Josh Jackman

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Gay Parents Caused Pittsburgh Shooting, Says Orthodox Rabbi

An Orthodox Rabbi has said that gay people caused the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting which killed 11, adding: “I’m not sorry for this disaster.” New Jersey Rabbi Mordechai Aderet told his followers not to go to a vigil for those murdered last Saturday (October 27) because it reportedly took place during a circumcision ceremony for the twins of two gay dads. In a Facebook video which has been viewed more than 10,000 times since it was posted to Facebook on Sunday (October 28), Aderet said that anyone who attended the interfaith memorial was “spitting in Hashem’s (God’s) face.” “I’m not sorry for […]

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Transgender Suicide Hotline Calls Quadruple After Trump Memo Leak

A transgender suicide hotline has received four times as many calls after it was revealed that the Trump administration is considering a proposal to legally erase trans people. Trans Lifeline, which is the only organisation of its kind to hire exclusively trans operators, said on Instagram on October 23 that it had also handled twice as many first-time callers as normal. The leaked Department of Health and Human Services’ memo published in the New York Times on October 21 propose defining a person’s sex as unchangeably male or female from birth, barring official recognition of trans people. Trump later confirmed that the White House […]

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This Viral Tweet Shows it’s Actually Straight People Who Force Their Sexuality on Kids

Straight people, apparently (Pexels and ItsAlexJackson/twitter) A tweet highlighting how straight people sexualise small children has gone viral. A common accusation aimed at people who try to educate children about LGBT+ issues, or at least let them be their true, potentially queer selves, is that they are ‘sexualising’ kids. In July, Doug Mainwaring, a writer for LifeSiteNews, wrote on the site that June — which is celebrated as Pride Month around the world — should be called ‘Let’s Sexualise Children Month.’But, of course, in this heteronormative society we live in, it’s actually straight people who are more commonly guilty of […]

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National Coming Out Day: 37 Celebrities Who’ve Come Out this Year

Janelle Monáe, Kevin McHale and Amandla Stenberg (Vivien Killilea/Getty, Leon Bennett/Getty and Paras Griffin/Getty) Since the last National Coming Out Day, dozens of celebrities have stopped, taken a deep breath and revealed to the world that they’re gay, bisexual, lesbian, transgender, queer, non-binary, pansexual — and even in one controversial case, two spirit. From singers and political figures to sports stars and Hollywood’s brightest, the past 12 months have shown, in case anyone needed reminding, that anyone can be LGBT+. As we look ahead to National Coming Out Day on Thursday (October 11), let’s celebrate the icons who put their heads […]

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Shooting Outside Texas Gay Bar Leaves Three Injured

The shooting happened last night (news 4) Three people have been injured after a man opened fire outside a Texas LGBT+ bar. An argument at a taco truck outside the Pegasus nightclub in San Antonio escalated after a man reportedly used a racial slur against another man, who then drove away while shooting a gun, injuring three people. While the injuries suffered by the victims—two men and the club’s doorwoman—were not life-threatening, the attack stirred memories of the terrorist attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in 2016, which killed 49. The club is a popular destination for queer people in San Antonio […]

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High School Students Spark Backlash by Spelling Out ‘Fags’ in Senior Photos

The students posed smiling (becks1three/twitter and twitter) High school students have sparked a huge backlash after spelling out anti-gay and racial slurs on their tops. Senior students at Escondido High School in southern California combined their T-shirts, each of which had a different letter on it, to spell out the words “FAGS” and “N****R.” The offensive pictures were taken on Thursday (September 27) at the traditional senior barbecue, where pupils are permitted to wear T-shirts with a letter on them so they can spell out words with friends, according to KGTV. It is understood that although the wording of the […]

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Will Singapore be the Next Country to Decriminalize Gay Sex?

A veteran diplomat has urged Singapore’s LGBT+ community to challenge a law prohibiting gay sex after India’s Supreme Court struck down the country’s ban on Thursday. Tommy Koh, the country’s former UN ambassador, called for a class action suit to change Singapore’s Section 377A law, which, like India’s now-defunct legislation, was put in place under British colonial rule. Singapore’s Law and Home Affairs Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam has also raised the possibility of repealing the law, which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison and predates Singapore’s independence in 1965 by a decade. Tommy Koh is currently serving as Singapore’s Ambassador-at-large […]

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Airline Allows Straight Parents to Board with Kids—but Not Gay Dads

Jeff Cobb was denied early boarding (jeffcobb415/twitter) A gay couple has claimed that they were denied early boarding with their daughter—only to see straight parents walk through with children. Jeff Cobb and his husband were flying with Taiwanese airline EVA Air from San Francisco to Thailand on Saturday (September 1) when they were reportedly separated on the false basis that only one parent could accompany a child onto the plane. Cobb described on Twitter how “my husband and I were told only one of us could join our 19-month-old in the family boarding group of EVA Air 27 from SFO […]

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Canadian Christian Law School Drops Gay Sex Ban After Supreme Court Ruling

A Christian university in Canada has abandoned a rule forcing all law students to agree not to have gay sex after the Supreme Court ruled against the school. In June, the country’s top court ruled 7-2 in favour of law societies which refused accreditation to the school at Trinity Western University (TWU) in British Columbia. The law school, which was first proposed by the evangelical university in 2012, required all students to sign a pledge to abstain from “sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.” The university applied for accreditation in every province – meaning that its […]

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Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister to Gay People: Hide Yourselves

Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said “LGBTs have the right to practise whatever [it is] they do in private” (SHAWN THEW/AFP/Getty) Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister has said that LGBT+ people shouldn’t be visibly out. Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail warned that queer citizens must keep their identities secret to be accepted by society. The country’s religious affairs minister, Mujahid Yusof Rawa, attracted global attention earlier this month when he ordered two portraits of LGBT+ Malaysian activists be removed from an exhibition. The country has been embroiled in ongoing controversy over LGBT+ issues (Charles Pertwee/Getty) Speaking about the controversy, he said: “Society […]

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