folk ran for two seasons, the first episode airing on February 23, 1999. (Channel 4) Russell T Davies has said he is hopeful for a reboot of his iconic series Queer as Folk, even if he won’t be the one to write it. Following the runaway success of It’s a Sin, which was

Petra De Sutter said non-binary people have been “overlooked” by Begium’s existing gender-recognition laws. (HATIM KAGHAT/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images) Belgium will legally recognise non-binary people as part of reforms to gender recognition laws, deputy prime minister Petra De Sutter has confirmed. De Sutter, a Green politician who was appointed last October, is the most

WNBA star Natasha Cloud with her professional softball player wife Aleshia Ocasio. (Instagram/ t__cloud9) WNBA star Natasha Cloud has revealed that she married her softballer girlfriend in a secret wedding, fearing her rights would be taken away. Cloud and her and professional softball player partner Aleshia Ocasio, who plays for the Chicago Bandits, announced their

The DC Comics Pride anthology will be released on 8 June. (DC Comics) DC Comics will be releasing a huge queer anthology this summer in celebration of Pride, and introducing trans superhero Dreamer into the DC universe. Announced on Thursday (11 March), DC Pride #1 will feature queer characters from across the DC Comics universe, and

Liam Cooper is the first ever bisexual contestant on Australia’s version of Married At First Sight. (Instagram) Married At First Sight Australia is set to get its first ever bisexual groom as its explosive 2021 season continues. The show, which sees total strangers get married after being set up by relationship experts, will introduce bisexual prison

LGBT+ prisoners are often segregated “for their own protection”. (Envato) Prisons in England and Scotland are “traumatising, rigid and frequently dangerous places” for LGBT+ inmates, research has found. A report from the University of Dundee titled LGBT+ people in prisons: Experiences in England and Scotland, used interviews and focus groups with more than 60 prison staff

Marsha P Johnson. (Netflix) Plans for a gaudy rainbow mural in the Marsha P Johnson state park in New York have been scrapped, after complaints from the trans hero’s family. In August, 2020, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Brooklyn’s East River State Park was being renamed Marsha P Johnson State Park, making it

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. (Nintendo) “Willst thou get the girl? Or play like one?” This was the infamous tagline in the advert for Nintendo’s 1998 release The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It was a blatant use of misogyny that reinforced tired stereotypes and undermined the many female game players who are fans

Piers Morgan has quit Good Morning Britain. (Getty/ Indigo/ Max Mumby) Piers Morgan has “decided” to leave Good Morning Britain following his “diabolical” comments about Meghan Markle. On Monday’s (8 March) episode of Good Morning Britain, the day after Meghan Markle‘s interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on ITV, Morgan declared he did not “believe a

Former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas announced he is HIV positive after “evils” threatened to out him. (Clemens Bilan/AFP/Getty) Welsh rugby star and TV personality Gareth Thomas has described being “petrified” each time someone knocked on his door, while he was blackmailed over being HIV-positive. In 2019, Thomas was forced to publicly reveal his HIV

British Transport Police for looking for two individuals connected to a ‘homophobic hate crime’ on the London Underground. (BTP) Authorities are on the hunt for two men in connection to a “homophobic” hate crime that occurred on the tube. On a Jubilee Line London Underground tube train on 23 October, 2020, two passengers were travelling between

Jess Glynne has apologised for using a transphobic slur. (Getty) Jess Glynne has apologised for using a transphobic slur in a wildly offensive anecdote about a trans strip club. The singer was widely condemned for speaking the word “tranny” and using a trans strip club as the punchline in an anti-queer anecdote. Appearing on The

Boris Johnson. (Christopher Furlong/WPA Pool /Getty) MPs from across the UK have insisted that any ban on conversion therapy must also include trans people. During a debate in Westminster Hall on Monday evening (8 March), MPs urged the government to ban the harmful, pseudoscientific practice. The debate, triggered by a petition to government signed by

Harisu. (ilgan Sports/Multi-Bits via Getty Images) K-pop singer Harisu tore down down a hateful troll who claimed she’s not a woman because she’s trans in a powerful and blisteringly sarcastic Instagram post. Harisu, known off-stage as Lee Kyung-eun, shared a screenshot of her private messages on Instagram, showing an anonymous user lob barbs at her for

After criminalising all forms of so-called “gay propaganda”, Russia has now turned its attention to positive depictions of bisexuality and polyamory. With Russia’s population expected to decline by 30 million over the next decade, the question of how to raise the birth rate dominated discussions on Thursday (4 March) at a conference of United Russia,

The term “barebacking” became widespread in the LGBT+ community in the 1990s. (Pexels/ Ketut Subiyanto) Like riding a horse without a saddle, barebacking is when someone with a penis penetrates a sexual partner without using a condom. Many people who have any kind of penetrative sex report that going at it without a condom is

Billy Eichner attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on 9 February, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Getty for Vanity Fair/ Rich Fury/ VF20) Actor Billy Eichner is set to co-produce, co-write and star in the first gay romantic comedy to be produced by a major Hollywood studio. The Parks and Recreation star announced on Twitter