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Steps are back with What The Future Holds. (Steps) Steps are back with What The Future Holds, and PinkNews caught up with Lisa Scott-Lee to find out just that. Chatting with Lisa Scott-Lee about “unashamedly-pop” group Steps is always a delight because she loves Steps just as much as the fans do. Which, as you might

Griffin Matthews said religion had told him “lies” about his sexuality (Debra L Rothenberg/Getty) Dear White People star Griffin Matthews has said that religion told him “lies” about his sexuality when he was growing up gay. The actor, who plays D’Unte on the hit Netflix series, told The Advocate about his struggle to come to terms with his

A teenager threatened to shoot students at Wellington High School in New Zealand (Envato Elements) A high school in Wellington, New Zealand, was put into lockdown after police said a teenager threatened to shoot students. Wellington High School was plunged into lockdown on Thursday morning (26 November) after a “credible threat” was made on social

Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis in Happiest Season. (Hulu) Happiest Season, Kristen Stewart’s lesbian Christmas film, has finally been released and it’s everything we ever dreamed of. News that Kristen Stewart had made a queer festive film directed and co-written by Clea DuVall was arguably the single most important piece of information many of us

A person walks past a Starbucks store displaying a rainbow Pride flag on June 22, 2020 in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty) A Christian woman and former barista from New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks, claiming she was fired after refusing to wear a rainbow Pride t-shirt. According to NBC News, Betsy Fresse

Trans people in India can now apply to have their gender identity legally recognised online through a new government portal. The portal, launched on Wednesday (25 November) by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), will allow trans people to have their gender identity certified by the district magistrate without visiting government offices. The

Finland’s prime minister, Sanna Marin. (Pool/Getty Images) Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister, has spoken out about plans to reform the Trans Act to enable trans people to legally self-identify. When asked whether she sees trans women as women, she said: “It’s not my job to identify people. It’s everyone’s job to identify themselves.” The controversial

Donald Trump and his wife Melania. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Melania Trump wanted to light the White House up in rainbow colours to celebrate Pride Month, but she was forbidden from doing so, according to two Republican sources. The White House was famously lit up in the rainbow colours in 2015, when Barack Obama was president,

Thomas Brennan was placed on administrative leave by Ferris State University (Facebook/Twitter) A Michigan university professor who tweeted “racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs” and dismissed COVID-19 as a “leftist stunt” has been placed on administrative leave. Thomas Brennan, an assistant physical science professor at the Ferris State University in Michigan, was placed on leave on

Trans woman Asia Jynaé Foster was found with multiple gunshot wounds (Facebook/Asia Jynaé Foster) Houston’s trans community is mourning the death of Asia Jynaé Foster, the latest victim in a wave of transphobic violence sweeping across the US this year. The 22-year-old Black trans woman was shot dead in Houston, Texas on 20 November, otherwise

Donald Trump’s “needless” ban on transgender people serving in the military harmed readiness and impacted on morale among trans service members, a new study has found. The study, conducted by former top military physicians, found that Trump’s discriminatory ban preventing trans people from joining the military had a negative impact on recruitment and contributed to

Isaiah Washington. (Leon Bennett/FilmMagic) Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington is still raging that he was sacked for using a homophobic slur against a gay co-star more than a decade ago. Washington, a proud Trump supporter, found himself at the centre of controversy in October 2006 when rumours circulated that he had referred to T.R. Knight as

A transgender teenager is taking legal action over the years-long wait faced by young people seeking appointments with NHS specialists. NHS services for both transgender adults and trans children have waiting lists of several years for an initial appointment, with teenagers made to wait around three years to be seen at the only clinic for

Jessica Butcher, freshly appointed EHRC commissioner. (Screen capture via YouTube) The British government appointed last week an official with a troubling track record of attacking fundamental human rights to its independent official watchdog group that monitors and seeks to “protect” LGBT+ rights, among others. According to The Obsever, Jessica Butcher, a digital investor, was installed

Donald Trump-appointed judges reverved a vital ban on therapists offering conversion therapy – a denounced and debunked pseudosicenfitic practise – Friday (November 20), branding the ban “unconstititional”. Also called reparative therapy, medical organisations across the world have widely rejected the treatment as traumatising and psychologically scarring, especially to minors. In fact, the American Academy of

