Josh Milton

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Lyft Passenger Threatens to Crush ‘Candy-ass F****t’ Driver’s Skull – When Asked to Wear a Mask

A Lyft passenger launched into a racist and homophobic verbal tirade against his driver simply because he was asked to wear a face mask. A May 28 ride in Reno, Nevada, saw a passenger identified as Richard board driver Edgar’s vehicle. Edgar wore a mask while Richard, according to the dash-came footage seen by TMZ, did not. When the driver politely asked the passenger to strap on a mask – a crucial tool in the fight to contain the coronavirus pandemic – he exploded into a racist and homophobic rant. “You believe in that shit?” Richard asked the driver. “Yes, I […]

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‘Farmers’ Market Karen’ Rages at Gay Cookie Vendor for Giving Away Pride Flags

A “farmers’ market Karen” jeered and berated a gay vendor was jeered and berated just for handing out LGBT+ Pride flags which she called “political” in Livermore. The startling footage, uploaded to Twitter Monday (June 15) showed Gail Hayden, head of the California Farmers’ Market Association, frostily harangue Dan Floyd for hanging out flags to “satisfy his political agenda”. The administrator, who appeared to pull down her face mask just to launch into a verbal attack, immediately drew criticism online as the latest example of a white busybody steeped in privilege leveraging it for personal gain. idk if any of you have seen this […]

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Layleen Polanco, a Trans Woman and Drag Ball Star, Pies in Prison of Possible Neglect

Officers swung open the iron doors of the cell of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco and called her name. They believed the Latinx trans woman was simply asleep while in solitary confinement. She was dead. Polanco, a member of one of the most storied groups in New York City’s drag ball scene, the House of Xtravaganza, could not afford the $500 bail after being charged for misdemeanour assault in 2019. SPONSORED CONTENTArchaeologists Discovered A Gigantic Egyptian Artifact In CaliforniaBy Maternity Week So she was sent to Rikers Island in New York City. There, when the door was closed to her cell on June […]

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Joe Biden Says Trump’s ‘Cruelty Knows no Bounds’ after he Strips Trans Healthcare Protections during Pride Month

Joe Biden spearheaded a blistering backlash against the Trump administration that on Friday (June 12) “cruelly” erased precious healthcare protections for trans patients less than two weeks into Pride Month. The Department of Health and Human Services finalised a rule that effectively means gender identity is no longer an avenue for sex dissemination in healthcare. It’s part of a slew of policy changes across education, housing and employment to narrow the legal definition of discrimination to not include trans folk. The presumptive Democratic Party nominee slammed the move, echoing the devastating timing of the move and made a charged rallying cry to […]

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Sesame Street Celebrates Pride with Message of Love and Acceptance

Sesame Street sent an adorable message of love and acceptance for LGBT+ Pride Month on Thursday night (June 11). And in doing so, the children’s PBS show has done more to openly support the queer community than US president Donald Trump has done this year. Taking to social media, Sesame Street posted a short but sweet line of solidarity to the LGBT+ people, paired alongside an illustration of its colourful characters holding hands, recreating the famous six-striped Pride flag. “On our street, we accept all, we love all, and we respect all,” it wrote. “Happy #PrideMonth!” Tallying more than 97,000 likes on Instagram, thousands of […]

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Remembering the Lasting Legacy of Harvey Milk on his 90th Birthday

On what would have been his 90th birthday, there are many reasons to remember Harvey Milk. One of which is dog poop. Decades on since his death in 1978, and San Francisco residents each day peak out of their apartments to see the city’s tanned streets free from pet waste. They have Milk to thank for this, a city official who sponsored an ordinance that fined people for not clearing up after their dogs. But there’s more to Milk than a cosmetic improvement to the avenues and roads that criss-cross the city. A pioneer of the LGBT+ rights movement, Milk […]

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Homophobia is ‘Anchored’ in France as Anti-LGBT+ hate Crimes Soar by a Third

Attacks and insults against the LGBT+ community in France surged by more than 36 per cent in 2019, according to figures released Saturday by the interior ministry. The figures released on the eve of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) showed a steady drumbeat of rising hate crimes against queer folk in the European country, Agence France-Presse reported. GBT+ men were more likely to be victims, the data showed, with the majority of crimes stemming from larger cities (36 per cent). In 2019, Twitter timelines were seized by startling video footage of a trans woman brutally assaulted during a demonstration in central […]

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Albania becomes Third European Country to Ban Gay Conversion Therapy

The governing body for psychologists in Albania banned Saturday the long denounced, discredited and debased practise of conversion therapy to both the surprise and delight of countless LGBT+ activists across the European country. Albania now joins Malta and Germany in stonewalling the harmful practice, while lawmakers in Spain and the UK are all considering nationwide bans, and Switzerland has a de facto ban. A statement from the LGBT+ organisation Pink Embassy, seen by AP News, said the decision: “Places the Order of Psychologists in Albania in the forefront of the institutions respecting LGBTI rights.” Psychologists in Albania now prohibited from conversion therapy, LGBT+ rights group […]

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Beloved Gay Men’s Chorus Member Dies after Battle with Coronavirus

George “Skip” Panse, a member of the Gay Men’s Chorus in South Florida, was busy greeting members with a smile and a big hug three weeks ago. Last Wednesday, he died of complications caused by coronavirus. Panse has become a headline dreaded by all as the pandemic pelts the US. The nation has, within days, become a petri-dish of cases, hauling the highest amount of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world. A church-goer known by loved ones for his sense of humour and passion for music, Panse’s death was confirmed Thursday by the executive director of the chorus on Facebook in a tearful post. […]

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Monster behind Chechnya’s Gay Purges, Says People with Coronavirus should be ‘Killed’

Anyone who breaks coronavirus quarantine should be executed, says Chechnya leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. The president of the Russian republic – who oversaw a brutal crackdown on LGBT+ people in Chechnya  – made the claim on March 24 at a government meeting as the region confirmed its first three coronavirus cases. “If you ask me, anyone who creates this problem for himself should be killed,” he said. “Not only does he get sick, [but he also infects] his family, his sisters, brothers, neighbours,” the regional Caucasian Knot news agency quoted Kadyrov as saying. Ramzan Kadyrov recommends Chechens drink water with lemon and honey […]

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