Josh Milton

Kenyan police brutally battered LGBT+ refugees and lobbed teargas bombs in an attack that led to four in a coma today, activists on the ground have claimed.Moreover, the organisation said that “five persons have returned to the reception centre to access these registration services.”ADVERTISING For days, rainbow refugees staying at the Kakuma camp un-rolled mats outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to peacefully protest the “unclean” conditions of the camp and ask to be allowed to “live quietly in Nairobi just like other urban refugees”. But activists reported that camp law enforcement descended upon them, described as “death […]

Plans for forced HIV tests for people whose bodily fluids come into contact with police – despite there being no record of this ever happening – has been widely slammed by lawmakers and activists. New South Wales’s Labor party, Australia, signalled its intent to introduce a scheme that will allow for mandatory testing of HIV and other blood borne viruses (BBV) of those who assault police and frontline workers. The proposed model would also give authorities the power to determine when testing occurs. HIV experts as well as lawmakers have slammed the move, branding it unscientific and “dangerous” while urging […]

Justin Trudeau has won a second term as Canada’s prime minister and the country’s LGBT+ community have breathed a “sigh of relief”. The win for the Liberal Party has kept Trudeau’s opponent Andrew Scheer, who is against marriage equality, out of the top seat at Parliament Hill. inRead invented by Teads Trudeau, battered by scandal across his campaign, will no longer retain a majority in Canada’s House of Commons but will keep enough seats to allow him to form a government, with support from two left-leaning parties. His victory in 2015 touted him as a fresh-faced, shirtless jogging, LGBT+ rights championing […]

A Ugandan doctor allegedly shattered a patient’s skull, arms, legs and back with an iron bar and then threw her out of the hospital, all because she is lesbian. The patient was attacked in August this year in Kampala, the country’s capital, where the medical professional brutally battered her after finding out she is friends with his daughter. Enraged, the doctor ordered security to give him an iron bar which he then used to pelt the woman’s head, arms, legs, and back, local outlets reported. Patient went in to purchase glasses, left with her body and mobile phone shattered.  According […]

In a country where it is not only illegal to be gay, but laws are defined by traditional and strict religious views, a trans woman being elected councillor seems like a fever dream. But for Bangladeshi garment shop owner Pinki Khatun, it’s a reality. Khatun was elected as councillor for Kotchandpur, a rural town in the country’s westside, after beating her nearest rival by more than 4,000 votes earlier this week, reported The Straits Times. “I am very delighted. I campaigned door-to-door and people have responded positively,” said Khatun. “I did not face any discrimination or hate campaigns.” Trans councillor: ‘My aim is […]

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Sum Ting Wong opted for a more muted look today as she and more than “150 people” protested today against the first UK Chick-fil-A store. In the southern town of Reading, England, locals were filled with unease when they awoke to the news that the American fast-food chain – known for its donations to anti-LGBT+ organisations – was set to open up shop in their town. Sending ripples through the queer community, campaigners rallied together to stand against the chain by spilling outside The Oracle shopping centre in the Berkshire town today telling the corporation to […]

A Russian court has ruled that two crucial LGBT+ groups must be disbanded on the country’s largest social network, VKontakte, for “denying family values”. The Russian LGBT Network, which was instrumental in evacuating 150 people threatened by the anti-gay purges in Chechnya, must no longer be active on VKontakte. The social site, owned by internet company Mail.Ru, has around 100 million users and ranks as the second largest global social network. LGBT+ advocacy groups “propagate nontraditional sexual relations”, says court.  Now the queer activist group, as well as Russian LGBT Community, must decamp from the network, severing contact from a large […]