LGBT+ Native American young people are more likely to be at risk of suicide, new data has warned. LGBT+ Native American young people are more likely to be at risk of suicide, new data has warned. New research from the Trevor Project shows that LGBT+ youth from American Indian and Alaskan Native backgrounds are 2.5

Rachel Maddow. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images) Rachel Maddow delivered a sobering and heartfelt plea to the American public Thursday (November 19) as she revealed that her partner of 21 years almost died of COVID-19. As the coronavirus continues to rip through the US, throttling normality, the MSNBC newscaster revealed that Susan Mikula became so sickened by

Connor Scothern. (West Midlands Police) A British teenager jailed for belonging to a far-right, neo-Nazi terrorist group that plotted to wage a “holy war” against Black people, Jews and the LGBT+ community and Jewish people had his sentence halved Friday (November 20). Connor Scothern, a 19-year-old from Nottingham, was convicted alongside three others – including

One of two Indonesian men is publicly caned for having sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country where there are concerns over mounting hostility towards the small gay community, in Banda Aceh on May 23, 2017. (CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP via Getty Images) A gay couple in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, was forcibly dragged out of their

Donald Trump and Mike Pence are clinging to Idaho’s vile anti-trans law (Win McNamee/Getty) The final transphobic act of the dying Trump administration is a desperate plea for federal courts to maintain a ban on transgender girls competing in school sports. On Thursday (19 November) Trump’s Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in Hecox

Lynn Conway was fired by IBM in 1968 as she began her transition (Screenshot: YouTube) It’s taken 52 years, but IBM has finally issued a full apology for firing the pioneering computer scientist Lynn Conway because she was transgender. In 1964 Lynn Conway joined IBM Research, where she made major innovations in Very Large Scale

Non-binary model and activist Jules Guaitamacchi. (Supplied) Trans and non-binary people exist everywhere. Even in your workplace. But this can be a challenge: a third of UK employers admit they wouldn’t hire someone who is openly trans, and one in eight trans employees report being physically attacked by colleagues or customers in the last year.

The Trades Union Congress has released a powerful new short film showing the challenges that come with transitioning in the workplace. The moving video, written and directed by Sam Nicklin, was released by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to mark Transgender Awareness Week. It follows a character named Liam, played by trans masc actor Kenya Sterling,

Donald Trump (L) and Joe Exotic (R). (Tom Pennington/Getty//Netflix) Joe Exotic is so confident that Donald Trump will pardon him for his many crimes that he’s already booked a limousine to drive him home from prison. The ‘gun-toting gay redneck’ star of Netflix’s Tiger King is currently serving 22 years in federal prison for a litany

Karine Jean-Pierre has been tipped to become White House press secretary. (Gary Gershoff/Getty) Karine Jean-Pierre could become the first out lesbian and first Black woman to be named White House press secretary. The political heavyweight served as Kamala Harris’ chief of staff during the Biden-Harris campaign, and has now been tipped for a permanent role

Gun-toting anti-LGBT+ Republicans Kirk Cox (left) and Amanda Chase (right) are both running for Virginia governor. (Facebook) There are now two anti-LGBT+ Republican candidates running for Virginia governor in the 2021 election, who activists say if elected would give LGBT+ people “second class status”. According to Virginia Business, a Republican has not won a statewide

Logan Paul – yes, we can’t believe it either – has left the internet reeling after he called out his friends for their angry reaction to Harry Styles wearing a dress Styles made headlines on Tuesday (November 17) when he became the first solo male to grace the cover of American Vogue – and the former One

Margaret Thatcher attending the 1997 Conservative Party Conference. (Jeff Overs/BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty) It is 17 years today since the controversial and homophobic legislation known as Section 28, introduced under Margaret Thatcher, was repealed. The clause – an amendment to the Local Government Act 1988 – banned local authorities and schools from

With Kamala Harris set to become vice president, there could be a vital opportunity to bolster LGBT+ representation in the US Senate. Harris has represented California in the United States Senate since 2016, but is set to give up her seat in the chamber on January 20 as she assumes office as Joe Biden’s second-in-command.

Hate crimes based on sexual orientation represent 16.8 percent of all hate crime reports in 2019. (Adam Berry/Getty) Reports of anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are on the rise, a new report from the FBI has warned. The FBI report published on Monday (November 16) compiled submissions from 15,588 law enforcement agencies across the US, showing that